The Engineer's Thumb

Last night I was watching another couple of episodes of Twin Peaks. One of them had a very amusing guest appearance from David Duchovny (from The X-Files) as a cross-dressing FBI agent.

I was also listening to a radio play based on an 1892 Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called "The Engineer's Thumb", in which Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the circumstances in which a hydraulic engineer had his thumb severed. It was a pretty good one.

Today I went to work and it was pretty much another quiet and fairly dull day. The pain in my teeth from the filling seems to have gone now.

Einstein and Eddington

Yesterday I managed to get to 46,224 words on my NaNoWriMo novel, which is really good. I'm definitely on target to finish it on time.

In the evening I was watching a TV movie called Einstein and Eddington, based on a true story set during the First World War when British astronomer Arthur Eddington (played by David Tennant) caused controversy when he corresponded with obscure German scientist Albert Einstein (played by Andy Serkis), whose groundbreaking theories threatened to unseat two hundred years of Newtonian physics. It was a good film and very well-acted, with really good production values. The way it was written, it moved between Eddington's and Einstein's stories.

Today I went along to my parent's house for lunch (which was roast chicken, roast potatoes and peas with a dessert of rhubarb and gooseberry crumble, and a glass of Stella Artois). During the rest of the afternoon I watched a couple of episodes of The X-Files on TV, one of which I had already seen, but it was still good to see it again.

Also today marks forty-five years since the first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast. Of course it's still going strong today, and probably more popular than ever.