Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Man, is it just me or has it been excessively hot these past few days? Hot as in you can't sleep hot. Hot as in when you do finally drift off you wake up with a damp pillow hot. Hot as in everyone is perpetually grumpy and the only thing you can discuss with any effort is the heat hot? Hot like it just sucks hot. I've tried every trick in the book, and I still haven't found any relief. And it's only December. And it hasn't broken 35 yet. It really makes anything that isn't in airconditioned bliss a serious chore and I'm over it. Summer is only okay on days that start with an S, otherwise I'm not interested. It sucks.

Another thing that sucks is that it has now been a year since Dimebag Darrell was stolen away from us during the night. He truly lived the rock n roll lifestyle and could shred like no-one else. That pink goatee of his? Inspired. How do you think he did it though? Do you think that he walked around with a small container full of hair dye held under his chin, his goatee just sort of bathing in it? From all reports he wasn't only a rockin and rollin animal either, but quite a nice guy. “All he wanted to do was make everyone happy. He was the ray of sunshine,” is what Zakk Wylde had to say. His drink of choice was the Black Tooth Grin. A double shot of Jack Daniel's and a dash of coke to add some colour. Tough. But that was how he rolled. No ego, no pretension just an old hand in the heavy metal world who greeted people with an outstretched hand and "Hello, I'm Darrell."

Ah, so, yeah. Sorry.

Although it's been hot, and although Dimebag is no longer with us life goes on, and today it was certainly happening. At work once a year we get a visit from an overweight, overdressed, unnaturally cheerful man. His name is Santa and today was his day. It was a big hit, everyone got a gift, no-one missed out. A few tiddly winks were a bit put off by the big guy, but he soldiered on anyway. There was an interesting assortment of food brought in to go with the festivities, my personaly favourite being a rainbow rice cake. It looked absolutely amazing and was very pretty, unfortunately the taste wasn't quite so spectacular. Something that I will be happy not to see for a little while are those little parcels that are filled with something that's not quite meat that people try to pass off as sausage rolls. I think with some of them that are in your freezer aisle you'd get more satisfaction out of eating the cardboard box they come in. But what can you do?

So a brief synopsis of the past few days: It's been hot. There was a party. It's been hot. I don't like it. My brother has been busted again looking up porn on the internet by my mother. MILFsexchallenge this time apparently. Sucks to be him.