It’s gone midnight, I’m pretty tired and I still have some work to do… I started today at 7am following my London adventure this weekend (more on that in a bit)… and I know I have to start it all over again tomorrow at 7… but you know what, I’m really happy.

I’ve just flicked through a load of photo’s from the last few years and I found myself thinking, how lucky I am. Then I realised… I’m not lucky… I don’t believe in luck… which made me think, I’m thankful for what I’ve done, the places I’ve been and the people I’ve met… but not lucky and I must not slack off now!

The next 4 weeks is crunch time.

In the next 2 weeks I have

6 DJ gigs totalling 32hrs
10 days of “normal work” to do = 70hrs
a project to finish by Friday = 5hrs-ish

= 107hrs of work by 4th Feb – a mere 53.5 per week… doddle!

Although, I do need to fit in some study, buy some furniture, sort the flat out, re-edit a load of tunes for 2manygenres (this Friday @ Dusk), meet up with 2 clients, refresh my spanish and sleep… hopefully…

Good thing I’m off on holiday after that… scarily, thats a fairly average week at the moment and you know what, I wouldn’t change a thing.

…well a couple of things… but the planning of the next stage can wait till the holiday!

Which reminds me… the very talented artist Ms Kelly Barnes has decided to accompany me on holiday for a weeks RnR… winner! (And having accepted my conditions that we do absolutely nothing all week!)

I’m sad. Not in the “weep weep, my life sucks way”, no sad as in a bit of a loser at times.. I have this game, which yielded my best result EVER by such a margin I think it’s time to lay down the gauntlet to others…

so first allow me to explain the game…

Mobile phones have a thing called predictive text… you know, you type the number keys and it tries to work out what word you wanted… damn clever n fast once you get your head round it…

picture the scene, I’d had a few drinks and was sat on a bus home… I’m trying to type a word… but bugger it, I can’t spell it and I do that fighting the dictionary thing where you try n get the word you meant… but I can’t, however the phone decides to offer some ridiculous looking word, i think, cool, I’ll send that, they’ll know what it means. Er no. So I try again to spell the word, although my brain is now running at an even lower level… next thing I realise I have this long jibberish looking word on my phone, I think to myself “that can’t be a real word??” but it’s in the dictionary (according to the phone) and who am I to argue with it?

Now, whenever I can’t spell a word and it offers some jibberish, I see how long I can make the word by trying other possible letters… prohif… abc, YES – Prohifa… abc again, YES – prohifac… abc 3 times? No, BEEP… damn… ok mno? YES …score! prohifacm… you get the idea right? Prohifacminsjodiabaiqlyzzed is a word according to my phone. no really, it is.

I thought that one would never be beaten.. until yesterday… BEST PREDICTIVE JIBBERISH WORD EVER!!! According to my phone hugobsasarangstyiailsansyadoitiz is a word… What an awesome word!!!

Ok, so now you all think I’m weird… until you next mis-spell a word.. and find you’re playing the game… then you’ll be hooked… you have been warned!

holiday number 1
3 weeks time, I’m off for a week to the Canary Islands to chill out, plan the year ahead, read a load of books (for the course) and generally recharge the batteries. Woooo! A whole week of me time, nice… hope I don’t drive myself bonkers!

Skeptic Hero – James Randi
I have an open mind, but generally I’m a big skeptic of all things mystical and unproven (See ‘tree of life‘), so it’s good to see James Randi renewing his One Million Dollar psychic prize.
– See this article in Wired news

In short, anyone who can demonstrate psychic abilities to James’s foundation wins $1 Milllion… the prize has just had it’s 10 year anniversary, n guess what… no-one’s ever won it… wow. suprise! Now he’s going after big TV mediums and oddballs (like spoon bending Mr Geller) by issuing them public challenges… YES! I love this man, tackle the nonsense head on. Respect.

2manygenres @ MySpace
Woooo! I have 500 friends… so ner! hahaha, sad eh?

Biometric Passports
Always amongst the first to get new gadgets… I had to renew my passport and they’ve issued me with a biometric one, RFID chip n all… not sure how I feel about that… hmm.. anyway… ner ner ne ner ner gadget freaks, I’ve got a chip in my passport n you haven’t! hahaha

Yeah baby!!! It’s 100% confirmed now…

I’m playing for Kinky Malinki @ Turnmills on March 17th… get in!!

Another part of the spring is firing off for 007… wooooooooooooo!

1) Smarties contain beetroot juice. Say what?? Seriously, pick up a pack n check it out!

This got me thinking… I collected every single letter in the Smartie alphabet, except u… which they sent to me with the BEST customer service letter I ever received “we find the CHILDREN OF ALL AGES like to collect the lids for all sorts of reasons, find enclosed a letter U for your collection” (Nestle’s use of caps, not mine!) Not that I would ever sell them, but what are they worth now that smarties come in weird cardboard hexagonal things?

2) I’m too big for passport photo booths, I tried… drum roll… SIX times and still didn’t get one I could use, solution? Photo shop that takes it for you, winner!

3) Pluto is now considered a verb, meaning to be demoted. i.e. that guy just got plutoed. Yes… I’ve heard loads of people using it… ?

That’s all I’ve learnt so far this week, well, I learnt some NLP stuff in preparation for doing my M.Prac. course but thats not easy to write on here… which reminds me, another ambition of mine nears completion… to have more letters after my name than in it! Woop woop!

’007 really is shaping up to be the year I thought it would be: the cashflow is reversed (more coming in than going out)… I have 2 holidays planned (Canary islands + Oz).. I’ve started on the course I’ve wanted to do for years… lodger situation is resolved (Carla’s working out groovy)… fitness is improving (HINT – SPONSOR ME >>>>)

Anyway, waffling (it’s 1:24am) = time for bed. Adios amigos!