Fragile, handle with care

How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?

As I reach my half century, I can say I’ve seen and experienced a lot life had to offer, watching new life arrive into the world, and watched people leave this world. Ive even had a few NDE’s (near death experiences) myself. I’ve seen and experienced things, most people fortunately will never do. All these things have given me a perspective on life, that it’s fragile, and despite what we all think, when your times up, it’s up. No amount of bargaining, or anger etc will change it.

Despite all these events, and their consequences. its helped me to find peace within myself through a mixture of Wicca & Buddhist practices.

Round Tuit

Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.

There’s lots of things on my to do list, that don’t get done…

What I need is something my grandma had for situations like this. You need a Tuit, but more importantly a round one. Like this

A round Tuit

That way there’s never the same old excuse of, I’ll do it when when I get a round tuit.

Rubber keys

Write about your first computer.

My first computer was purchased in 1982 for the princely sum of £175, which was a lot of money back then but it was so worth it…

The ZX Spectrum 48K was the home computer that made the future feel like it had suddenly arrived in your living room. It packed colour graphics, crisp sound, and a full 48 kilobytes of RAM into a machine small enough to fit on a desk. Its rubber‑keyed charm hid a surprisingly capable system that opened the door to programming, gaming, and creativity for an entire generation. I had loads of coding books and remember coding for hours to play things like pong. While it pails in comparison to my current complete (Razer) it was the spark that started my love and curiosity of gaming.

I still have my Spectrum and all the books and tapes, (yes games were on tapes back in the day) stored safely in my office, as a reminder of happier carefree days.

Shoot at the moon.

This evening I was trying various settings on my big boy camera (dslr) and I got this gem.

Totnes

I was stoked as I love lunar photography. It doesn’t get better than that. Right?

Dark poets award

The universe says hold my beer.

800 visitors this month from all over the globe. Thank you, it’s much appreciated.

Im going to celebrate this weekend by dusting off my D20 and reading a childhood classic, choose your own adventure. “Caverns Of the Snow Witch”

Have a cracking weekend, stay safe.

Grinds my gears

What do you complain about the most?

Do you know what grinds my gears?

Stupid and inconsiderate drivers I’m talking about the school Mum that parks across a road so that she can drop Tarquin off or the Mum that just goes round the roundabout indicates to come off the island when in fact she’s indicating to pull over abruptly to let Little Theodore out of the car,

I’m talking about the people that park on roundabouts blocking the exit so that we can’t get off the roundabout our selves, then there’s the driver that doesn’t know the speed limit or doesn’t drive it i.e. doing 30 in a 60 mile an hour zone then when it comes down to 30 mile an hour speed limit they accelerate to 40 miles an hour or just slow driving generally.

As you can see these are just a few of the drivers I encounter on my daily commute from Home to my office. It’s worse in tourist season that I live in a town where we get a lot of tourists and the roads then get even worse to the point that I don’t go out during summer apart from to work unless I absolutely have to because the traffic is so bad there’s no parking it’s a nightmare.

So poor Mrs Bob gets to hear firsthand about all of this as I come through the door from Work so unfortunately bad traffic bad driving is that is the thing I complain about the most I guess.

Down by way of the K

What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

I’ll answer these two questions separately…

My favourite sport to watch is baseball, I’ve been a San Diego Padres fan for probably thirty years, it’s a fantastic sport to watch and while I do jump out of my seat and yell at the occasional bad call etc, I find it very relaxing to watch. The only occasion it could get tense, is when Mrs Bob’s team, the Colorado Rockies play the Padres. Then all bets are off and one of us gets bragging rights.

My favourite sport to play is archery, while some of you might say it’s not a sport, I respectfully disagree. I can’t play many sports due my health issues, archery which is an Olympic sport is one i can, and I’m actually very good at apparently.