Gwyn's Journal

01:57:24 o'clock GMT
Feeling Sad
Hearing Ogre Battle, Queen
It's nice sometimes to get a goodbye from the people you have spoken to of an evening.  Of the twelve people I have spoken to tonight, only three had the decency of saying goodnight.
How common courtesy has lapsed.  I would never dream of going offline without at least a final salutation.


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22:09:42 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Move Closer, Philys Nelson
I'm bored!  Terrible thing to say, but there you are.  I have added a new footnote to my journal and I fancy having a new title for it too.  So I have my thinking cap on.
Just got a text message all the way from Spain from Lisa.  She's coming to see me tomorrow, I can't wait.  It gives me the impetus to clean the flat and put up those shelves I have promised to put up since I moved in.
Work is very dull at the moment, apart from the spiders that keep terrorising me.  Do any of you realise how many spiders inhabit an old building?  It's somewhere in the region of ten million per room, and this old place has roughly thirty rooms.  I'll let you make the math, but isn’t that in the billions?
As you may have gathered, I had a slightly bad experience with an eight-legged freak today.  As I was driving home, one of the largest venomous British spiders was crawling on my shoulder.  Luckily my colleague spotted it, and took him off me before I died of Sheer Heart Attack!  Not a good thing to do, coronaries whilst driving is not a recommended pastime.
I mean, why were spiders invented?  Surely Venus Flytraps were enough to deal with our fly problem.  Even small birds eat more flies than spiders.  I am sure that God put them on Earth to annoy and frighten me, and that’s coming from a Militant Agnostic.


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21:46:34 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Take a Chance, Abba
What have I done today?  Not a lot, just knocked a few walls down, stripped some doorframes out, threw out loads of crap from this old pub we're demolishing.  Same old, same old.
I feel better in myself nowadays, I have gotten used to the hard work, the old muscles have ripped themselves strong, no longer do they give me the aches and pains.  If only I could sleep.
The main reason for my non-sleeping is that I have began reading The Saga of Darren Shan.  I have been lent the first ten books.  Ok, they are aimed at kids, and the literal style is a bit patronising, but the stories are quite compelling, by the way, Darren Shan is a Vampire story.  I find myself reading until the very early hours, then cursing myself in the morning.  I need to structure my sleep patterns, but alas, young Mr Shan is proving to be very addictive.


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21:34:29 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Tocatta & Fugue, Myleene Klass
People over 30 should be dead. Here's why:

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)
As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We ate chips, bread and butter, and drank pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. NO MOBILE PHONES!!!!! U n t h i n k a b l e !
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on Sky, video tapes, DVD's, surround sound, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
We had friends!
We went outside and found them.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
Congratulations...so far...so good!

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22:12:12 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Just finished watching Tribe on BBC2.  What a program, I have watched it religiously for the last few weeks.  Bruce Parry is a nutter, but saying that, I'd love to do what he does.  Imagine spending a month with some of the remotest tribes in the world and living as they do.  I'd love the opportunity to do it, but am I brave enough to try?
I'm unsure if I could give up my home comforts, especially the hot water bottle on my feet.


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11:49:25 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Oh dear, I just got out of bed after another evening of stupid drinking with Neil.  I started us off with a couple of Baileys with Lime, a nasty concoction that is guaranteed to make you sick unless you have the constitution of a celebrity in the jungle.
Things got slightly better after, only gay drinks like Port, Black Russians etc.  But I feel quite fine this morning and ready and willing for more.
I'm waiting for Richard to come along and knock on my door, so we can go down the pub.  I must remember to take the real Cuban Cigars with me today; I promised I'd share one with Craig at the Jovials.  Can't smoke them in the flat, as the fish wouldn't like it.


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21:21:30 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys
Hiya folks, sorry I have been a bit lax in updating recently, but demolition is very hard work and I have been far to tired to even log on.
Had a nasty splinter in my eye on Monday. I couldn't find it until Wednesday, then I had to pluck it out with a pair of tweezers, took me a while as it was in the coloured bit of the eye and it was hard to see, with all the tears and sniffles...lol.
Most of the week I have been ripping plaster off walls and ceilings, bit of a chore and very dirty.  Every evening I have to spend half an hour in the shower to try and get clean again, it's a nightmare.
Tonight, I'm recording Bill Bailey on C4 for a future watch, and I'm gonna chill online with a bottle of red.  Sounds like a plan.


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17:36:13 o'clock GMT
Feeling Happy
Went to work this morning to find out that the place we work at was broken into over the weekend.  The only managed to steal all our tools, around £1000 worth of kit.  Buggers.
We had to sort out some more tools and go to the Police to report it.  About an hour later, a scene of crime scientist came along to dust the place for fingerprints and to take ours.  I have never been fingerprinted before; it made me feel like a criminal...lol
Quite exciting day really, watching this man going about his business and offering him some ideas as to how the blighters got into the building.  Bit of a mystery there, all the doors and windows were screwed shut or locked, the only openable door had been smashed from the inside.  Weird.  I don't think we locked anybody in as the neighbours heard them banging on Saturday.
Anyway, the rest of the day was spent ripping down ceilings; I looked like a black & white minstrel at the end of the day.  I had so much gunk in my eye's I had to fork out a fiver on some optrex, so the first stop tomorrow is to buy new eye protectors.
Lisa is coming over later, so we will be watching a movie with a nice bottle of red wine. Relaxing evening planned.


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