The Bounce

You hit the bottom and start to rise again to the top. You want to do it quickly but you are wary that a too quick rise is not healthy. I used to pride myself on my ability to to do this but this time I went further down than before so I have to [...]

Brass Plaque Syndrome

This syndrome doesn’t actually require the existence of a brass plaque, but that is the badge of the state. Give someone a title and they suddenly become other than what they were. A boss, no matter how good they are as a person, has some quality conferred upon them when their job title changes. [...]

Lack Of Caffeine, Lack Of Sleep

It’s been over a week since I stopped drinking coffee and I seem to be able to stay up just as late and not worry about it. Kind of proves that the coffee was not responsible for the insomnia. I haven’t felt this weird disconncted sensation after being up the whole night for a long [...]

Altruism

Someone once said to me that being altruistic makes you feel good. I smiled and withheld my dictionary corner smugness. As long as the act is not for the pure hit of pleasure you get from seeing another smile then it is as close to altruism as a conscious being is going to get. And [...]

Dorothy Rewritten

For some reason, and I know that this is really twisted, but I imagined my ex-boss today as Dorothy in Oz. This was prompted by seeing him in his shorts with his stick-thin white legs hanging out of the end. In this version his shorts were the ruby slippers and to get anywhere you slap [...]

Boss-smack

I propose that this should be written into employment law that if your boss is an unmitigated arsehole that you should be able to punch them — just the once, and in the face, before you leave. It would cut down on the tendency to go to industrial tribunals if disgruntled workers were afforded this [...]

Where Does All This Exist?

Someone asked me this the other day: do you ever try and imagine a place where all these words and virtual places you create exist? I had to say it was not something that occured to me.But it is odd that you put out these piecemeal parts of your psyche for viewing and people, sometimes, [...]

Typos Rule!

Typos are the life-blood of reality. Before anything gets to the editor it is like raw thought. Like the meat before it has been pounded into a beef patty. It tells you that you are not reading the print-outs from a computer. And of course I am going to try and be extra careful [...]

Blogsurfing

Its great to be able to shift around in the skins of other people for a bit. Great to be able to probe both the darker and lighter regions of their thought processes. How else do we learn about what we ourselves think if we don’t let ourselves be prodded by the input and influence [...]

Another Blog? Are You Insane?

Erm, the answer to that is maybe. Am I spreading myself to thin by having all these outlets for the thoughts that spill out of my packed skull? Yeah that is entirely possible. Everything else is fairly much compartmentalised or written from a specific angle to provoke me into thinking in a certain way, so [...]