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Whoops
I kind of went off the blogging bandwagon there for a week or a week and a half. I’m not entirely sure why because I’m not overly busy and my girlfriend was in Dublin for a few days so I had more time to myself that I normally would and I still kept running out of time to get things done.
I’m not entirely sure why this is happening so I have wracked my brain and come up with only two possible solutions. Either I have a bad habit of procrastination or that I am continually a target for alien abductions.
On to possibly the real reason why I haven’t posted (and actually picking up on a nice segway from the previous paragraph) my time seems to float away aimlessly into the ether whilst I’m revisiting my childhood in the form of retro games. I rediscovered an old favourite of mine, X-Com: UFO Enemy Unknown. This game is pure genius, so much so that I will not even begin to glaze over the topic, were the topic some form of bun. Instead, I will bake a blog post dedicated to this wonderful creation in it’s entirety. Apologies for the bun analogy, but I am hungry.
So, in essence this is yet another post claiming that I’m still here and you oughta keep reading. To whet your little bloggy appetites, I have the following topics in mind for blog posts in the near future:
- X-Com: UFO Enemy Unknown
- The Unsolved Zodiac Murders
- The Hilarious Dimension-Bending Timetables from Translink, Northern Ireland
- And much much more!
But wait, that’s not all! Not only do you get structured blogs to the tune of the above, you also get randomly generated rants (not actually by some random rant generator, but by my brain. Is there a difference? I don’t know.) but also thoughts and what not that I have had over the last few days/weeks/hours.
Enjoy.
So much to do…so much time!
Aside from my two jobs in life, I’ve always been interested in earning a little extra through the interweb. I already have my Singing Success website that isn’t brining in much ($21). I will, eventually, have my home domain set up, NeillBoyd.com that will detail my brilliance in the vain hope of attracting clients for small scale IT work. However, I have been working on something else for now.
Ever since I worked for Microsoft I’ve always wanted to do something somewhat interested to do with maps. I worked in the MapPoint team and got a bit of a thing for integrating maps into applications. It opens up a whole new range of possibilities (admittedly, most of them have been covered by now) but I still want to add mine to the list.
More will be revealed when I actually have something worth while showing to people.
Basically, this is just a post to say to those 5-10 people who read this blog a day that I am not gone nor forgotten, just busy.
Keep reading though, no doubt something will irk me enough to make a post!
I’m so worried about…
Monty Python aficionados will of course recall the song “I’m So Worried” and only now when I’ve grown to the ripe old age of twenty three does it actually make sense.
We’re supposed to be worried about everything nowadays. There are very few things left in life that we can sit back and enjoy. Pretty much everyday in the news we’re being told that we can’t spend as much money as we used to, the economy is toppling over, jobs are harder to get, pensions are more expensive, we won’t be able to afford houses and so on and so on.
Okay, fair enough. I’ll worry about my wallet. I’ll worry about my income. I’ll worry about my finances. I’ll just have to tighten the belt and get on with things.
But wait. There’s more. Our carbon footprints (I really hate that terminology and the whole concept of ‘carbon footprints’ and more specifically the idea of ‘offsetting’ your carbon footprint by paying money (rant to come at a later stage)). We’re destroying the planet. We have to act now to change things. We have to stop using so much carbon and polluting the atmosphere so our children’s children’s children’s children can enjoy a clean atmosphere. There’s an entirely different discussion about whether climate change is actually a man made issue or a naturally occurring incident but right now that’s irrelevant because I have to worry about destroying the planet.
So I’m worrying about my wallet and the trees. I can’t now resort to buying TESCO Value products or Sainsbury’s ‘Basics’ as they’re probably produced in some factory where six million chickens live in a small urban London apartment. Nor can I buy clothes from Primark as they’re made by Indian children who get paid pennies. Nor can an expensive carbon efficient car (not that I can drive) or else I’m expanding my ‘carbon footprint’ (Which, according to Google is 6.12 tonnes…). So in order to save the world, I have to spend money but I can’t spend money or else I’ll end up with nothing in the bank for my cushy retirement and my children’s upbringing.
On top of this, I have to worry about the Middle East. I have to worry about global conflicts. I have to worry about Zimbabwe. Yes, there are terrible things going on in the world right now. There always has been and there always will be but there’s just absolutely nothing that I can do about it right now. Sure, I can donate to charity. I can put a quid in a collection box. But that quid could help offset my 6.12 tonnes of carbon each year.
What exactly is there left to enjoy? In keeping face with the Monty Python song, we do have to be worried about the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow.
