Kicking myself up the thingy...

Well.... it really is high time that I write a proper, involved, long-form blog posting, rather than the weird, bitty scatterings of silliness that I've been throwing at you in the past few days. I've been so determined to keep my run of consecutive days going, but not really taking the time out to make what I'm writing worthwhile, so I've been chucking any old shit online that happened to be in my head at the time. Not like me at all, really. I would much rather avoid this blogsite altogether than fill it with waffling nonsense that is just put there for the sake of it. To be fair to myself, I have been incredibly busy at work, but even so...
So, for probably the 157th time in the history of these chronicles, I am telling myself to try harder from here on in.

Work has been flat-out and full-on and a bit head-scrambling. We prepare as best as we can but it's always a shock when there's suddenly a site full of people and we're back in that 'full capacity' mode. I guess it's a bit like training for a marathon or something similar - you do everything you can, you train, you feed, you stretch, you envisage everything that might happen to you while you're running 26 miles, but then you get to the day itself and you have to deal with the pain and the effort. No amount of forward planning can let you know just how much your legs will ache and your heart will pound and your head will try to tell you to stop. This is kind of the same. The reality of the situation is not something you can know until you're in it.

In other news, I have started going for kombucha in a big way. I know it's a trendy thing to do, and I normally run away from things that are only popular because they're trendy, but it's just so damned tasty, and my gut biome is thanking me already.  And the trendiness aspect seems to have started fading now, so less people are drinking it, which probably means there'll be less choice around soon, but might also bring the price down a little.
It would be so good to jump on one of these 'new-fangled' drinks before they hit the market, would it not? What an investment that would be. Imagine being a shareholder in the early days of Red Bull! How much would that investment be worth now?
(Well, I've just paused typing to have a look - and in the last 13 weeks of 2023 alone, just in the USA, their revenues totalled 1.71 billion dollars. So, yeah, it would have been a good investment...)
I'll stop now before I disappear down one of my research rabbit holes. There's a lot of work to be done today, after all...

RC 6-4-24