There’s been a bit of tiding going on in the background here, as I’m going to start blogging again… waits expectantly for cheers of joy.
What – I can hear you ask – has brought this on? Well if you’re sitting comfortably, I’ll begin…

Over the last few weeks, or even months I’ve had a bit of a restless feeling. Itchy feet perhaps? I don’t know.
For about four and a half years before that I moved to Guildford I’d been at university. I was changing houses every year, living in Cambridge over the summers, at my parents for other holidays, moving myself and my stuff at least three or four times a year. I was yearning for stability, a period of stillness, just to get myself feeling centred again.
Now I’ve been in the same house for about four years, and the same job for going on three years. It’s been pretty damn stable I can tell you that! Trouble is it’s starting to get a bit boring. Also I’m getting to an age where living in a rented house with students doesn’t quite feel right.
So what should I do with myself? My first thought was to look around for a new job, but with no location restrains. My thoughts evolved from that idea a bit like this:
I’m bored of Guildford I should go somewhere else…
I could get a job anywhere in the UK…
Actually I could get a job anywhere…
Well hold on why don’t I go travelling for a bit, and then get a job somewhere

And low, a plan was born.

I have decided to take a ‘career break’ and go travelling!

Finding time to practice my guitar is something I find very easy to do. I easily have a minimum of half an hour of free time when I sit down and practice the latest pieces I’m trying to learn.

Ok, now I’m interested to see if this has any effect on my behaviour, because I know that it’s an experiment in social engineering. Only time will tell! I will report back.

Now I’m off to do a bit of practice.

At least that seems to be the flavour of comments I got from a lot of people. Personally I had a great bank-holiday weekend with the bad weather only getting in the way once. So, I’ll tell you about my fantastic time:

Stage one, I left work at 2:30 to go to Canterbury. Visiting Laura. This was very drunken but very good (to put it briefly).
Stage two, Left Canterbury (on Saturday) to go to Brighton to see the Breakin’ Convention. This was awesome, and I don’t use that word lightly. I found myself literally transfixed by dance. Which is even more special for me as it’s something that I rarely get to see. The only frustrating thing about the experience is that I can’t find a way of getting across to other people that weren’t there how mind-numbingly good it was. Got back home pretty damn late (well midnight-ish) and slept.
Woke up at 11 (unusual) and the weather was rubbish. However this did not get in the way of my plans to spend the whole day inside being lazy – which I accomplished with flying colours (or perhaps lying colours :). I did get a lot of reading done though, which is always good.

The only downside of Monday was having to go food shopping. Although I could have driven I still decided to walk there in the rain.
Chilled out for a bit, then decided it was a bit too chilled and put the heating on. Housemates got back from some rather disappointing outdoor gigs, and we all went to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

The End.

Yes I’m learning tho touch tytpe. As you may be able to tell, I’ve jnt quite mastered it yet./ I was inspired whatn I saw an executie typw on the train doing some work. Very very slow one fingered typing from him. It occured to me that if he learned to type, tehn perhaps he woulsn’t have to work on the train. So I’ve started to learn myslef.

Evne thoiugh it took me much longer than usu;al to type of this semi-jibberish, I shall persevere,

So last week, on Thursday I went to visit my Granddad. This may not sound like anything special, but it’s something that hasn’t really happened in the past. I think there were only one or two occations when I’d visit without there being some kind of family event. So this was just me and my Granddad, one-on-one so to speak.

I’ll tell you what, I had a great time! It was really nice, not just from the point of view of having a good old chinwag. But also seeing him light up as he told me about his college days and some of his experiences during the war. It is something that I hope to make a weekly thing. So that I have to good memories of him (he’s 90, unfortunately you have to be realistic). This was one of the things that I felt was missing, to an extent, with my Grandma, at her funeral I had a hard time thinking of her when she was happy and before she went into a home and all that kind of unfavorable. So I’m not going to make the same mistake twice!

Yesterday, as I was winding down to go to bed, I realised that I couldn’t find my keys. After a quick ‘bloke look’ (check all visible surfaces without moving anything) I still coud not find them. Being not overly worried and quite tired, I gave up and went to bed.
The next morning, this morning, I remembered the lack of keys. I was kind of hoping that someone would be in when I got back home so I carried on as normal. Then, just as I was about to leave I remembered. On the previous day (yesterday) I’d used my penknife scissors to trim my nails, then thrown it, with the attached keys in the general direction of jeans pocket. I’d missed.
Running back upstairs I searched through the pile of clothes where my jeans had been. Sure enough I found my keys. Marveling at the brain and it’s ability to solve problems over time, I left for work.

As you may have noticed, there hasn’t been much blogging here for a while. Don’t be down dear reader, I once read that in the modern age there are two lives, an online one and an offline one. You cannot live both to the full. Simply put, you can read between the lines (ish) and believe that if I’m not online much to post (or any other online type activity) it means I’m doing RL – Real Life ™ – type stuff.

One “Weekend” (quotes as it was actually Sunday to Wednesday) in Cambridge and my good record so far is obliterated. This will be the last because I’ve lost count of which day I’m actually on (and also I go on holiday tomorrow and I’m hoping I can get by without spending anything for one day).

Day – the rest
Cambridge birthday celebrations – £306.33
– Cash withdrawals £130
– Cocktail round £10.65
– Lunch £25.00
– Birthday present £34.90
– Petrol fillup £44.83 (probably the only ‘essential’ one)
– ‘Accidental’ DVD purchase £60.95

Plus other expenditures that have yet to be accounted for:
Art supplies £1.99 (non-essential)
Maltese currency £49.96 (essential)
Cash withdrawal (for various nights out and other things) £30
Stuff for ‘cool’ cocktails (vodka-martini) £3.47
Tesco shopping £36.98 (essential)

Even worse, today I have to take my car to the garage 😦

Total – £1447.00 (£968.96 – 67% essential)

Ouch, I may add on the garage costs this afternoon to increase that percentage a bit.

Day 18 & 19

No money spent on either of these days, woohoo!

Total: £1018.27 (£837.19 essential – 82%)

If you suffer from lens envy then don’t look at this. No seriously, just don’t.