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Musicube

2006-04-08T11:48:00.000Z

Hmmm ...

2005-03-19T20:10:00.000Z

Not feeling really creative today

No stress

2005-03-11T22:15:00.000Z

When your son starts doing his homework without a fuss, there has to be something amiss; here the keyword is bribery - do this or no karate lessons or swimming. Finding the right button to push though is a chaotic process.

Conversely, my button has not been pushed recently, though I live in hope and stupidly do the homework anyway, 'cos that's how I was brought up.

I can see clearly now ...

2004-12-27T22:20:00.000Z

Man, what a mediocre Christmas! I really, really hope I never, ever have to go through that again. Anyway, I'm glad it's over so that I can get on with the business of paranoia, obsessive-compulsive behaviour and being overly-concerned about minutiae like I do every day of my life, instead of being miserable at having bought the wrong presents and not being there at the right time for the right people, which comes along as a biannual kick up the ass.

No es acceptable para mi asi

2004-11-05T02:44:00.000Z

Following a path is just taking an easy route which someone else has worn down before. Tread yer own grass.

League Table of Fear

2004-10-12T01:50:00.000Z

These are the things I am afraid of:

1) Losing her
2) Losing them
3) Losing myself

Any atttempt at introspection is a repeat visit to the place I didn't want to go for so long and created it in my mind instead. So my defense mechanism is to blank everything out and my fields of creativity are completely barren. There is always the chance that tilling the soil will bring forth some shoots so perhaps I will get the hoe and start working it over.

Christopher Reeve dies

2004-10-12T01:12:00.000Z

With Superman gone, who is there to save the World?

Times Like These

2004-08-14T02:25:00.000Z

My toenails need cutting, there's no 2 ways about it, but I don't have my nail cutters with me. It's times like these you learn to borrow again, to paraphrase the Foo Fighters. I'm usually self-reliant in the personal hygiene/bathroom products department - I have four or five deodorants with me - but no nail cutters is a serious oversight. Who do I ask and how? Does anyone want to lend out their own cutters? Is it a breach of etiquette? Am I risking some disease? What will I do? Suggestions please...

Enough passwords to write a book with.

2004-07-18T01:37:00.000Z

If anyone would like to give me a reliable method of maintaining an abundance of different username/password combinations without recourse to pen and parchment or equivalent digital means of preservation, I would be most obliged. The Internet age is great, an' all that, but it's Achilles heel is the need to prove identity with such a clunky mechanism. We need ubiquitous retinal or fingerprint scanners. Of course, it would be lovely if everything could be done on trust...oh I'm SO naive.

Gmail gmail gmail gmail gmail gmail gmail gmail ...

2004-07-17T00:35:00.000Z

For those of you unsuccessful in finding a gmail account invitation, I have one or two to give away. Leave your e-mail address in the comment field and I'll send invitations until I'm out of stock. One per person, reserved for people partial to red wine and chocolate.

Style over contempt

2004-07-16T02:09:00.000Z

Great, now we can do more funky stuff to posts without needing a degree in HTML. 'Bout time too: the 'Post' GUI has caught up with the rest of Blogger, which, in it's latest iteration rocks. Wizzy it izzy. Just, please everyone, let's agree not to do rainbow letters in every post jus' 'cus we can, huh? Unless you want to, that is.

I'm not lovin' it

2004-06-18T13:43:00.000Z

I was, in as much it is possible to do so, given the context, looking forward to my McDonald's Quorn Supreme, which leapt forth from the counter menu as a lively and colourful item, unlike the animal protein-based products served there, which are limp and appropriately, lifeless, no matter how well prepared. One can hope for too much it seems: The focaccia bun was ultra-processed and had no levity; the quorn steak itself was a mean-spirited sliver and the salad garnish was presented in standard warm and limp mode. The saving grace was the chilli condiment which slaked my thirst for some zing, not found in the rest of the sandwich. I refer only in passing to the fries as that's all they deserve (ie. passing).

Hole in the head [Entertaining The Whole Street mix]

2004-06-16T21:57:00.000Z

It's great, sometimes, to shed the mantle of parenthood, (having passed that safely to someone else appropriately-qualified) and just do what you want all day. Today was such a day and the peace and freedom from responsibility was well overdue. So what did we do? Drive, walk, shop, eat, drive. That breakdown doesn't seem so different from circumstances avec les infants yet it cost more, somehow. What a worrying thought...perhaps I won't retire after all.

Inertia creeps

2004-05-25T04:02:00.000Z

Are you ever in a situation that the harder you push, the more nothing happens? I'm in that situation right now and it's frustrating as hell. I can see all the inefficiencies the situation leads to, all the trodden on toes and snubbed noses and all for no Just Cause. It sucks, the whole damn thing. Sucks like an bright yellow translucent ultraleach from the planet Gweegthsthle III. I wonder whether Gravity was really such a good idea. If anyone comes up with an alternative, I'd be pleased to hear them out.

Go ahead and stop

2004-05-23T00:17:00.000Z

Avril Lavigne's 'Sk8er Boi' is perfect reprisal for Thomas Dolby's 'Europa and the Pirate Twins'.

"Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges"

- Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"

As I have noticed though, some people, being full of themselves, are their own vengance.

East, West, Home's Best

2004-05-22T01:48:00.000Z

Sometimes there are good days and sometimes there are bad, and then there are days like these - no real wind to speak of, no dragons to fight, no Birthday cake. Status: indeterminate.

On days like these, home is a pretty conceit.

Bittersweet Symphony

2004-05-21T02:34:00.000Z

Well, I had oodles to say and now I sit down to post, it's all dried up. Must have eaten too much I guess.

Anyway, here I am, all the way from circlesquare.blogspot.com, which I'm putting out to pasture because I fancied a fresh look and, well, because life is change. So there you are.