'd beers yester lunch 'n' after then a huge meal and so felt emotional en-route to work, the sheer effort of overcoming the pleasant somnolent effects of the alcohol and the warmth of the food &c&c&c/ 'twas a good eve./ i apparently have a natural talent for my job which means my line manager and 'graduate' manager are very happy = i can get away with stuff/ nice/ got home about 2300, ate, went to bed and am enjoying my second sequential h'over free day/ it is ace/ i've found the perfect way to curb my drinking: drink beer, say 3 pints, then when hunger presents itself eat a meal and i physically cannot drink any more/ if your serious about drinking, eating has to take at best a back seat/ as buk rightly said, 'the system can't handle too much'/ a magazine has tentatively accepted some of my new poems so if it goes ahead i'll publish the address to all you avid readers (ah..ha..ha..ha)/ pee-ass

doing good/ enjoying another h'over free morning/ managed two days, fri. 'n' sat., with no booze-O-hol then pissed it up something kronik sunday after and eve. listening to old nester marley and m'attack albums i dug out from behind the walls/ woke mon. with the vilest of h'overs which was only partially schooled by my doing other shit, like work and getting methadone?/ then came home and slept and woke feeling fine/ ah-eye?/ listening beastie boys, b-boy bouillabassie which is just too sick for expressions, statements, sentences, any composite of words or indeed words alone (tho' of course with a context)/ hum dum dee shite...so, coffee and morning and uh-huh, yeah?/

doing much little of large fascination d'late but what, ever?/ listening big daddy kane, warm it up, kane and it is good/ 've switched my expensive shure cartridge for the cheap one the deck came with as it sounds better (in some ways)/ the shure lacks punch and pace as it's heavy and the arm and weight are light/ this requires the counterweight to hang far back causing more vibration in the arm and less definition in the sound/both cartridge and deck are composites of materials selected for rigidity &c so it's poss. a good cart.'s properties will be counterbalanced by other components (in this case literally)/ whilst the shure is a superior cartridge, this arm and deck do not compliment it/ with a heavier counterweight and more solid deck the shure would sing as the closer to the pivot the weight sits the better the sound/ also because the plinth is flimsy, the heavier sound of the cheaper cart. is more satisfying/ so on balance the cheap cart. works better/ one often thinks decent kit will perform well no matter the context, but this simply isn't the case/ every part of a system, including the room, is important/ fascinating, eh?/ now listening too short, life is and drinking coffee/ drank very little yesterday so feeling pretty good/ also doing very little today/ can't be having peeps over till late then rolling in drunk tomorrow 'cause i'm sick of struggling through the jour/ i'd love to maintain sobriety but it hasn't happened yet/ thus i'll just try and enjoy whatever the moment brings...

passed (100% on the oral exam, 97% written) so begin on monday/ as much as i thought working in an office again would polish me off, this last week's been pretty good/ met some sound entities, there's a nice pub round the corner and more bucks means more vinyl/ i'll go back to writing but at the moment it interests me not uno-iota/ i'm considering training as a radio disk jock, which i'd love/ anywho, ecooting king bee, back by dope demand, and drinking ace coffee/ sister came for supper 'n' drinks yester 'n' i imbibed small and to bed fairly early so no h'over and quite rested/ vice!/

lengthy jour of training with final examination tomorrow/ h'ever managed to get in the local public for 1130, 1300 and 1700 with my neu drinking-associate d- and thus became a recognised regular in one day/ listening marshall jefferson, move your body/ drinking a mixture of brandy, whiskey and water/ c'est ca...

wasted last night, consequence of foolishly beginning on the whiskey sodas then brandy sodas then straight whiskey/ up to v-'s where met some wanker who runs his restaurant whom i'd to give a proficient schooling/ the bullying little bitch ran off into the night without even saying goodbye to his hosts/ result!/ then woke with a stille-drunk this morn. and'd to be at employ for 1000 (not too bad, d'course) and it turned out to be a good day/ then to e- for are-ex en route home and now typing (like, obviously?) and sipping and iced stella/ all's well, plus dr. john's remedies is on it ways home, id est here/ nyse...

doin' g'd/ dinner party sun. ngt got to bed at 0200 and then up at 0630 in the dark and wind to travel to a training day/ it went well then'd a pint with a guy who'd also attended and browsed some record shops/ home lateish and exhausted so to bed at 2100 where slept till 1020 this morn so feel much better/ got a few things to tie up today (fnar-fnar) then start work proper tomorrow/ hopefully the freelance scene will breath again soon but the job should be awright, like/ listening cap. beef., party of special things to do/ bizat...