Lest I Forget

notes from a midlife muser - grabbing those thoughts before they turn to memory mush

October 06, 2006

Oh, you guys

all your kind comments to my threat of abstinence (Yes, it says '3' in the comments count but I know there were 100's of lurkers who decided not to comment) persuaded me to continue my 4 year blart-fest, my burble-blasts.

Things I have been up to :

> conversing with a nice Scottish couple who have a dog that looks just like ours, is a female rescue mutt and is also called brodie - Doggie_dopplegangers:



> Working very silly hours at ad agency central, mostly for a big American global shipping company. Nice folk, short deadlines, too many decision makers, too many individual country requirements (which is good, who wants bland same-size-fits-all, one language version monoculture) = no home life. booh.
I am essentially happy to be helping on the big stuff and feeling useful though.

> Missing my daughter, who is now at Coventry uni and with 2 weeks in on stage one of empty-nester-ness, the house is still oddly quiet.
We go to see her on Sunday as current mrs Kelly has a birthday and we wanted to have lunch as a family. It will be cool for the boys, as they didn't get to see the halls of residence or the campus (such as it is) when we dropped Lian off.

> Taking lots of photos, most quite bad, seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/what_i_see/

I am enjoying taking photos though. It makes you attend to the surroundings you pass through, I've actually stopped a couple of times and backed-up (on foot) to look at the angles of a building or the grouping of some people and think 'damn I wish I had my camera with me". The reality is it is probably best I don’t have it with me all the time, what you imagine with your fleeting glance is often mediocre with the lens. But sometimes I get what I think are quirky or memorable shots.

> Not listening to much music... and that is because of work, I'm spending way too much time (when commuting) running through to-do's in my head then phoning myself (sad git) on my desk phone to remind myself of things I won't get done during office hours for the day ahead ;-)
If I was listening to music, I think it would be the mp3 player on shuffle so I could flit about a bit.. I have a flitty brain at present.

> Updating a web site
I'm not the slickest of web site builders I know (it's my day job to inform rather than build and you can tell) but I just updated the site for my friend Steve.
Steve is a top-notch author and musician and illustrator and boy I loathe him for all of that.
Marvel at his genius here: http://www.steveaugarde.com/ you can link to his very good blog through that.

I will be updating my own site and adding some new links (including to your blog Alex) when I get chance.

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