I recently got an email from a dear friend of mine which simply said “You are such a geek.”  No explanation, no context, just a single statement.  I love you too, AM.  My guess is that she had checked my blog and found a myriad of particularly geeky posts, for which I can only apologise; my recent offerings have indeed revolved around such joys as Lego, hacking my mobile phone, doing clever things with computers and my mobile, and joining the ranks of Twitterers.  Unabashedly geeky, I have to admit.

So, this post is part apology, part solution.  I do apologise to any of my loyal blog followers who may have been put off by the content of my recent posts.  I also apologise to any new followers who have seen the geekiness and expect that to be the only subject matter from now on and for all time – sorry, I’m not that much of a geek.  Herewith, therefore, is a post that is not geeky.  Or at least not intentionally.

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Some of you may have seen (or at least heard of) the film The Transporter, featuring Jason Statham as an executive delivery boy for the rich and infamous.  The first film in the trilogy (the third of which is in cinemas soon, apparently) starts with a hooter of a car chase, with a rather sporty and well kitted-out Beamer.  Unfortunately I’ve not actually seen more than the first 15 minutes of the film, so that puts an end to my review.

The reason for that introduction stems from my experience in the last half an hour, where I had to pick Sarah up from work and deliver her to the university campus where she was catching a coach, as fast as possible.  Not because Sarah was late, but because I forgot.  She had organised this with me several days ago, and yesterday evening I went round to her house so she could put a bag in my boot to save her worrying about it today.  And yet, somehow, I completely forgot about it until 10 minutes after I was supposed to have picked her up.  Grrr.

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“Time is an illusion.  Lunchtime doubly so.”  So said the great and oft-misquoted Douglas Adams.  And how right he was in his observation.  We fill our lives with so much ’stuff’ that there is rarely time left over to indulge in that age-old tradition of ’sitting and doing nothing’.  That’s something I’ve done precious little of lately, through a combination of an unusually high quantity of work and an influx of new ways to fill that ’spare’ time in between work, sleep and mealtimes.

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