i'm not sure if it's accurate but every time i blog i see a counter saying how many posts i've posted... if it's true then this post is post number 444... just missed this coinciding with the palindromic visitor number 1331, they came here last night...
groovy huh?
anyway, back in the real world i got up late for the second day in a row... sleeping until 1 (yesterday) or 1.45 (today), then reading in bed... and in these short days too, pretty nocturnal creature i'm becoming...
my last dream before i woke up today was of a gig, i was playing, although maybe i was just walking through the stage during a piano solo by Y, the organiser of Raison D'Etre those live gigs we used to be apart of... he was playing this really nice jazz tune, as a solo - i got the impression he was playing over a record... he was also controlling things from offstage, (dream logic) and he told me he wanted me to have a solo next... Y stopped to great applause, i walked back over to the piano (my pink shirt open and flapping in the wind)... also to great applause, was struck by the silence, where was the backing record?
started out my solo with a few blues chords/riffs, out of these freefrom bits a rhythm emerged and i got onto a blues/boogie-woogie thing... started rocking away but there was one voice (female) i could hear amidst the yelling crowd that was shouting:
stop playing that f****** awful rock'n'roll
so i started singing lyrics, improvised, like i did a year or so back... i can't think of the rhythm now but effectively:
stop shouting abuse at me, it won't get you anywhere...
i stopped playing shortly after this and ran out of there, ran really fast away from the gig, then realised where i wanted to get to but didn't want to go the direct way as this would take me near the gig, instead started running the round-about way...
then i woke up...
talking of direct ways and round-about ways i saw a link on a website today to the Transport for London's cycle route planner and i may not have complained about them enough... so here it is...
twice in the past month or so i have had occassion to look to the TfL's cycle route planner and both times i have been led a merry dance (as it were)...
the first time was coming from my london bridge work to the eastend and it led me the wrong way down two one-way streets and directly down the middle of a busy market...
the second time (and why oh why did i use it a second time if it had messed me up so much before? good question, i'm slightly at a loss for an answer) i asked it how to get to herne hill from my hammersmith work (last thursday, day of much cycling) and it made me turn right at a junction where there is no turning right allowed...
both times it also took me along some big, big roads before settling into a quite good back street route...
so frankly i'm pretty unimpressed by it... but aside from it's bad points the route to herne hill it gave me turned out to be a good one... i think i'm going to have to email them, see if i can effect some positive change in it, because it does fill a hole, it is needed, although what would fill that hole better would be digital versions of the excellent london cycle maps that you can get sent to you for free... if i could just download the relevant one(s) of them for my journey i wouldn't need a journey planner... for some reason they are only published in hardcopy...?
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