There I was readers, in the pool yesterday, getting my bliss fix when the lovely people who run the place offered me a plastic cup (dead classy!) of champagne. If they do this every morning it explains why they're so happy when I arrive. I politely refused but under different circumstances the response would have been way more enthusiastic. For example, evening, private setting, candles, background music, gorgeous man, yeah baby! The reason for the bubbly was yesterday was the final day for that particular pool. Sniff!  I'm off to another pool this evening which theoretically is open until 9pm but it's super popular and I'll have to share it with others. I'm an only child, I don't like sharing my things! I can feel a massive sulk coming on so I'll change the subject.

Technology. It is just because I'm a woman that every mechanical thing I touch seems to have a grudge against me? I signed up at my local DVD shop which was quite an experience, meaning, I had to be fingerprinted. I've never been fingerprinted before. Because the shop has 24 hour access but is only staffed a couple of hours a day, if you want to rent a movie you need to show your fingerprint, use a swipe card on everything in sight and hope that it works. All very high tech except after giving my print, the machines wouldn't recognize it! I had to wait until a staff member showed up and he had to retake my print. It all seems to be chuffing along nicely now but my next  machine challenge is the DVD player in my apartment. It turns on, it plays the movie until the selection menu and then nothing. I have to press every button on the universal control until something magically works. You'd think the play button on either the remote or the player would work but no, at least, not for me. It took half an hour of trying yesterday and I ended up pressing all the buttons at once before the move started playing. It was worth it though.  I finally got to see American History X all the way through. What a shocking film but isn't Ed Norton a fantastic actor?

And now, faithful readers, Monday and its demands call me away. I hope you all have a great day and if any of you are reading this from New Orleans or the surrounding areas, please stay safe.