Not doing much to to mark the occasion, but I do atleast like noting it. The HHGTTG and all of Douglas Adam’s writing was something that really helped me laugh durring a few dark years. I love the whole thing in all of it’s forms. Might have to break out the radio dramas soon.
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A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag ( strag : non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost.” What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” ( Sass : know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy : really together guy; frood : really amazingly together guy.)
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- Watched the Detective Pikachu Movie.
- Planned to see, but missed out on a vegan festival with free food. Will be very sure to make time for it next year.
- Made spinach dip for an introvert party with my mother tomorrow.
- Hung out with friends.
- Visited the local retro gaming store; though I didn’t find much. Fiance decided he was going to dust off his PSOne I gifted him the other year and picked up some games.
- Tried to squeeze in as much chores as I could.
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About to watch first episode of latest Twilight Zone!
I’m actually a huge fan of TZ, going all the way back (via TVLand reruns as a kid). So this new series and castings are super fun potential times. I mean, it is just gonna be good.