It has been a while since I last updated and a lot has happened. Makes me wonder whether keeping a journal is really me, maybe I will give it up soon. For now I will just drop in updates and thoughts as the mood takes me ( Read more... )

Well, I guess like most of the people whose blogs I read, I have not been updating much recently. In fairness I had typed a long, grumpy and dispirited post over a week ago, but I didn’t finish it or post it and then I went on holiday to Spain ( Read more... )

I am selling the car. The cost of ownership in Bristol is just becoming too high. The rubbish roads cause high maintenance costs, petrol and car tax keeps going up and people who can’t park keep denting my body work. I have decided it is just not worth putting up with it any more. On top of all that, I have still yet to hear back from the DVLA on ( Read more... )

I am pretty pissed off in the extreme. Following the small accident before Christmas (her fault), the front of my car has been beautifully repaired and repainted. “Yay” I thought, “A free paint job before I sell it” And so my car will soon be on the market. However, some **** has just reversed into it and they must have had a towbar fitted to the ( Read more... )

It has been very interesting to follow the news related to these topics lately. The EMI downsizing and the subsequent artists strike show that finally some sort of equilibrium has now been restored. Allow me to explain in simple economics what I mean. The music industry is and has been for a large number of years, totally rubbish. The output has ( Read more... )

It has indeed been a long time since I have updated on here. I guess I have just had better things to do and I haven’t really been online all that much in recent weeks courtesy of being busy and being away abroad and elsewhere for quite a bit ( Read more... )

Methinks that I am in need of a change at work. I don’t mean a new employer, just a new posting or project team. The sad truth is that I have been in this team for two years and I am just getting too comfortable. Simply put I am becoming de-motivated to do any work! I am now finding the work too easy and there is no sense of push or drive. I ( Read more... )

This weekend looks reasonably quiet. I say it looks quiet, what that actually means is that it will be spent in Bristol doing lots of domestic and admin sorts of things. The highlight will be putting all the wedding and stag do photos onto CDs and mailing them to people. The wedding was over 2 weeks ago, but I have yet to escape its clutches! The ( Read more... )

And so this week has dragged by with me being on a course. I have to confess I rather enjoyed the last 3 days of the course as there was less lecturing and more practical simulation. I don't feel that I would be ready for the exams, but I definitely came away feeling a lot more confident about how to plan and run a project using the tools available ( Read more... )

Pedal POWERRRRRR! (Jeremy Clarkson style voice). And I have that cheesy 90s track stuck in my head too! Anyway, short story is that I think I set a new personal record to work. I may well have made it 15 minutes on the bike this morning. This was courtesy of my alarm clock which failed to wake me up, thus I overslept requiring some serious movement ( Read more... )