Monthly Archives: February 2008

I made it through the day. I even worked after 6pm, though my last act before leaving the office was to have a bit of a chat with the new departmental manager and get her to ban me from the … Continue reading →

I don’t really know how to categorise this post. I don’t know which day to put it into. I do know that this week has been truly weird and I’ve been working under what can only be described as unrealistic … Continue reading →

There’s an old Irish joke I rather like. The fact that it’s basically racist against Irish people is not so good. But maybe it’s not. Maybe it reveals a distinctly Irish perspicacious philosophy, since I like the joke for the … Continue reading →

Sometimes I think I lead bits of my life as though there is an audience watching me. You know, I make to-camera quips, or conduct myself in my own private affairs as though I am being seen. I suppose this … Continue reading →

I do have to wonder why I write as much as I do. I’ve written well over 10,000 words this month already. Last month was about 15,000 words. The bizarre thing is that I don’t even remember writing any of … Continue reading →

I’ll admit that I often post my posts after the day in question and then time-stamp them at 11:59 for the day they relate to. This works for me. As it happens, the last post on this site (not the … Continue reading →

It’s nice having friends. It’s nice when they’re new friends and you still have plenty of stuff to find out about them. It’s even nicer when one of the things they’ve never shared with you before is the picturesque town … Continue reading →

More work today. There is a lot of pressure to deliver. We can’t deliver thing D until we’ve delivered things A through C, and we can’t deliver them if we’re worrying about D and doing stuff that’s going to distract … Continue reading →

Today had some positives and some negatives. I don’t know which way the score card ended up, but I’ll hint at some sort of an answer in the next few words. Things were going great when I achieved consciousness at … Continue reading →

Oh the king is in the altogether, the altogether… No, not that sort of “all together”, though I’m sure that that song, which, if I’m not mistaken, was written by Mr Guys and Dolls (musical at least) Frank Loesser, is … Continue reading →