Took a stroll to the store earlier. Fall is in the air, a bit cool but quite pleasant anyway. I find it somewhat hard to get used to it being dark at eight in the evening, living far enough north that a few hours of dusk-dawn is what passes for night in the summer.

Got back home, turned on the TV and watched The Scorpion King. That’s not a good movie. A bit like a bloated episode of that Hercules series. You sort of know it’s bad when the dialogue is worse than the acting of the wrestler doing his first lead role…

On to the important world news: A team at the University of Munich, Germany (in this case I probably have to say: where else?), has developed a hi-tech barmat able to report to the bar when the glass needs a refill. Finally, technology in service of the the common man! And, as we all know, the common man really needs electronical aids to get more drunk.