# 1

I enjoy writing, I'm not good at it but that's not the point at this stage. In particular I find putting into words the kind of things that I'd never discuss with the missus or mates is a lovely cathartic experience.

I regularly moan loudly and without prejudice to anyone who'll listen (or whom unluckily finds themselves unable to escape because they are too polite to say they're terribly bored or because we are both stuck in a lift) that to me that I never get to finish a good daydream. I love losing myself in a ponder, be it ways of increasing the efficiency of the common squeegee to warlocks undercrackers. The key issue is that I have a real life as well which tends to get in the way. Often that means that I don't get to finish mulling over mullet technology over because, unreasonably, my boss will want me to do some work or some equally annoying interruption.

While explaining all this, and doing a fair bit of moaning about the aforementioned boss, to a friend on here I allowed myself to be convinced that a blog would be the ideal place for me to achieve a couple of aims. Firstly it will allow me to give vent to all the minor irritations of life in a city which I'm rapidly growing weary of (and which for some reason in my real life people never seem to tire of reading about)and the second - for me the more important idea, is to finish all the conversations I start with myself but for the reasons raised at the begging I never get to finish. I have a few ideas to explore in the next couple of weeks including a game that people can play on the tube, good names for dogs and how it should be possible to make a x-ray glasses..

So I am starting this blog with the intention of using it as a dumping point for all the

I'm not overly sure that anyone else will find it interesting, readable or even discoverable in the first place but at this point it's not important.

Apparently that's the hardest thing done