The collected works of ScottyB

Monday isn’t my favourite day of the week - in fact, I assume that like most people, Monday ends up being the harsh jolt back into reality. The resuming of the corporate machine, back to the grind so to speak. So on a Monday morning, as I’m woken by the annoying bells of my mobile phone alarm and I instinctively pull the covers over my head, cursing the sound and feel of Monday morning like Garfield, I’d never have imagined the day could have turned out so nicely.

Work was relatively quiet, only the regular parts orders and quotations, just a mere handful of unanswerable questions, which were promptly redirected to the Melbourne office where they could be dealt with quickly, allowing me to resume the stuff I’m actually ‘officially’ employed to do and I even got the time in my lunch break to update the Photography page here which I’ve been meaning to do for a while now.

Driving home I realised (for the eleventy-billionth time now) how much I really love my car. The weather is cooling down now.. and she feels so much more eagre to pull through the rev range. The scoop madly sucking in more of the milder air, the supercharger inhaling it like a marathon runner and screaming back at me in excitement. It all just flows. Its a car that just works - everything comes together and it feels like the truest motoring experience.

Obsession madly needs a wash though, poor thing. Looks so unloved with the brake dust building up on the rims and the rain spots dotting its silver hide and black roof like freckles on a weathered face.

Somehow yesterday Kate managed to get lost between her place and the shops 3 minutes from my house, so we didn’t get to catch up - much to my dismay (and to hers no doubt) she didn’t get to watch any of the Formula 1 with me. I’m completely convinced that she was absolutely devastated about this, but I have assured her there are numerous other rounds this season that we could watch together and share what is the fantastic experience of F1. So enthused at this idea was Kate and overwhelmed by the pending excitement, she had no choice but to quickly change the subject - it was truly too much for her to deal with.

Today however, we made up for it. This evening to tell the truth. When we went out and saw Hot Fuzz.

I don’t know why, but for some reason I keep calling it Bad Crime. Which of course is the spoof TV show Shaun Micallef created for his critically tolerated ‘Micallef Pr(o)gram(me)’. Imagine the confusion when you ask for tickets to a movie that doesn’t exist.

Not in the least what I expected, but boy was I pleasantly surprised.

Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?
No.
Have you ever fired one gun whilst jumping through the air?
No.
Ever been in a high-speed pursuit?
Yes, I have.
Have you ever fired a gun whilst in a high speed pursuit?
No!

Ah yes.. my kind of humour. Plus the movie references really tickled my fancy. And I totally want Danny’s DVD collection!

On a final note, the previews before Hot Fuzz have me excited once again for the next few months of movie-going.

The extended trailer for 300 was shown - I was barely able to contain my excitement. I think Kate thought I was having an attack of some sort. This was followed by an exciting showing of Shooter, the upcoming Marky Mark Wahlberg film - tremendous potential that flick has got if the shots were anything to go by. Oceans 13 is another I’m quite looking forward to. And one I’d never heard a word about until tonight - was Sunshine, a sci-fi/thriller about a team of astronauts sent to re-ignite the dying sun 50 years into the future. And the kid in me wants to go and see the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

I can see some money being well-spent very soon.

EDIT: *phew* - thank heavens for the Autosave feature! Timed out when I clicked publish, pressed back and the entire post was gone! Thankyou Mr. Technology.