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    The Great Gordino Newsletter - Issue 275 - Mon 10th Jan 2005
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    Hi There,

    I hope Monday finds you well.

    Sometimes you get good days, sometimes you get bad days.
    Sometimes you get both good and bad in the same day.
    You have to take whatever comes.

    Yesterday I was still fuming at the lack of the American football
    on the TV.

    Having shown the whole regular season, the channel announced
    that it had finished for the season, and wouldn't be showing the
    playoffs!

    How does that work?
    Ooh, I would say I was incandescent with rage, but I'm not 100%
    sure what it means.
    Hang on, I'm off to look it up...

    Right, it means glowing, or produced by a glowing filament.

    I wonder if you can be 'candescent'...

    Not according to my £3.99 dictionary/thesaurus you can't,
    although I can't trust it entirely since I discovered that it doesn't
    actually contain the word 'thesaurus'.

    So anyway, I was fuming that I couldn't watch the playoffs, and
    then I noticed that one of our commercial channels, which to my
    knowledge has never shown NFL in the 20 years since it first hit
    our screens, was showing a highlights show - Woo Hoo!

    See?
    Bad, then good.

    I woke up this morning, to discover that they had in fact shown a
    highlights package from a boat show.

    Bad, then good, then bad again.

    My ipod arrived today.
    My treat for myself, which is the size of a mobile phone, but
    holds 10,000 songs.
    Blimey, I've got some heavy duty recording sessions ahead of
    me!

    I excitedly set it up to charge power, and decided that in the
    meantime I would quickly cut my hair.

    A couple of months ago I bought myself a set of clippers.

    I've never been a fan of getting my hair cut, all that 'what are
    you doing for your holiday?' nonsense.

    'What's it bloody got to do with you? Get on with the cutting!' is
    what usually springs to mind as my repsonse, so I went for the
    clippers, and have quite happily been saving myself a bit of
    money by doing it myself.

    I'm getting quite used to it now, and didn't take long to give it
    the quick once-over.

    I took the length guide off to trim the edges with the basic
    razor, and then decided I would just go over it once more.

    My lightning sharp reflexes were not so lightning sharp this
    morning, more like a 40-watt light bulb, because by the time I
    realised I had forgotten to put the length guide back on, I had
    already shaved a big swathe across the back of my head.

    Hmm, decision time.
    What do I do now?
    Shave the other side?
    Shave the whole head?
    Try and glue the hair back on?

    I look like I've either had an operation, or have joined the army.

    Only half my head has joined the army though.
    I'm like one of those old variety acts, where half of you is
    costumed one way, then you turn round, and the other half is
    costumed another.

    In the army.
    Not in the army.

    In hospital post -op.
    Not in hospital post-op.

    It's a bit chilly as well, I can sympathise with all you baldies out
    there.

    I looked in the maunal, under the frequently asked questions,
    to see if it had a suggestion for when you go over your hair
    without the length guide.
    No joy, not even 'get a wig', which is what I would have written.

    So as you can see, I'm right in the middle of a
    good/bad/good/bad session, which I think you can best describe
    as 'life'.

    It happens to all of us, and it's our reaction to the events which
    is important.

    It's important to enjoy the good bits, and get the bad bits in
    proportion.

    You'll find that once you get this attitude right, life seems
    happier, and you are more prepared to take risks and further
    yourself.

    Ok, that's it for today, and here's the thought - are you treating
    the good and the bad correctly?

    'Til Wednesday,
    Health and Happiness,
    Gordon
    email me at gordon@gordonbryan.com - you'll have to copy and paste
    thanks to the idiot online spammers!



    
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