01/12/2005: "Blessings 30-12-4"

Beloved Parishioners,

it is appropriate in this season

to take a little time

to consider our Blessings.

We are currently on holiday and thank The Lord for, in no particular order, these:

* we have discovered a radio station that plays jazz in the morning (2SER 107.30 MHz)

* we are regularly enjoying a couple of leisurely coffees and a relaxing read in the mornings. We haven't had cardammon coffee for some time and it somewhat more delightful than we remember

* having slept soundly, it a great joi to rise sometime after 10 without a hangover

* we finished off Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake, which is very good indeed, and Carl Hiassen's Skinny Dip, which is as fine as any of his other works and, predictably, dedicated to the memory of Warren Zevon

* we have just embarked upon the second volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle The Confusion and are very excited indeed!

* we have discovered the most wonderful incense - Satya Sai Baba's Nag Champa (Agarbatti) - 15 grammes of Export Quality material for the retail price of only $1.95. This gear is so pungent that this morn I could readily detect the frangrance of the stick I lit yesterday evening! 'Twould be perfect for the censer were it not so brazenly heathen. Still, we might give it a swing (pun intended) and see if it gets past the Bishop…

* after a fumbling and awkward start and no little humiliation (mostly self-inflicted - we should've known better…) we have returned to the video store to catch up on popular culture. We recently viewed Barbershop (Ice T blaxploitation pic, good fun), Ali G in da House (would've been better if 'tweren't so juvenile and had more Borat!) and the fantastic Kevin Smith movie Dogma (more in a separate epistle). One dollar for a weekly rental - stay tuned for more Kulcha Vulcha-ing!

* VB on sale at the discount liquor store - $30 for a block of 30 cans - cheaper than, waal, many things!

* finally found time to familiarise ourselves with our new electronic Japanese dictionary - it is called JlookUp and it is very good indeed!

We are determined to use these holidays for Good

so many more interesting thangs are sure to ensue!

Bless y'all!


lerevdr on Wed 12-Jan-2005 @ 13:33 e.s.t [permalink]
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