11 years

it was lovely having 4 days off work over the long easter weekend. not going to work is quite nice. i think after a while it could get boring but 4 days is not long enough for it to get to the boring stage. it would have been even better if we had nice weather but it was raining on friday and saturday and it was cloudy and a bit chilly on sunday and monday, but hey, at least it was dry. typical in that the first day back to work, today, its the warmest day of the year and its sunny outside.

anyways, i didn't do anything particularly exciting or out of the ordinary. we have football this thursday for the first time this year which is something to look forward to. i also heard some sad news related to a couple of guys that usually play with us. one of the guys has been coming occasionally for around a year and i don't know him that well as he is a friend of a friend. anyways, his girlfriend was was ill recently and one of the guys told me that she passed away in the last couple of weeks. thats got to be unbelievably tough to get through.

also, one of the guys that was in trouble with the police, finally had the completion of his court case last week and he got sentenced to 11 years in prison. i think he had been hopeful of getting somewhere around 7 or 8 years, and maybe 10 at the very worst, but it seems even that was optimistic. like i have mentioned before, he was a person with 2 sides and the gangster side was something that none of us at football ever saw and something he deliberately went out of his way to not bring into our circle of friends. we never mixed with any of his other associates and none of the guys got involved with any of his 'work'. he was still the same kid that played football with us from 10 years ago and used to play playstation and was into football like the rest of us.

my boring dull life is a blessing at times like these.

i watched the film papillion on friday night on tv. its a great film with dustin hoffman and steve mcqueen (who is the coolest person in the history of the world), and its about a prisoner trying constantly to break out of prison in french guyana. kind of appropriate given recent events but seeing as i have already posted editors - papillion, on one of my posts already i can't re-post it so instead today i will post a montage clips from a couple of my favourite films directed by terence malick. this is from the films, the thin red line, and the new world, both of which are wonderful films and beautifully shot. enjoy.