What I did at the weekend

[lnr]

Friday night: pizza/vids

Saturday: sleep, B5 (3 good and interesting episodes) and then a BBQ at Vicky's, which was nice.

Sunday so far: sleep, geek, mow lawn, read, geek, cook chilli.

Later we will eat chilli and probably watch on the the mediocre looking films on telly tonight. Cate Blanchett in The Gift on 4 or Bruce Willis in Striking Distance on 5. In fact we'll probably watch the latter and tape the former. The reception on channel 5 is poor enough that with the video on another channel it just plain won't display, which is weird. Have decided to try and make sure I notice a) nice things happening around me and b) me doing anything that could count as useful or productive. If I concentrate on them maybe it will encourage me to keep doing them.

Good things: glorious weather, nice friends, nice food, nice films, books etc.
Me not being useless: the lawn, cooking, and washing up.

Comments

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

In some areas, C5 is very close to the channel that used to be default for VCRs (28 and 29 or something?). The fix was to retune the VCR to some other channel for output (and then tell your telly about it). Local telly wizzkid req'd if that is the prob.
L's folks' VCR outputs on fiftysomething, I was surprised, I thought they all did 28 (or29) or 35. But then I never had to worry about it, it all worked where I lived.

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

I did that for a while, keeping a list of good/succesful things I did, broken down by category to encourage me to have a rounded life. It helped quite a bit over time, especially as I have an absurdly bad memory; being able to look back and note all the good stuff that happened and that I did last week was useful in countering those vague but corrosive feelings of futility.

Good luck, and enjoy the spring.

[dinesha.livejournal.com]

aah the luxury of a life of leisure on these beautiful weekends. I can't wait to finish my goddamn project and catch up with the sun.
Mmmmh chilli

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Hooray for good and not-useless things. :-) That sounds a good idea.