Confessions of a Dibberous Mind

Am I a pirate? I suppose the answer has to be yes because I have had a major sea-change in the few short hours since I last updated. I had an almost religious experience last night and it has totally changed my outlook on my current situation. I was watching the extra features on the "Catch Me If You Can" DVD to see if I could find out which bits were true and which bits were fabrication. There was an interview with Frank W. Abagnale (the guy whose exploits are catalogued byt the movie) and he said something along the lines of: "I have really managed to turn my life around, I started out as a criminal and I never would have dreamed that I would end up working for the FBI." Ok, I was most of the way through a bottle of wine at the time but it struck a chord with me and I suddenly started laughing. I wasn't laughing at anything Frank was saying or, indeed, had said, I was laughing at something else - I was laughing at myself. I could suddenly see very...

Tricky... I wrote a blog a few days ago and lost it. It wasn't very long but it explained where I was and what I was doing. Truth be told I'm not in the best of spirits and I can't work out why. I think the majority of it is down to money and missing my nocturnal life-style but there is an added twist this time: I keep thinking about the future. The future has always been, for me, something that happens to other people. I have had people ask me what I am doing a few days hence only for them to be told by me that I never planned that far ahead. Now I'm thinking about where I will be a few years down the line and, to quote old maps, there be dragons. I'm not going to delve too deeply into how I am feeling at the moment because that caused all kinds of problems last time but I know I have to change the way I am living at the moment. I think that covers it for now - Let's just say that the crisis may have had a delay timer on it... Terminator 3 was ok, n...