robinbloke | Life times and false accomplishments

Need to go out more, it's more creative, need to escape the false sense of progress and achievement from the unreal world of the online. This week has been pretty apricot (But not banana yet, so no worries there) all in all, diverting myself away from the cocaine like addiction of Everquest in order to get real things done in the real world, as opposed to unreal things in the unreal world.

What I think I've remembered this week is that EQ, like RP, is a pastime but not a landmark for any kind of personal self-achievement that really matters insomuch of itself, rather the experiences may be, but not the numbers and things maimed. Hrumph. What that blather vaguely is meant to relate to is the need I have to try and achieve or do something useful (hmmm, originally typed 'useless' there, which would admittedly be a more realistic goal, but very telling I subconsciously typed that... ah diversion, my old friend - leaving my original point far behind once more as the sentence rambles on without any general kind of sense or meaning beyond causing me further headaches when I attempt to derail myself back to where I was originally was several massive sentences (Must. Use. Fullstops.) later... hmmm, anyway...)

Where was I? Oh yes, some kind of personal achievement, which I keep telling myself is my goal for every day - or at least do something that categorises as useful (even if it's something pretty mundane like cleaning the house) every day, this was something to try and escape the trap of the online gaming world in a way or just to try and do something rather than change my pseudo representation by a couple of bytes here and there.

Anyway, what I was vaguely heading towards was that life experiences, such as the amusing popcorn and sugar related incidents of yesterday classify themselves as worthwhile progress (yes it was fun, etc etc, but did I do something useful with my life - beware brackets again - Que. derailing) in the fun filled action packed story that is my life. Well, why the hell not, it's certainly a memorable evening of a good time so doesn't that qualify? Even if I didn't slay several dozen more beasties of thingy from the evil pit of wherever, it doesn't matter.

If I had a point here somewhere I think it was lost in the channel surfing of diversifying up there somewhere, or I've possibly realised it and decided not to go over it all over again so that I don't further confuse myself. HA! Fullstop, that is at least something. Must restrain myself from using commas, for they are evil and hide under your bed chanting sinister spells that suck you into typing endless paragraphs of utter insanity.

Hmmm, evil spells - reminds me (or at least gives me an excuse - hang on, brackets, the commas best friend… noooo!) of something that came up in a meeting this morning over company policies and ideas. Basically one of the engineers mentioned that studies had been published in some engineering journal that willpower (or concentration or expectation of a result) effects the result itself, to the point that a standard test's output will be effected. This brought the suggestion that some kind of new department should be set up in the company to chant voodoo rituals about a rival companies products (blooooow up, bloooooow up) to induce them to explode/fail, and indeed this was suggested as a reason for a recent failure of one of our products and that in fact a lead competitor was dabbling in Haiti styled religious jinxing in order to further their own products market-share. This could lead to a new boom in the way that companies work, and sort of reminds me of the karma war story between two companies in Hong Kong - but that’s another story. Anyway, if all else fails you can get yourself a combination (real) penguin fridge magnet and thermometer and everything should be alright.

Stay tuned - next week we're looking to see if companies should invest in Lovecraft rituals to stave off the powers of the Elder gods.