Good weekend...

I really like the BBC Virtual Replay site. It's a nice way for the Beeb to get around paying royalties to Sky or whoever controls the TV rights for the Premiership, is well recreated, and is a lot more interesting than just watching videos. Now if we could just get table tennis matches recreated like this...

Anyway, Gero and I went to Lolo's and Ian's place yesterday with a Shona-speaking murungu grad student; we had a great time! And all the good food that Ian (and their neighbor Jo) made came out really well. We finished it off today. Our first attempt to duplicate their veggies failed, unfortunately. Gero says we should add more garlic and use olive oil instead of the cheap frying oil we tried.

Jo had several interesting stories, which certainly sound very plausible. Like the time he met Ronald Reagan... apparently his neighbor was the Gipper's secretary when he was head of the screen actor's guild, but couldn't move to Sacramento or Washington for future posts as her husband had cancer and was bedridden. But Ronnie would visit her when he was in town, and on one of those occasions, his neighbor invited him over. Jo's a lifelong democrat and didnt agree with m/any of Reagan's policies, but in two hours of pleasant chat, politics never came up. A very nice guy, Mr Reagan was, and at least the sports-talking parts of his noggin weren't preprogrammed.

Jo also claimed to have met Barbara Bush (who said that George Sr hated the family dog as it shat all over the White House - and yes, she did say shit) and John Holmes (while he was in prison - Jo was a parole officer at the time). Dunno if he was shitting us or not, but I believe him.

Today was a relaxing day. I decided the day beforehand that I was going to take Sunday off, and stayed late in bed. Very late. Then I spent the whole day reading a book (Double Whammy) that Terry Pratchett had recommended .

Tomorrow, it's back to work.