2022

MADPL 21/22 Week 7

Away at Feathers B an in form DR went on first and played his usual thoughtful methodical game and without being spectacular ground out a win against a tricky opponent who didn’t look good but you never know whether it’s a good player playing bad and given a chance can punish you to get us off to good start. Foz on next as always made it very difficult to beat him but was also playing a better opponent managed to stay out of trouble and put us two up.

Looking at the players they had sat waiting to play I risked Mike next thinking to go 3 up quickly would heap the pressure on them, he played one of their best players and it took all of his experience to not give his opponent a good enough chance but even so was fortunate mid frame when luck could have produced a finish but leaving no shot on black Mike was able to clear the table with two visits. Going for the jugular I threw PJ in and although up against a very good player he was reduced to his opponents level who was missing a lot of shots and PJ seemed to struggle to finish the job. At 3 – 1 I sacrificed PL against what turned out to be their best player on the night and although Pat will be disappointed not to finish when given the chance taking the wrong ball first meant he was out of position for the finish he was beaten by a good player.

I went on next no matter who they put on hoping to secure the point allowing SH and our wildcard to have a go at getting the win without the pressure I played well but had to be careful not to give my opponent a chance who potted cleanly but he unravelled when unable to pot 4 – 2 and unfortunately SH came up against another good player who potted very well and put pressure on Steve from his first visit so it was left to them to choose our last player and when they chose DR he was surprised and also delighted. Continuing his good form played very well throughout especially when drawn into a tactical frame being patient and not panicking winning the frame easily when from the sidelines he’d looked in trouble mid frame.

So another team win and a very pleased DR winning both his frames and topping the team averages which is always a nice ‘Feather’ in his cap lol

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Being productive

Workwise like I said yesterday I am struggling right now to concentrate on one job long enough to finish it which I was able to overcome for a couple of hours this morning and it felt really good to rattle through a lot of my workload completing lots of the smaller jobs and pinning the more involved jobs to a to do list. It just made the mountain of work feel a little bit smaller coupled with that feeling of achievement of seeing a lot of the jobs disappear either completed or delegated.

It got to about 11:30 and then I had to prepare for yet another meeting at noon slat bang in the middle of my day which feels so disruptive when I look at jobs outside the office and the ability to go to a surgery and be back for a meeting so today I went to Portal straight afterwards to improve the wifi and clear another job off my list while there I also tidied up a real mess of unnecessary wiring and to be able to not just do what I was asked to do but do what I like doing which is a thorough sort out of the practice and improve things if I can. This made me feel better too! Unfortunately these opportunities will dry up as VP and their cabling guys take over and they install their own hardware but for now I can still do what I think needs doing, and get praised for actually improving things.

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Can’t concentrate

Just lately I have found it increasingly difficult to concentrate especially at work, manifesting itself in my mind flicking between lots of jobs and finding it almost impossible to complete jobs that take any length of time over ten minutes, say? I used to be so focused on what I was doing and able to achieve a high completion rate on all jobs but just lately I have so many jobs on the go and don’t seem to be able to find time to finish any of them because something will always interrupt me and then it might be hours or days before I come back to the job and only when someone chases it, and that is just not how I like to work.

I keep wondering if it’s because I don’t believe in what I am being forced to do or the way the direction my work is going, my workload has increased massively with prep work for the computer system but it is not just work I am struggling with it’s everything. I wonder if it has anything to do with sobriety and the reason I say that because that’s been on my mind lately too.

Today is 75 days since I had my last drink, and I have to say it has been pretty easy most of the time but sometimes like now I would love to drown out a night with a session the urge is not enough to ruin 75 or #oneyearsober but it does take up a lot of brain capacity wondering if I can do it, do a whole year and all the things that are heading my way that I would normally celebrate with a drink like concerts, my birthday, holidays cricket, summer etc and then it becomes enormous and seem impossible but also not the end of the world if I don’t do it so why bother I am not doing it for health reasons I needed a break from the habit of daily drinking for the only the reason just to drink.

Maybe work and drink are related right now I am stressed with my workload I don’t believe in what I am working on and normally I would turn to alcohol to just relieve the that stress for a night but I have chosen not to have that option and then that makes things worse.

I love me cup of Camomile and Honey tea before bed and I do not have any trouble getting to sleep at night my sleep is much deeper without alcohol and really I don’t need it but I would love a bottle of wine right now and I bet I will read this back tomorrow and realise the blog point changed throughout because I didn’t concentrate?

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Sofa, so good

There isn’t words to describe the look of pride and joy on Jamie’s face sat on her new couch. I use that term deliberately because she has worked hard to feel that pride and joy of sitting on the first couch she ever bought !

