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There. I said it. I want to be a writer. It's not new information. The fact that I spend time every month trying to come up with two new blogs should have been a clue. But as much as I enjoy writing these little pieces for you (and only for you), dear reader, I'm not doing the kind of writing I want to do. In… Read more »
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It doesn't feel like I've had a holiday. It's been two weeks since I returned to work, so it's probably normal to feel that way now. But I didn't feel like I'd had a holiday by the end of it either. The office shut down for the last week of December and I had ten whole days to do as I pleased before I had to… Read more »
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I keep experiencing missing time. I’m certain that I’m not being abducted by aliens. I never leave the place I was in at the time. And thankfully there is no evidence of any… erm… probing. I don’t suffer from any memory loss or blackouts. Time just seems to disappear far quicker than it should. I’d love to of… Read more »
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For months, the clock in the bus shelter near my house has had a habit of dropping several minutes a day. It’s worrying when the buses are more punctual than the clocks. The shelter itself was ‘upgraded’ last year. It now has a digital display at one end. It shows the times for the next few buses that are due… Read more »
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I seem to spend a significant proportion of my waking life sitting in front of a computer. Five days a week I'll spend a little over seven hours in front of the computer I use at work—a machine I've come to call Deep Thought, after the computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, because it takes so long… Read more »
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My friend suggested earlier the idea of a bus paradox: that being that you will never arrive at the time you want to arrive at if you take the bus. It's a theory we were discussing after a frankly bizarre set of coincidences in my own journeys to work in the morning in the last few weeks. Having worked at th… Read more »
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I like my electric toothbrush. When it's freshly charged, it's actually really good at what it's supposed to do. The small round oscillating head is infinitely better than any standard toothbrush and much more effective at cleaning teeth. Admittedly, by mid-week it’s starting to wane a little and the motor in… Read more »