Keep Off The Floor

OK - so a weekend of levitation is on the cards, or trying to get round the house without touching the floor.  Neither are very likely. 

The builder left this sign on the bathroom door, just as he left.  I had been looking forward to the weekend - 2 days of quiet sounded like bliss.  And then the builder said "Bis morgen!" and that hope was gone. 

"Bis morgen" = "See you tomorrow".

That did not do my mood a lot of good.  Plans for tomorrow have now been shelved.  And I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to getting up at 6:30 tomorrow instead of 6.  I can't tell you because it would be a lie.

Two things made today a bit more cheerful. 

As I was waiting for the bus I had to get out of the way of a cyclist.  I have no problem with that.  The street where my office is is quite narrow and there are lots of cars and buses and delivery lorries.  What made me smile was that it was a policeman on the bike.  In uniform.  No helmet either.  One law for some...

And the other thing that made me go "I never knew that" was LSD. 

No.  I did not spend the day tripping at my desk.

Did you know that if you've been using the initialism LSD you've been using the German version?  Albeit that you've been mispronouncing the D (pronounced like "day").  It's Lysergsäurediethylamid in German (Säure being the German word for acid) and hence LSD, but in English it's Lysergic Acid Diethylamide which would be LAD.  There would be all sorts of confusion if you were to tell your friends that you'd had some LAD at the weekend and you can now hear the colours of the universe*.  Your reputation could be ruined.

Ask not how I discover these things, just enjoy the fact that I do.

*They taste like chicken.