Increased Wealth

I calculate my personal wealth by having things to hand as and when I need them.
To date the standard has been the availability of scourer / sponge washing up accessories. Should the old one run its course I need to have a new one at hand. This has been achieved, so where to from here?
Tonight I needed to sharpen a pencil and there to hand was a pencil sharpener. Riches indeed.

On this thread my mental wealth has increased over the last couple of days.
I have felt much better in myself since telling my manager that I am gainfully looking for other employment. It's the polite way of saying "You can shove your job up your f*$#ing a#*e you narrow minded immature brown nosing w#*&er!" After finding out that I was being paid substantially less for doing the same job as a colleague I felt aggrieved. Now I feel relieved. If for any reason my work isn't up to the standard required I have the reasoning that 'You get what you pay for.' to fall back on. Indeed, not trying, although against my nature is pleasantly relaxing. A great relief if nothing.

Am I a better person for stepping back from the breach?
Do you need an answer?

The Thrill Of The New

I'm not superstitious.
Superstition makes no sense but there are things in my life that always make me think and from those thoughts I often arrive at different conclusions from those that might have existed without a prompt.
Watches are things that make me think. I won't let anyone buy or give me a watch. As I say, "My time is my own." The watch I wear daily is cheap, about £30 but I like it because it receives a radio signal from the atomic clock and is always accurate. Today the small band that holds the strap and stops it flapping around broke.
Time for a new watch. Time to change.

This holds true for my life. Work has gone from the thrill of driving to a constant battle with big company procedures. It seems that the larger the company the less in touch with day to day practices those in charge are. The larger the company the harder it is for promises to be kept because no-one knows what's going on or what everyone else is doing or has promised.
When it comes down to it, the people at the end of the chain, people like me, get an extra burden to improve. This would be fine if I could invent a few new hours in the day or was prepared to regularly break the laws of this land for the benefit of the company at considerable risk to my own livelihood. It's also difficult to improve or make extra effort if one finds out that one is working alongside another doing the same job and that one is earning considerably less.
That's the position I'm in. So like my watch, my work life is due for a change.

My time is indeed my own and I'll decide where I spend the working portion.
I can tell you that it's not where I am now.

Stop Now

The first picture is my bedside alarm. A wind up clock that hasn't had a wind in some time.
The second picture is my battery wall clock that stopped last night.
Maybe due to gravity acting on the clock hands this is the optimal time for a clock to stop.
Maybe my clocks are just strange.

Double Standards

A couple of weeks ago I got a note through the door from Leicester City Council.
The gist of it was that bins left on the street were causing a hazard to children attending the local primary school, elderly people and blind people. This despite it being a very wide pavement and parents filling every available parking space day and afternoon despite living in the catchment area. The blind people thing I can live with, it's not fair on them so the bin is now brought out on a Tuesday morning and gets put back when I get home from work.
So imagine my surprise when I got home from work today to find my bin in the middle of the pavement. Not left there by me but by whatever company empties them for LCC. No-one had bothered to move it during the course of the day. There wasn't any kind of pram pile-up or anyone stuck upside down in it after accidentally falling in.
This leaves me wondering. How much of a problem is it if it's not the priority of the bin company to move it out of harms way once it is emptied?
The council and contractor aren't talking.
#fail

Seven Foot Reading List

Sunday is my day for book crate digging.
Today was a good day.
Firstly a biography of Benny Hill. In my opinion a misunderstood character. I'm about to find out if I'm right or wrong.
Secondly a history of Mossad. Recently in the news and as elusive as ever this book should shed some light on the organisation.
Last buy not least a collection of books by J.P. Donleavy. By all accounts a very readable and humorous author. I look forward to my discovery along that road.
Books make me happy and today's hoard is no exception.