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Well I put one of my unofficial new year’s dodahs into practice today.

Not many people can say they got a ticking off at work for being too nice. Well that happened to me-seriously it did. You see I go out of my way to be helpful to people who I get on the phone at work. I give them my direct line to make sure that they get me as I do favours I am not supposed to. People are very grateful-yes, but the fact that they have my number means my phone rings non stop at this time of year and I can’t do the work that is actually piling up. Today I was much more firm in setting up payment plans and told that I have to be stricter and told them no more chances-if they should fall behind they will not get a second chance AND I made them make bigger payments as this was the only way that they could clear a debt.  I have actually ordered a little Darth Vader bobble-head for my desk at work to encourage me to feel the dark side at the start of a working day. To be honest I actually liked this new dark side of me.

There’s a blog that I am following about this guy who is doing 366 random acts of kindness this year and it is truly cringey reading.One was that during a trip to New York he was taken aback by the down and outs,the homeless begging in the streets-so he said he was going to go out and buy a big bag of apples and hand them out to the beggars. Now what do you think a homeless wino in the streets would prefer-a few bits of loose change to buy his/her next bottle of wine or an apple? I know the guy means well-but I think he is very naive and is in danger of getting beaten up some time. I think today he was helping people hail cabs in new york-be it people in the street or doormen at hotels. Maybe some people will think this guy is doing great things-but me? I find the whole thing a joke,asking for trouble and self gratification big time. But maybe this opinion is the dark side really taking over me?

And another thing-is anyone as peed off as I am about all the stuff about the 100^th anniversary about the Titanic? I cannot see why Belfast is bragging so much about this great ship. For crying out loud the thing was a failure-badly made with loads of money saving short cuts that resulted in a great many lives lost. There is a myth here in Northern Ireland that the ship was cursed because the protestant work force in that supposedly great ship yard painted the reg number 3606 0N on its side because when this was reflected upside down in the water it would have looked like No pope. Now whether there is any truth in that I doubt it-but it’d still a good story. And how long before there is a movie about the flow of the iceberg if the ship had not struck it?

As I type it is almost easter and tv will have loads of special family movies on. We’re bound to see that one about the guy who was dead for three days and then came back to life –what was it…….oh yes E.T.   Ah there’s still a few miles in that one. I am hoping to get out on my beloved gerdymobile over the long weekend-but apparently we could have snow.

Any that's it y'all take care now y'hear?