Resolutions

Well here goes.....

1.       To write in this blog every day.  This is not because I am conceited enough to think that anyone is particularly interested, but more an experiment to see if my writing improves over the year.

2.       To read every day.  I have perhaps begun to realise that life is flying by rather quickly, and that there is so much out there to learn, experience and enjoy.

3.       To try not to take unimportant things seriously.

4.       To move house

5.       To try to stay in touch with people more, and to surround myself more with some of the lovely people I know

6.       To spend more time planning and organising, it worked in 2009.

7.       To try something new every month ( I have done this before, and it was fun)

8.       To get some more projects underway

9.       To try to improve my standards

That’s it for now, and I’m sure I will add to it over the year, so let’s call it a “To Do” list rather than resolutions shall we? 

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More Reading Matter

It has only just been pointed out to me that I was also given a book for Christmas called “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy which was an unexpected pleasure to receive.  I have far too much to read now, so I must try and timetable myself to ensure I get plenty done.  It made me realise how much I used to enjoy my reading time on the train to and from London every day.  In spite of all the smells and delays and expense, it did give me around three hours a day reading time, and looking at my bookshelf it takes me back to those times very quickly.  I had a conversation with my Aunt this weekend, who told me about one of her neighbours who was suffering from depression.  I was raised in part by my Aunt, and depression used to be looked down upon as an excuse for people to have a good wallow.  In fact the phrase “What has he/she got to be depressed about?” was regularly heard.  I was surprised therefore to hear that my Aunt was so understanding of this poor soul who was suffering from depression, and had in fact invited her in to offer a shoulder to cry on.  It turned out that the woman was lonely, and had fallen out with her daughter.  My Aunt said that she felt that the woman needed to get herself a couple of books and sit down and have a read, and that would “Snap her out of it”.  I replied rather despairingly that depression was not something you just snapped  out of, and was firmly put in my place as my Aunt explained what she meant.  Having been alone now since her Father died, she suffers from bouts of depression herself, and has found solace in fiction as a means to escape from her existence.  This rather moved me, as I had always known her to be a woman who was poorly read, in fact I always suspected some sort of learning difficulty.  She has however discovered a love for a good yarn in later life, and now regularly reads as a means of escape and enjoyment, and all power to her for that.  I miss that escape that I used to get each day on the train.  What I was escaping from is perhaps another matter for another day, but it surprised me that two people so far apart in many ways were using the same coping strategy.

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New Favourite Website

I think I may spend some time on this site.... http://www.drinksmixer.com/

Just reading some of the comments has already made me laugh

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Archive

Irritatingly, it seems I may have found a tool to retrieve all my old posts just a matter of hours after pronouncing them beyond help.  I shall be having a little bash over the next day or so.

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Resolutions

Well having spent most of the morning cleaning I have now decided that I need to make several more resolutions.  The trouble is, there might end up being a list of about 70 at this rate.  I think I need a reboot and new year is always a good time to do this despite what all the content starved newspapers will tell you.  I shall probably spend much of the next couple of days taking stock, looking back, and making strong resolute statements about the future which will entirely fail, but I enjoy it so I shall continue.

I saw in the papers today that Cabinet documents have been released that reveal that Margaret Thatcher was a power crazed evil racist Bastard.  Whatever next?   Will they hit us with the revelation that the sun comes up in the morning, and that fish swim in the water?  Rather depressingly, I noticed that many comments on websites were saying things like “We miss her” and “We could do with her today”.  For the love of all that is sane, why would we need another war mongering old git?  We have been blessed with far too many of them lately.

Anyway...I shall be back on with resolutions etc. very soon

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ubuntu

Feeling rather smug with myself today after some IT Prowess.  We have an old Dell Laptop that has never worked particularly well if I’m being honest.  As we have a surfeit of working PCs I thought I would try a new operating system for the first time and went for Ubuntu, which is based on Linux.  Amazingly for me, it all went smoothly, and I now have a new fresh install Laptop with no trace of Microsoft near it.  It took a while to get the laptop to see the Wireless network, but with a bit of research, it was sorted within an hour or so.  It would seem to be a pretty good system, with a lot of software available that replaces pretty much all I might need, and it is compatible with Firefox, so all is good.  I will be trying it out with a bit of graphics work etc. Tomorrow.

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