One Month To Go

Posted: Sun 5 October, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Domestic, Five Year Plan (now Ten), Resolutions, Thoughts | Leave a comment »

In one month’s time, my birthday will be here again, and this year (, Matthew,) I’m going to be 37. That means I need to write out the next progress document for that Five Year Plan, and how things are going.

Looking back over that category, and the plans for the last year (and I admit, I haven’t checked over that list on enough occasions) I look to have actually done OK.

I’ll have the full progress document ready for 5th November though.

Ego-Boost

Posted: Fri 3 October, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts, Work-related | 1 Comment »

Over the last couple of days, while fighting with a terminal sense-of-humour failure, I have had one small ego-boost, which was much needed.

While demonstrating the new system I’m working on to a group of people in the office, my own details came up, including my age. And all of the people in the demonstration expressed serious surprise that I was nearly 37 (this time next month, in fact). And no, that didn’t mean they all thought I was older.

Without prompting, they had all said they thought I was – at most – in my very early thirties. And only one person thought that – the rest said 30 on the dot.

It’s funny, though – back when I was eighteen or so, everyone then thought I was about thirty, too. OK, so I usually take that as meaning “You look fuck-rough“, people’s perceptions of my age have stuck at thirty. What used to be (almost) insulting is now a compliment.

How weird is that?

30-Second Nativity

Posted: Thu 2 October, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, Festering Season | 1 Comment »

Bah, Humbug I love this story from the BBC about a competition to tell the Christmas story in 30 seconds.

It’s one of those things where it’s just such an easy target.

My version?

Single mother gives birth in Bethlehem.
Refuses to say who the father is.
Hype ensues, and the world has religious wars for the next 2,000 years.

Job done.

Gone Pink

Posted: Wed 1 October, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Health | Leave a comment »

Blimey, it’s October already.

And of course that also means that if you didn’t have a colour-scheme set for D4D™, then you’re now seeing a very pink site for the next month. It’s part of Breast Cancer awareness month – and as such, it’s a good cause.

You can change the colour back to your preference by clicking on the relevant colour up on the title bar, and then you won’t see the pink any more.

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