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Dust a minute?

I’ve brushed your yard because the dust was going on my car, let me know when you’ve finished sawing and I’ll was my car?

If there’s one thing that drives me insane it’s our neighbour who has a heart of gold I’m sure but if something affects her she passively moans as though you’re going to apologise and maybe once upon a time I might have done but not now!

It just makes me want to just do it more

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Lincgamergod

Both Reagan and Lincoln spend a lot of time online more so since the advent of Covid lockdowns and also they are getting older and YouTube is a big thing watching loads of online content freely available by all their favourite Youtubers. We do monitor what they watch but also we can’t stand the screaming and in my opinion annoying voices that they walk around the house listening to. I guess this is just the same as my mum having to listen to my music thinking it’s just noise and not like it used to be in the good old days lol. For the most part it’s them and their friends from school but tonight Lincoln wanted to stream himself playing Minecraft which I was ok with but it is public streaming so I have to make sure he is sensible and the first time tonight he streamed he was really excited to tell me about it but he said while he was telling me that he had 2 watchers one was Ollie his mate and another person who I don’t know which has spooked me to the point that I need to watch this “Twitch” account and his activity to make sure traffic is one way and he is not giving out any personal information, he also mentioned Reagan has an account too which I don’t know whether Mommy knows about.

It just made me realise just how quickly it could all get out of hand if we don’t educate them and monitor their internet usage, they probably won’t like it but it must be done and must be tomorrow now because they are in bed and Mommy is out at church

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Skirtings Day 2

Got a bit more done today than yesterday because I have all the tools ready and I have worked out a system to fasten the skirtings to the wall but it’s slow progress if you want right and I am really trying to make it right!

Progress was slowed by a distress call from a mate who broke his hip on Christmas day and he needed so groceries so I downed tools and went to Mozzas and then dropped them off at his house. Little did I know that he’d not had a lot of visitors and proceeded in talking me ear off for an hour.

It went dark just as I was about to reach the hallway door and artificial light just isn’t conducive getting things “right” so packed up, slightly annoying because the sofa should arrives Tuesday.

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Skirting day

Today I started installing the skirting boards in the living room and even just standing one up against the wall on top of the new floor had that wow factor so I can’t wait to see them all finished.

I struggled a bit to get started, not because Mommy forbade me to by a new Dewalt cordless sliding mitre saw which would have obviously made the job a 366 times easier, but because I needed to get it right in my head first how I was going to fix them to the wall. Once I had done that I made my first cut and my first joint which wasn’t perfect and made me realise it wasn’t as easy as it is made to look on YouTube

Anyway I am all set up and have the tools required to get some skirting boards fitted tomorrow ready for the new sofa to arrive on Tuesday.

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Steak out

After a long week I didn’t quite make to 5pm before I’d had enough so I went out to get supplies for this evening, Mommy mentioned she fancied steak so I went to Lowes farm shop where I found a new but her had set up and he sold me 2 surloins and 2 rump steaks for tea. I picked up a couple of bags of coal too and called at Mozzas to get plastic cheese and muffins for breakfast tomorrow and came home to cook!

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Therse’s always someone worse off…

Today was a busy day initially working from home and then out at surgeries in Warrington it was just another day but in the back of my mind was the boiler and if it will break on the coldest day of the year so far or whether we will have hot water to wash in etc but there was nothing I could do but hope it holds on until we can get it fixed or replaced, but I just work hard and money will sort the boiler so I am fine.

Reagan is suffering again with mouth ulcers which is worrying because she gets them a lot and has done for a long time now so Mommy took her to the Chemist who advised we take her to see a doctor because they are not going better or away and we have been to see the chemist before about it so we intend to get an appointment tomorrow to get her checked out.

Jamie has a cough that has hung around annoyingly and somewhat worryingly but she got blood test results that were interesting but inconclusive maybe asthma, it could be but I did notice that when we were off work over the Christmas period it went away which in my opinion suggests it could be related to her work and when she rests her voice it recovers so she is going to try a humidifier to see if that moisture improves things?

I was working at surgery in Birchwood today when a customer was taken ill which could have been a stroke because the lady became very disorientated and scared and she looked haunted when I saw her being lead to a quiet room. I have to say the staff were so caring and mindful of how scary and possibly embarrassing I was so impressed and intend to mention them tomorrow to my bosses. The ambulance arrived and I am sure she was looked after by them and I hope she is ok

There’s always someone worse off and it teaches me not to moan about myself until I take a look around at others!

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