The Importance of Being Idle

Wrongly Wired

The past couple of days have been very hard work, I've been feeling dizzier and sicker and more generally worn out than I have done in a long time. Which is obviously not good, but it did get me thinking that the upside of all this is that when I'm well again I will have so many things I want to do that I'll never get bored again! Even the simple act of getting up in the morning will be all the sweeter when there's little to no possibility of me immediately falling over again!
But it is hard, and boring. And the boring puts extra strain on Ronnie, 'cos she's working three jobs, doing extra at Lyndseys, trying to keep us all afloat and organize Christmas presents... and when she comes home I'm so pleased to see somebody that I won't give her five minutes peace. So I'm gonna try and be a bit better at that, and give her the space she needs. I think this is harder for her than it is for me, 'cos she's the one who has to keep going, keep struggling, whereas for me the world seems to have pretty much stopped. I mean, I know time has passed (last time I felt well it was still the summer!), but it places no demands on me at all, I just keep plodding along...
Last night we went baby-sitting at Lyndseys house. That was pretty fun, although I felt tired and dizzy most of the time, it was fun to meet some new people, especially Alfie who has roughly a million questions (for example "how do you build a house?", "how do you get the pictures off the DVD onto the telly?") most of which seem fairly perceptive (although a few made no sense to my adult mind), and he's only four! Plus Ronnie has been working for this family for as long as I've known her, so it was nice to finally put some faces to the names!
I came across an odd sort of political story today. Apparently the Tory party have been attacking Gordon Brown's character (rather than policies, after all the Tories don't have any policies of their own yet) and suitability to be the next leader of Labour and hence PM of our green and pleasant land. Their most bizarre attack however, was to criticize him for always writing in red felt-tip, and to have his hand-writing analyzed, before declaring that his large writing and bold colours made him deeply untrustworthy. Unfortunately what they failed to take into account is that he's blind in one eye, and so writes larger than normal and in felt tip so that it is easier for him to see... I do hope that whoever came up with that ridiculous campaign idea is suitably chastened by this. I'd like to think that politicians would learn from this, and stay away from personal attacks, but I'm just an optimist, not completely insane!

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:48 PM