Peeptubbing

(It's a real word. Honest. It's what smugglers used to do to find dumped contraband on the bottom of the sea - get a tub or section of barrel and hold it in the water, and you get rid of all the little ripples and waves that normally make trying to see the bottom such an irritating problem.)

Anyway.

I have to write 'anyway' a lot, don't I? I write something, which sends me off on a different train of thought, which obviously then has to be explained and written about, and then it happens again, and before you know it I've written too much for lightweight Autoblography readers to be bothered to read, and I have to forcibly rein myself in and attempt to get at the original point, which may now have changed beyond recongition.

This is what it's like inside my head folks...

Anyway

Why did I choose this title?

Oh yeah, sorry.

I was trying to make an intellectually disguised point about clarity and vision.

Erm...what was it again?

Something like how it is very difficult to look at anything as large and complex as your whole life with any kind of perspective or realistic approach because there is normally so very, very much to consider, and to get it all into your head at once you have to break it down into components or else have bits squeezed out. Moments of unusual clarity in the past have been given the name 'Epiphany', which for some reason has also been applied to the Three Wise Men popping in to see Mary and dropping off her Avon order in the process...(...reining in taking place...)

I had a minor epiphany at the weekend. I'm still new enough to my job to not see it as a blinding routine, and can still kind of remember the feeling of having a blank life in front of me waiting to be filled with all sorts of things, most of which now appears to be surfing the internet for CCTV washer wipers that conform to British Standard EN 60529 Level IP65. (...more reining in...)

I kinda got the impression of a balanced life...a 5:2 - work:weekend ratio is okay really...admittedly I wouldn't defend it if it was going to be changed to 3:4, but it's all right.

Life is pretty damn good, really.

(NB: Alice stayed the weekend)