bets there's a gnat out there somewhere who wishes it was a GIANT.

or in non-Boot speak....

you all a Happy New Year!

you one *right back*

about to comment in your unhappy sounding plurk. But I got distracted by someone commenting here. Hello lemongrass!

Hello! I'm having a short break from wanton misery just now.

a bit of wanton misery is unavoidable sometimes.

it's damn hard. You know you're in it up to your armpits, but struggling against it just to push you in deeper (sometimes).

but tell me more about this break!

with wanton misery. On your bike, misery.

listening to silly happy music and eating jelly beans.

outrageously happy at that thought!

if makes you feel any better, I broke my foot a day or two ago. Jellybeans have already cheered me up. Why didn't I come to plurk sooner?

horrified that you broke your foot, and wishes he had saved a few jellybeans for you. How did that happen?

ridiculous. I just missed a step (while on a boat). I fractured a toe on the other foot a couple of weeks ago. You have to laugh. Really!

what a pain! But a boot on a boat is a wonderful thing. best wishes for quick and thorough healing.

if lemongrass has good stories / presents from the New Year / Christmas palaver?

(and thank you)

plurking on his nice new flat-screen display bought in the after-Christmas sales. There was Christmas joy mixed in with the stress too.

the best bits were going round to a neighbour's for turkey and playing my double bass in church and the pub.

in the pub, eh. Sounds fantastic!

would love to see/hear that one day.

to learn more tunes so he can do that more. Also, practice jazz with his children, one of whom is great on the trombone.

it must be lovely to be able play music with your kids.

it is. There's a dodgy point when they get better than you are, but one gets used to it.

heh.

met cloudopper the other week, by the by.

in the flesh?

be gone for 10 mins or so. back soon.

in that very thing. Also, clothes. Also, San Francisco.

sleeping

utterly confused. You both live in the UK and you met up in San Francisco?

yes! It was fun. I previously met a guy from about 40 miles away from home, in Austin, Tx.

lying about the sleeping, it turns out.

that's wonderful (the meeting).

a little sleepy herself. Lovely as it is to catch you, I think I might catch some shut-eye as well.

if a gnat that is a giant gnat still qualifies as a noseeum.

have to ponder this. It is one of life's great questions.