Well, blimey, this has been an interesting n weeks, where n>5.  Did 20-odd hours over the weekend, and haven’t had a two-day weekend as far back as I can remember, which is only 10 hours on account of having a frazzled brain.  Last night I was in t’office trying to fix a test and write [...]

1) Suggested the idea of taking off every Wednesday in June.  Although this June was a funny one, I can see this becoming a regular fixture for me.
2) Pointed out what a great thing it is to pad around your house in the mornings drawing the curtains, and to do the reverse at night.  This [...]

Buddhism tells us that material possessions are only a burden and that happiness is found by renouncing material things. Yeah, right! EVERYbody knows they would rather be miserable on a yacht than in a ditch!
But today I discovered a case for the Buddhists. I’ve been sorting the junk room and I filled [...]

Another resurrected draft, this one from Nov 11 2005.

To appreciate is to increase in value, opposite of depreciate. You don’t tend to think of it in this sense when it appears in phrase like “appreciating art”. But it still applies. The more people appreciate a painting, the greater its value, both monetary [...]

This is what I need to learn right now. When your pride is deflated (I got marked as “unsatisfactory” on “Leadership Strength” despite not actually having anyone to lead), when your work is genuinely futile (completing delivery of a cancelled product), and when you’ve just been given your year’s personal measureable objectives 10 months [...]

Question #1
I decided to call myself sweavo after the lead character in “sweevo’s world” because I couldn’t get steve, stevec, steve.c, steve-o, steveo, or a billion other variants on yahoo or something. But I spelled it wrong.
The name sweavo is NOT pronounced sway-voe
Question #2
I constantly anticipate the imminent collapse of society: this is true, [...]

So that’s it then. Looks like in the World vs. Rachael, I’ve chosen Rachael. Would be nice if the World got used to the idea but there we go. This is where you find out who your true friends are I guess.

This morning I had a disappointment when I looked in the mirror. Even more so than usual. You see, it turns out that I dreamed that I shaved, so was somewhat surprised at my hirsutitude*. Considering anything at all can happen in your dreams, I can’t help think that I’m wasting valuable [...]

I almost completely failed to capitalise on my day off yesterday, though a 2.5 hour lunch with Kate, Suzanne and Stephen is a luxury not available on workdays. I failed to:

do any groceries
finish all the laundry
iron any shirts
buy blank CDs
do any paperwork
wash up
plan salsa lesson for today
contact Kim and practise lesson plan
pack just about [...]

Hmm, going to the Brit Salsa Fest with a group of 10 people who I’ve known for years. I feel like a fish out of water. I’m used to the juggling convention way of doing these things, it goes like this:

work out where convention is
a few days before ask who has a bit [...]