The Fractal Hall Journal

Congratulations to Chum Rob on a new addition to his family. Not a child, oh no. No miniature monkeys. He’s also managed the elegant trick of naming his cat something that’s inordinately, fabulously geeky yet unlikely to confuse the unenlightened masses. Seriously, you wouldn’t believe the amount of conversations I’ve had that go along the lines of “No, Galactus, as in- well, have you seen the second Fantastic Four…? Look. We just call him Gali.”

I double-dare him to get another furball and name it Tegan. Or even better, a chihuahua called Adric.

OMFG, I hear you all say, pronouncing the acronym perfectly. He’s talking about the damned cats again. Yup, another slow day I’m afraid. Have another picture:

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I’m nearing the end of a sizeable piece of work at the moment, and it’s been been a pigging annoyance for weeks. But I’m tantalisingly close to finishing. I don’t know about you lot, but there’s always number of ways that let me know when I’ve reached this point.

A) Suddenly, everything in the kitchen needs a wash.

B) The small hole in the shed must be patched up immediately.

C) My faithful old acoustic guitar gets cleaned, polished and the strings changed for the first time in about two years.

Things were complicated further last weekend by Virgin 1’s Klingon-themed Star Trek episode marathon and MTV Two’s “Vintage 300″, the first time in the history of music television where 90% of the tracks were actually really good. I lost a couple of hours to the latter, and I hate the music channels. Seriously, they had Free tracks, Bad Company tracks, and lots of other tracks that didn’t feature Paul Rodgers.

This is likely of interest to the very small subsection of humanity who like Star Trek and also 70s blues rock vocalists from Middlesbrough.

I bring this up as a way of saying things are likely to be a little light here at the Journal till after the weekend, but let me attempt to distract you from your inevitable disappointment, as always, with a picture of my cats:

You love it.

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Today’s cuteness is brought to you by Galactus the Devourer. And also my knees.

Brother of Roulade (whom long-time readers have seen already), the Gadge is a cat with a thousand names, who contemplates many things beyond our ken. One thing we can all contemplate along with him, however, is the specialness of tomorrow.

Why is tomorrow special?

Because tomorrow, my friends- tomorrow is X-Day.

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