Had pretty good day yesterday. Fixed stuff that broke - I'm considering myself quite a fixer of late. Well, I'm also a broker, I fix the things I broke the day before...

Today is Friday's eve. What a great day!

Had a very strange thought in the bath last night, literally as I sat there. What happens if you're a cyclist and you're drunk, then does drink driving laws apply to you. Having thought that perhaps I'd uncovered the biggest loophole in transportation, my bath ended rather abruptly and a quick google search later, found that it's illegal to cycle drunk - aw. Quite disappointed.

Yet I had an otherwise pretty normal evening.

Actually that reminds me. I had two dreams last night. One was something to do with pulling out an electronic computer board out of the running machine...that's all I got on that one, I'm afraid - Just so you know, that went fine.
The other was along the lines of jumping out like a super hero and hugging a passer-by. That's all I got on that one too! Apart from those two dreams I slept OK(I suppose I was too busy hugging people and pulling stuff out of running computers!).

Yesterday at work I created a paper plane museum which included two designs by me, two other by two other guys at work and a third prototype which was a collaborative effort between me and another plane designer. The museum levels are individual blinds on the window near my desk. Each design/plane was inducted into the museum after each took a solo flight that lasted at least 'a few desks' and 'glided good'. See attached picture.
We should grow up. I see myself as a 85 year old man, sitting in my wheelchair, adjusting the bolts, seeing I I can get it to go faster, that or making a music instrument with just my plastic fork and salt shaker!

Well it work now, heading into the station and will need to get out soon. I just saw the fat version of me getting of the train - how scary!

Weird. Today's feel so much like Friday. Dunno what it is. I Wont lie to you - knowing it isn't but still feeling that it is Friday is pretty cool.

Went for a good session at the gym last, been finding the kettle-bells weights are a great way to workout, real good all body workout. Was thinking yesterday, while running to gym, I must run a combined distance of about 10-14km each week which is better than most as I run 2.5km to the gym and hit the gym about 4 days in 7. That combined with the workout ls really a positive and healthy routine. Now if I could just want to eat properly.

Watched the midland riots(Manchester/Birmingham) last night from the comfort of my flat and can't help but think how sad it is, how it might affect the worlds outlook on the Olympics. I think the message is clear that the rioters are a vast minority of youths, disgruntled adolescents who I feel have real issues with authority, social responsibility and who quite literally don't know right from wrong.

What strikes me as odd, is how conservative the police seem to be. They are really under pressure by the community for not initially handling the situation adequately. In ways I find this such an unfair situation for the police: They try to help the community while community whine and complain. That said, if I'm accurate, which I may not be, the police could do more if they were not so afraid of the restrictions and limitations of their actions(which the rioters take full advantage of) they'd be more of a threat to such criminals.

About the Olympics, I think from I can gather without doing too much work that tickets to the Olympics are pretty hard to come by. Don't know if that's true but on the upside, the cycling/triathlon is a free event and no tickets are required! Yeah. I'll be there.

anyway. Watched a comedy last night staring Richard Prior and I must say without watching a lot of his comedy sketches, it's clear he's a funny mofo. Almost in the same way just looking at Rowan Atkinson or Jim Carey by way if their expressions is funny - Richard Prior was hilarious. Todo: YouTube Richard Prior.

Some dude just spiltt his coffee all over the tube floor - was a bit of gymnastics as it was discovered. Doh! kinda Fun! Amazing how much you can't do anything about the aftermath of a coffee spillage in the tube really other than, well just continue - though that said, there is more space in that region....hmmm when space gets type I might 'accidentally' drop my coffee.

Another tube related thought. Why do we only sniff while in the tube when we've not been Ill, sniffing or otherwise? who knows

Well let's see how this pseudo Friday gets going. It's actually Wednesday(my favourite day of the week anyway!)

It's amazing how much a little reflection and consideration can do for you when dealing with tricky situations, especially where people are frustrated, act impulsively and rather more liberal than perhaps they would be otherwise.

Today I had a rather interesting conversation about blatant problems I had introduced into our development process. It's a great insight to be aware of ones reaction : the immediate sensation, the almost instinctive response, the imediate reasoning and logic one evaluates and mechanisms and strategies used to deal with such things.

I tend to be highly emotionally responsive - often feeling the impact of a situation more than say evaluating the conditions of the situation. I know this and I like to think of it as a disadvantage and an advantage at times. I'm quite open to embracing how my instincts interpret a situation as I do know the need overriding such instincts with reason over above perhaps obtuse emotional reactions.

That said, I find that the more I suppress my instinctive reaction the more balanced I feel and generally more balanced and evaluated my reactions are.

I don't tend to ignore information that's I receive, things that at times are unreasonable, things that shouldn't be taken to heart, I assign emotional importance to.

Today I had to learn to ignore things like this. Learn to be 'thicker skinned' and after consciously not assigning an emotional significance to such things, I realised I was not as 'live' I'd normally become. I've always felt that everything that people say, they've thought about and nothing that they say is a mistake or is less important than the other stuff they say. Truth of the matter is, and im figuring this out, is some of it is, in fact most of it can be. The key is not to impulsively respond in the same way that people react when they speak. Because it's basically two ways of short term reflection of the issues at hand without much opportunity to evaluate the significance and impact of ones response.

People don't mean completely, accurately or utterly what they say at times. I've learnt this today. But I feel they should.

So today has been an exercise in composure, evaluation and delivery.

Its been a lesson in humility also, but another observation is that my persona encourages the perception that my quietness is a weakness. It's more misconceptuon I think because it's more a skill. It's an unusual problem to have I think but then again that's what I might want to believe...

Anyway, I think a good dinner is in order...not like my lunch(pictured)