Another year in the sun.

One of the things I am most looking forward to when we reach the glorious nano-fangled gene-juggling trans-personist future is hats that don't make your head sweaty. I assume they will take the form of a disk of nanobots hovering over your head, automatically changing shape and position to keep you in shadow without restricting your vision. In the present, however, I am bound to the frustrations that are the contemporary hat. And another thing, why do they all have to look so stupid?

Obviously, if I had a choice, I'd hide nosferatu-like in the shadows until sol falls beneath the horizon, but alas, I work outdoors, and in the daytime to boot, and hence risk getting a tan, burns or cancer on the exposed parts of my skin whilst the rest of me remains lily white. And don't get me started on daylight savings. Graah!*
It's sunny here in Australia, and we're the clever country**. Why hasn't anyone invented better hats?

I'm ranting about this because, although I quite like my job, I don't want to do it for another year. But I don't have anything else to do for another year.

So the album-in-a-month thing didn't come off so great. This ( quiz )

should maybe make me feel better, but unfortunately I don't put much stock in such things. On the bright side, I finished writing five songs, and started twice that many again, so I did something.

The sorry state of affairs now is that it is November and I don't appear to be writing a novel. Hm.

*Not that I agree with Andrew. Time is an arbitrary measurement. Daylight savings is simply a bunch less convenient for me.
**But when I say we are, I mean we're not. Currently we seem more like the insular, reactionary, and bent on destroying workers rights country, if our "leadership" is anything to go by.