Blasts from the Past

1. Last night, and for the first time since I saw the first handful of episodes of the second series of Enterprise, I watched Star Trek. Specifically, Deep Space 9, the first three episodes of it. I must say it has aged very well, and it's even better than I remember from 12 years ago. I think I'll watch on, I believe it gets even better once the Dominion is discovered.

2. There are people who consider it wrong to do homework on a Sunday. Not me. Since I was a little bored today, as well as having a surplus of energy, I tackled the task of finally getting a lot of stuff from under the roof (= my living room) into the cellar. Among the things I found were a calendar from 1989, which was my final half year at school, and my first half year at University. Ah, the meories.

3. Having energy to spare and a bored cat to entertain, I decided to continue moving stuff, this time from the kitchen. I think I already mentioned now and again that I am something of a pack rat: I simply hate to throw things away that might come in handy again, such as paper that's only been printed on from one side (great for notes and sketches), or plastic bags, which I use instead of bin bags. Over time, I "collected" a lot of these bags, and today, I sorted them a little, folding them so they don't take up as much space as when you simply crumple them up and throw them into the closet. I was already smiling to myself to see bags from shops which don't exist here any more, and a proliferation of the same British bags (Forbidden Planet, Books etc, and WHSmiths, mainly), when I saw a company name and location which made me stop in my tracks. It was a plastic bag from Gairloch, Scotland. Visited in, oh, 1990something.

Sometimes it's good not to throw everything away.