Quite the painful day, I just really don’t know what else to say. From this morning: I think it’s safe to say we’ve all looked at a Land Rover Discovery and wondered a) how long a piece of wood can you fit in there? and b) How many 2X4 can you get in there? Well today, on what is becoming my weekly trip to Home…
Tough day, great evening
It’s been a rather tough day, my emotional reliance has been tested, but with an almost certain inevitability I made it through to Saturday evening. Where the day was finished with good food, great company, and wonderful live theater. Seattle has a wonderful theatre and music scene, how I feel about it has been well documented here, but tonight was the stage version of The…
And the view this month…
As I’ve done for the last three months, I’ve taken a picture from my bedroom window. It won’t surprise anyone to hear it, but it was raining today, but there are signs that spring is on it’s way. The first green buds were on the trees outside the bedroom window. This is going to be a wonderful summer.
Fire in Babylon
An upcoming movie about the great West Indies cricket team of the 80’s. As good as Australia have been over the last 15 years, this was a team that was more spectacular. Australia played good, clinical cricket, occasionally briliant. The West Indies went out to crush people. I’m looking forward to this one.
Cynical, bitter and pessimistic – Another England post
There is something worrying me, it’s been bugging me for a while. I tuned into the England Wales match last weekend, it was online on ESPN-3 and something rather worrying happened. I joined the game at half time and after about 10 or 15 minutes I switched it off to go clean up the garden. Last night I totally forgot England were playing Ghana. It…
Building…
After some interesting discussions today I feel more positive than ever about the future and what I’m building. I am making my house my own, it’s so exciting to have the stability and surety that I’ve been missing. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the creativity I spoke about a few days ago, I am building something just wonderful and feel so positive…
Stereotypes exist for a reason…
OK, I have chosen to live here up to now and it’s easy to complain about the weather, especially this time of year. Yes I know Seattle and the Northwest has a reputation for rain, and as much as people who live here defend it with an “Its not as bad as people think”, there is some truth to it. It’s almost April, the threat…
A little creativity
One of the issues I’ve had in my life is creativity, I was looking at this and my hobbies pretty much all revolve around rather structured activities. Racing, football and so all have very comprehensive rulebooks. I’ve said before, F1 being an engineering/money exercise, there is some allowance for creativity, but that’s done with in the frame of a very comprehensive rule set. Professionally it’s…
Downtown Everett
A quick trip into Everett after work to deal with a couple of things. I do love living in this part of the world, but there are so many other places to live yet.
That burnout thing…
I spoke a month or two ago about burnout and what I was going through. I said my friends called it and they were right, I’ve been successful at cutting the traveling down a little, delegating some work and enjoying weekends off. I still find the motivation a little difficult to come by at times, but I do have some great people around me. As…