We Are What We Do
Posted: Wed 29 March, 2006 Filed under: Domestic, Getting Organised, Green, Health, Thoughts 1 Comment »via a fairly convoluted route (that I can’t be arsed to repeat right now) I came across a site called We Are What We Do, which falls into line with a lot of my own feelings about life.
We’re not another charity. We’re not an institution. We Are What We Do is a movement. We’d like to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. Whoever they are. And wherever they are. And that includes you.
We’ve created 50 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities, making our planet and the people on it much happier. We started by putting these actions in a book, but the whole movement is getting bigger. And bigger.
The 50 actions aren’t anything hugely strenuous, but they’re ideas on what can be done to help out. As it turns out, I’ve done about half of them already, and regularly do a third of the list. So I’m well on the way.
But it’s a great idea, and one that should go a long way…
Maintaining
Posted: Wed 29 March, 2006 Filed under: Getting Organised, Health 3 Comments »Over the last year or so, I’ve lost a fair amount of weight. (as I’ve blethered on about once or twice before)
Having not done so in a while, and having noticed a fair reduction in belly-size etc., I thought I’d weigh myself again. It’s not something I do on a regular basis, and I don’t obsess about weight-loss much (if at all) even though I know I’ve been doing well.
I was fairly surprised, though, to see that according to the scales I’m still dead-on the 20st mark. I’ve lost a fair amount of fat, but still weigh the same. Mind you, I do know that I’ve been putting on muscle tone instead, so it’s all swings and balances. But all the same, it’s pretty depressing to still weigh the same, despite large visible differences…
Clock Enumeration
Posted: Tue 28 March, 2006 Filed under: Domestic, Getting Organised Leave a comment »(via Pete)
OK, so, the list of clocks chez Lyle…
Upstairs:
- My bedside clock (self-altering)
- Herself’s bedside clock
- My mobile (self-altering)
- Herself’s Mobile (self-altering)
- Computer 1 (self-altering)
- Shuttle Box 1 (self-altering – when I get round to sorting it out)
- Laptop 1 (self-altering)
- Laptop 2
- Router/Wireless/Modem (not that I bothered)
- Stereo (unchanged from last Summer time)
- Office clock
- Heating System
- TV (don’t care)
- TiVo (self-altering)
Downstairs:
- TV (don’t care)
- Sky+ (self-altering)
- DVD player
- Landline phone (self-altering)
- Kitchen clock
- Oven (utterly wrong, and not worth sorting)
- Microwave (see over)
- My Watch
- Herself’s Watch
- PSP
And I think that’s it. Although I’ve probably forgotten something – you always do.
UPDATED : Oh yeah, forgot the (three) digital cameras, all of which have clocks. I’ll do those tonight.
UPDATED (again) : Oh aye, and the MP3 players…
Alias
Posted: Tue 28 March, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts 3 Comments »Herself has been watching Season One of Alias on DVD of late, and I just have one question…
What the hell is the appeal of it?
It’s epically dumb, has the acting abilities of MFI furniture, and all the appeal of being repeatedly kicked in the balls.
But maybe I’m missing something…
Sleeping Position
Posted: Tue 28 March, 2006 Filed under: Domestic, Thoughts, Weirdness 8 Comments »Way back in the day, my then-other-half used to complain that I slept in a weird way. To me it’s not weird, it’s how I’ve always slept, and still do.
Anyway, I was thinking about this over the weekend, and I wondered if anyone else does it?
When I go to sleep, I tend to half-cover myself with the quilt, so that (for example) my front half is covered, and warm, but my back is in the air. I find I tend to be a lot cooler like this – being completely under the quilt I just get too hot, but if I sleep with an arm, and/or a leg out of the quilt, it seems to act like a heat-exchanger, and it’s comfortable.
Am I a freak? (hey, like we don’t know the answer to this one already) Or does anyone else sleep in a similar fashion?
… And The Living Is Easy
Posted: Mon 27 March, 2006 Filed under: D4D™, Thoughts, Weirdness Leave a comment »Sorry about the title, I just couldn’t resist.
Anyway, yesterday the clocks went forward, so now apparently it’s summer. Or at least Spring. Or something where the clocks have gone forward an hour anyway.
And I have to say, I really do like systems where the clocks change automatically. Usually my alarm clock does it too, being one of the “radio-controlled” ones that links to some International Time Signal or other. Rugby, I think. But this time it didn’t which led to a bit of confusion. Maybe it’s time to get some more batteries for the thing. I’ve had it about seven years now, and only changed batteries three times, so yeah, maybe it’s getting to that time. Or – gasp! – perhaps I should buy a new one. Nah, see how this one does first.
Anyway, the mobile phone changed automatically, so did the landline, all the computers, Sky+, TiVo, etc. But there’s always a couple you forget, aren’t there? I didn’t remember the WordPress clock (for d4d™) and can’t be arsed to change it anyway, and then there’s things like wall-clock in the kitchen, and central-heating. In fairness, Herself has changed the ones that need changing manually – I completely forgot – but I still find it surprising just how many things we have in everyday life to tell us the time. It’s like an obsession!
Brain Music
Posted: Mon 27 March, 2006 Filed under: Weirdness 1 Comment »Sometimes I wish I understood how my brain works. Hell, most of the time I wish I understood it. (Of course, if the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we’d be so simple we still couldn’t do it)
Every so often, my mind will just carry around a completely random tune. Sometimes I can figure out why it’s there (say, if I heard it the day before) and sometimes I can’t. Even more annoying is when that tune stays with me overnight, and infests dreams etc, and then I wake up with it in my head too.
Last night, for some reason unknown to science (or me) it was TaTu’s “Friend or Foe” single, which also has the added “benefit” of being utterly repetitive and catchy.
However, this morning my brain appears to have travelled back in time, and has been going mad for “California Über Alles“, originally by the Dead Kennedys.
And I have no idea why…