Swedish Furniture

I'm starting to appreciate certain soundtracks I never gave much of a listen, and I thought I'd share a verse with you. I tend to do this sporadically, just inserting a verse of a song, and I know, it's a little blase, but every so often it works, and I know that I can come back to the blog and use it to reminisce.

Your face it dances, and it haunts me.
Your laughter's still ringing in my ears.
I still find pieces of your presence here,
Even after all these years.
But I don't want you thinking I don't get asked to dinner,
'Cause I'm here to say that I sometimes do.
Even though I may soon feel the touch of love,
I just don't think I'll ever get over you.

Last night, I put on Break of Dawn again, so that I could play along to Raven. But after it finished, I fast forwarded to the Garden State soundtrack, and I think I fell asleep to it. I woke halfway through the Sin City soundtrack, and then fell asleep until sometime during Surfing on Sine Waves. But that one particular song echoes with its simplicity, and I can appreciate it more in time.

I spent yesterday gallivanting around Croydon, in the Ikea shop. I always viewed Ikea as a kind of theme park in appearance, with a day care facility, restaurants, and the like. It's certainly a strange shop. Sadly, Emma is still in Wales, so she could not join us, but Mizuki, Kaori, Katou, Kiwako, Warren, Kumiko and Kumiko's friend. Hosei also joined us after we'd finished, as he was lost on the way.

I bought myself a rather nifty laptop bag, so that when I get a laptop running a nice, stable, networkable operating system, I'll carry a laptop around with me. Until then, it'll just have my CDs and CD player and my organiser in it. It's still nifty though. I also purchased some nice bitonal straws and an ice-cube tray that creates 'cubes' in the shape of doughnuts. The joys of Swedish ingenuity; the items are well priced and functional.

Computers are fun and useful.

After we returned how without Kiwako or Warren or Kumiko's friend, after a little looking at said items, I gave Hosei and Kumiko a lift to the nearby tube station, and left it there. It must have given a terrible impression of my driving, as in order to be saved several minutes waiting time for traffic to afford us a gap to enter, as I pulled out of the parking space, I sped into a short gap in front of the bus, and I did it at near full acceleration. It may have frightened them. Also, after dropping them off, I had to do an equally fast acceleration in order to get back in to traffic. I hope they don't think I'm a driving lunatic; the rest of the trip was managed without any real sudden or dangerous moves.

I drove to Dan's place in time to watch them eat, and then we discussed the creation of a hosting business. I won't go in to details, but it looks like fun. I then returned home, made myself some food, and fell asleep listening to music. But I think I already spoke about that.

My new shirt is being printed right now. When it's ready, I'll sport it to my trendy friends who can all admire it and it's amazingly witty logo on the front. I can't wait to let people chuckle at its double-entendre. For now though, I'll go and pick it up and admire it for myself, before returning home and waiting for Dan to come around.