blog buzz

Had a bit of a bad weekend for the internal tremour / buzz -
Try taking a plugged-in fridge to bed and cuddling up to it, to get the effect I feel ;)

Which reminded me to put a link to a really great resource for twitchers, buzzers and assorted neuro-sufferers.
All great people, most of who contend with a lot more than I do - hat's off to you guys.
Permanent link on my main site, but it’s here to visit if you have similar neuro issues.

Dad Coin

Two sides of the Dad coin this weekend..

Good Dad motivated Son #1 at a Judo competition, and stayed indoors for 3 hours whilst the (rare) Sun shone outside. doh.
(I so nearly shouted 'be aTiger!' at a key grapple_on_the_mat moment, just to embarrass him) ...

Poor Dad berated Son #2 with an hysterical 'there are plenty of kids in the world who have to work in sweatshops',
when said Son didn't want to get out of bed for school.

Dad Coin, which face you get depends on how I'm flipping feeling.

which is why...

I've had an idea for a book, which I've played with over the past 10 years.
It's slowly developed in my head but little, other than scratchy one-liners, have made it to paper.
That hasn't stopped me getting giddy and I've visualised the premier when it's released by hand-made films or Channel 4.

Then I started to read ‘How to be Good’, Nick Hornby's latest and there it is, on page 9 - my storyline reduced to 3 lines.
Not just reduced, but postulated, critiqued and then rejected as too cheesy, in 3 funny lines.

Which is why ... Nick Hornby is a great, successful writer and I'm ... not.

advice corner

Saw a badge pinned to my daughter's school bag this morning, which reads:
eat healthy, keep fit, die anyway. Ahh , the nihilistic, apathetic, whatever-ness of youth.

Then Tony txt's me 'positive mental attitude fella!' as a motivating pre-work jolt of forced enthusiasm.
C'mon that man! Bit of touchline coaching before its heads down for a day of meetings.

So, advice polarity this morning and it's time to earn the company some money.
No moral to this tale, just ........ whatever ;)

Spurious_Link_leads_to_Good_Art_Situation

Tony looked for me under Mark Kelly Art and got Kelly Mark instead.
Wow! Serendipity indeed. An Artist just like me,
Except:
a) he's a she
b) her name is all back to front ;)
c) she is good, with engaging and stylish work. Illuminated House is great.
Have a look.

tick tock look at the clock

So, it's the end of the week and last few minutes at work and of course I'm rushing_to_finish_off_a_few_loose_ends_but_essentially_killing_time,
till the home bell rings.

Part of the killing time thing involves checking out other Blog sites. Found two (related in away I'm not clear of - as friends?)

First one is a guy called Mister Nihil (real name Ben), I like his blog .

Second is for a groovy games/collaboration/wired_empowerment_happening_type company Invisible City, they are here .

Rebuilding my main site, when I do these guys will have a link on it I think. :)

: Blog This :

Driving in to work this morning and 'Love Train' from the OJs comes on, immediately I thought 'must Blog these (somewhat cheesy but still powerful) lyrics'.
Snipping strands of conversation with friends, images off web sites, music on the radio - I have the Blog habit it seems.
99% of these Blogging moments won't make the site and 90% of those that do won't be read by anyone else - but that doesn't matter.
The process of actively attending to the world around you, of sifting out the meaningful from the external white noise we are bathed in is a good one.