Month: November 2018

Looking

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Hi, A few days ago I was driving to work and as I queued in traffic, I noticed from the passenger side, a woman coaxing her hair into style. She did have a particularly immaculate long bob, and – as per that incident being behind the hair flick incident – I felt my heart sink a little, and the stab of dysphoria. But, I’m not here to say oh, woe is me. It was more a moment of, well, good for her. I hope she’s feeling great. Instead, I found myself reflecting on what might cause such feelings, and was it actual dysphoria, or just regret? Was it even regret? Yes, this one of those introspective posts, so if this is […]

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When little things add up and it all goes well

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Hi, I’ve a couple of reasons to have a spring in my step as the working week closes. Well, other I’m not at work. 🙂 Firstly, Little Miss will be another year older and she grows cooler, smarter, and a little more deadly every day. She certainly doesn’t take any crap, and she’s kept her caring side. This will be her last year of primary school too. As with Wee Man, I’m proud of who she is and the choices she makes. So other things? By some luck I found a gap in the calendar to do a spot of needlecraft during the week. It came about as it would be easier to stay at home for an hour, with […]

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Dislike

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Hi, It’s been a week or so since I pressed the delete button on my Facebook account. I’m someone who is interested in people and I’m aware that through deleting it, there’s a strong risk that I won’t hear from those people again. The thing is…. I’m just not friends with Facebook. It started about a year ago or so when I heard about how the company had allowed Cambridge Analytica to behave as they did. This bubbled within the IT industry like a swamp gas. Like most niche press markets, I guess it took a while for it to hit the big time… and when it hit, woo, did it hit. As the great and the good met, pressed their […]

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The right frame of mind

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Hi, There are times, and, I don’t know if you get this or not, but there’s a swirl of life’s events around you. Most of the time, it’s the general hubbub of minor stuff, then the larger debris of bad times, and/or good things. I think that if I’m not careful, that I can be too aware of the bad debris, rather than taking the time to enjoy the better things. So it was with this week. A meeting with tw*t-of-the-week did not enhance my calm, as a famous film of yesteryear once suggestion. I’m not going to pick over the remains of that one, but I am going to look at the better part of that. Namely, a work colleague […]

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It’s easier to see the stars at night

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Hi, I’m midway through a short-break, enjoying time off with the Ever Lovely Mrs J and our two not-so-small nippers. The break from work has been very welcome and I’m glad to not see the inside of a meeting room for a time 🙂 We’ve had a bit of an expensive month with house repairs, a replacement phone for Wee Man, and today the Hoover went pop. I’ve heard things come in threes, but this seems more like sixes 🙂 Still, we are all healthy and money is there to be spent. Certainly, there’s little point in hoarding it Smaug-style and lying about on a heap of cash. Woo, it that uncomfortable and I’d wager we’d run low on five […]

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