Thursday 11 February 2010

1383 Some work in May and the film Venus

Yesterday, Saturday, May 18th 2008 became a very good day in that I completed the first stage of getting on top my work again and now have my work room is a management condition, retaining this morning the energy and determination to continue.

I awoke early around 7 am, drank two cups of coffee and had marmalade toast and wrote out an ideas for three hours and then decided I should attend to other things losing the train of thought.

I believed it would be necessary to call upon the TV insurances for a house repair visit and commenced the task of finding places the piles of work which surrounded the set made entry into the room a precarious activity

During the subsequent 16 hours I achieved the following.

I completed the photographing of the Civilization work, about which I want to write further over the coming weeks, a completed Development volume and several sets related Myspace, mostly confidential.

I also completed the registration of several new sets and prepared artman and registration cards for My Space Blogs, a new work Development volume and a new volume relation to the Fun, Food and drink establishments within a mile of my home.

I sorted out the in tray in order for working through as the next main activity, later this morning. I organised other work back in this room into three small piles covering the search for early identity (one volume) Two large and several smaller volumes and papers related to Annual and perennial documents and information covering myself, and my birth and care mothers, and four of the volumes and papers concerned with the complaint regarding the premature and preventable death of my aunt and the request for medical records where I have not received an acknowledgement, but will wait until the end of this week before making further enquiries.

This activity did result in the completion of more work sets to 7378, and additional 56 for the month and therefore less than half the higher monthly target of 120, although I will achieved a running average of 100 a month set for this year, it was set on the basis of writing at least the first drafts of a main work about the relationship with my birth and care mothers, delayed because I need to completed research in relation to my earliest life and also in relation to the death of my care mother although I am seeing a way forward to begin and possibly complete the work with various unanswered questions, given the anticipated time the next stages will take. Given it has been 57 months since the work commenced the actual overall average is closer to 130 sets a month. The total photographs taken since acquiring the digital camera is 280000.

There were four other activities during the day in addition to having some good food. I played lots of hearts where I am struggling to achieve one win in five having increased from 17% to 19% with a couple of weeks, and this is at the expense of level two chess, where after several runs of twenty games I took a break, and am now playing only one or two games a day, with the present running total of eight wins.

I half watched the Hull and Bristol City Game until local aging Wonderman Wandass aged 39 years who scored the stunning goal of a lifetime which has taken the club into the top flight league for the first time in its 100 years of existence. He was supported by the other local man and international player Nick Barmby who returned home at the end of his career to help a club struggling to avoid relegation, such is the romance and magic of football still. Such are the fortunes in this game that Leeds play another local club Doncaster, this afternoon, in an attempt to gain promotion the third league to the second.

I also watched Britain has got talent until falling asleep for the greater part of the last programme searching for those who will make the finals. This programme is even more condensed than American Idol and the British version, The X factor. The search for those who will perform before the public voting audience is spread over what has been five or six weeks, with the producers creating two shows a week, one a background show, from an amalgamations of the auditions held is London, Glasgow, and Birmingham, perhaps also Manchester.

Then last night fifteen minutes was spent showing the process in which the 175 individuals selected to continue to the next stage were reduced to the forty with eight acts appearing each of five nights next week. As all the acts who ahd this stage were present and in the costume it was not made clear of they were given the opportunity to show the act they would perform live on TV or if this was an exercise undertaken by the judges with the help of the produces using photographs and recorded footage. We were not shown the process of decision taking but just some of the line ups in which groups were told they were successful, the top forty, and some of those who were not. One was able to guess that each programme will have at least one child star, one elderly person, one dance group, one stunt act, and one singer or group of singers, thus some of those who got through the first audition may well have lost out simply because there were too many one category and the producers needed to achieve a balanced programme each night.

The third event was watching the film Venus with Peter OToole and Leslie Phillips as amazingly early evening after the football had ended and I had made a walking visit to the supermarket for milk and marge, I found that the TV was working properly again. I will save my reactions to this film for old men about old men until next writing.

The consequence of the supermarket trip is that I could not resist some inexpensive diced beef and returned to make a stir fry, cooking the beef with an onion and then added a yellow pepper and some small string beans and courgette, and then the noodles with a chilli sauces the noodles coming from somewhere in Asia. I enjoyed this as I had the salad made with a tin of Scottish mackerel in tomato sauce and generous helpings of an already sliced olive mixture including thyme, red pepper, carrot sun dried tomato and sun flower oil from some middle eastern country. It was also yummy. Staying up till 2 am also meant a sandwich of cheese and salami around midnight.

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