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Phew! I'm stuck here in Glasgow airport for an hour or so before my flight home. And while I've got five minutes, I thought I'd update the old blog.

Personal Issues

When your blog is branded with your name on it, you are naturally more careful about the frivolous throwaway comments you might make on it. Or even deeper existential questions that are on your mind - after all, what might they reveal about you?

I'm finding it very hard to blog on this site, because I'm really not sure what image I want to project to the spectrum of people who might read it. (I say might read it. Let's face it, barely anybody knows it exists!)

At the moment, friends and family might find it. Nothing offensive there, and possibly the most accepting group of whatever I chose to write here. But I find myself pondering what employers might think - past, present and future. Should I care? I'm not inclined to, but I know myself well enough to suspect I might care in the future. For one reason or another.

And what about all those lovely people who read my more popular blogs? Well, they're getting nothing. Nada. But then, very few of them search for me anyway.

So I'm continually spinning ideas for personal posts that I can share here, but my inner editor keeps rejecting them all.

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Back To Work

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By my estimation I've been off work for a whopping 11 days over Christmas.

Increasingly over those 11 days, I've been dying to get back to work. Part boredom, part family and friends overdose and part terrifying freefall from having no real routine. It seems like I'm a creature of habit after all.

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Misdemeanors

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Cyberscribe tagged me a while back to answer this 'Fines' meme that's been doing the rounds. Partly out of fear of what I'd discover, I've delayed on answering, but today I got a chance to tally up my personal score, which is... drumroll please...

£390.00

Which is slightly less squeaky clean than the 'scribe and his £360.00 fine. Now, if the fines were based on the number of times you'd done certain things, I'd be bankrupt right now. As I suspect most people would be.

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