Computer Blue

Sitting at the Stockbridge Starbucks, taking advantage of their free Internet. Beside me are two other middle aged white guys, each with a coffee and a laptop doing what looks like important stuff. The main difference between them and myself is probably that I am blasting Prince's Purple Rain album in my multi-coloured headphones.

 

While I am here I am also charging my phone and iPod - only schmucks pay for stuff like that! So far today I have done some laundry, the dishes, and been in contact with the council - sorting out an issue with a glass recycling bin that was delivered to our home when what I requested was a food waste bin (when will they learn).

 

I am currently looking to see if I have (and cursing the fact that I haven't) heard back from any of the places where I have applied for work. To cheer myself up I am also trying to decide which selectable classes to take at uni come fall, so far Language Behaviours, Brains and Cognition: Data and Theories has sailed up as a favourite.

 

 

Preparedness Is Next To Godliness

This is how well I sometime prepare my cooking.

 

Yeah.

Menu

 

There is a theme there...

Playground Pals

This morning the lad and I accidentally arrived for Sean's whole day out-of-school activity half an hour early. This meant of course thirty minutes of no-bars-held-father-and-son-time! After a friendly chat with the groundskeeper at the playground at The Meadows we were off.

 

 

Cat's In The Cradle

Sitting in the ridicously cold computer room at Stockbridge Library, listening to Ugly kid Joe and looking for employment on-line. After this I see lunch and a Tesco-run in the near future.

 

I just found a telemarketing job that offers free beer as a perk. Maybe if I stayed sauced I could go back there...

Vampire Realtors

I am on to you...

 

 

 

The Wall

The other day Sean built a wall (or mountain, as he called it) out of stuffed animals just before bed time. I am sure there was no alterior motive there at all.

 

It was 42 centimeters high!

 

Menu

If you aks me, I think it screams "Spring".

 

Gap's 2016 Summer Line

 

What is this? A couple pictures from a weirdly Edinburgh-themed clothes catalouge aimed at the white fashionable middle class?

Nah - it's just the lad and I up at Salisbury Crags.

 

 

Best in Class

This is Sean enjoying a treat after being named "Star of the day" in school the other day. That's right - academic achivements means sweets!

Boy With Fence

On the way home from school one day Sean stopped and posed, as he thought this would make a great set of pictures.

 

 

Monster Hugs

We met Sean's biggest hero in the last five years - Elmo - the other day. Since we had been discussing previously how a certain part of town look like the location of Furchester (Elmo's hotel that he runs with other monsters), this was the last piece of evidence we needed to cement that Elmo does in fact live in Edinburgh.

 

 

Of course I also hugged Elmo, but that was not captured on film.

 

New Menu

Eclectic doesn't even begin to describe it!