It’s Friday. Not that it really matters at the moment, in my situation 🙂 .
I was woken by the sounds of scaffolding getting dropped outside this morning. Looks like the roof might be getting started. I forgot to mention it the other day, but I was making a cuppa, when I heard voices outside on the scaffold. I didn’t think much of it until I walked back through to the bedroom – and there was this kid looking through the window! Basically, he’d climbed up the dividing wall and along the terrace and was showing off to his friends who had better sense. He skeddadled when he saw me, as I turned the air a blue colour. Called the police too, just in case something had been nicked from one of the other flats. They came back the following night, but this time they were hanging around behind the plumber’s yard chucking rocks at something – again I informed Lothian & Borders finest who said they’d look into it. Ironic that I got a leaflet the other day about anti-social behavior and thought nothing of it…
I was reading about how tapes are finally on their way out, and that got me thinking. I’ve not listened to a CD since before the flat was flooded – that’s quite a while (October!). I have some MP3s on my PC and Pocket PC, but they’ve been there a while. I may renew my subscription to Napster, as that was quite a good way to hear new music through their "radio" station. I could listen to the music without downloading it. I’m finding I prefer the quiet though, which is odd.
There’s a few ads on the TV that I thought I’d mention – one is the Wamphyri-like(!) Mattesons advert with peoples faces changing to huge teeth and jaws (that’s scary!). The other is a car advert, where a light bulb becomes car – clever. And the last is a sign of the times: it’s the one where the guy is clowning around, extrovert (probably a bit of an arse), and life of the party, but lives a lonely life (it’s done to the song of Queen’s "Great Pretender" I think). It’s an advert for a car, but there’s a bit of a social commentary there. At the moment I’m single, but I don’t feel lonely or anything like that – I just have no room for romance emotionally (or, ahem, financially!) – but gods forbid, I suspect there’s singleton men and women out there like the guy in the ad.
The council is now mostly SNP and they’re going to scrap the trams idea, or so they say. Great. Another lot of money wasted – but I’ll be willing to bet it’ll be back on the table in a couple of years. I’ve a nasty feeling that the SNP are going to go power-crazy and promise a lot of things and fail to deliver (even worse than usual for poltiticians), especially in the Parliament. Maybe it’s because I don’t like nationalists, but I don’t trust Alex Salmond (I don’t like his attitude)…
With Tony Blair stepping down next months, there’s a sense of finality over everything. I know he’ll be remembered for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he should also be remembered for the formation of the Scottish parliament (for better or worse!), the introduction of the minimum wage, reduced unemployment, increased environmental awareness and recycling, and the modernisation of the NHS (kicking and screaming – still!).
Society has changed a lot under Blair, not necessarily because of him or his policies. Kids these days are more problematic than ever (and more than sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll – now you have violence and mobiles, and absolutely no concept of what is right and wrong), we have a binge-drinking culture, and people are famous just for being well, famous. Why else would we watch Big Brother? Are we so starved of imagination that all we can do is watch a number of people with unpleasant personalities scream inarticulately at each other? AM I THE ONLY ONE TO NOTICE THIS?
Enough said. I’m off to write a plotline for this Aztec-y campaign at ORC and feed my mind.
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