The videos are gone!
Woohoo! I dropped them off at the City-Link depot a few days ago and they had arrived by the following morning. They were real heavy too, so it's nice to think I won't have to lug them around when I move house in a couple of months time. No responses on the floppy disks yet, so I think they might be heading to the charity shop very soon.
Today is my second day off work... well, I say off work, I'm on standby. Right now, as it happens, so the phone could ring at any point between now and 10.30pm and they could call me for a flight, but I've been on standby since 2.30pm, and I'm not sure what I could be called for at this late hour. If I 'survive', I have 4 days off as of tomorrow :)
I'd like to say I've done absolutely loads over the last 2 days, but in truth I've been a bit lazy. I finally put a couple of bits on eBay today, and also listed a big glass chess set on Gumtree, so hopefully those will get taken, but other than that, I haven't done much. To photograph the eBay bits, I cleared a space on my floor, and it's great to be able to see a large area of my carpet again, although everything has just been stacked in a pile on my bed, so it's all going back onto the floor again later!
The weather was quite nice yesterday so in the afternoon, I took a wander down to my local park and spent an hour on the grass chilling with some tunes on my iPod. While laying there, I watched a little bug land on a flower next to me. It slowly and carefully checked every stamen (I used google to find that word!) for pollen before moving to the next and doing the same again. It seemed that that was its only job... the reason it existed. It didn't need to worry about money or work or anything like that... its purpose was to do only what it was doing. It got me thinking about all the things that take up most of my time... whether they were relevant and important. Does it really matter if I make £2 selling something on eBay, when in 1/10th of the time, I could drop it off at a charity shop and be done with it. It got me thinking about my purpose... do I even have one? For a long time, I've believed that somehow I'll change the world for the better. And I still think that's the case, but perhaps I need to concentrate my efforts on the important things... move away from the small, menial and somewhat pointless tasks, even if doing them does give me a sense of achievement. I think pondering one's purpose is something that could take months... years... and it's not something I'm going to figure out over an hour in the park, but I do think it's woken me up a little to the time I 'waste' on small jobs when I could be concentrating on the bigger picture. I might even have a look tonight at all the piles of stuff around me to see what can be dealt with here and now.
....deeeep, huh!
Well, only an hour to go until my standby is over. I was looking at staff travel for a trip away over the next 4 days. While looking for the dates for Berlin Pride, I discovered that the World Fireworks Championships are taking place on Saturday out there. Looks really good, and it'd probably only cost about £120 in total with accommodation, flights and entry. I don't speak a word of German though, so could be interesting getting around!
The easyJet staff travel site lists all the flights available in the morning with staff seats on them. Normally, there's about 10-15 destinations. Looking at tomorrow's, there's about 55-60, and that's all before 10am... I'm spoilt for choice! The Berlin flights are £47 return, although sometimes it can be cheaper to go further - Aberdeen is £48 return, yet Gran Canaria is £37! It's all about the taxes, but still seems odd :)
Anyways, only half an hour left of my standby now. Need to have a good think about where I might want to go on my days off... I'm absolutely CERTAIN I don't want to spend it in Crawley, unless I'm doing something fun like my paragliding course. Hopefully my next post will be post-holiday with some great stories to tell (which reminds me, I need to tell you all about my holiday earlier this year, but that's for another post).
Bye for now :)
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