Another weekend passes, caught up with Cam last night and a few beers down the Lodge became inevitable, to my surprise some old friends turned up in the from of Dave G. and Sara W. and a good time was had by all. Sunday pub lunch with the oldies and Kayleigh today, spent the evening testing virtual DJ software for the up and coming 50th anniversary bash, I am in control of sound and lighting, an area where I will feel very comfortable, I have some ideas and more will flood in to make it a night to remember as any Leman gathering always is.
February 8th, 2009
My day off and I was blessed with the hugest downfall of snow for 18 years! So I had to take advantage… This is where we began.
February 6th, 2009
Hello, I’m a bit bored right now. It’s Sunday and it’s snowing…heavily!!! WooHoo! -1.2 so far in my back garden, so unlikely to melt. More snow predicted for the next 24 Hours, it appears we are having a decent winter much needed, I’ve just reviewed my post in October (click this) where I seem very disappointed about a succession of mild winters, maybe someone, somewhere is reading this? This, so far is the coldest winter for 13 years, but still I have seen no significant snowfall, maybe that is about to change. Maybe some photos tomorrow.
February 1st, 2009
There maybe a personal goal in life that we are born to achieve, that small voice in your head that is often ignored is always right! How many times have you ignored it and looked back after the biggest fuck up ever and thought, why didn’t I listen? That’s the story of most peoples’ lives. There is a valuable lesson here, subliminally we already know the answers to our own questioning, it’s just a matter of circumstance that brings it to the front line. This doesn’t relate to my present circumstances, those voices are not there, but that one thing you’ve always dreamed of, since you were a child… That’s your destiny, follow it or be swallowed.
January 30th, 2009
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
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