blow, wind, and crack your cheeks

[incandescens]

Feeling much better today. And not at all disappointed about not having an excuse to call in ill, no, of course not.

For the record, I did not get blown away today. There were some accidents due to high winds, and a number of trains cancelled, resulting in those coworkers who travelled by them leaving early in order to get what was running, but nothing too dramatic right on top of us. Though I will note that it was not a good day for us to get the fire alarm that we got, and all have to go trooping outside to stand around in the wind and rain.

There's some speculation about what the weather's going to be like tomorrow, and what the trains will be doing. One coworker, who's due to go down to London for a meeting, was preparing with great fortitude for the possibility that she might be stuck in London overnight and forced to be in London on Saturday. (Don't laugh. Another coworker who was in London today did get stuck there tonight, and hotel arrangements were being hastily made as I left.)

Side note: the current ads for Domino's Pizza on television are intensely annoying, because there isn't a Domino's within delivery range of where I live. Feh. Not that I necessarily would order it, or order lots of it, but having them constantly trumpeting it in a tantalising manner irks me.

---

An Infinite Number of Monkeys

After all the Shakespeare, the book
of poems they type is the saddest
in history.

But before they can finish it,
they have to wait for that Someone
who is always

looking to look away. Only then
can they strike the million
keys that spell

humiliation and grief, which are
the great subjects of Monkey
Literature

and not, as some people still
believe, the banana
and the tire.

-- Ronald Koertge

Comments

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

I'm riding the sick bus myself, staying home from work on the first snowy day of the year.

High winds, eh? Has it been an unusual winter over yonder as well?

[incandescens]

Much sympathy.

We had a lot of wind and rain across the UK yesterday. Not really up to huge ice storm level, but caused a certain amount of inconvenience.

[squeakelala.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're feeling better! ♥!

And I didn't know they had Domino's pizza in Britain! XD *is imagining the nearest Domino's being...oh, a whole OCEAN away from you...oddly amusing*

[incandescens]

Thanks. :)

Oh, we have lots of American imports over here. Dubbed anime on satellite tv, Domino's pizza . . .

[snake-aes.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that Domino's Pizza has the worst damn cheese on any pizza, anywhere.

Well, it does in New Zealand, anyway. Dunno about the rest of the world.

[incandescens]

I'm not really a connoisseur . . .

[snake-aes.livejournal.com]

I've just realised that comment could've been construed as an attack on your pizza-eating habits.

Dammit, I need to hold off on the hyperbolic impulse-commenting.

[incandescens]

No, don't worry; it was quite clear that the slam was at Domino's. ;)

[snake-aes.livejournal.com]

Oh, phew. :D

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

When you visit Chicago, I and the good people at Giordano's will demonstrate why I wept quietly on your behalf upon hearing that.

[incandescens]

I will look forward to that day.

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

Poor monkeys. :(

I am glad you are feeling better! *heart*

[incandescens]

Thank you!

I owe it all to coffee, the sovereign medicine!

[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

Dominos is, indeed, the worst pizza of any major chain on the face of the Earth, and I say that as someone who kept her local Dominos in business personally while at college.

Also: glad that you're not sick or dead in a transit accident. Freaking weather.

[incandescens]

Yours is worse than mine, but mine is being annoying enough.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you made that remark about the weather. I read this item this morning, and then on the news all day it's been all "OMG EUROPE WINDY COLD ARGH!!!" Glad to hear you're safe and sound!

[incandescens]

Thanks. :)