A is for Apathy

I’ve agreed to do a letter mem. Actually I’ve agreed to do a letter A mem. I agreed a long time ago, but it’s finally here. My letter was assigned by CyberPete and I’ve done the best I can. I’ve even managed to avoid rather dubious links such as A Range Rover, A Song by Kate Bush and Another Song by Kate Bush.

Apathy

You know the feeling when you just can’t quite be bothered to do anything at all? That’s the most wonderful of times when you lay in bed, knowing that there is a perfectly good reason that you should have been up half an hour ago, but well, hey, you’re still in bed and it’s likely to stay that way for a while.

And then there is the time when you were chatting on MSN and the work that you had to have finished yesterday was still sitting next to you incomplete.

Yes, these are the best of times, when you dictate to life what is going to happen and not it to you. That is why this post is a week late. Deal with it.

Acer

It’s a big of a big bugger, but that gives it a good 17” widescreen display which I appreciate for watch DVDs and stuff. I could have a minor rant regarding them plastering 120gig harddisk on the labels and only giving it a 100gig drive but that is a long rant that bores even me. Now I just want a netbook to carry around and I’ll be a totally happy bunny.

Adam and the Ants

One of the few pop groups that I liked almost everything that they produced. I read Adam’s auto-biography last year and it was a really interesting read. He’s bipolar and that makes him a big of a nutter. I guess it’s all the same with these pop start types. They start out as slightly eccentric (otherwise they wouldn’t have started into that game in the first place) and then the industry just takes hold and twists them and totally disconnects them from the rest of us mortals. Ho hum.

Austin Powers

These are just cool films although you do have to be British to catch half of the jokes, which makes it even better from our point of view. Apparently Mike Myers’ father is British and it was this that inspired him to do a lot of his humour. These films also gave me my favourite ring tone ever…

Apples

Now for it is mainly Golden Delicious. I’m open to others, but them is wot I prefers. Even though they come mainly from France. And then it’s the slightly yellow ones that are best. The only downer with apples is when the skin gets between your teeth. That requires hours of sticking sharpened things into your mouth and sometimes blood.

Achievement

When the apathy finally passes and then you realise just how far behind you have fallen, then, and only then do you have the motivation to really do your best. Or at least, your fastest. And as the slogan tells us, it’s best if you can actually get someone else to do the hard work. This is why I have plans for world domination. It’s not something that I would do, it’s what my minions will do for me…

Ambulances

We called two ambulances to our house in 2008. One to stop my arm falling off (slight exaggeration possibly) and one to stop Jesse from dying from a stroke. (Go on, tell me the last time that you know of that a thirteen year old had a stroke?) Anyway, he actually needed two of these odd looking vehicles. I managed with one. I’m not greedy.