According to a news item I heard on the old fashioned radio-wireless this morning, today is the grumpiest day of the year. I also read that New Year resolutions are actually pretty bad for your mental health, so I hope you haven’t made any. New Year, New You? Bollocks. Same you as last year. Same you as next year and the year after that. As my Mum wisely said to the teenage me that was leaving home because of an argument about bananas, “wherever you go you take yourself with you”.
Thanks Mum.
So, in between shouty nightmares last night, I was thinking about returning to work for another year. Last year was really hard. There were some really bad times and some really good ones. This year, at the risk of damaging my mental health, I’m going to try and make things / projects / the office / processes / systems / etc a little bit better every day. If I absolutely have to take myself with me wherever I go, it has to be a me I can live with.
According to a news item I heard on the old fashioned radio-wireless this morning, today is the grumpiest day of the year. I also read that New Year resolutions are actually pretty bad for your mental health, so I hope you haven’t made any. New Year, New You? Bollocks. Same you as last year. Same you as next year and the year after that. As my Mum wisely said to the teenage me that was leaving home because of an argument about bananas, “wherever you go you take yourself with you”.
Thanks Mum.
So, in between shouty nightmares last night, I was thinking about returning to work for another year. Last year was really hard. There were some really bad times and some really good ones. This year, at the risk of damaging my mental health, I’m going to try and make things / projects / the office / processes / systems / etc a little bit better every day. If I absolutely have to take myself with me wherever I go, it has to be a me I can live with.
According to a news item I heard on the old fashioned radio-wireless this morning, today is the grumpiest day of the year. I also read that New Year resolutions are actually pretty bad for your mental health, so I hope you haven’t made any. New Year, New You? Bollocks. Same you as last year. Same you as next year and the year after that. As my Mum wisely said to the teenage me that was leaving home because of an argument about bananas, “wherever you go you take yourself with you”.
Thanks Mum.
So, in between shouty nightmares last night, I was thinking about returning to work for another year. Last year was really hard. There were some really bad times and some really good ones. This year, at the risk of damaging my mental health, I’m going to try and make things / projects / the office / processes / systems / etc a little bit better every day. If I absolutely have to take myself with me wherever I go, it has to be a me I can live with.
The picture above, btw, is a squirrel eating some fried chicken in front of my house. Mr Cavill always said that “wherever you go in London you can turn 360 degrees and see a chicken bone”. Now I know where they come from.
I went to the London iPhone Tech Talk on Friday. The Apple guys asked us not to blog about it. I don’t really understand why. You can get at most of what was covered by signing up as an iPhone Developer. Still, they asked nicely, so I won’t.
Ah, November. Misty, dark too early, the wrong kind of Autumn on the railways, something going on in America, burning effigies in the park and trying to shoot down crows with rockets. Mmmm.
Also, business as usual in the land of client-agency relationships. This diagram nicely sums things up. From Giles Bowkett via Jason Froggett.
For the last 3 months Cathy and I have been doing a really poor job of keeping it a secret that she’s pregnant. Now that the 12 week scan says all’s well, we’re pleased to introduce you to Agent Algernon. Well, it was a good code name until we found out that he’s a girl. Clever boy ;) So, “Algernonia Fishfood Eleven Dearson”, say hello to the Internet.
