What a cracking good weekend that was!

Despite 100% gilt edged, triple grade 'arse' rated weather on Saturday, the weekend has panned out nicely.

Okay, though it may seem trifling and mundane, the main aim of Saturday was to secure a less tenuous grasp on sanity by getting caught up on important real-life matters. It is less important what they were, they are just those things that need doing and it is good that they are done if not necessarily good to do them.

Some work things are caught up on or nicely teed up for a sweet Monday morning work slam dunk. The sweetest Mondays start with that satisfying 'clunk' of a deliverable being engaged with the trustworthy movement of expertly designed engineering. Some products feel like Victorian signal box mechanisms - chunky and course grained where others feel more like mountain bike 21 speed indexed gear sets - more precise and delicate but nonetheless effective and valuable.

The big feature of the weekend was the opportunity to get out. To leave the house and be in the big wide world of my locale for a couple of hours. When I was marathon training every week, I had the chance to clear my head with 2 or 3 hours of solitary long run. This was fine. Good. Healthy. It was also very hard and quite lonely sometimes. Today, I went mountain biking with @mrsfastbloke. Having spent so much time solitary marathon training, it's a different prospect to engage in a 'do something physical and fun on the weekend' with someone. Rather than having to plan a selfishly large chunk of of the ever-limited weekend 'play time' JUST FOR ME I get to democratise leisure time which is much more palatable AND fun!

So, where are we going with this? I need to plan my fun time as I plan my work. Precisely, efficiently and with a serious goal in mind - less ad-hoc in other words.
I haven't nailed many BIG life goals for a while. I mean serious, chunky, make-a-difference-and-have-something-to-talk-about-for-years type goals.

I will be using this blog for more planning and description of my *serious* goals I want to achieve in the near future. Why? I need to make things happen.

Time to do some big things.


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Watch out...poor grammar may cause time travel...

Think of the most incredible reason you have ever given or heard for leaving a job and triple it. Triple it again. Nope. Not even close! How about this example from a credible source found recently:

"I am leaving as I am going to live and work in Birmingham in the near future."

I love it. Not the past. Not the sci-fi ray guns and space ships future but the 'near future'. How near?

"I'm-spending-the-rest-of-my-life-ten-minutes-ahead-of-the-rest-of-you" near?

Bookmakers would be miffed for sure. I'd happily play with the stock markets given a ten minute head start on the rest of the world.

Such gentle, modest, whimsical, ambition is possible because of ignorance. Ace.

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iPad blog post

Right, this blog IS going to get more love now I have an iPad blog editor.

Just finished my first AGM (A Grown up Meeting) with WebExpectations/ ConversionWorks.

What a GREAT company. The folks there just rock!

Doug is happy.


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