uninvention

Not sure that uninvention is or should be a word but today has been slow so I am going to put it out there. It's not up there with the train-crash of a word dramastic that was used in a meeting yesterday. Respect to the creator of that one. But I am creating the blog label uninvent and it will be used for things that I believe should not exist because they are crap.

1. Electric toothbrushes. Fossil fuels burnt to clean your teeth. Stop it.
2. Electric carving knife. Fossil fules burnt to hack up a roast. Stop it.
3. Electric airfreshners. Come off it. Burning fossil fuels - again - to put a puff of chemical scent into your house. Just open a fucking window. Or light a match. At least that way you are directly burning the fuel.

So that's a start. And yes, there is an easy to spot pattern emerging early.

Today has been quiet because

• most work days are quiet (cycled to work, found out that my bike pump does not fit my tyre valves, I ran at lunch, sunny, warm, harbour clear and so on. ZZzzzzz heard it all before.)
• I feel like I am getting a cold - throat a bit sore, been sneezing and feeling a groggy.
• the thing with my eye.

It is not that I am freaked out by it, rather that I could be. Best prognosis - eye drops and I'm all good, worst prognosis - blind. Not a lot I can do about that, I'm seeing the eye doc in the morning and that is it. Still, it could be why I've been a bit muted today. Damn you internet and your temting me to self-diagnose!

A couple of other things that spring to mind. The 40ft Christmas tree in Martin Place will actually be 20m, nearer 60ft. So I feel half as festive again as I thought I did! And Athletic Edge called me to let me know that they could not get me a pair of Asics Cumnulus until January. However, they will sell me the Nimbus, the next model up in the range, for the price of the Cumulus. Top notch service and I will, of course, tell anyone looking for running shoes in Sydney to go to those guys.