Back to my blog

Not blogged in over a year and a half, I have been busy at work etc however due to the hard work of the bankers and our political leaders I find myself with lots of spare time in a hobby called unemployment, it is a strange hobby, one with no actual purpose except to end it.

Tor

Yesterday I drove down to Glastonbury Tor with some friends, it’s a place the apostle Paul was supposed to have buried the Holy Grail, and I had a look for it but no joy. The walk was steep, but the views, spectacular. From the Tor which is about 541 feet high (181 metres) you can see all around you for about 20 miles depending on hills etc, it was windy at the top! So it was a good day with plenty of exercise to make up for the Easter egg I was given.

One thing I did find funny on the tor was the graffiti, at the top of the tor are the remains of a church, and over the many hundreds of years various peoples had marked their ascent.

One that was carved into the rock with some skill said J Somers 1840. Another said S SMITH 1947 this again was done with some skill and even had seraphs (the flicks on the top and bottom of an S)

The last one scratched on to the rock was MUCKA B LUVS U ALL.

Times do change.

Getting back in the habit.

This has nothing to do with Nuns.
I thought I should make that clear. It is about doing things on a regular basis again; at the moment this covers my writing and my weight lifting, both I had stopped for no reason I can remember, but now I must take them up again.

Why did I stop doing them? I could say I was lazy but that is not the case as I do other things. I think it is because I stopped them and then found reasons not to do them, like not enough time, or my belly lint was full and needed picking out again. You know good reasons like that.

It is strange when I say I do not have enough time, as I seem to have plenty of time for Unreal tournament 3 where I "kill" time allot.

With my Blog my biggest excuse came when google-our new lords and masters took over. The fact I had to give a new password gave me a whole new excuse not to do it, after all getting that done would take TIME, and if I forgot the new password all new TIME must be wasted, its so exhausting spending those 5mins getting it done.

This of course leads to the question why I bother after all. If it so much bother why blog at all? after all it seems you do not enjoy it enough so stop. This of course is my number one sin sloth. I do it to beat that foul and hideous creature that I think plagues so much of us, I for one do not like letting it win. Unlike all the others it is about the void, about nothing even the other sins require at least you do something.

And so I guess this has a little to do with Nuns after all.

Global Warming

Now that armageddon is happening (yet again) in the from of global warming, i have decided to invest in sea side property about ten miles inland. Ten miles inland you say, thats crazy! well it wont be when the oceans rise.
See on the beach

Social life

On occasion I do not see anyone for a while. I find this quite demoralising, as anyone knows it can be a lonely life. Now I do have a MAC and an xbox360, both have the capability to send and receive messages, in either voice or text form, and in some cases video. Now to keep in contact with my more distant friends in NZ and Czech republic this is perfect, but to use the same methods for those 12miles away? I am not sure if that is a good thing. Convenient it might be but it is not the same as face-to-face social contact.

Allot of this comes down to jobs and house prices; jobs are now on average 40mins away. This means that any friends you make in work tend to be further away. And when friends go to university or college, again they tend to get distant from you.
And then there are house prices, everyone I know in my village has moved away either to get better jobs or due to high house prices. An example of this is at the back of our house there is a lane with what used to be hovels that are now going for £150,000 pounds. And these are hovels, not exactly big. How is a local supposed to afford this? They cannot so they leave.

In a strange twist, as some people drift apart, others are coming together. Gangs are more prevalent as a social grouping with the young than ever before. Some people blame poverty and crime, but I wonder if it is youth acting in the face of a society that is becoming increasingly distant and cold.

The dark terrors

I have insomnia, sleep for me has always been difficult. And when sleeping my dreams wake me up. So not much sleep for me then. My dreams keep me awake because they are so real; I have problems discerning if I am awake or just dreaming.
This can affect my entire day, some times positively, other times weirdly.


