Yesterday

Coffee? Er, right. I type this post as I am at my ‘voluntary work’, on Thursday. There seems to be no job to be done at the moment (I HAVE checked). Although I plan to post this tomorrow (Friday as per usual), I am planning to see the new Bond film tomorrow, and so il ne y’avait pas de temps pour ecrire mon blog. Je pense. I am probably using incorrect French. Quel domage

I am at work, have had lunch at a café (a new, very good independent, in Twickenham), therefore this post is not ‘coffee-powered’. We’ll see.

OK, first note is concerning the book ‘The Secret Race’, by Tyler Hamilton (former professional cyclist), and Daniel Coyle. Depressing, because it is true. Not finished yet, about three quarters of the way through. Disregarding recent cases (notably Lance Armstrong is not in this list, but accused throughout) it states that ‘everybody gets popped’.

Roberto Heras – 2005

Jan Ullrich – 2006

Ivan Basso – 2006

Floyd Landis – 2006

Alexandre Vinokourov – 2007

Iban Mayo – 2007

Alberto Contador – 2010

All of these top competitors, begin to start a list of top riders, who have been found to be taking performance enhancing drugs, in recent years. Two notable characters missing from the list are Alejandro Valverde, and Michael Rasmussen. Yet poor old Mr Lance Armstrong obviously thought that he could hide the truth forever, fool. I maintain the fact that I always knew, and accepted that cheating was rife. Ever since I witnessed the tears of Richard Virenque and Festina in 1998, I was able to learn that unfortunately ‘people cheat’. It is a fact of life. Part of me congratulates Lance Armstrong for keeping it under wraps for so long, but the truth always exists,  it was just waiting to be publicised.

 If you think/believe that you can do something, and it is physically possible, then YOU WILL achieve it. The only person who can stop you, is yourself.

True Love Waits

I usually include a rant about music, so, I am reiterating a fact that I told a colleague earlier. I realise that I have grown up around the turn of the Millennia, and so have grown a love of collecting CDs. I am using this new year (approaching) and my continuation of the fact of enjoying new music, as a chance to change with the world (instead of hopelessly fighting against development). From now onwards, I plan to buy new music in an MP3 format. Only old music  (pre-2012), should be bought on CD. Or, when I have no option. For example, I went shopping on Tuesday, aiming to purchase the new Beth Orton album on CD. Although a new album, it is from an artist from ‘my time’, therefore I wanted the CD. It turns that the one accessible CD shop in all of Kingston, had sold out, now leaving me in dilemna. Spotify allows me to want the music, so mp3 it may have to be. Decisions decisions.

Beth Orton

Right, as I am a beautiful and creative mind, in a damaged body, hehe, a design idea that must already exist somewhere. Sustainably produced de-odourants. It has only been on purchasing/using my current Nivea de-odourant, do I realise the high level of waste, in a de-odourant bottle. Fair enough, we may want a new head, and we will want a little pouch full of anti-perspirant liquid. These should be available separately, as regularly need to be replaced. However, we do not need a new bottle of solid hard material (often a polymer), each time we finish the de-odourant.

Hmmm, Just a thought…  

Perhaps there is hope, after all, it IS friday now. I went in the shop today(Friday), and whilst packed with Christmas shoppers, I bought myself Beth Orton’s cd (very good). Admittedly, I get home and copy it straight away, ready for my Ipod! 

The same landscape as used earlier in this blog, showing the olympic torch, now depicts a christmas tree...

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