Archive for March, 2008
Things are certainly taking a turn…Blimey! Watch this space. Generally though quite samey, work is work, gonna get the bike out today, again, a guy at work was rallying up a team for the London-Brighton bike ride but then gave up, so I’ve missed the deadline… Sucks! I’m not gonna be able to struggle riding 56 miles up and down hills sweating my balls off in the heat of June now then, I’m mortified! Got my payslip yesterday, thought someone was playing a practical joke at first then did the maths, and to my horror it was spot on. So I’m in the shit. And why do Americans say “Math” instead of “Maths?” It just isn’t right, and how comes I’ve only realised this in the past few years, after all I used to watch The Six Million Dollar Man, The A Team, Charlie Brown and several other American programmes as a kid and never heard it before. Maybe it’s just me, is it?
March 29th, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury warned yesterday against materialist greed and prophesied the collapse of civilisation. No shit! He said that the luxuries we took for granted could not be sustained for ever. So you may own a sky+ digibox, 2 PC’s and a laptop but post-“whatever it might be,” they will be useless. He went on to waffle about how society has grabbed all it can take because of fear of death…! Well that’s one view, I’m not afraid of death in the slightest, mind you I am about materialistic as plankton.
“We as a culture cannot imagine that this civilisation, like all others, will collapse and that what we take for granted about our comforts and luxuries simply cannot be sustained indefinitely. To all this, don’t be deceived: night must fall.”
Criticising modern society’s approach to mortality, he said: “Individuals live in anxious and acquisitive ways, seizing what they can to provide a security that is bound to dissolve, because they are going to die,” he said. “Societies or nations do the same. The individual grabbing the things of this world is in fact the mark of an inner deadness.” So I go out and buy a 42″ plasma T.V. because it fits nicely in between the chimney and the unit in my front room, I am dead inside…? Whatever! I’ve always said I respect the morals that Christianity teaches, the rest though, is a load of old shit! If anybody takes a long hard look at the world today, it is obvious that it is going to go tits up, but the individual can do sod all about it, nor can an entire nation, so all we can do is just sit back and enjoy the ride!
March 24th, 2008
Well we all know the religious meaning behind Good Friday and Easter, but the important thing is the time off work! I often hear people asking the question of why Easter falls on such a variety of dates, so I Googled it:
“Easter Sunday is the Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon (PFM) date for the year. In June 325 A.D. astronomers approximated astronomical full moon dates for the Christian church, calling them Ecclesiastical Full Moon (EFM) dates. From 326 A.D. the PFM date has always been the EFM date after March 20 (which was the equinox date in 325 A.D.).” (source)
So That Clears That Up Then!
Good Friday meant no work so I ended up sorting some odds and sods, drinking tea and nattering on MSN. It was a sunny day so decided to get the push bike out and explore some corner locally I’ve never ventured before, unfortunately I couldn’t think of any where, possibly due to the fact that I’ve roamed every square inch of this god forsaken town or, more likely, I couldn’t think of a place I don’t know exists, so went to the gym instead. Following that I nipped in for some fun and frolics round at Chain’s, Center of DIY for IT Professionals, Rahl was on board offering his share of expertise and enthusiasm. A cup of tea and a promise of return to partake in a session of Guitar Hero on the big screen, I wandered to find prandial satisfaction…
March 22nd, 2008
Hello….It’s me. Dunno what to write just bored so filling some time. Dum dee dum… Work was manic today, had to ship first test samples of my project to Hong Kong by this afternoon and one failed, so had to use a bit of initiative and extract one from thin air, I then realised how much of a typical company it is when I tried to find out how to get an order raised and the items packed and dispatched, everyone had a different opinion here, so I threw it all up in the air complaining of too many variables (not my job anyway).
On my way home I noticed my rev counter going up even though I wasn’t accelerating, so I need a new clutch. Great! I need to drive to Wales in a couple of weeks too…
March 19th, 2008
Still Waiting For a Zip From Bro-in-Law Colon For Extra Pics!!!
Pull it out Fella!!!!
