...and I'm tempted to leave it at that, it's such a great line! But the muse is on me, so stop reading now if you're looking for clarity, we can call this my rambling spot and I can just post in the same thread each time.
So let's review. In July of 2015, just before my holiday, I got my redundancy notice, which was to finish at the end of September that year. It's now February 2016 and I'm still being made redundant, and the date keeps shifting, right now it's scheduled for the end of March. Oh, there's going to be some musical interludes, I've found some amazing music lately, and the muse insists I share, so here's the first, a chap called Dylan LeBlanc, the song is called "
Lightning and Thunder", from the album "
Cautionary Tale".
https://youtu.be/eSI_6WrWNKsWhere was I? So I'm looking for work, and there's a dearth of that around here lately, at least of the kind that doesn't make me scream at night, but there's one which reminds me of this one, which I've loved doing. I jumped out of the nightmare back in 2007, and haven't regretted a moment and I admit, I'm a tad pissed this one's come to an end. So this potential job, it's got my name written all over it, but it's proving elusive. As usual a perfect scenario is being ruined by...people. In this case people who sit on committees, playing endless political and social games, which in the end either produce bugger all, or get them on a New Years Honour List, for what should be called "
Services to Bullshit" but isn't. It's only other drawback is terrible pay, but I can live with that because the rest of it is pure gold, every day potentially different, every talent I have called into service, and only one man to blame if it all goes wrong, me.
But I'm persevering, and the longest period of redundancy I've ever personally known is clearly advantageous at this point. Then a bolt out of blue, a job offer from someone I not only like, respect and admire, but whom I know I would be able to work with very easily, good pay, good holidays et al. Safe too, nothing to learn in this one, I know it all very well, having done it for many years. I hate safe, but that's also the place I like to keep my better half, and compared to the other possibility it's the brick house of the three little pigs.
Jason Isbell, the song is "
24 Frames" from the album "
Something more than free"
https://youtu.be/jH9ORUB2ABUOh but the bright side, it's a wonder. When I make my wife laugh, and I manage to do that [deliberately] quite often, I could drown in that sound. When someone catches my eye in the street, I get to play silly buggers and tip my hat, which always gets a smile. For more on the hats you'll have to find a much earlier post, the journey may not be that worthwhile. When I take what seems to be an endless number of pictures, sit here trolling through them and just hit one that truly works, that actually [almost] tells the story I wanted it to tell...
And the music, and the friends, and the films that flip my emotions, and the forum comments that reduce me to grinning like a Cheshire cat, and the fact Mince will hate this sentence because it's going on too long, and the e-mails shared with my Grandson, and the phone calls shared with my Son, and the greetings on the stairs where my office is, and...
This an a cappella band called Straight no Chaser, the song features Seal and one of his original songs, "
Kissed by a Rose", the album is called "
Under he influence"
https://youtu.be/tojAeWCP6q0And finally something that shouldn't work, but does, for me at least, Celtic Pink Floyd from the album of the same name, the song is "
Mother" [give it a chance, it grows on you]
https://youtu.be/2590tNvp4LU 