I am told that for many writers dreams are a source of inspiration, a place that can always cough up a story.
They also speak about what you fear or want the most.
I have to admit I rely on my dreams allot, as they tend to give me an accurate perspective of how I view the world and myself.
Some however are just plain odd, so who knows with them.

Abductions

Why do aliens abduct people and bugger them? These beings can traverse the cosmos at velocities that defy physics. Can manipulate gravity and read our minds, yet their medical technology is limited to anal probing. Have they never heard of MRI scans?

I can just imagine the scene; grand lord Squee of the little green man coalition is facing down the evil acid beasts. All is not going well, suddenly the beast’s turn, buttocks exposed to the LGM! Probes away!

In space nobody can hear you scream, but you can still be sodomised.

How to take over the world

One of my ambitions has always been to take over the world. I would like to share with you one of my more diabolical plans.
Why do I want to take over the world? Well when I was younger I got really annoyed with heroes winning all the time merely from luck or through some contrivance, particularly when the villain really does have a good plan. I should say I find American heroes very, very grating with their crude side cracks and general lack of intelligence.

So as to my plan.

Sun Tzu said, always destroy the enemies’ will to fight.

Using my millions I would purchase a feminine hygiene company with a very embarrassing name (at least for men, but women have expressed also the awfulness of some brand names) I would then purchase all advert airtime for all the major male sporting events of the world, super bowl, world cup etc and then during the advert breaks play adverts concerning said feminine hygiene products.

Men who form a major part of the world and its government will have there fragile ego's broken allowing me to proceed to the next phase of the plan.

Dealing with the women

It should be said unlike other people who wish to take over the world I will not explain everything.

See you soon in the new world order.

Putting together thoughts

One of the things that have proven a problem with writing my blog is that I cannot write coherently about anything for very long. It just seems to fade from my head, so I have purchased a book called "How to put consecutive thoughts together into a coherent and logical format for reading pleasure" A good title I thought, really catchy and you get a good idea of what’s it's about.

Anyhow it explains that a good writing narrative comes from a good solid idea. Hmmn an idea. I could write about work. Politics. Or mountain gorilla’s in our human society. But I got the sneaking feeling they have been done.

Or I could write about they very lack of ideas in my head, a rich seam indeed at the moment.

I think, I just had an idea.

Balls, I could not even mine my lack of ideas.

Hello all

I am back! yay! it is like I never left. I have had a busy year, and the many people who have not even noticed the void I left can rejoice!

And so I think back to the last time I wrote something down and brought forth my towering wisdom to all.

I had hoped that when I left there would be a great wailing and people would post begging me to continue.

But as the song says come armageddon come.

But still at least this total lack of interest means I can getaway with everything and not be worried about annoying anyone

Losing wieght

After one week I have lost... one-pound yay! A small start but Rome was not built in a day. I have an exercise routine now, but I am still in the early stages.
One of the things I have found hard is just how much fat comes from bread rolls etc and only when you try and change your diet do you realise how much of the stuff I woof down, a slice here and there all add up. And of course it is so easy to eat sandwiches toast etc. I have begun to realise how much of my food is "easy food" not much to prepare etc.
Healthier foods take effort I have noticed and require more thoughtful shopping.
But I will persevere and I have looked at Kim Ayres blog and I have changed my view on eating I am no longer dieting, I am just going to change my eating habits.
Also when shopping I have noticed how many aisles in tescos etc are dedicated to junk food etc. I have also been looking for better quality chocolate after reading a lot of the chocolate about today is not “chocolate” and yes I can have some. Just not all of the time.

