Social not-working

Okay I spend far too much time on social sites, so if you've worked with me - know me, or just want to make my aquaintance add me at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtrowley

Please sponsor a friend - he is doing something quite stupid...

You may or may not know Mr. Jamie Dainton, but he is cycling from London to Paris.

So I thought I would do a little promotion for him;

Please sponsor at; http://www.justgiving.com/jamiedainton/

And you can also follow his training at http://jamiedainton.blogspot.com/

Good luck Jamie!

Happy New Year!!

A new year is upon us and according to Abi, this is irrelevant and actually, it is just Thursday. Although she does have a point (it is Thursday).

I am a little more positive about the whole thing, I think having life split up into units of years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds is kind of useful, it chunks things up to digestable units (imagine having to say I was 914,544,000 Seconds old when someone asked my age), and a year is a pretty wholesome unit - and I think that having goals and stuff for the year (New Years resolutions) is always a good one.

But most people tend to chose things that they are not going to be in anyway commited to and are more aspirational life goals, and normally vague, pathetic or sound like they are giving up something they love. For example, "I'm going to lose weight" - your not losing anything, your gaining something - a new lease of life, why not have a goal such as I'm going to run a mile in under 10 minutes - you will probably lose weight, but you will actually occupy yourself with something useful.

And the best one of all - "I'm going to quit smoking", this sounds like you are giving up! Are you giving up anything? So why think about something you will gain, like - "I'm going to take up breathing fresh air as often as I can", a side effect of this is that while you are breathing fresh air, it will clash with breathing in smoke. Or if you want something more tangible, take up free diving - you will need to practice holding your breath for that. What fun?

So... what is my NYE Task. Well I'm still thinking about that. I'm thinking about what's next.

So, to those of you who have celebrated in style because it was New Year (such as myself - pictures to follow) and to those of you who celebrated in style because it was Thursday (such as Abi), and of course to those of you who went to bed at 10:30 because you live life on the edge, I wish you all the best for 2009 and hopes that everything you want in life comes your way when you want it (whether it be by Year, Month, day - or you work outside the constraints of time and space).

So.. Cheers, Prost!

Tired and ill but Xmas was good

I am being a typical man and am suffering from man-flu, as all men know this is a severe disease that is life threatening to the point of having an adrenaline shot by my side just in case.

Women are some how immunce to this problem and it merely manifests as a cold. Strange eh?

Well even though the hunt for sympathy continues I did manage to stay awake at Christmas around the folks with the help of the Guitar tab for 'Death Magnetic' as well as a Rubik's cube (which I managed to complete in the small hours of 27th Dec - yay me!). This of course was to distract me from the tat that passes as Xmas TV i.e. the tears and trauma on Eastenders, Corrie etc. as well as laughing at my Dad squirm as some guy swings around a girl with her head just missing the floor in 'Dancing on ice'.

Of course Xmas in the Rowley house-hold is full rich food that I am still trying to get through (Mom always sends us with a care package that can last a normal person about 6 months), so I will get back to watching quality TV (Beauty and the Geek) and thinking how to tackle the food mountain in the fridge.

Decembeard - more!

Okay, as work have a policy where you cannot access anything approaching fun or interesting (with the exception of http://www.wikipedia.org/) and more specifically Facebook/Blogs and other such stuff which makes publishing stuff on the internet easy, so I have created a website for Decembeard with the photos of the guys who are taking part on.

So... go to http://www.baumley.com/ and take a look!

And while you are there follow the link to http://www.justgiving.com/decembeard2_Oldbury to make a donation (or nab one of us if you see us and give us cash!).

Spencer's Birthday Party

Spencer's birthday celebrations kicked off with a Satsumo reunion from one of the (many) line ups. This was the 'Rich on guitar, Matt on bass, Dave on Drums, Spencer Guitar and Vocals' era.

You may be wondering what we are wearing - probably best not to - but at least the beard looks cool :-)

Then later on in the evening... Eclectic Blue;


Yes, for some reason the drummer goes barefoot.

Decembeard

After much thought I finally decided to get involved with a charity event at work, I am now two weeks in to 'Decembeard' which long story short is an a charity thing to grow a beard during December (See the beautiful pic above!).

This might sound easy - but I can assure you its not. The act is easy, i.e. don't shave, but I can say that I have had more insults thrown at me in the last two weeks than at any point in my life!

In saying that I had one person say that it suits me (thanks Rob) and one person say they like it, and they like beards (thanks Jan). I have also had my boss give me some Frontline (stuff for cats with Fleas etc. - Cheers Dave).

So please donate... http://www.justgiving.com/decembeard2_Oldbury