OMG! ALMOST A YEAR ON!

AND I STILL CAN'T FIND THE CAP LOCK OFF BUTTOn.

Got it...

So what has happened over the last year, well allsorts of things. Nothing particularly bad though, so this isn't going to be a review of the year (the April to April tax year I guess) with the highs and lows and there hasn't been too much low stuff!

Well, I scratched my hand a few weeks ago cutting down a tree when the saw jumped. Not just any saw, but one of those real evil looking ones with teeth like a smaller version of a big saw with massive teeth.

It's all healed though, so not really a great story.

I'm not going to go into business stuff, that's all doing well, it's growing, I get emails and customers from all over the world, so I guess I'm all multinational now.
I did forget my laptop yesterday on a job.
15 mins away from touchdown, I lean over to fire it up and realise it is still at home. These things happen I guess.

In case anyone wants closure, I just went home and picked it up. No drama.

Anyway, business is a different world, this is like a short holiday from that as far as I am concerned.

So recent things I can go off on one about...

The whole petrol crisis that never happened, but happened anyway incase it did happen (but it didn't).

Plot summary - Tanker drivers want more money. No shit... If you gave anyone a piece of paper saying "I would like more ______" you'd find most people fill in the blank with "money"

They aren't going to write custard, are they?

So, they threaten to strike. Some asshole minister then tells the UK to avoid problems of a fuel shortage by going FULL FUCKING PANIC and hoarding petrol in Jerry cans.

1) A "Jerry can" in the metal thing you see strapped to Jeeps, called "Jerry" as they were spotted being used by the Germans during the war. They hold about 20 litres, which is above the maximum you are allowed to have just hanging about a house.

2) It's pretty explosive. Not TNT explosive, but it vapourises at ambient temps into a cloud of explosive gasses. Anything not sealed can turn a room into a something like a Fuel/Air bomb ready to go off.

It's not really that great for storing around the house, and the Fire Brigade quite rightly said "don't listen to that horse's ass, don't hoard fuel".

They might have used different words, but I bet my version is cleaner than their private version.

The result? Well one poor woman has 40% burns after swapping petrol between containers in her kitchen.

Yes, it was a bad idea, there was a cooker on at the time, a recipe for disaster, but it was a panic situation she was put into by an idiot.

In a fraction of a second, her life has changed for good (or for bad, depending on how you look at it).

There are calls for the minister to resign, and quite right too. I've said before what qualifies this guys to be the country's no.1 authority on something in the government?

Just because they were on the school debating team and were good at making people swap sides in an argument?

Why aren't the top people from industry employed here instead? You can see the obvious flaw when a minister is moved about in a cabinet shuffle from art minister to defence secretary, or education to health. (examples, btw, not real cases)

What do they know or understand about each sector?

Imagine being made the director of a banking chain tomorrow. You'd screw up pretty quick no matter how smart you are unless you've got a lot of experience in that field.

I was thinking about the life changing situation just a few days ago. It's an emotive subject. I even almost wrote a few storylines and plots for films on the subject. You could make a decent blockbuster just exploring those ideas.

This is my thinking. I've seen, things... things you people wouldn't believe. People in wheelchairs, not those that have always been in them, but those who have had accidents in late childhood, early adulthood.

The age and situation is important, not taking anything away from people with other conditions at different ages, but that would be the point where school is almost over, your outside life is infront of you. You'd be old enough to have made plans for a path to take.

Long term plans, a first job as a stepping stone, a career, a trip to those Aztec cities, or the Grand canyon once you are settled with a 4 bedroom detached house.
The guys might have planned to work towards getting a Porsche, the women might want to get a horse that they always wanted, but they knew they need to get their lives set up and stable first.

Then you get hit by a car and paralysed. It could vary, maybe you loose feeling in your legs, and will never ride a motorbike, maybe you end up quadriplegic needing 24 hour care.

It could happen to anyone, could happen to you tomorrow. What is horrible is that it will happen to someone tomorrow.

Maybe it is a scrum collapse in Rugby on Monday afternoon's games lesson. Maybe it is messing about with a Jerry can of petrol and taking your face and hair off.

There's guys out in the middle east who run this kind of risk every minute. In a fraction of a second, 20 years of planning and hopes get turned upside down.

There are people who will say getting paralysed isn't the end of the world, and yes, they are right, but it is the end of the world you had planned. I'm not trying to put a downer on people who have just had a terrible accident, but they know all this stuff anyway.

They've gone through it and hopefully and reformatting their lives, but that life changing moment. What a point.

Imagine if you could go back and change it? Would you? Maybe your changes put a different perspective on things. Maybe your parallel ego gets stuck in the same dead end job, coke addict, divorce, suicide.

Compared to that, someone in a 'chair who would go round to the newer unfortunate members of the same club and help them through it would certainly have made more of a difference in their life.

And isn't that the point of life? Maybe not for you, but for me, there is an element of change the world for a better place. Make someone smile. If you can make a difference to someone, then your life has had a purpose and an effect.

There probably are films out there covering it. It's not a new idea, "A Christmas Carol" covers that plot in different ways.

But that's just a quick idea that went through my head. I know the world is full of what if's and they are something that can never be answered.

Anyway, I've ran out of things to talk about for now without straining my brain trying to be smart.

Laterz!