Losing weight

I have decided to finally lose my excess weight a concerted effort of excercise and diet.
For too long it has held me back (sometimes literally) and now I wish to look really good naked ( which is the real reason)
But how to achieve this? via video fitness, wieght watchers ( been doing that for years looking at my belly) food intake diaries?
No after long research i have decided eating less and excercise may be the radical solution to my problem.
And so i embark on a voyage of discovery to the land of being attractive and desired.
Keep you posted

Im back

It has been a while since my last blog. The blog police came and after my full biometric details were taken -which for some reason involved a full cavity search, I was allowed to continue. I am beginning to think there are other motives for these ID cards. But no I trust the government and so should you. And now I am allied with google that searches endlessly like john Wayne in the searchers, I know my influence in the blogosphere will reach single figures again. A new vista- but obviously not Alta vista, I am a google person now.

Panic Blogging

I was in bed reading highly educational material when a panic gripped me, I have not posted in a while, perhaps the blog police will come along and close my blog down for not posting. So here is one to keep them at bay.
Sleep beckons.
Until another panic attack.

Bomb dog

That's right boy, that's right, use your paw on the big red button.
WOOF!

Nothing

My first post in a while. Strange when I am working or out and about, I can think of plenty of things I should write about, my head is full of witty and though provoking things to say. But now i am sat down here... nothing not a bean, my head is empty, perhaps having not written about anything for a while I am out of practice.

A post

I have not written anything in my blog for a month, I ned to get back into the habit so nothing too long today.
No doubt i will make some comment on the war in the lebanon, which will make everbody step back think about it, and then do nothing about it.
War what is it good for? - really good rating's on tv.

WOW posers

In World of warcraft you see people who actually POSE they stand on top of something and let people admire thier magic stuff.
the only problem is alot of people have the same stuff as well because they go online and buy the gold.
And so when i see people boasting about there +10,000 mighty dobbing sword of big whacking.

All i think is.

Who gives a shit?

Neo cons

There is a new terror in our future. It is not Osama, Hamas, falling rocks or sick birds and even neo Nazis cower in terror at this threat.
The neo con.
What is a neo con? I have never understood this neo con business. We call neo Nazis that because all the old Nazis were destroyed and the continuity was broken hence the neo or new Nazis.
But why neo con? What is new about them? How are they different? Were the old conservatives destroyed?

No by all accounts Neo cons are democrats who are new to conservative thinking.

I find this odd as m. Moore of shooting columbine said democrats DOA

And how about the labour party they are also DOA more conservative than the Conservatives (with a small c though)

So how does this all work out? What do the neo cons believe in?
Indeed pinning them down proves difficult what are they about?
I have noticed a change in politics it is not the policies or the party names. It is in the kind of people who are now at the top of the political heap. I have noticed they are all largely the same they come from well off middle-class backgrounds, went to good (often private) schools and had a university education (paid by the state in Britain something they denied future generations except there own who they can afford to pay for) all held well paying jobs.
As many have put it they are career politicians.

So what do they believe in?

To put it bluntly nothing they have no creed at all..

And the neo cons are everywhere now have you noticed the split between party leaderships and the party members?

This is something I am going to be coming back to I need to think about it some more.

Blunt

I watched with much interest a TV program on surveillance in the workplace. Of particular interest was call centre monitoring now having worked in a call centre and used them I have a good perspective on their woes and there are many.
Have you ever wondered why they seem like machines and not people? That’s because with those monitoring systems in place they are not allowed to be anything else everything is checked CONSTANTLY and the people in charge do not use it to make things better but just to make your life worse why? Because they can. Ultimately what makes these places dehumanize people are not the machines who are neutral but the people operating them. I never saw a boss or team leader scrutinised so much.
And this disease is spreading why? Technology allows people to check everything.
Now it seems fair enough to check people's work but what happens is they crank it up beyond what people can deal with.
What happened if at the end of your day you got a report on everything that you did, how you drove washed cooked cleaned made love etc and then got a report on it? Now how many mistakes do you think you made? Allot I should imagine. And everyday you must do better. Now how long would you last under that kind of scrutiny?
The problem is people are not machines they cannot be perfect all of the time. Yet we demand these things more and more.
Of course the people at the top say we have to remain competitive.

But that’s a bit rich from people who even if they fail still get million dollar bonuses