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2008
12
Mar

Matt Garrett Going Green

For the first time since I was about 17 years old I’m about to not have a car!!

Anyone who knows me well will probably be more than a little surprised by that..

I spent a large part of my “career”, back when I had a “normal” job, travelling all over the country visiting clients, so over the years I’ve had some fairly nice cars and possibly become a little bit of a “car snob”. (lol!)

So going without a car is going to be a bit of a “culture shock” for me.

Why am I doing it?

Simple, the car I’ve got at the monent is costing an small fortune to run and I’d rather use the money for other things, like perhaps pay off a bit of my credit card debt.. 🙂

Now it does help that I’m about to move to an area of Cheltenham that’s a lot closer to the town center and has a lot of shops, pubs, cafe’s and takeaways, all within walking distance

and I’m hoping that having to walk, or cycle, everywhere will help me to stay a bit fitter, altough being walking in distance of a whole bunch of good pubs might not help..

I’ll post updates on how my “going green” experiment is going once the cars gone, which is in just 20 days time…

2008
26
Feb

UK Earthquake

I guess working late on the internet does throw up some interesting stuff now and then, we just had an earthquake and as I wasn’t in bed asleep I got to experience the whole 7-8 seconds of the whole house being shaken!

To start off with I thought it must be a big truck driving by or something, but as everything in my office shook and I saw the poor cat shoot by the door and head downstairs it dawned on me that it was one of our rare earth quakes..

So I grabbed my glass of wine and went to see what was being said about it on the news, I shouldn’t have rushed, it was over 20 minutes (and one glass of wine) later before anyting was mentioned, but apparently it was fairly big as it was felt over a large part of the country.

It was another 20 minutes or so before some bright spark at Sky found the USGS website and got more details..

4.7 on the richter scale and the epicenter was 15 miles north of Lincoln..

Now if only I’d thought of taking a picture of everything shaking, I could send it in to Sky News and be famous!!!
🙄

2008
03
Jan

What happened to 2007?

wow, I was gonna say December zoomed by, but it kinda feels like the whole of 2008 zoomed by!

it seems to me that as I get older time seems to slip by quicker…

although I guess it’s not been an entirely un-eventful year, for better or worse, but I’m definately looking forward to a better year in 2008, just as soon as I sell the house and get divorced…
😈

My goals for 2008?

1. launch more products for my business and build a much larger subscriber base by doing so, the first product should be ready to launch fairly soon.

2. get myself an apartment closer to the town center so I don’t have to pay a fortune in taxi fare’s any time I fancy popping out for a beer.

3. spend more time abroad

4. get more blog posts done on my blogs, once a month is just not enuff!!

5. spend more time with friends and family, as well as going to Internet Marketing seminars to meet new people in the same “business” as me.

and

6. get fit again.

that’ll do for this year I think, unless I can squeeze in a ski holiday somewhere, finances permitting.
🙂

I’ve decided to stop complaining about how seldom I manage to post on this blog of mine and just live with the fact that I’m not a daily posting “blogoholic”.

It doesn’t mean that I have a life outside of my computer screen, it just means I’m to darned busy working, something else that I hope I can stop complaining abut one day..

I’ve also stopped hiding (Hallowen’s over) and jumping in fright (the fireworks have finally stopped), so I thought I should probably make the effort to post something here again, eve if it is 6.am..

Breaking BLog News – I’ve even had my first comment from a visitor, if my daughter counts. 🙂

So come on, join in, post a reply!

I promise to authorise it as long as it’s not spam, or libellous, or defamatory (had to check the smelling on those two) or just to darned rude..
;]

and on with todays post..

I’m not known for being particularly good with houseplants, being a little short of memory on the old watering them thing, so I’ve been a little bit surprised at the two houseplants I do have and how well they’re doing.

They’re not just still alive after over a year in my office, but they’re doing so well I might even have to consider getting a bigger pot for them to live in.

Check out my mad mutant cactus..

my mad mutant cactus

Now my misses told me some time ago that Cacti actually like the “EMF” stuff that comes out of computer monitors and tv’s etc.

Obviously I just thought she was a little crazy, as usual, but once again it looks like she’s right!

Please don’t tell her anyone (no she doesn’t waste her time reading my blog) or else I’ll be subject to another “I told you so”..
😉

Anyhoo, the “moral” of the story is if you have a Cactus and it’s not doing well, stick it near a tv or computer screen!

You never know, it may just suck up all those “EMF’s” and be good for you as well as the cactus..

I guess I’ve just realised one of the reasons I don’t post on here very often, it ever feels like a proper “post” if I haven’t got a piccy to go with it.

Must find more piccy’s to post..

2006
06
Jul

Stuff..

I have to admit I’m not sure exactly what I’m gonna put on this blog yet, but I thought it was time I had a personal blog, instead of just boring old work ones..

I’ll probably post all sorts of crap on here, as well as using it for testing out new themes and plug ins to see what they do.

so here goes..
🙂