Hello fellow Belle and Sebastian fans! It's been a super long time since I've posted--mostly due to the fact that I let my sister borrow my laptop for some BBQ invitations she was going to make on PrintShop, and then her youngest daughter dropped it in their garden pond! Oh dear, I can say that algae-infested water is not very good for a computer's motherboard. That baby was gone after that. Luckily, I had some coins to sell that I was not particularly fond of and now I have a new computer. Many apologies and thank yous to those of you who sent me private email after my last post. I guess I was at quite a low point after spending the Fourth alone and then finding out Denise is married. A lot has happened since then, let me tell you! That is not to say that things are getting any better. Thankfully, I have B&S to listen to whenever things are looking not-so-good. One of my lizards, Commando, died a few days ago. I've had him quite a while; I actually think everytime I wake up that he'll finally be dead. And he finally went. R.I.P. little guy! I hope you're looking for crickets up in heaven! Also, a few days ago, I went to Gunther Tooties for a late-night meal. Denise didn't seem to be working, for which I was thankful. I haven't seen her since I found out she was married, and her husband is in prison for a few years (I don't know what for--I have images of him hunting me down with various and sundry medieval torture devices! Eeep!). So, I ate, and right as I was leaving I heard her voice. She was in her regular clothes, not her uniform. I was surprised to see she is quite a classily-dressed woman. I expected her to be a jeans-and-teeshirt type of gal, but she was wearing a dress and nice shoes. As I left, she was leaving too, and she smiled and asked me what I'd been up to and where I'd been. I told her I'd been away on business. Wow, what a bad thing to say to someone when you're actually unemployed. She asked me for more details and I mumbled and hoped she'd change the subject. And then--she grabbed my arm! And told me she'd missed me. And grinned at me! And wow, did my heart ever start beating like crazy. I got in my car, and I smiled for the first time in a really long time. It's funny, just when life starts looking really shitty, how things can change. And it's also funny how they can go straight back to being shitty. Toodles! Reggie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+