To Where I Am Now
Monday December 23rd 2024
I confronted the sugar monster today and resisted him luring me to the shops to buy chocolate bars, chocolate muffins and chocolate donuts. I’m not too worried about the amount of food and drink that already has sugar in it, but I was wondering if it was possible to not consume extra sugar in the shape of sweets and cake. I always had a sweet tooth, hence the lack of teeth, but I’m good at resisting, even if it involves pleasure, haha. There’s this strange idea that you are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t eat meat, drink or smoke (apparent pleasures) and I’ve found that most things are just a habit and once you have let them loose you simply don’t think about them anymore. It’s just about the first three months, although this might not be true about serious addictions, phobias and obsession.
Paolo the stereo fixer was supposed to call today but he didn’t. I suppose Christmas eve, eve is a likely day to flake. It was probably a blessing as I need to make the components I need him to fix or test, more accessible, especially if there’s going to be all kinds of wires sprouting out from inaccessible nooks and crannies. Generally stereo systems are buried in shelving with little access to the connections behind without a whole lot of digging, messing around and yoga positions.
I saw that a newer Terminator movie suddenly appeared on Netflix so I watched it. Ridiculous action with fantastic machines and evil robots, they know how to make a kool machine if not a great script - Arnie’s script included dumb ‘in jokes’. I balanced it with some good Welsh TV with The Pembrokeshire Murders, mainly for the accents and the fact that we used to go there for our holidays - Little Haven, Haverfordwest - nobody was murdered when we were there, although this was based on a true story.
Music today has been Stone The Crows debut (1970). A Scottish Blues album that features the raspy Maggie Bell and Jim Dewar (who also sang and played bass in Robin Trower’s heyday). Les Harvey on guitar (Alex’s brother tragically electrocuted and killed on stage in Swansea). Colin Allen played drums and was associated with a lot of luminaries from the sixties onwards (he joined Focus for one album, Hamburger Concerto in 1974). I don’t know what happened to John McGinnis, the keyboard player. Side Two is one song, ‘I Saw America’ (17.20).
Merry Christmas Olivia and Marty !