Flighty, Fickle and Fanciful ...

Remember these?

The first time I used a computer was way back in 1984 and I hated them!
They just seemed so slow and clunky... how things change, with my Pentium4, 80 gig hard drive, dvd rom, cd rom.  To be honest if I didn't have this box of tricks to play with I'd probably go insane.  My pc is the gateway to the world, I love to keep in touch with friends and family overseas, network and get involved.  How times have changed.

When I was at school only boys were allowed to do 'Computer Science' as it was known then - I had to do cookery or needlework - bleugh!
I was a bit of a rebel though, a friend and I persuaded the oh so very cute metalwork teacher that he really ought to let us girls set up a metal work club during lunch breaks - he did and we went and we had fun.  I seem to remember making a key ring and oggling the teacher a lot!

I also rebelled in as much as I had made a decision quite early on that I was going to follow my Grandad into the army and become a Redcap, but first I was going to go and study Agriculture at Hadlow college.  Having studied Agricultural science from the time I was 11 till I was 15 it was something that interested me.
Hadlow college didn't like the fact that I was planning on going in the army when I was 18 and decided to recind their offer of a place.

So instead I started my working life on a Youth Opportunities Scheme here ..

Although this is not the actual shop I started in - this is the 'new' shop which the company moved into in 1988.  When they moved I was already working somewhere else but popped in to assist, it was a great day with the local scouts helping to ferry furniture and stationery across the road.

The guys who own it are still very good friends to me and I always try to pop in when I'm in the town visiting my folks.

Not only that - when I started as a YOP they sponsored me to go to college and get a proper edumacation and paid me more than the government allowance of £26.25 a week! Those were the days - when my weekly housekeeping to my Mum was a fiver! - for the youngsters we are talking 23 years ago.....

That's it - Thursday night .......

Time to kick back and relax a bit and enjoy my days off before it's back into the maelstrom of a corporate world on Sunday.

Just spent a few very precious hours eating, laughing and joking with a friend I hadn't seen since last summer and persuading him that he really wants to come and work with me, we worked together before and he was one the first support workers that I worked with in my last job. He's one of the most laidback peeps I have ever met and he's a god damn musical genius.

His name is Deepsonics and you can check out his music through his MySpace page ....

http://www.myspace.com/deepsonicsprojects

Now I don't particularly like the kind of music of his genre but I can hear that it's well put together and it makes people jump around - A LOT!

The page is slow to load but that's cos there's a lot of content on it and a LOT of loud music, so if you're into Jungle, DnB etc ...