Mentalechoes

After another 48 hours of having to watch a shopping channel at work, of which 24 hours was a marathon promotion of Technibond jewelery, I’ve come to realise something; you can call junk any name you like, but at the end of the day, it’s still bloody junk! No matter how much you try to [...]

So I woke up this morning and it was a bright and beautiful day, albeit the threat of rain later in the day was hanging over our heads, but I wasn’t going to let that stop me enjoy the warm weather that was just outside my window. Firstly though, as has been the routine for [...]

People are funny; but doubly so when they are on a chat forum typing away in the complete safety of a physical location far far away from the virtual place you exist for that moment in. Face to face people are mostly polite, respectful of others feelings and conform to - some kind of - [...]

For those readers who live in the US, they will be familiar with a television channel called “HSN”, or “Home Shopping Network”. For the last two weeks at work I’ve had near lethal doses of viewing because we’re trialling a broadcast of the channel on our IPTV service. On any given day I’ve been passively [...]

There was a computer game that I came across when I was 16 years old on the C64 called Crystal Hammer. It was this really cool game that looked like it was from the same family as Tetris, and if you don’t know what Tetris is, then you really weren’t into videogames at all, in [...]

My boss said to me yesterday, don’t get involved with that work activity, I need you to stay on these other things, and you are way too easily distracted.
At the time I took some offense at that. But now I’m starting to think she might be right. My head is much like a whirlpool; things [...]

I realised today that my life is one big living irony.
* I want to lose weight and see my abs; I exercise, and yet eat chocolate and packet chips every day in eyebrow raising quantities.
* I love my job, but every morning when the alarm goes off I try to find excuses not to go.
* [...]

Today I found myself in Ikea again. My friend kindly offered to drive me there when I complained for the umpteenth time about not having a desk lamp that worked; not having a sharp bread knife; not having a sharp vegetable knife; and not having any more Ikea soap (the stuff that smells nice and [...]