Sticky Thoughts and Roman Tragedies

Sometimes I get a thought and it sticks in my head and won't go away untill I've written it down in the blog. We were discussing paper sizes and I got to thinking about Caesar and his famous discussion about the dimensions of the posters they wanted to put around the colloseum, and how all that went horribly wrong when Caesar turned to his most trusted friend and said "A2 Brutus?".

Clog Buyers of the World Unite

Went round to see dad today. He is making his first forays into e-commerce, what with a new broadband connection and his first ebay auction lot.

Go on. You know you want them....

Skating on Thin Ice

For some reason we have ended up watching chunks of "Dancing on Ice", an ITV "light entertainment" progamme where "celebs" (shudder) are teamed up with hapless ice dancing professionals who then try to give them 20 years of experience of the craft into a few days, and then go out onto the cruel, hard, cold surface to be thrown about whilst razor sharp skates whizz past inches from their heads.

Like I said, light entertainment. Tonight David Seaman, a goalkeeper with some 25 years experience in professional football, was throwing his second partner up into the air with not entirely successful results.

This worries me. I'm sure that everyone is very professional and safety is taken pretty seriously. But where will it end? We will have celebs doing even more dangerous things with even less training? How about nuclear reactor dismantling? Or "pro-celeb traffic cone placement"? Or base jumping, where Danny from HearSay is given a parachute and a map of London landmarks and sent off with a film crew to persuade the public to vote for him.

Madness I tell you.

..and you pet iguana has been pining for you

Number one daughter is here to see us for the weekend. We picked her up from the station. I had this plan where we'd take her back to a completely different house in a totally different part of town and say things like "It's great to have you back. Your pet iguana has been pining for you."

Unfortunately we didn't get around to this. And we don't know anyone with an iguana who'd let us borrow their house.

But it is nice to see her.

Healthy Thinking and Wise Words

I had the makings of a horrible cold yesterday. I could feel the germs taking residence around various bits of my anatomy and digging in for the long haul.

Then today I feel fine. Very strange. I did have strong word yeserday with my body about how I couldn't afford to be ill just right now and so it must repel all borders, but I wasn't sure it would do any good. It seems to have worked though. Perhaps there is something in this mind over matter business after all.

Previously my experience with Mind over Matter has been restricted to an exchange with my father many years ago when I was going on to him at length about some horrible misfortune that I thought I had just suffered. "You see", he said, with the voice of one about to impart great wisdom (which I later learned was a warning sign) "It is all a question of 'Mind over Matter'".

"Why is that?" I asked, distracted from my moaning for a minute

"Well, I don't mind so it doesn't matter" he responded, and then retreated back behind his newspaper.

Thanks dad.