March 16th, 2008
Brighton Dome 12th March 08
March 16th, 2008
Had an early awakening this morning, firstly by a dream where my daughter had rung at 3.05 AM and was alone in town saying she was going to walk home along the beach. I felt her to be in an extremely vulnerable position so insisted I would pick her up and got out of bed and stumbled around trying to dress, then I felt a wash of turmoil as I perceived the room mutating into chaos, quite a strange experience, the second time I awoke was when the phone rang half hour or so later!
I tend to think I may have the ability to occasionally pick up on the anguish of close family members, and although slightly cryptic, the perceptions are in real-time and occur as a dream. I know there are a lot of skeptics on this subject but I am certainly not one of them, having been forewarned of the 1987 hurricane 2 weeks previous, and because of an episode when my Mum went bonkers looking for me when I was 12 years old (I decided to go for 6 mile walk at 1AM). She had had a dream of a boy playing on a local beach who was then suddenly engulfed by water followed by the vision of a small coffin bobbing peacefully on the waves. Although I was fine…obviously, only a week later a young boy drowned at was known locally as The Point, a notorious beach with sudden tidal surges, a freak tide caught him and his brother unaware playing on the sand, his brother survived. These are just a couple of the unexplainable instances I have been witness to. I am as down to earth and pragmatic as is possible and there is a complexity in nature that far exceeds the comprehension of human understanding. It is just that most people have their eyes shut and their mindset determined by modern ethics rather than what comes most naturally. Our true potential has been hidden by a veil of lies by religious institutions for centuries, hence why witches were burnt at the stake and radical thinkers declared insane. Even Galileo was accused of heresy and put under house arrest for life, the Vatican didn’t officially recognise his work until 1993! But that’s another area I wont get into…Sorry, got a bit carried away there.
As it has so far emerged, my Daughter is fine but it is spooky how the dream exactly fits the circumstances. Bizarre!
Check out the entries “Premonitions of Chocolate”
And “Below the Threshold…”
March 16th, 2008
I’m meant to be uploading pictures from the concert on Wednesday night, but my camera battery was flat! So I asked others to take some for me, all I have to do is get round to downloading them. Instead I found this lovely picture of Alice and Roz on New Years Eve 2005…
March 15th, 2008
Well that was an odd weekend, oh, hang on its Wednesday tomorrow… I now legally have no financial responsibility for the house on the Isle of Wight, signed the Statutory Declaration this morning and I am free of a potential £177,000 debt, Yay! Had a good chat with the company director about the work I’m doing for Hong Kong today and found out even more stuff that I didn’t know. Seems my head of department isn’t communicating, I feel a little responsible as I’m supposed to be relieving the burden for him but I’m not told what I need to, to get the job done, so it looks like I have to take the bull by the horns and make myself know. Popped into see Kayleigh as she has been fighting and her Mum, seems I’m not the best arbitrator and I certainly can’t take sides when I have no idea why it’s got so far. Off to Brighton Dome tomorrow to see Gary Numan, I’ll try and take some photos and put them here to look at. Anyway, I’m knackered so I’m sodding off…bfn.
March 11th, 2008
I went to the Sussex Downs College in Eastbourne where my Daughter Kayleigh, had an interview and got her place today starting September, Kayleigh bluetoothed this image to my phone so I guess she wont mind me uploading it here… Her friend Franki got a place too. I suppose it’s some kind of milestone for the parent too to have their firstborn leave school and start college. She’s very excited and so am I, the college is a really good one now they have had some kind of merger with Lewes and built all the different departments that were splattered all over the town onto one Campus, one of the few positive developments in this town (Check December 15th 2007). I went to the same college then known as E.C.A.T. (Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology) and it was naff, most of the techy parts were situated in portakabins on a crappy site up St. Anne’s Road, only Hairdressing and Catering were at the new site. Gradually they built a body repair workshop and introduced vehicle technology and moved all engineering classes to the site followed by the purchase of the old Computing Devices’ high tech building which became E.C.A.T. House. Many other new buildings have appeared including a huge sports complex since.
March 5th, 2008
