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Karate Lesson 1: The High Kick

This week has been a rather stressful one so far.  Therefore, I went for a drive.  I found it extremely calming.
This is my current car, it’s a Ford Puma 1.7 lux with OZ 17″ alloys, modded exhaust, suspension, ecu chip and sound system. It’s the best handling car I’ve owned (including the Focus ST170), absolutely loads of grip and loads of fun.

It’s not perfect though - there’s an extremely odd noise emminating from the suspension (?), there’s an occasional leak of something I believe to be air-conditioning liquid, and I rather wish it had leather seats.  And it didn’t eat tyres quite so often.  Even so, it’s a great car.

This post has been a tribute to the A14. It’s the Midlands’ answer to that long road in America that goes through all the desert.  Route 66.

Never leave work early saying you’re going to be working late at home, get home, take a two hour break followed by a half-hour dinner followed by more than a single glass of wine.

This is guaranteed to result in the following

• Watching something with John Cleese in it off the telly.
• Getting to Eleventy O’clock and thinking ‘fuck it’, I’ll do it all tomorrow.
• Going to sleep in your clothes.
• Leaving MSN on all night, leading more than one person to attempt to start a conversation with someone that isn’t there.
• Waking up the following day wondering what day it is, where you are, and who left all the windows open, with a minor headache.

Cats are meant to have an inbuilt sense of finding the warmest, most comfortable places in any house. So why has Clyde taken to sleeping in the bathroom this week?

I’ve slept in the bathroom before, and let me tell you, it is not the most warm, comfortable place in the house.

Today I got to work on a Map! “That’s a bit dull”, I hear you say, and you’d be right, if only I didn’t have a major thing about maps!

Maps are cool, they’re logical and illogical at the same time, and that’s a very special thing. They’re design in its purest sense, a way of providing information in visual form.

Working on the map today, using colour to denote different road types, well, it made a bad day into an acceptable day, and it means that the people coming to meet us on Friday will arrive relaxed and on time, which I think is the mark of a good map and a job well done.

Map-based links

Google Maps (the awesome Google does it again)
Live Maps (Microsoft fight back with multiple viewpoints, more fun)

This morning I woke up feeling very ill, so I’m at home instead of at work.

I was told to blog this.