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I used to have a lot of ideas, to some extent I still do. Once I came up with the concept of Lego for the blind. The bricks would have braille on them, so blind children would be able to share the same simple pleasures of building Lego.

I still have ideas, but instead of things to help the planet, these days they seem to be more focussed on ways to do a better job. What would be a good flyer to design, what would be a good procedure to implement, boring by comparison. I’ve become one of those people who wake up early just to do the morning commute.

I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with that either… but I wonder where it’s all heading. I now look forward to the weekend break from the 9-5 (or if you include travel and overtime, the 7-9). Emails are going unanswered, old friends are calling to check if I’m still alive and my blog has barely been touched for weeks.

Bottom line… I need to make some adjustments. I’ve just spent a lovely afternoon lazing on a couch where there was no pressure to do anything. I’ve been tired for too long and haven’t changed enough to deal better with everything I must. I mean, work offered me a work laptop the other day and I turned them down, so I could keep everything together incase I needed to work from home, or home from work.

Being the person I am I very much doubt I will ever achieve work-home separation, so I must willingly invite them both to encroach on each other to achieve a degree of balance. That said, I still miss the ideas.

At work, it seems I have been tasked with finding ways to better promote the store to the university populace. I’ve since found out that student code of conduct means the university can kick me out if I try to get up and self-promote in front of lectures, so I’m at a loss to know how to connect. Once I would have had a dozen ideas I could try, now I’m so busy with my day-to-day, I don’t have the space to be creative.

I must find that and soon, or I risk my sanity.