Mark O’Meara: the blog

No sooner did I mention on my blog that some person using Road Runner was looking at my page than they stopped. I wasn’t overly fussed about them reading but I just assume that I pretty much know all the folks who read this page regularly.

The I mentioned that someone seemed to be getting to be by searching for my URL on google rather than just entering the URL. Then that stopped as well.

All this could be coincidence, only the roadrunner and the url searcher know for sure and the may well be long gone.

Lesson for the day - asking questions does change the answer.

I know that it is terribly predictable to complain about the bizarre design of Microsoft products but one particular feature is driving me especially mental this week.

It is the one where you get the thermometer telling you how long a task will take. In theory this is all well and good but in practice is drives me absolutely fucking demented.

I just tried to delete a bunch of things in Outlook and it confidently predicted that it would take 2 hours, then 3 hours, the 15 seconds, then 1 hour. In actually fact it took about 2 minutes.

Lesson for the day - it’s hard to plan based on estimates like that.

A fellow sitting near me was singing the Star Trek theme a minute ago. When we do watch it we have it on tape and that song is the first thing to be fast forwarded through.

Certainly the whole show is slightly trying but that songs is just too much.

Lesson for the day - hopefully the future will not be full of 80s rock ballads.

It has been sunny and warm here. I have not even been tempted to slap anyone at work. The hotel is ok if you ignore the ironing board, the tv, the shower and the staff.

But I am ready to go home.

Lesson for the day - as the chick in the red slippers said, I wish I was in Melbourne instead.

I have sent Nicky a couple of emails and thought it was odd that I hadn’t heard back. So I checked her schedule on the corporate system and could see that she has the whole day blocked out for something.

But I am damned if I can remember what. I am an all day thing is something she would mention but I have just no retained it.

Lesson for the day - I am not sure that I should be left unsupervised.

I have one brother whose computer is two inches from dying and other quite sick (but not life threateningly so) overseas.

There is not a whole lot I can do for either of them.

Lesson for the day - I am not especially useful when push comes to shove.

For the two people on the planet who have not heard this before, Only You Can Stay The Same is the self help book that I am planning to write.

So far I have produced absolutely nothing. My first two attempts resulted in a half page of utter crap in both cases.

Lesson for the day - I am perfectly placed to write about not changing things.

Well not only did I have my episode with the hat earlier in the week but last night I met a fellow called Randy.

I ran into him near the hotel pool (I was not swimming, just there to see the city from the top of the hotel) and had a good little chat. He had just flown in from Arizona and was interested to know what was where.

Clearly I was not a lot of actual help but it was a good chat anyway.

Lesson for the day - road is not always lonesome from folk to country music.

Having been awake for thirteen hours already I am well and truly sick of pretty much everything. Perhaps a nap at the hotel will make me feel a bit better. Perhaps a stiff drink.

Actually these days a stiff drink makes me feel worse more often than it makes me feel better.

Lesson for the day - I once was younger than a ham.

I don’t know that Only You Can Stay the Same will be a book as such, I think that books need to be a couple of hundred pages long. But book or not I will have the first draft ready for you all by the end of this year.

That sounds pretty slack but
a) There are only two months left in the year.
b) I have not written a damn word of this thing.
c) I am really slack.

Lesson for the day - “somebody told me commitment is freedom” - Deborah Conway.