Cunning plans 0, failure 2

Another (equally unsuccessful) cunning plan

My idea this one. I'll take TBG to the pictures, and BLISS can do present wrapping and other secret stuff.

The conversation went like this:

TBG and me are in the car, we have turned back from one long traffic queue and are, effectively, yet to get out of the end of our road. The mobile phone rings.

ME: Hello. (I can't see who it is without my glasses and can't drive with my glasses on).

BLISS: Hi. Can you surreptitiously give me a ring when you're leaving, please...

ME: (mind working overtime, there has to be an answer to this, there's no such word as can't, as in I can't talk my way out of this one...lost for words)...er...

BLISS: Are you there?

ME: Yeah. You're on the hands free. I'm driving.

BLISS: Oh. There goes that then.

One lesson for me: there is such a word as can't.

One question for BLISS: “surreptitiously”?

Dem's da rules

I used to work with a bloke who had a very simple, but not simplistic outlook. Life was simple, as long as you abided by the rules. That much was simple. Having a rule for every circumstance isn't so easy. His rules were remarkably laid back and tolerant in many and in some surprising areas. Not though, in breakfast sandwiches. Bacon: white bread, butter or spread, tomato sauce, bacon. Sausage: white bread, butter or spread, brown sauce, sausages. Any deviation from this was considered...well...deviant. Unnatural, twisted and symptomatic of the perpetrator being a wrong 'un.

I complied with the rules this morning, and had a very good sausage sandwich. Apart from using that half-wholemeal bread. It was all we had. Honest.

Prometheus

As luck would have it, the diversion (failed) was a film both TBG and I wanted to see. I don't understand the critics that have had a go at it. There's going to be plenty in the audiences who won't have seen the orignal Alien, and that does not apply, then you just need to watch this as if you've not seen the original Alien. Sit back and enjoy the (headlong) ride.

A double convert

BLISS watched Babel with me and that and Biutiful have made her a fan. Great.

BLISS's pc is on it's last legs. It's had an extended lifespan thanks to Ubuntu 10.04 extracting two additional years. Over those two years she's enjoyed the ease and stability Linux provides, and will now isn't interested in running a Windows pc. Take that, evil empire. In a world without fences and barriers, who needs Gates and Windows? I do struggle to understand how free software is better than commercial stuff. How come Libre Office (for example) and open, edit, save, etc., MS Office documents, while Office can't cope with Open Document Format files? Eh? Why pay more for less? Unless it's pain? Or torture?