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Well I’ve been blogging for long enough for the novelty to have started to wear off, don’t worry though it doesn’t mean that I’ll be stopping or anything. It just means that I’ll be trying to be a bit more selective about what I blog about.
I do have several good ideas for ‘mini’ articles but they will involve varying amounts of net research and my enthusiasm for random net research can fluctuate wildly, and will sometimes involve things that I have no intention of blogging about (music theory for example).
I think I will try and blog slightly more about what I am thinking rather than what I’m doing, as I think that what I am doing is fairly normal and therefore not all that interesting.
Opinions and thoughts on the other hand can be far more interesting or controversial ! 🙂

I am also hoping that getting back into the habit of going to the gym will increase my brain power, or make it more positive. I will definately go a join tonight…yeah.
On a completely separate subject I read this about American culture (its kinda satire I think) and I realised how little difference there is between the British and the Americans (more commonly know as ‘us and them’ :P).

Think I’ll watch spiderman 2 this evening so expect some kinda comment on that later…. perhaps even an opinion !! :O

This post will be two smaller posts joined together, value for money that ;).
Firstly, I think I’m gonna take a leaf from Matilda’s blog in that I’ll be refering to friends by nicknames (those that want it anyway). So if you have a good nickname for yourself then email me (if you don’t have my address you don’t know me well enough for a nickname). Ravishing red head is already taken, and I’m guessing that Pete will stick with Pete, and Denyerec will stick with either Denyer or Denyerec.

Now onto less important things.
This morning I woke from a really surreal and strange dream, if you’ve ever woken up from a dream and thought that was damn weird, and then immediately forgotten most of it then you’ll know what I mean.
I was getting on quite well with a monkey, could have been a talking money, not sure. I definately saw myself in the third person on more than one occasion, there may well have been a luxury flat involved too.
Reading this I can imagine you thinking that I’m brainsick or mentally unhinged, well you’d be wrong. Its when you dream about walking down to the local shop, buying your favorite snack and then walking back… thats when you have to worry about your mental health because there’s clearly something wrong.