I wasn't starting work until 12 today so me and Dad went to some shops to get stuff for the house. Started off in B&Q where we somehow managed to spend over 70 quid on literally nothing; screws and brackets basically. Horrific. After this I looked at the furniture shops for a sofa. It disgusts me how they're so expensive. I walked around DFS without even pausing and six assistants approached me asking how I was, etc, etc. The seventh guy asked me what I was looking for to which I replied, quite honestly, "something cheaper than what you've got here." He guided me to the cheapest sofa, a vomit coloured disgrace to modern interior design for the 'bargain' price of 350 bucks.
Work went okay. It started off really quiet but picked up as the day went on. I spent literally an hour with one elderly man who had no idea about technology but wanted a digital camera and to be able to print them. He didn't have a computer so it was complicated explaining how to do it with one of the printers with a screen. To sum up the conversation nicely would be to quote his question upon seeing the camera I recommended: "Where does the film go?" He finally got a vague understanding of what everything was and left happy with his new toys.
This evening I watched the World Cup Final. It was pretty boring if I'm honest. First half featured two terrible teams playing with little more urgency than a friendly. Second half both teams racked it up a bit but still weren't showing off any sort of skill that justified them being in the final. It wasn't until the end of the second half and during extra time that they seemed to care about winning but still it was in the last couple of minutes that Spain managed to score their winning goal. Not a great end to the world cup coupled with the ridiculous amount of yellow cards being thrown around for the crazy amount of fouling occurring. Highlights of the match for me were firstly in the opening where the commentator said "It's Orange versus Clockwork" I immediately got the Clockwork Orange reference but it took me a minute to figure out what it meant; very clever, BBC, very clever. My second highlight was the ninja kick dealt out by one of the Dutch players. Amazing. Thirdly was the funniest part where Puyol ran into his own goalkeeper who was in mid air causing a huge mid air collision of a flying goalkeeper and long flowing locks, which looked beautifully hilarious in slow motion HD.
Song of the day today is one that I have had stuck in my head for a majority of the day. It's Marina and the Diamonds - Guilty. It's my favourite song from her album. It took me a while to get into it because it doesn't have the instantly catchiness of some of her other songs but after a few listens I really started to like the power of it and it's a really unusual yet easy to listen to song. When I saw her live a month or so ago this song was mind-blowing. So the first video is the actual song and the second is form the gig I was at. It's the best quality version I could find on youtube at the expense of it only being part of the song.
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