Through Glass - 4th September

A few months back I made a crack at writing a daily blog. And failed. Not in any kind of spectacular form, I just failed. It was only when reading Richard Herring's blog, 'Warming Up' where he introduces the concept of spending just half an hour a day to write about something which happened to him the day before. In broad terms, half an hour really isn't very long. However, it can often seem to be too much effort to actually have the discipline to sit and write. The intention of this blog  is to keep up my writing and in a sense, give me something to aim for, it may well also serve as a pathetic form of catharsis. 
  
 I can't promise any theme that will be ascribed to the site, it will largely consist of unedited nonsense. Yes, I'll correct spellings but grammar can go stick it. That and any sense of mild coherence which you may expect from something more 'polished'. This will literally be whatever is on my mind at one point in time each day, and I hope that that provides perhaps even one person with some form of mild amusement. I'm not going to try and play a character, because that's firstly pathetic and secondly really quite odd. 
  
 After what can be described as an active Scottish holiday (I came home with a bottle of Single  Malt > Win!) filled with mountain climbing and much photo taking. Plus a little taster of the Fringe, even if it was right at the end when all the comedians were sick and tired, and just a little suicidal. Still I met Robin Ince and Josie Long. Which was certainly fun. The whisky is made at the distiller around which I had a tour, its the kind of stuff which is pretty rare (only 10,000 bottles made a year) but which is common enough that it doesn't burn a hole in the pocket... at least not too much. It's now destined to sit in the box for years to come, not being drunk, as I doubt I'll ever want to open it for fear of drinking the lot in one go. Not that I'm an alcoholic, its just bloody tasty.     


The main downside to the week has been that everything which I had hoped was in place/ being processed has resulted in one huge clusterfruitcake (for the easily offended). Honestly, if you ever consider doing a post-graduate degree?! Get your funding sorted way in advance, as it's a royal pain in the arse to sort when it's not gone as planned. That and the ONE DAY in which I have to attend Uni  (ONE DAY) clashes with the hours I've been given my new job. Screw it. I should add, in the interests of honesty that i haven't written this in a straight half hour, my laptop overheated and I didn't want to risk the endless cycle of rebooting and overheating so I left it for a bit. But that's beside the point, I've still written it. The trick is going to be keeping it up. The most likely dilemma which I will encounter is that I'll just have nothing to write about, as is often common. Nonetheless, I'm determined to not let that be an issue. 


I'll be obtaining a netbook in the hopefully near future which will at least give me some form of flexibility with my timing for writing. The current limitation being when I'm either at my desk (Dead laptop battery) or at a pubic computer (because I'm not typing a whole blog entry on my phone). 


In the meantime I need to try and configure Twitter to this thing.