I’m sitting at my computer, dazed and confused as usual mostly because it’s just past 9 a.m., poring over a spreadsheet, look outside and note the slight drizzle coming down. Tab down in Excel and at the same time what sounds like a claymore exploding in the outer atmosphere thunders around me. ‘Fight-or-Flight’ kicks in, though the only thing to really beat up on is my stapler (not really an exciting prospect at the best of times) and there’s really nowhere to run either.

What’s really disturbing to me is that no one else seems to have reacted to what in no uncertain terms sounded like what would be the result of Kim Jong-il finally losing his noodle. I actually considered the fact that my frail mind, hanging on a thread of sanity, had finally snapped and I would be consigned to Angoda for the rest of my life babbling nonsensically and drooling endlessly.

I finally came out from under my keyboard and on querulously making inquiries from my workmates discovered that the source of the cacophony was in fact the Blue Angels flying over the city in celebration of fleet week, which is basically the Navy’s birthday. The culmination of this is going to be the rather exciting prospect of the penultimate race of the Red Bull Air Race World Series. So the plan is drink lightly tonight, wake up early doors (and by that I mean around 10 a.m.), break out the long lens and head down to the Marina Greens to check out the race and hopefully get some exciting action shots. I’ve also made a mental note to down enough coffee in the morning just in case one of the planes veers off course and into the crowd, need to be on my toes, just in case. One never knows…

 

I feel the inevitability of a Flickr Pro account coming up if the shoot is successful. A weekend of alcohol, fast planes and hopefully skimpily clad ladies on a sun drenched green (if the rain lets up that is) is certainly one to look forward to (Touch wood on NOT getting hit by a bus on the way home today, which is a current obsession of mine)…

P.S. Another excellent band popped up on my iPOD, The Beloved , excellent Brit electro-pop stuff to get your shit on with, favourite songs: Sweet Harmony and You’ve got me thinking. The latter is the kind of song that transports you to a beach in Unawatune everytime you hear it.