Rainy day.

What can I do with my Thursday today, having looked outside and seen the weather of today, it is chucking it down, cats and dogs.

Hmm, if it literally were raining cats and dogs, the pavement would be extremely furry and bloody. And how could anyone get the expression raining cats and dogs too? It makes no real sense. Raining barrels of water I could stretch too, but not our furry four legged companions tumbling from the sky, tail over head in a mass of barking and hissing, biting and scratching.

Do you think it would rain one particular breed of dog or cat? What if it were a shower of Pomeranian's falling from the sky. Small cute fluffy doggies, what kind of umbrella would you need? The Pomeranian pro?
Another day you're out walking along the street and the heavens open up and you catch sight of a downpour of bull mastiffs. That would be a very painful experience I'd imagine, getting clobbered by large slobbering dogs from on high.

Hmm. Anyway.

What to do with today? The day before my important job interview, a day like any other really. I wish I had a mate who was as unemployed as me at the moment, I'd go have a knees up with them down at the pub. Perfect weather for it. If it were sunny I'd feel a bit guilty spending it in doors.

Perhaps I'll do some much needed bits and bobs shopping, there are some toiletries I need to get. I might grab a good book and go and sit in the cafe up the road for a while and have a read. I could carry on studying my Chinese. 我今天要了学习中文。

Al in all, it's my rainy day and who knows, I might be working from now on. Which'll mean giving up my long care free days. Ahh, back to the daily grind, I've not done that for a while. My last job was pretty darned easy.

I'll be off then. Have a good one.

Thinking...

I've been looking at the BBC website, science and nature section. It's says that scientists have sequenced the DNA of extinct cave bears. That they should also be able to sequence the DNA of ancient humans.

I feel fairly certain, within myself, that the time will come that we'll be able to sequence and grow artificially any biological organism that has ever lived on this planet. Technology is moving on in such leaps and bounds that soon I'm sure most of the amazing will seem perfectly do-able.

100 years ago, we'd only just achieved flight. Another hundred years, we'll doing some amazing stuff. I'm pretty sure we'll all be living older but remaining as young and as healthy as were when we were in our late teens and early twenty's. All disease will have been cured.

So personally, I wish we'd all relax a little more. There will be nothing we wont be able to make better in the future, the control over our environment will be phenomenal. Then we can have a good old think about what it's truly all about. As robots will have all the jobs covered and all we really need to do is have a laugh and take it easy.

What do you think?

I like my new home (In cyberspace).

I've been living elsewhere for a looong time and it's good to set myself away from it. New decor, new layout and a fresh face.
If I could manage to do the same with the rest of my life, I'd be sitting pretty. New decor (move flat), new layout(erm... rearrange brain?) and a fresh face(Have a wash).

My battle plan for the day, which isn't much for a 29 year old unemployed London geeza.

1. shave.
2. shower.
3. shopping.

The 3 sh's. Making for the basis of my day. The shaving will be electric without cream. The shower will be with soap and shampoo, no, no, scrap the shampoo, I'm bald. Shopping, done at poundland down the road, there are some bargain things in there at the moment. Bargain being the actual item for the price and not exclusivly he price itself. Because at that shop you never know what they're going to get in. It's diferent every week. Not just cheap mank stuff either, no, they have top brands too!

The more extraneous things like filling in application forms and stuff will be done after the above, when I'm fully woken and refreshed.

Lastly I hould stick myself back onto my bum and focuso writing some today. Accumulate that body of work so I can pluck at it and prod it at a much later date.

Right, I'm off.

Rainy London day.

I woke up from a heavy sleep this morning, feeling like a sack of bricks. I'd dreamt I had argued with a good mate of mine. It was something I thought he shouldn't have done, which led to quite a bad argument, exacerbated by the fact I was visiting him in Ireland and had another 5 days staying with him.

Pleased it was just a dream when I woke up to the cosy warmth of my bed.

I got up and finished my internet application for a job in town today, I will have the interview on Friday fist thing in the morning.
It's been a while since I've had to commute to work, thinking about the train journey this morning, the last place I had to commute was China.
So I packed my Elementary Chinese Reader in my bag, strolled out into the drizzle toward the train station, swipped my Oyster card across the reader, and went to check out the place to aid in preparation for Friday.
It's a shop I've often frequented in my past, so it shouldn't take too much effort for me at the interview.

However, no excuse to slack off. I don't intend to be caught with my pants down.
I can imagine a deathly scenario...

Interviewer all prim and proper dazzles me with an amzing in depth question.

Me. "Erm, uhh... gee... well, I dunno, I didn't think about that one... Do you have an easier question?"

No, no, no! It will not do. Only the best most concise and appropriate answers will they receive!

So, Friday at 10am, hopefully all will go as well as possible.

A new Start.

Well, I begin a new, fresh faced and sparkling.

Well, at least that is in the world of blog. As the last one was far too well known amongst my circle of friends and I need a little anonymity. A little about me before I lunge into my new written world.
I've travelled the last couple of years, I've lived and worked in 中国 and Italia as an English teacher. I have had some amazing experiences during my last couple of years. Travelling really does make you change and grow.

中国

Italia

Which has been on my mind recently, I forged new roads for myself when I moved away from home, now I'd like to transplant those into the life I live here. Which would be smashing if I could pull it off.

Writing is another large passion of my life now, especially after 3 years or more of writing. Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to make it pay. We shall see, says Little Red Robin, quite like that, it's small and unassuming, much how I like to be.