Sometimes a blow-out of relaxation is exactly what the doctors like to order if you come into the surgery holding a gun. I’ve been celebrating the fact that I’m off all week due to lies, treachery, deceit and possibly a court order if the judgement stands after the appeal.

It’s been a case of “back to reality” outside of London once more, as a last second journey to Manchester ensued to have just a fun time with fellow comrades in arms, raging against the world as we all like to do in our spare time. Drinking, losing badly in Blackjack and Trivial Protrusion, talking rubbish, all the hallmarks were there.

It was also the first time that I had ventured to Peterborough.

Now before you question how Peterborough, a city with things and stuff (actually I have no idea what’s really there), actually links in to all this, it was to meet up with a friend long time not seen and to journey up the rest of the way with said fellow to Manchester, a slightly different way of doing it but there we are.

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We’re all dead, or so would some of the press and scientists would have us all believe when a giant collection of metal donuts begin operating over on the European mainland on Wednesday, the day where hopefully other things will be happening which are less dangerous like farting in a lift, and people bungee jumping without a bungee rope.

Forget the terrorists, Americans, tubs of lard and clowns destroying us all and wiping us all from existence, it’s now nuclear physicists now who are the enemy. Soon they will switch on the Large Hadron Collider, which basically will send tiny bits of matter smashing against each other and then they see what happens.

It has cost billions of Euros, taken since 1994 to get to this point and the whole thing has been about seeing what happened just after the big bang with extra parts for anti-matter and dark matter thrown in for good measure.

One problem with this grand enterprise is that there are concerns that the machine will create forces which could destroy the earth and possibly the entire universe when it gets going.

Read that sentence again and just allow a few moments for it to sink in.

Destroy the entire universe.

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Dave Goodman’s Purpose Piece

I find myself a bit lost in recent times, I go to work, come home, find more interesting ways to waste vital minutes of my life without picking the mushrooms from my feet.

Motivation is a waning commodity in these times where the long hours of work practically drain you of energy and you find that the best you could hope for when you get home is to eat more cheesy snacks and catch up with who is sleeping with the cat on your favourite soap opera.

Some of the time I do spend writing on this blog, along with a few other places, some of the time is spent reading “The Rules of Wealth” and crying afterwards, but then the bulk of the time, is lying on my back, counting the cobwebs on the ceiling.

Not very exciting is it?

But I wandered across to Dave Goodman’s website, a place where a man in London also is struggling to do things and he wrote a piece about trying to achieve something, due to the result of the modern world giving us more free time and the constant pressure that we should be achieving something in our free time.

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