Tagged by Paul
Paul O’Flaharty tagged me while replying to my post about social network overload… (much of this is copied entirely from Paul’s post…)
Now there are a bunch of rules that go with participating in this meme but they’ll really only affect the folks I tag, so I’ll post them at the end.
Okay, here are 8 things about me - list inspired in part by Paul, but some of the stuff on it won’t come as any surprise to regular readers.
- I won’t blog about my job. It’s work, it pays the bills, and I won’t endanger that by blogging about my employer, my customers or what I do.
- I do all my own chores - which is probably why my house is a mess most of the time.
- I’m (surprisingly) an “outdoors” person - if the weathers good - and I’m a member of my local Rambling group.
- I don’t get to enjoy the outdoors so much - I’m nowhere near fit enough.
- I love peace and quiet.
- I’m single, and have no idea how to change that.
- I’m currently somewhat addicted to The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess.
- I’m something of a loner - but equally, I’d rather have company.
Now after being so revealing it’s my turn to tag 8 more folks:
err…. actually, I’ll only tag those 3…For those of you that have been tagged here is a reminder of the rules:
One: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
Two: People who are tagged need to write their own blog entry about their eight things and post these rules.
Three: at the end of your entry, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names/pseudonyms/blogs. Four: Don’t forget to let them know!
Cheater? Offset your adulterous ways…
In the spirit of “Carbon Offsetting” - there’s a new website where adulterous cheaters can offset their erroneous ways by “supporting” a non-cheater…
It’s partly a joke (although as a perpetually single bloke, I’m considering signing up to see if I can be paired with a serial cheater and maybe make some money!) meant to highlight the error of carbon offsetting as a solution to climate change, rather than getting people to stop doing bad things…
Penblwydd hapus
(or Happy Birthday)
Interesting… I’d not noticed this before, but a number of the companies (and various web forums) that have my date of birth or birthday on file for various reasons, are now using this information to “target” me on my birthday - from a simple “Happy Birthday” message from a forum, to various subtle reminders of ways to spend money with an online store…
I’m lazy - I walked to work…
Yes, I’m giving into pressure (yes Dave and Dave, I’m talking about you) and writing a post about the current weather here in Cardiff…
When I got up this morning, and faced with the prospect of scraping snow off the car and driving in treacherous, slippery conditions on ungritted local roads (yes, they only gritted the main roads - the less used local roads weren’t gritted) - I decided that I just couldn’t be bothered with it all, and donned my decent boots and walked in. Very pleasant it was too, footpaths through snow covered parks, pristine and white before the schoolkids get to it and throw it at each other…
On arriving at work, it became clear they’d not bothered gritting the carpark, making me even more glad I hadn’t battled the traffic…
Now if I can muster the enthusiasm to walk in when it isn’t less hassle than driving, I might make some progress on that graph over on the right…
Ouch
Well, I finally managed to get to a circuits class at the gym, and it wasn’t fun…
However, I will be going back next time, as in the words of the song - “things can only get better”
Update: Well, it’s now 8am on the morning after and I ache everywhere.
Recharging
A few days away at my parents place, and I'm recharged - plus I've lost weight to boot!
Update: an hour back at work and I feel like I'd never left - it doesn't take long for the pressure and stress to come back 
Maybe Hibernation is the answer
Yes, the nights are getting darker, the advent calendars have been on the supermarket shelves for weeks now, so it’s time for the “Winter Blues” to kick in.
I’m one of these people that gets even more miserable than usual at this time of year (yes, I know that doesn’t seem possible, but believe me, it is), the shorter days combined with spending much of the daylight hours cooped up in the office just don’t do my mood any good at all…
Sometimes I wish I could just hibernate - go to sleep at this time of year and wake up in the spring!
I get this every year, and already this year is already no different.
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