Metaphors and Euphemism

Don't have time to blog about it, but yesterday on a sofa I was struck by how closely situated in meaning metaphors and euphemisms are...

And if you really want to put someone down without them realising it, try the following phrase "that's a typically sophistical comment". Not that I am condoning such behaviour...

Anarchy, Capitalism, Communism and my Desk

So I was sitting here at my desk quietly getting about my day job when a colleague popped round to say hello. As is their want it's never a simple "Hello, how are you?", first it was a discussion as to how rubbish we all thought life was. Elizabeth is partly to blame here because she has a "Life Is Crap" calendar, which was a gift from Sue, so she is also culpable! Then it was a discussion on various merits to anarchy, communism and capitalism. All around my desk!

It got me thinking though about the world we live in, about order and chaos, about authority and freedom. About what works and what doesn't work.

And because I'm at work I don't have time to write much more, which is a shame...

Gluttony

I've eaten 3 donuts and now feel sick...

Gluttony doesn't feel good.

Too Tired To Blog

Or maybe it's I'm too lazy or maybe it's I'm just confused.

It's probably a combination of a great many things; last night for exanple was getting home from work later than normal, had dinner, watched Arsenal (less said the better!) and then Vikki came round and after she left it was a tad late to start blogging!

I have two ideas for blogs I want to write but that would involve actually spending some time researching and I'm quite an off the cuff kinda person. The ole inspiration vs perspiration issue again.

This also frustrates me as I need to get practicing for a gig and get back into the habit of novelising - I will finish it... one day... Ho hum.

Random thought for the day comes from the wisdom of Calvin Harris; if I see a light flashing does this mean that I am not alone?

What A Difference A Week Makes

It's been a while since I have blogged and there have been a number of reasons for that; one of them was that the "big" thing that was/is going on in my life currently I didn't really feel comfortable blogging about as I didn't want to prempt or spoil it.

So in the last 7 days I have got a girlfriend, got confirmation of a work trip to Bangalore India and been sick as a well sick dog!

In reverse order, I'm feeling much better now thank you and am back in work. I'm using my lunch break to write this blog. No seriously I am actually taking a lunch break!

Work trip to Bangalore, 3 weeks in April, going to be a rather crazy and exciting experience. I'll be going over there with two others and we'll be training the "offshore hub". No idea what to expect but quite looking forward to it.

And the biggie, yes last Monday (8th February) evening myself and a very special young lady met up down the Coach and Horses and had a nice long chat about stuff and yeah! To some it's a surprise and to others it isn't. Either way I'm happy and we see what happens, I'm looking forward to getting to know her better. (I should also note she's been amazing this week putting up with me in a rather bleak state!)

So yes lots of changes... what a difference a week makes.

Fifty and Counting

So this is my fiftieth post, which got me wondering about what it might be like to be 50. Where might my life be like in 20 years time? Will I be married, will I be a father, will I still be in a band, where will my friends be, what sort of work will I be doing, will I still have hair, what music will I be listening to, will I be mad about football, will I still be a clothes horse, slightly too enamoured about shopping, sarcastic, over the top, facetious, gregarious, emotional, will I still be blogging and will I have finished my novel?

Now probably I'm getting ahead of myself there but I've always been a grandiose kind of person.

I would like it if when I am 50 I can say "the last twenty years have been great and the next twenty are going to be even better".