What did you do today?

Went to the record store on my lunch break today.  That's always fun.

Forgive me for writing about yesterday rather than today.

11:00 Woke up, coffee, cigarettes, breakfast etc. Checked the temperature: 33°C (91.4°F). Not bad considered that we’ve had 38°C (100.4°F) earlier this summer.
12:30 Left home with my wife.
12:40 Grabbed the bus. Bad driver, good air conditioning.
12:50 Left the bus. Walked for 10 minutes down to the store Jumbo. Had a cigarette and some water before we went inside to shop – stuff for the house, a few garments, cockroach traps, tealights, toothpicks etc. Much of it half price of what we pay elsewhere.
13:45 Payed.
14:00 Back at the bus station where a Greek woman claimed that the bus had already gone, and the next one was due in an hour. We didn’t really believe her since we’d taken that bus several times before, and it had never come earlier than 10 minutes past.
14:20 Grudgingly we had to accept that the woman was right and start to rearrange our plans: We had planned to go by bus to the harbour and have lunch at a restaurant before going home. Instead we started to walk along the dusty and busy main road under a scorching sun, most of the way without a pavement. My wife hadn’t brought a hat, so she put a pair of trousers we’d bought at Jumbo on top of her head. We were quite a sight.
14:50 Found a cafe. It was closed, but the owner and his family were having a private barbecue and we were allowed to have a Coke and a smoke. That probably saved our lives (the Coke, not the smoke). Sat for app. 20 minutes before leaving.
15:45 Arrived at cafe Sousami inside town. Had a small beer each.
16:20 Sat down at Mama’s Pita quite close to our home to eat a simple lunch: Greek salad and bifteki (Greek hamburgers). Asked for wine, but they only had retsina, so we had a karafaki (2 dl) of ouzo instead. We took half of it with us when we left.
17:30 When we reached the street where we lived, my wife suggested that we’d have a coffee at Bonito, so we went inside their garden and ordered to frappé (ice coffee).
18:10 Finally home – exhausted, but in a good mood. Had a glass of wine before we showered.

The rest of the day was less interesting. It included some more food and fluids, of course, some strange cicada noises from our bathroom, an argument about what makes people argument, and a good deal of laughing. Went to bed at two-three o’clock, so what we did after belongs to another day.

Woke up at 8:00 and realized the bus doesn't run this morning.

Woke up 11:45
stayed in all day with the air conditioning, it was 90 degrees outside
went on the net, edited my Helmut Koellen You Won't See Me lp review (most important thing of the day)
went on PA -progressiveears, etc.
listened to music
went down to the building lobby and socialised with other tenants
re-arranged some CDs
Watched a cool vid "20 Great Conductors"
It is now nearing bed time

I pooped.

> wake up refreshed after an early night
> return to work after a 3 day weekend out of town trip
> be mildly surprised that daughter was relatively easy to get out of bed, dressed, and to the school bus
> drive to work listening to Swans
> at work, wondering when to start actually working

HolyMoly wrote: > wake up refreshed after an early night > return to work after a 3 day weekend out of town trip > be mildly surprised that daughter was relatively easy to get out of bed, dressed, and to the school bus > drive to work listening to Swans > at work, wondering when to start actually working

> day ends up being just as stressful as last week was
> jump for joy at this turn of events
> still bumming out to the Swans


Edited by HolyMoly - September 04 2012 at 14:44

Every day is a mutherf**king holiday...

Worked hard: lifted 10-ton hammers from 9 to 5.
Then, I had a mint flavoured ice-cream after work.

>wake up