My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

How do I get rid of the smell of fish once it's soaked into a plastic dish?

I'm getting old. I actually like Ben Harper's new album - and bought it - I never thought i'd see the day. My mp3 ripper is so old that it actually rips the new un-rippable CD's because it came out before the anti-copy protection software did that was aimed at stopping the new software from ripping. I have lived through Metallica being a thrash band, a speed metal band, a heavy metal band, and a folk band.

Archibald Winner - i say to hell with all the nay sayers - it works for me!

Overcoming the flu is terrible. I went to my first gym session tonight after being off sick and I feel exhausted. I just hope I don't come down with something again. Working in a large office is tough on the immune system with everyone spreading everything around...What communicable disease is next?

Without the voice over at the opening ceremony at the commonwealth games how exactly is one meant to understand what in the hell is happening? Are drugs needed to understand it?

The doctor's advice when he told me I had the flu went along the lines of:

Dr: "remember when you were young and your mother used to give you lemon, honey, and hot tea? Umm...let me re-phrase that...remember when you were young and your mother told you stories about how when she was sick that her mother would give her lemon, honey, and hot tea? Well - that's what I want you to do. If you want to - get some flu-strength lemsip from the pharmicist. Also make sure you drink some nips of brandy every few hours."

Dr: "When I let you go - rest, take the rest of the week off, stay away from children, mothers of young children, and old people" *extends hand to shake mine*
Dr: "g'luck with it all son."

Me: "I've not been in contact with children or old people until I came here - and you had me waiting for over 3 hrs it's too late now"
Dr: "Just make sure you don't infect any more people - they're already sick - that's why they're here!" *sly smile on his face*

Lists! Lists! Lists!

I list everything: my work schedule gets listed each morning; my week gets listed each Monday; and my home life gets listed each weekend. I list everything. I am completely lost without a list.

Do these lists actually help me out in achieving my goals? Sometimes. I mean - they help me to feel like I have achieved something, but at the same time they also give me something to avoid doing. For instance, you can't very well avoid doing the washing up if you don't remember you need to do the washing up to begin with because you've not listed it now can you?

What else do these lists help with? Taking up useless time while procrastinating and not actually doing anything. While there listing and re-listing then prioritising and re-prioritising then coming up with deadlines, which may or may not be, entirely arbitrary, I may well run out of time to actually action anything at all!

I had no list this weekend and I cannot for the life of me tell you anything I have actually done. I've wandered aimlessly along: sleeping; calculating bridge load limits; often forgetting to eat and in almost complete hibernation - I need my list.