My nature walk at Langland

Last Thursday I went ofr a healthy walk with an organisation called Healthy Directions.  Myself and a group of others, went in a minbus to Langland where we walked around the coastline for about a mile and then turned around and headed back for a cup of tea.  I was clicking like mad with my camera (phone) and got some interesting shots of the walk.

Here they are, for your amusement

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vista

so I actually installed vistaon my pc today. Oh joy of joys! I thought that it be only the right thing to do if I installed it first in my network of friends and family so that i can remain the expert on matters relating to computers.  Also with the increase in customers with Virgin Media taking up broadband access it was going to become inevitable sooner or later.

Well several hours later and a few progams installed I have only had one headache, I lost all my emails.  the rest is good news.  I managed to get avg, msn,yahoo and several other progams work.  I even located a driver for my sound system, wohoooooooooooo

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Was the Swansea Convention a Con?

Was it? I have to say that in essense if you have to pay £4.50 to walk around a group of 10 stalls in Swansea Market then the Market would be empty.  So how do people seem to think that they can get away with it just because the location changes.  I can agree with spending the money on something that could be regarded as special, or even unique, a once in a life time event.  But lets be honest, you have to pay money in order to be allowed to spend money.  Whoever came up with that idea was very clever indeed.  The phrase comes to mind ‘Money for old rope’.

I agree that meeting Kenny (who was inside R2D2 in the Star Wars films) was interesting, but what do you say to the man.  Wow, what was it like to be R2D2? I bet he never heard that question before.  So all you really get is Hi, how are you, can I have your autograph, certainly that will be £10,thank you.  I do believe that that £10 was at least an honest £10, and it was my choice to spend it. But the rest of the event felt like a complete waste of time and money.  Perhaps they need to add more to the event next year, more and different stalls.  Perhaps even have some roleplaying or tabletop battles going on as well.

So here is one disgruntled Geek signing off.  The storm troopers were fun though

Emergency Services or attack of the cybermen

Last night as I quietly entered my house carrying my three bags of shopping I noticed a sudden flash of light on the wall of my passage.  Startled, I turned to see another flash of light in the corner of my eye.  I tried to turn around to find this flashing light, was it outside, perhaps the emergency services, was it a house alarm nearby, or was it some undiscovered beacon embedded in the plaster of my passage wall.  In futile bewilderment I kept spinning around to catch this errant light, and then it all became clear, as I took the cyber enhancement from off my ear and looked down at the flashing blue LED on the side of my bluetooth.

DOH!

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my love life in the stars – an experiment

Monthly Love for April, 2007

The 1st, you could be feeling like you just plain don’t feel like going
out. You don’t want to put on your party shoes. You don’t want to don
your going-out-to-dinner jacket. You don’t want to buy or receive
flowers. All you really want to do is snuggle up at home with a good
book. Well, sugar pea, don’t you think the best idea, then, is to do
just that? Don’t you think that if you don’t feel romantic, you
shouldn’t force it? And don’t forget, snuggling up at home doesn’t have
to happen alone. By the 5th, you’re ready to invite whoever it is who’s
been interesting you oh-so-much over for tea and cookies. Or lasagna –
you pick. The 10th, you could be feeling pretty homebody-ish, again.
There’s nothing wrong with that! You’ll be ready for romance the 15th
and 16th, when you’re feeling steadier and readier for whatever comes
your way than you’ve felt in a long time. The 21st and 22nd, romance is
coming your way — and how! You may never feel the same again. The
27th, go ahead and let something go — you’re ready to end this month
with a whole new beginning.

Well ok at present I do feel a bit withdrawn and homey at present (11th today) so that means I should be watching out for the 21st & 22nd

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H – 4 days and counting

OK , I have decided that the best way to go about this whole thing is to challenge myself.  So by writing it up on this blog, it makes it public and something that I will have to do, no matter what.

This Saturday will be the start of my health living plan.  I intend to do some research between now and then to give me some initial guidance.  But I intend on learning constantly about my health and how I can improve it from now on.

Obviously the main issue is going to be my weight, however there are so many contributing factors that I need to spend time looking into them all.

I am saying this Saturday for my start date as at present I am suffereing from a lovely cold and will probably need to recover from that first before I start.

I am not really intending on watching my weight so much as watching my figure, however I will try to get regular updates using the machine in tescos that allows you to check your weight, BMI and blood pressure all in one reading.  I will use these as a guideline, but will also be taking measurements on my neck, chest, arms, waist, wrists and legs, these will hopefully give a more accurate picture of whate exactly is happening.

I will also use the blog to put down my thoughts about the changes to my diet and how these are affecting me.

So I hope to see you all here on Saturday with an update on my health plan.

I don’t like Mondays

Every now and then I go through a black period. A few days where I sit and wallow, cry a bit, sulk a bit, feel pissed off with the world and many other things too boot. Sometimes I find this period useful as it sometimes helps to ground me, to bring me back to reality, to pull in the reins of hope and stop myself galloping over the horizon without a care in the world.

So what have I gained from my deep and dark thoughts this time. To be honest I am not quite sure. But it seems that I have been looking a lot at my relationships with women over the years of my life and wondering exactly where did I go wrong (if at all). I have also been thinking of how women percieve me, and also how I let women percieve me.

One of my realisations over the years is that I actually have a lot of respect for women, so much so that I feel I can relate to them far more easily than I can with men. After the last few days I am starting to think I do not understand them at all, which leaves me as a ‘Stranger in a strange land’. I do not understand women, and I do not understand men. But perhaps I understand them all too well, and perhaps this frightens me even more, who knows.

Do my sunglasses, my jewellry, even my recent bandana show the world the real me or do I use them to hide the real me behind a false veniere.

So where will my dark thoughts take me next. I am pondering if perhaps a period of light hearted hollow banter with this world is what I need now, to stay behind this mask until such time as I feel safe to come out. I refuse to let anyone hurt me again, I cannot allow that to happen.

So I sit here on my park bench, my last tear falling into the pond that I have created over the years from all my tears. the ripples spreading out disturbing the faces of all those women and girls who, over the years of my life, I have loved in some way. I sit here waiting, wondering, who, if anyone will ever sit next to me again, and see more than themselves in my sunglasses. Who will sit and share a sandwich and watch the pond burst into life.

So this is me bare to the world for a few minutes, I will soon run back into my shell and become what I feel everyone thinks I am.

So today I did not like Monday

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sad cafe

Wot a powerful song

Gareth Roberts – My evil twin

Here is a link on wikipedia all about Gareth Roberts

P.S. I look like him and we are both born in 1968, so even more evidence that we are twins, now to find his email address

Sunset over Swansea

I took these two photos on Thursday night after dropping my friend (Jan) off from work.

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