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So things are beginning to pick up a little at work, I’ve moved on (a bit) from the damned remote digital transducers to assisting in the development of a new project designing our next generation of “Controlller”. I’m now working with Terry, a competent engineer who also speaks the English language with a certain clarity that enables a level of understanding beyond what is the priorority for the next two and a half hours, he also see’s all the failings within this god forsaken company that is Drallim Industries Ltd. So I may stand a chance of improving my status at long last instead of having to decipher the mumblings of my boss or strain my ears through the myriad of foreign accents that surround me here. I’ve just been told that the development window of 12 weeks has been reduced to 2! Hmmm… Anyway Friday tomorrow, POETS day and a weekend of thumb twiddling ensues, although I will catch up at the gym I haven’t been to in 4 weeks, make a decision about the fate of my car and maybe have a beer or two, in no particular order. The fact is I am waiting patiently for payday as my cashflow dried up soon after new year and I am now living on the odd dead christmas tree and licking the inside of my oven twice daily. Still Spring is just a gnat’s todger away when everything will begin to awake and a visible path for the year ahead will emerge.
January 22nd, 2009
I have a slightly altered perspective, moreso because of present circumstance, but is that not what our state of mind is? A relationship between our thoughts and feelings and how we cope with what is actually happening around us in the here and now. A change in surroundings provokes a need to redirect priorities, some changes though, come without warning so we need to keep an ear to the ground and be prepared for the unexpected, a little elasticity in our motions and an open mindedness approach to what is occuring, may help us to cope with the daily hail of uncertainty, and may prove to be a wise path to follow towards what ever lies ahead.
January 11th, 2009
Another New Year… I have just reviewed last year’s new year post (click here to see) and guess I wasn’t over joyed by the prospect of another 12 months of nonsensical drudgery and boredom without hope or ambition, at least that’s how it comes across. I see from the comments it was slightly mis-understood, the comfortable lifestyle I was suggesting was that of the Middle Classes, families are already tightening their belts as my prediction of recession, that a year ago seemed to some to be pie in the sky, is now reality; house repossessions have soared by 60% and there has been the largest fall in house prices in a 12 month period ever. It’s not all gloom, there are those who prosper in an economic downturn, a weaker pound means cheaper exports for the manufacturing industry, those with Tracker Mortgages will benefit from the interest rate cuts, although those with savings will lose out… So once again it is those in the middle that are worse off, the less you have, the less you have to lose and if your filthy rich (and wise) you will have an accountant to move your millions around to the safest places in the world’s markets.
I’m one of the lucky ones, I left the Isle of Wight with nothing three years ago and stagnated for a while, I now have an idea of where I am heading and intend to rise above it all this year. Although my personal outlook is optimistic, I think the country as a whole is in a dire situation, the biggest issues of this year will be unemployment and the war in the Middle East/Afghanistan, by this time next year it will become clear to most that a very dark era has begun and arduous times are approaching.
January 2nd, 2009
Typical Christmas… I began with a few cold symptoms so decide to wash them away Christmas day with a few pints, a couple of glasses of wine, plenty of food and half a bottle of Jack Daniels. Still I woke the following morning groggy and tried to lighten the with a few glasses of wine in the afternoon, the following morning I awoke a bit of a train wreck and spent the following 2 days recovering and fighting against a seemingly inevitable cold, I’ve now emerged from the other side victorious and fighting fit. I missed Chain’s game night and a neighbour’s party in the process but I really wouldn’t have been much fun…sorry guys 🙁 I will pace myself during New Year’s Eve so I don’t get myself into a similar state although the cold seems to have gone now…
December 30th, 2008
I’m stressing!!! Who reads this? What do I say? I am me, hello…
December 26th, 2008
It seems to be a Sunday morning thing, I wake up at an obscene hour knowing I do not need to go to work, but I wake all the same. The house is quiet my thoughts are vivid, still I sit here glazed without motion pondering what to comment about. I seem to have lost a bit of zest, a spice in my life to heat things up a bit, even though my general well being is good. I look and I see things are slowly accumulating, I have the means and the resources to make big changes, my only priority is the timing and as we all know, the timing is in question! I am looking forward to 2009 strangely, with the economic turmoil and inevitable misery I believe I will prosper both financially and emotionally, I have positioned the footholds and primed the mechanics to set myself free…
December 14th, 2008
Existence has a kind of hum to it, a bit like a tuning fork, a background frequency that all that exists hangs off of. Everything abides to natures being, everything goes with the flow… except us! Society in itself has disfigured, too many people are just wrong, the harmony that is essential in our unification with the root chord of nature is off key. Unfortunately the trend is set to get worse, I am not a doom mongerer, I am a realist! I have always been confused by people with big ideas for the future, which in itself is not a bad thing, but I always aspire to the inevitable, the society that has evolved around us is fracturing and will collapse. That melody that once sang out in my years of innocence has faded into the distance, with only an occasional echo in times of felicity. But everyday I strive pointlessly to get it all back in tune…
November 30th, 2008
Getting a bit fed up of blogging… I seem to have lost the enthusiasm. Maybe I need to do something worth writing about. Oh well…
November 27th, 2008
Pausing for thought early on a Sunday morning I consider the connection of events and circumstances that put me here. Fate is a funny thing, I strive to accept it and move on and don’t yield to the sometimes seductive pull of self-pity. After all portraying myself as a victim will only threaten the future as uncertain as it is. My overall outlook is positive, I’m very fortunate in lots of ways just a bit unlucky at times, my biggest failing is motivation, I draw that from motivated people and if they are nowhere to be seen I tend to stagnate. But when I have that alter-ego to bolster me I can be very constructive. So I have kicked and screamed a bit recently for that attention I need to progress and so far, things are going well…
November 23rd, 2008
I’ve been slack! Things kind of uneventful so had no motivation to scrawl all my ramblings here. I finished that course at the Product Development Center last night, got a couple of books and a certificate. Oddly the guy, Martin Bates who ran the course visited my work today with a couple of other guys doing electronic degrees, he popped into the electronic department where I work and we all had a good natter about the things we do… strange. Looking at houses with Kayleigh as feeling the need to move asap, but the inevitable Christmas period looms! Decided I shall park my car up with a SORN declaration when the tax runs out as I can cycle/train/walk to work, It’s 15mins to the station, 20mins on the train and a half hour walk to work at the other end, will also save me money. Well that’s it really, in a nutshell…
November 20th, 2008
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