Why not!

Well, I can’t very well learn poi unless I have some. So I got some (thank you www.oddballs.co.uk). I also picked up a ball to have a go at some contact juggling. Not an acrylic – too expensive and fragile for a beginner! Just a plain white solid ball.
While the contact can be done inside (the ball goes down when it gets dropped, hitting the floor or my foot), the poi will need to be an outside activity – there simply isn’t enough room inside to swing them without hitting something. Luckily the back garden is semi-private, so hopefully I won’t be giving the general population of the town something to talk about.

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Not scared

I’m not so much scared of driving, as hate it. And a good many of the things I hate about it aren’t going to go away. Some of them are just bad luck, some of them are my own fault, and some of them are just a symptom of the way the world is going.
For example:
Bad luck – coming up behind a cyclist. Normally OK, but it always seems to happen to me on the bendy, twisty parts of the road.
My own fault – I can be a fairly hesitant driver. For example, I won’t overtake something unless I’m certain I’ve got enough room to do so. And I can’t see round corners.
Symptom of the world – the driver behind comes up very, very close, starts gesticulating and flashing, then overtakes both myself and the cyclist. On a corner I couldn’t see round, so how could he?

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Not in the near future

This is not going to happen in the near future. I have no idea what such a job would be, or even how to go about looking for it. I have no skills other than those I use in my current job. I’m not even up-to-date enough in those skills to start looking for other jobs in the same field (software development). I am, basically, monoskilled and damn lucky to have the job I do. So I better just stick with it. Face it, any job sucks.

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Will I ever?

Well, I’ve got the mark registered, and got the forms to send off with the piece. I just have a couple of problems – I don’t have a piece I feel is good enough to send, and I’m too scared to call the Assay office for help in filling out the forms and the process.
OK, the hallmark is only a mark of the purity of the metal, not the quality of the work, but still. If it’s going to be done, do it on something decent. Maybe one of my chunky square wire bracelets (bad picture of one above)?

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Scales, 10 minutes, 4 days, 4 weeks

I don’t want to create a complete new goal for this, but I do want to record it as a related subgoal.

I will pick up a guitar and practice scales for 10 minutes at least 4 days a week for the next 4 weeks.

At the end of that time I’ll review my progress and either add to or repeat the goal.
I figure 10 minutes should be achievable (was going to be 5, but that’s not really enough time). 4 days a week (Mon, Tue, Thu Fri) because those are the days it’s easiest to do, the guitar just being an arm’s length away from me. Scales, because it’s a basic exercise for flexibility and strength in my fingers.

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