January 2004
4 posts
Another week over
Well, I got paid yesterday, so the bank will get off my back for a while. The consultancy I have CV’d want a phone interview mid Feb so we’ll see what happens there. I’ll have to tone down my apparent arrogance I suppose, but then I have done a lot in my career. I don’t want to leave the team where I am until end of March because it would really damage the work and professionally I can’t leave...
Contrasts
If I thought that I was tired last week this week is worse. I think it started because I was paddling all day on Saturday at Winsford Flash which made me tired and I haven’t managed to get my head back together. My Dharma practice has suffered. Despite being tired last week I had plenty of energy. This week has been a real uphill struggle. Programming I thought that the deep copy program was...
This life is for living
Dharma A long week, I’m very tired. I went to see Lama Jampa this week, which only took about an hour and a half from where I’m staying but, of course, then I had to drive back. The meeting was very good; he is so wise and I am very lucky to be one of his students. One cannot discuss such meetings in a forum like this but I am carrying on making steady progress and I checked that my new...
It never rains but it drives ya nuts
Creche in West Kensington
OK OK lots of things have been going on here… I won a bottle of whisky in the charity raffle at work, which was amazing because I never win anything. Here I am feeling pretty good, my Karma is obviously working well. Then on the way home a truck decided that it wanted to be in the same lane as me. If I hadn’t been in such a heavy car (f-off big Volvo estate) I’d have...