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I love new and slightly odd sayings I’ve not heard before, todays phrase was an issue labelled as a: “Smart Cow Problem”
How cool a saying is that???
It means that once one “smart cow” solves it, its easy for all the others to follow through the gate!
Please feel free to add any others you come across, I loves ‘em!
A small news story, hidden in the lesser pages caught my eye today. A daily mail journalist has launched a legal battle for compensation against dorset police for arresting him after he tried to collect a postal vote, he’d registered under a pseudonym.
He attempted to break the law, “in the public interest”, was caught and arrested. He identified himself as a journalist and his complaint is that he was falsely imprisoned for 2 days, violating his human rights.
2 things come to mind…
He did commit a crime, yes, in the “public interest”… how far can we push this? If I robbed a bank to test the police response in my area, would that count as “public interest”? hmmm
This is the biggy for me, I like to read news, sad I know… I can’t help it, I’m a information junkie! I only noticed it by accident.
In my mind, the story should be given equal size having failed. “Attempts at vote rigging, foiled by dorset police”
It’s official. My memory plays games with me.
I have this dream, I think, that I remember so clearly… I’m beginning to wonder if it was a memory… although I’m pretty sure it’s just a re-curring dream I used to have.
muchos confuso!
All the dream is about is seeing un-identified lights flying around in the sky… which I might actually of seen, I did used to love watching the sky when I couldn’t sleep and things like lightning I still love. hmmm, now I’m even more confused, anyone got a brain-a-tron?
It’s compounded by another dream I used to have about being chased around my local area by things I couldn’t see and the fact that the SAS is based in Hereford, who fly in and out of the airfield all times of day + night.
Feel better now I’ve cleared that in my head, it must be a memory of low flying planes after watching Dr Who as a kid making me dream about aliens or something. The other dream is a typical anxiety dream.
Phew I’m not mental, or an alien abductee… I was starting to wonder! hahaha
wow, this blog thing really sorts your head out! (or makes everyone else think you’re crazy)
Last night I got picked up at 530pm and driven to London to work at Cafe de Paris… driving back to arrive approx 530am. Ouch.
Double Ouch, I’d arranged a meeting at 11am, not expecting the return journey to be quite so late!
It’s been non stop all day till about an hour ago when I sat down to eat some fruit and relax/unwind in front of the TV for an hour, a program on egypt ended and became a DIY show (I’m not sure which, they’re all pretty much the same anyway!)
I really must learn not to watch these shows… they make such easy mindless viewing when you need to unwind (and thanks to discovery channel etc are on pretty much 24/7).
Herein lies the problem: This would of been ok, except I’m changing tennants in 3 weeks and I’m having a week gap so I can re-decorate a couple of bits of my flat…. but now (thanks to TV) I want to knock a whole in one of my walls to maximise light into my hall!
Problem with me is, I get absorbed by these tangents and now I’m thinking I MUST do it… tapping the wall, I’m sure it could be done… ut oh… and it would allow natural light into the hall which would be good… all I’d have to do is knock it through.. build a window frame… how hard can it be???
Random quote for the day:
“Danger Will Robinson, DANGER!!”
(10 points for naming the TV show)
aaaahhhhhhh I need a holiday!!! (thank jeeebus its only 5 weeks till spain!)
having worked about 40 hours over the weekend (5 gigs + prep… and driving about 7 hours) I was looking forward to not much in the diary… I’ll be honest I did have a good kip till midday monday and then…
ring, ping, beep… in the space of an hour I had 3 meetings on monday, a nights work at Cafe de Paris in London tonight.. a big meeting that requires a lot of prep for wed… 4 gigs booked this weekend… a load of paperwork (invoicing, chart returns.. reaction sheets…) to catch up on today… stop the world I want to get off!
feel better now I’ve vented that… ta.
Life is about balance, work/life - reacting/planning… I need to remember that.
anyway… Tony has an idea for people to suggest things, vote and then I do them… not sure what his twisted ideas his mind is festering but I’m game… comment away my friends!
Why is it, some people sporadically just vanish off the face of the planet…
you know the ones, you speak to them every now n again then suddenly… “hello…. hellllooo??”
no answer to txts/msn/email/calls (delete as applicable)… you start to wonder, maybe I did something and they’re avoiding me?
Then you speak to someone else who knows them and you feel validated, they’re not answering to anyone. Now you ask yourself if they’re ok, maybe some trauma has befallen them…
I find it intriguing the thoughts that go through my mind & 99.9% of the time, I know they’re just busy!
As far as I know, I only ever did this once. When I was ill and having a lot of tests, the last thing I wanted was well meaning friends constantly asking me if I was ok and what was wrong (as I didn’t know myself at the time, this was the worst question anyone could ask me).
So I retracted into my shell (luckily I had funds so I didn’t need to work much) and studied for my Diploma… emerging a few months later with a bit more knowledge, a scar on my neck and a clean bill of health.
Now I’ve written this, I wonder if anyone will get in touch thinking “maybe this is about me?”, when really maybe it’s not about them… or maybe it is???
( 
have I messed with your head yet?)
Anyway, when this happens, just let them know you’re here if they need you and accept that it’s probably not about you anyway.
