Thursday, 29 September 2011

Finding The Time

Firstly I'd like to get something off my chest and I only wish the Romans could read this. Pretty much everything we measure is metric and by 10s, 100s, 1000s etc. but for some unfathomable reason, time is still in 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour and 24 hours in a day. Why is this? Why does time think it's so special it should be different to everything else? This is even more annoying to me when you can have 10ths, 100ths and 1000ths of a second.Stupid Romans. Thankfully there is such a thing as metric time;

http://www.minkukel.com/en/time/metric_clock.htm

Keep you're eyes peeled, it's gunna be a thing... I hope.

Sorry... I had to mention that, I literally woke up in the middle of the night the other day thinking about it. I am that sad.

Suffice to say that has been a 'regular' reader of my ramblings you will know that somewhat lacking recently and I haven't written anything of worth for some time. I do miss this blog. I miss wondering who you are reading this and the comments I get on Facebook. As much as I do miss this and those feelings of mystery surrounding what you think of my posts, somehow I never seem to find the time anymore.

I'm not going to blame my girlfriend entirely, but I will use her as one of the main reasons for my lack of correspondence.. She would never stop me from writing, in actuality she encourages it, but at the same time when we're spending time together I don't want to be zoning out not paying her any attention whilst I'm tip tapping on my laptop.

The fact of the matter is I've become very content with the laziness in which I spend my spare time.The majority of my past posts were written when I was a lonely singleton and as I'm sure most of you know means I had all the time in the world. Being in a relationship is no excuse really though, I should be making more of an effort.

So besides my girlfriend, what else have I got going on? Well shockingly, it's work. This month I have worked an additional 76 hours (that's 31.6 metric hours). Sometimes it would literally have made more sense to have just slept under my desk rather than go home. I'm not complaining, I will paid fairly handsomely for my deeds but that's still a lot of extra time to be spending at work..

It's not just all of you I've been missing either. I've missed my beloved UFC, the last two to be exact and that is unheard of for me. On top of that I've not been to the gym in I don't know how long and it's beginning to show. I've been told I'm starting to look 'saggy'.

It's not all misery though, I can't complain about everything. I have managed to spend much more time with my sister recently and that's never a bad thing, I have also managed to go to the cinema much more often and I have managed to find the time to take the missus out for meals too.

Anyway, don't you think it's weird when people say "I'll make time"? And now I'm thinking about it, me saying "I'll find the time" is the same thing. How do you make time? Or how do you know where to look to find it? Those are two very odd expressions... Time is constant (metric time as well). How we use it to our advantage is a different matter altogether. Even though time is a constant can be manipulated. I won't go into too much detail (mostly because I don't know that much detail) but if you've ever heard of an atomic clock, they are built to calculate the difference in time with the gravitational pull of the moon relative to it's orbit. You should check that out, it's pretty interesting stuff.

When you're life is hectic or whether it's fairly routine, if you try and add something to your day it becomes very difficult to insert the time taken to do that something into the time you have for the day. As unfortunate as it is, the old adage goes; somethings gotta give. I do want to write more. I like to write my own thoughts but at the same time I like writing to you so I will find out how to either make, or find the time.

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Being Angry. And Stupid...

Believe it or not, I can be quite intense sometimes. My style of debate has been described as aggrissive (I don't agree that but it's what I've been told) so when something annoys me I tend to get a little agitated...

This happened to me quite recently and I started to rant, then I realised how much of an idiot I was being and decided to have a little fun.

This was the result...

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Hello,

You may find this correspondence somewhat amusing but let me stress, I am not happy.

At work today I found myself eating one of your fairly newly marketed toffee dodgers, I'm not a huge fan of biscuits but I am always happy to try something new. I wasn't massively impressed with the taste but thought it was certainly intriguing enough to try another and it was then I spotted that on the 'toffee dodger' there, in the top right section of the biscuit there is JD presumably for Jammy Dodger.

Now I know that you are a fairly large company manufacturing all manner of biscuit filled chocolates goods and completely understand that there is a need to produce as many as possible to ensure the maximum amount of profit and sales per packet sold. That being said, I do not think it is at all excusable that a company of your size should be so lazy as to not change the J to a T on a baking tray to produce actual toffee dodgers rather than corner cutting, almost replicas that you have created. I hope that in your very near future you are planning to adjust this as I'm sure I am not the only person who has noticed this abomination in biscuit creation.

Yours Sincerely,

Josh Bennett

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I know how funny that is - I also know that will have gone right around that company twice because that's exactly what I'd have done and honestly that just makes me laugh even more. Usually I think it's sad to laugh at one's own jokes but I'm making my own exception. Oh yeah, and I did get a reply...

Dear Mr Bennett

Thank you for your recent email regarding the JD imprint on our Toffee Dodgers. We are sorry you were disappointed that it is a JD instead of a TD imprinted and we have taken this opportunity to pass your comments onto our production and product development teams for their information and review.

We hope this has not deterred you from enjoying the product in the future and we thank you for taking the time to provide feedback.

Kindest Regards

Lisa

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I'm planning a comeback involving the chocolate ones...

See you next time