Blood Moon.

The earth has just started to block out the light of the sun to the moon. A wee snippet of shadow is moving up from the bottom of it.

Thankfully the rain from yesterday went away. So I should be able to see it tonight.

If I can stay awake that is. I'm knackered. Really sleepy. Waking up at 5:15am every morn is a bit of a jolt to the system. Especially after my lazy days...

Anyway, I might get my camera out, but it isn't any good taking moon pictures. It's just not good enough. I can only hope that those with better are.

Anyway, not long to go...

Horoscope from Jonathan Cainer.

"The devil you know is always better than the devil you don't. Assuming, that is, that you like a dull life. If you thrive on adventure, you need to go out and introduce yourself to a few more devils. Right now, you appear to have put yourself on the Devils 'R' Us mailing list. You are being bombarded with invitations from red-faced fellows with horns, tails and tridents. These, though, of course, are all devils you know. The more interesting types disguise themselves in smocks and halos."

"disguise themselves in smocks and halos" Hahahaa... yeah.

现在写信汉字.我的英国，美国的朋友看不懂。

我今天起床了无点一刻，我出发五点半就到了十分差六点。今天我朋友叫我多了东西，他给我介绍了很多了情况了。我很努力。我不要忘他说了。星期四我开始来簿子，我可以写他告诉我。我晚上我看看电视。现在我在练习中文学习进步。我也可以休息休息，很疲乏。

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.

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I remember this show very well. Why oh why did they cancel it? By far one of the very best cartoons ever made. Wish they'd bring it back...

One last thing...

My horoscope, from Jonathan Cainer.

It's a nice one.

They say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Perhaps they are right but you are not a dog; nor are you old; and nor are you now in the process of learning a trick. You are honing a skill that you have been quietly developing for years. Only now you are using it in an unusual context. You are doing something you do not normally do and you are doing it rather well. Continue to be innovative and inventive. The more you dare to be different, the more your situation will start to change for the better.

Excellent... Onward and upward.

Now rest.

Transfer.

Really really tired. But it's oh so nice to be home by 2:30pm in the afternoon. Oh so nice, I feel like I've got a whole day ahead of me. Bliss.

Even if it does feel strane being out of work this time. A part of me keeps looking around and thinking "Should I really be off work now?"

Another part of me says "Who the heck cares! I'm already off when normally I'd have just started and been serving customers about now..."

It is wonderful.

Even if I only slept for about 3 hours last night. I kept thinking I've gotta be up by 5:15am, which kept me awake thinking I wouldn't have enough sleep.

Which is what happened. So I'm a bit wishy washy this avo. But no problem, I'm not working, I'm chilling at home. Mmm... so nice to be home.

I lay in bed, looked at the time this morning, it said 5:10am. I got immediately, had a quick shower got dressed and left the house. Before I knew it I was under way with the day and before I knew it, it was all over. It is so nice. Being made even nicer because I'm used to working late. It's not even 3pm yet!

Anyway, there's a couple of things I need to sort out soon. That's my holiday. Which I'd nearly forgotten about today. But I'm no rush to take it just yet. If I wait till Aprill my mate in Ireland will be able to get holiday time off too. So we'l be able to have a nice relaxing x-box 360 session. Mmm... I haven't played a console in ages.

It's an important part for my being able to unwind and relax now. Being that I was the generation that was born into some of the very first consoles. I remember the old table tennis game with the two paddles. I remember the shoddy twirly silver nob controller. I recall spending much time playing against my dad and brother. Great days. Now even better, thanks to improved technology.

Right, now I'm going to take it easy because I'm really quite tired and just amble around for this afternoon.

Sunday.

I should really not blog after I've been on the sauce. I should probably refrain from any internet activities whilst under the influence.

Gurgh!

Anyway, the past is still the past, what I had, is now well and truly gone. As it should be. The sun set on one day and has risen on the next.

It's a very final act to walk out a door for the last time. It comes more to my mind now having had one big closures to parts of my life that were completely different from the one I have here.
That very moment the door shuts behind you, the rooms, people, smells, textures all become an instant memory. No big send off, no special thing. It's kind of hollow, like a bubble that's burst.

I don't know quite how to sum up at the moment as I feel about it.

I looked forward to that moment, where I knew that I would never have to walk back those steps. See those things. Go through that journey again.

It's gone. It was, never to be again.

So, where now? I know the answer to that, mostly.

I know the things I'm going to do. Or, better written, I know the things I've planned to do. You can get in your car and say I'm going to drive to that place over there. But real living is in the experience, not that bit of fluff which circles round your head. Those loose fitting ideas.

I'm waiting in anticipation for how that road is going to feel. How it will unfold. All those unknowable ups and downs on the journey ahead.

It's all good. I also want to get out and about before the day gets to far ahead. I want to buy this weeks New Scientist. I need to buy a great load of vegatables, because my bowel movements (sorry) have been anything but pleasent the last few weeks. My schedule as it was, didn't allow for great eating habits. I wish to rectify that.

So a vegi soup is the plan for the day.

Ciao a tutti. I need to find a really good book to learn Italian with, or at least to keep me ticking over. Same with Chinese.