Byrnesys Blabberings

We had a really nice time down in Glasgow for new year, it was pretty quiet but our flat (Glasgow Central Apartments) was great, we ate well and turned out onto George Sq (though not quite inside) to see the fireworks and enjoy the revellers just after 11.

Back to work today and have been greeted by a monitor stand! There has been alot of buzz about posture and RSI type things in our office and so my monitor now obstructs my view of the window and anyone who happens to be in the office at that time, nevermind, its a play off in favour of a healthy back.

I’m not big on New Years resolution,  my thinking being that if anything is important enough to you then you will start it immediately not wait for a point on the calendar but it is surely a good time to plan and take stock.

Piper detailed 10 Resolutions for Mental health from his Wheaton Literature Professor Clyde Kilby, Ive copied several of the best ones below:

1. At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and about me.

5. I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into myself to discover what psychological or social categories I might belong to. Mostly I shall simply forget about myself and do my work.

10. Even if I turn out to be wrong, I shall bet my life on the assumption that this world is not idiotic, neither run by an absentee landlord, but that today, this very day, some stroke is being added to the cosmic canvas that in due course I shall understand with joy as a stroke made by the architect who calls himself Alpha and Omega.