I’m not sure where the time has gone for the last week but I know it’s been bloody hot. Today however the temp has fallen a little and the there is a breeze and so it’s a little more comfortable. The cicadas and the birds are keeping me company this morning; it’s very quiet today although I can hear the occasional bit of traffic noise.

The two house guests have left for the day, the young boy “Star” is a bit of a nuisance but mostly harmless, although he is certainly lacking commonsense. One thing he does which drives me nuts and it shouldn’t really, is the boiling of the kettle. If you don’t switch the kettle off manually it will just sit there and bubble for about a minute or more and so I have told him before just to switch it off because it will work sometimes and on another occasion it will just sit. Yesterday I could hear the kettle sitting there trying to get to 100c but was only at 99c and so the poor thing was struggling and burbling away, I came through and switched it off. Meanwhile he is just standing there staring at it and waiting for it to climax……..he says to me “don’t worry it’s ok” I said “what do you mean don’t worry?”  He says “It’s no problem it always does this but it will eventually switch off” Me “ I’m not fucking worried I’m concerned about the amount of electricity you waste each time you sit and watch the kettle struggling to climax” Yes I am Scottish

What a dickhead………..after the kettle has boiled he then uses it to make rice in the rice cooker, you don’t need to put fucking hot water into the rice cooker to allow it to make rice, if anything it upsets the process to make good rice and you know each time he makes rice he must waste about 10% to 15% because it’s always stuck to the arse of the pan……….no commonsense.

When I came home last night he was sitting as usual watching his computer, but it’s not a movie or TV he watches but computer games……and he is not the only one I’ve witnessed doing this. I cannot understand why you would want to watch others play computer games for hours and hours, surely there must be more to life, I think watching the kettle boil is more exciting……….maybe that’s why he does it.

Jane is the other guest; she is also Chinese but has lived in America for a few years and is back here for business, I like her, she is quite a character. She speaks in a very deadpan way and when she first arrived I wasn’t too sure of what to make of her. She has tattoos on her neck which seem to be just coloured squares, I have no idea what they are but I will have to ask her before she leaves.

She will talk about anything and everything and often compares her life in America to here. She lives in the country and so she is finding it difficult to be back in this city. She drinks beer and stays out late, such a contrast to the innocent and naive Star man.

So today I have a bit of work to prepare and a few things to write and as long as the breeze continues to blow then I won’t have to use the air-conditioning which I hate.