evening stroll

After whingeing for a good 36 hours to anyone who had to listen about the impending implant procedure, it was really not as awful as I had anticipated. Also, as I was walking to the bus afterwards I was reading shit off my phone and #1 was re: the latest outrage (too pallid a term) in Palestine and then #2 was some random complaining about McDonalds getting their order wrong. True!!!! Truuuue!

The irony I didn't quite realise at that moment was I had just spent a long time complaining about a perfectly safe, ultimately beneficial procedure that wasn't even really going to hurt much. There are people around the world dying and watching their loved ones die and I've had a pretty sweet almost-sixty years. I think I'm OK.

This evening Perry and I went for a stroll running errands. We bought some dog treats, bought some tofu, and returned some random crap mail cluttering up the place to sender. It was nice. I will be taking some panadol soon but it's only very mildly uncomfortable at this point. 
 

homicide '8mm'

First aired 18 March 1976. 

I was mainly interested in this episode because it has a McDonalds in it. As far as I recall McDonalds came to Australia in 1975 or near as damnit. So this was a very new phenomenon. 

Melbourne Age 5 April 1975 p. 28

And also, George Spartels - once again not playing a Greek or Italian but a different kind of foreigner. A New Zealander. His character name's John Smith I shit you not. 

Update 22 July: A propos of 'John Smith' I think it is the next episode - which is called 'Graveyard Shift' - where someone is mentioned as having checked into a hotel under the name 'John Smith', an atypically terrible continuity failure.