It's great to go back, read an old post and have it resonate. I don't get that feeling on Facebook. Often my writing feels too formal to be on a Facebook wall. Most of the posts I write here and Twitter I'll like now and later.
I actually Blame Facebook for the formality. This week I tried to explain to a friend what Twitter was in reasonably short form, and ended up with an advert pasted on to the bottom for Twitter. I could have turned it off, but I only realised this later. Many wouldn't even notice it was being posted.
From this I take away one thing: People aren't going to be comfortable advertising products simply because they're endorsing them to friends. Telling my friend about Twitter was a positive gesture. She may one day join. Having this positive gesture turned into an advert makes me feel like a tool of someone or something. Could be the advertising medium, or it could be the advertiser. Either way, it left a bad vibe. Didn't resonate. No sir.
Easy Street
3. This weeks films - nothing from Blockbuster. I finally saw Something About Mary on Sky One last night. Quite enjoyed it. Nothing wrong with a RomCom every now and again. Blockbuster are now ignoring my complaints. I strongly suspect this is now my final month with this bullshit terrible company - please feel free to quote me on it.
5. Had a great Saturday night of down and desperate UK binge drinking. Serious problem. Must be stopped. Who are we to decide what's good for us and what we enjoy? Please listen to Free Talk Live. Did I just list binge drinking as success in one of my goals? No, the point was there were people around and that was good. Been a lonely March round here.
Hard Boulevard
1. Having great times with my new acoustic. This thing sounds fantastic. Some ideas for an April song are forming. Maybe the March song will cross the line late too. Check back.
2. Procrastinating on finding all the evidence to back up my claim that I am corely competent, so to speak. Give me a date for my review and i'm sure i'll get it done. Still confident, but uninterested.
3. I've noticed lately that many of the paths I've always liked the look of are really long shots. Love music, lack talent, want to engineer? Recorded music may be dying. Like radio? Want to engineer? Radio doesn't hire anymore - it fires. This is the excuse based whining you've come to know. It's not about quitting a job and earning less. It's far more about not quitting a job because of being scared you could end up earning nothing, and eventually end up back at the bottom of the same ladder you spent.. x years climbing. I may have just described a lot of people and their feelings, and again it fits the dice metaphor mentioned recently, but where is the wisdom that makes this problem go away? The successful are convinced things just work out with hard work. I wish I could find something I really felt the drive to work hard at, but even if I did, I wouldn't be immediately convinced i'd solved the problem. As you can see, goal met here.
4. Better week for the body. Swimming continued with a cramp free fairly continuous mile, and a luke-warm evening cycle down to and around the Abbey area was fairly enjoyable. Hopefully do something similar this week too.
Ready for a break from work. I missed the fact that it's been 3 months since my time off at Christmas. Ready for another trip to the south coast. Wondering if this style of writing is irritating. Will decide when I read it back in RSS reader later. Later.
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