ELAD23 — AKA Dale

Me, myself and I — written from the Isle of Man.

Knowing when to quit

21 May 2012

As the events of the weekend show, sometimes you can give all that you have until there is pretty much nothing left to give and people can still treat you badly. Manchester was good, whilst I was there completely on my own I did enjoy my own company. I long discovered life is…

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Loosing Faith

19 May 2012

Starbucks has become the common place for me to write these entries, mainly because of the free internet access, but also they are not too bad at coffee (I admit Nero is better but I aint going hunting!). There are a few things in my life I have tried to balance, one obvious one…

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Just one of them days!

16 May 2012

I didnt sleep well last night.... in fact ive not been sleeping well for weeks... im not sure what it is... I cant really put my finger on it but things may seem well on the surface but there is an underlying issue somewhere. I have tried to tire myself out, last week I ran 25km…

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The 3 hour experiment

30 April 2012

Im bloody aweful when it comes to people... well a certain type of people anyway! The way my brain works is very simple... if I can talk about things I know about I am generally ok... otherwise I enter panic mode and kinda stutter and stumble. So heres the general gist of how…

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33000ft

19 March 2012

Here we are for the second to last time possibly ever. On my way to Dusseldorf onboard an A319 British Airways club class flight listening to me blue sky while staring out of the window over a beautiful sunny blue German sky, all paid for by vodafone. Yes it's my last week of my…

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Gutten taag!

23 February 2012

My first real out of country assignment. And most probably the last while working for my current company. Here I am in dusseldorf working my little bum off to do something ever so boring but most probably career making :) albeit do I want to be renowned for being the world…

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Old post that got stuck

21 February 2012

Evidently I wrote this when I was having a shitty day - but still important and should have hit the post system thingy: Maybe I changed things too quickly without properly thinking through the consequences? I now have the super cool job as an expert in my field. But not quite…

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Monkey nuts!

21 February 2012

I like monkeys.... Half feel like I am a monkey most of the time. Constantly farting about and generally doing what I want cause I'm so awesome I can get away with it (I wish). Target for this year then... Looks likely that the adding more to my salary is a done deal. Now need…

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