Sardines

People either love them or loathe them, but for those who love them, how great are sardines on toast?


Great comfort food, and healthy too!

Welcome to 2010!

Welcome to the first post of 2010. There have been many thoughts/ideas/concepts pass through my head since New Year's Day, but I haven't been able to jot them down, even though I carry a notebook for that purpose.

Rather than try to catch up and write a small blog post for each of these things, I thought I'd summarise each in a one-liner so you can see where my brain was going. Sometimes, I wonder myself!

Being Healthy

This train of thought is a common one, and accompanies me to work most days. It follows patterns such as, how can I get more energy to exercise more (A: exercise more!), where can I find a good Yoga class, the fact that my waistline hasn't changed despite changing diet and exercise habits, how alcohol is bad and good and bad all at the same time, how I should try to give up alcohol (hence FebFast - see later post), wondering how much good liposculpture costs (for the 'muffin top') etc.

The purpose of money and working, hierarchy, and a bit of communism.

This train of thought happened one day on the way to work, after I'd bought a coffee and began thinking about the Star Trek universe where money is more-or-less obsolete, and we "buy" things on a sort of bartering for what we do or what we contribute to society. For example, "in exchange for a coffee, I'll give you some workplace counselling and business process engineering help".

Why a lot of bad/careless drivers seem to be women with children in the car.

This one is a bit of a conundrum, in that wouldn't one drive more carefully when one's children are in the car, but at the same time, because the children are in the car, it's probably why one drives erratically, fast, and takes risks, probably to get home quicker.

Cynicism and love

Let's just leave that one, and put on "What is Love?" by Haddaway instead.

What if I was to look for a new job?

This one is a tough one. I have been here for 17 years this year, and while I often think about whether it's time to move on "just because" I can never think of a job or workplace situation that would interest me. Other than being paid to stay home of course. Suffice to stay that the people with whom I work are all far to good to leave, and the work is kinda fun too.

Random BlackBerry thoughts

I am happy with the decision to go back to a BlackBerry/CrackBerry as my primary phone/smart phone. As a corporate user, it suits my lifestyle a bit more, however I do often still carry the iPhone for music, games, twitter at home etc. A big influencing factor was buying the BlackBerry Bold 9700 which is a really nice piece of hardware, even though the OS is fairly similar to the other BBs I own/have owned. There are also some cool accessories coming out, such as the Bluetooth Music Gateway (got it - pretty cool), and Bluetooth presenter (which I will have to avail myself of).

How much I love my car

Yes, the age-old phenomenon where a man forms an emotional relationship with a four-wheeled conveyance, with due acknowledgement that some women suffer the same.

How cool is that blue sky, wow, that house went up/down quickly, where is that swimming pool again

Just some random ADD moments!



There were a lot more, and I even contemplated carrying a voice recorder with me (wait, I do, it's next to that notebook), but have forgotten them. Perhaps I'll do a summary post like this occasionally when there's enough to blog about.

Change in Blog Plans

OK, so my plans to be a prolific Blogger haven't quite worked out, and it's probably the case that people won't want to hear about what I had on toast (Twitter is good for that). My intention to write about HealthCare, workplace Psychology, Workplace bullying (as a 3rd party observer!), and other stuff haven't started flowing freely from these fingers, so I'm going to Blog a bit about my experiences with my new MacBook. Stay tuned...

Colours

From an early age we are taught numbers, letters, colours, behaviours etc. A conversation with friends the other day about colour blindness made me wonder about colours and the fact that we've been taught that red is red and blue is blue. Of course that got me wondering that what if we'd been taught that red was blue and blue was yellow? What's to say that we've been taught is correct, and that those that are colour blind are actually seeing things correctly!

Approaching 40

OK, so I know I'm still 21 months off, but already I'm thinking of the slide that is the road to 40. I remember back to when I was in this position approaching 30, the attitudes I had to life, people, situations, my dress sense, and now feel in a similar place again 2 years out of hitting 40.

I remember a couple of years ago noting the "40" thing that makes people want to wear tighter t-shirts and jeans, possibly in order to show that the body, now it's 40, is still in good shape, and thinking that I'd never do that and remain true to my (hopefully) better dress sense. Without realising it, I have, over the last few months, invested in a larger number of t-shirts, possibly to show off that my body, now that I'm approaching 40, it's still in good shape..! Without realising it, I've subscribed to the one thing I always thought was a bit funny. Having said that, t-shirts are a lot more comfortable at time, so I'm prepared to give in on that bit!

The first post

Well this is my first post on Dinsypedia. I created this blog with the intent of plugging it into my strange and rambling thoughts. Typically many of these have dried up since the blog's activation, so I shall wait patiently for them to commence again.