Who says nothing is impossible? I do nothing all the time….

My Calendar Says

I was sitting at my desk one day, bored, when my eyes settled on the calendar on my desk. Usually, the advice or saying seems to mean something but mostly it’s rubbish.

Then I wondered about all the other calendars out there today? Calendars in other countries, other cultures? And that’s why this blog exists. Hopefully it’ll also be a bit of fun.

So please take a moment - your calendar is right there beside you on your desk - and enter what advice you got today.

http://twotitsandavote.com/ (from http://sabrinadent.com/)

Two Tits and a Vote is a political action campaign, designed to get women to use their muscle as voters to take action around a single issue at a time. Men are very welcome to take part; the platform is merely aimed at mobilising women.

It’s built around the concept of “armchair activism.” Armchair activism enjoys reasonable take-up online, but is often decried as ultimately being rather useless because it rarely translates into the real world. I started to think a lot about how to merge all of the good stuff about armchair activism – it’s fast, it’s accessible, it’s not a big ask, and it delivers a feel-good factor to the participant – with actions that could actually take form in the real world.

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Imagine if he committed suicide. That would be unfortunate enough but imagine his obituary, ‘Partridge shot by gun‘. I mean, nobody would read it and nobody would remember him.

On a similar note, I saw another man today today who would never induce queasiness and nausea in anyone. The Viking replica ship, the Sea Stallion, docked in Dublin today. Two of the Irish volunteers were met by Noel Ahearn, the Minister for holding flags. Their lengthy grinning confirmed that they enjoyed meeting Minister Ahearn.

Today I was using a map to find a street in central Dublin. While perusing said map, I saw Upper Digges Street described in shorthand as ‘Digges St Up‘. I wonder if the OPW or the Roadworks Dept have a depot on the street – it would be rather fantastic if they did.

I had a friend who used to work on an assembly line for an electronics company. Part of her job was to ‘tick’ the QC box if the gadget passed the Quality checks. She did this hundreds of times a day. In an effort to brighten her day, she used to draw smilies instead of the tick. Inevitably, she got found out. The QC manager was shocked, and angry, and sacked her for abusing her position!!

It’s good that mapmakers and assembly line workers still retain a certain ‘ability’ to fight the tedium of their jobs. And so should the rest of us.

Which is a roundabout way of saying I need a holiday, or at least, some sunny weather!!

Anyhow, her current contract is up and she’s looking for work. She’s considering offers over at gissajob.

Ciao, my darlings
isadub