On this Holy day when we remember how baby Jebus took his involvement in carpentry to new levels, your uncle Nobby felt the urge to drop by and say a seasonal GFY to the Asylumites, start a Phriday thread, and catch up.
I've got a 4 day weekend off from work. (New job? Why yes, thank you for asking. I'm now working for a consortium of universities and bio-tech/bio-mechanical engineering companies on digital healthcare innovation.)
Today, the forecast is dry & sunny, and Mrs Nobby #2 has to finish a work assignment, so you'll find me riding twisty back lanes on my new crotch-rocket (a Honda CBR600F with all the shiny races bits. Vroom vroom).
Saturday (if I've not been killed to death in a horrendous motorcycle accident) I'll be planting out pretty ickle flowers in the garden and then burning steaks on the barbecue. Might try to squeeze in another flying lesson at some stage.
Sunday I'm taking the wifey and her nonagenarian parents to Sunday lunch. Her mother is deaf and has Alzheimer's, so the discussions I've had here with gbaji prepared me well - the conversations are uncannily similar.
Monday the forecast is for rain, so perhaps some LoTRO (I haven't explored the new zones in update 13 yet)
And my predictions for the week:
- Putin will continue to ask Ukraine to move its border away from his troops.
- On the Mustang's 50th anniversary, Ford will finally admit that they never did get round to sorting out the suspension
- GarcÃa-Marquez will be praised to the skies by people who never read his books
- Oscar Pistorious will come up with the 28th version of why he unloaded a clip into his girlfriend ("I thought she was a Zombie Aardvark, man")
- Kaolian will upgrade the servers to Windows XP
- Simon Cowell will admit to his involvement in Syria, Yemen, Enron and Chelsea Clinton's ovaries
Laters 'taters