http://thetallone.blogsome.com Musings from 6'5.5" Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have suddenly discovered that I am really missing having friends nearby. While it has been great fun going into London to visit people over the last couple of months, it isn’t quite the same thing as spending a greater portion of you evening in the compnay of your peers ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/07/22/to-absent-friends/ Do you ever have those days where it seems the entire world is trying to get a message across. This wasn’t one of those days. However I opened the paper at random and lo and behold there was my horoscope for the day: “Someone’s pushing all your buttons at the moment - the ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/07/10/message-in-a-bottle/ Stolen reading thing: The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicise those you intend to read.3) Underline the books you LOVE, or strikeout the books you ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/because-work-is-that-slow-today/ My mood has taken a crash again. Is odd that, despite having had a good week away, the second I returned from camping it felt like I had never been away and that the week had happened to a different me in a dream or distant memory. I slept disastrously last ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/unhappy/ But I’m knackered atm so it will have to wait until at least tomorrow… http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/06/28/iou-one-large-post/ Well I’m sitting here at qurster to nine, feeling completely shattered and unhappy. The most perverse thing is that the reason I am feeling that way? Nothing. Complete nothing. I need to find something to fill the gaps. I’m operating mostly on autopilot at the moment. Eat-work-eat-bed, I know that I need ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/06/14/my-own-worst-company/ Dear Blog It’s been a while since I last communicated with you. It’s nothing personal, I just haven’t felt like writing much recently. Life is okay. Nothing much happening in general. Some recent highlights which I shall post about when I have the energy. I’m still here though and I should hopefully have ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/06/06/i-aint-dead/ Questions should be simple ways of gaining information. They should have a “right” and “wrong” answer. In truth questions represent a “possibility matrix”. By asking the wrong question or in the wrong way we actually communicate a lot more information than we gain. If we have an unknown we first have to ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/05/01/on-questions/ I am well again * I have appeared to have stabilised my vasculitis so that it no longer hurts. This is a good thing. I shall update more when I return from Manc. *I have yet to stop taking the steroids so this may be only a short-term respite… http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/05/01/health-win/ Since coming back home to Kent I have been afflicted with a bout of ill health. To start with I just thought it was a quick case of vasculitis as I slowed down and let the stress off. Not so… The first treatment of steroids had the desired effect and knocked the vasculitis ... http://thetallone.blogsome.com/2008/04/07/the-lurgy/