Tag: dailyprompt

Expect little. Don’t be surprised or worried.

What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?

That’s better Wp, looks like a little thought has gone into this prompt but don’t get too excited as it’s not that good.

People blog for many reasons, some professionally some for fun and some like me for the reason of maintaining some sanity in what is a world full of hatred, poison and what appears to be total and utter disrespect for pretty much everything.

Pleasantries seem to be in extremely low stock these days.

Anyway back to the question. My blog like many others will more than likely just drift into that great pit of unread nonsense in the cess pit that is the internet. People don’t seem to like just every day ramblings and thoughts, they want the nasty stuff, for that we have MSM not the old fashioned blogging platforms.

My blog, took over from a book I had at the side of my bed, yes I used a journal as I was struggling after some pretty horrific situations in my work that would have finished a number of people. I was screaming for help, and that never came. For me this is self healing. This is my way of sorting the mess out.

If just one person looks at my blog and smiles, learns something or picks up a tool and repairs something or stops an item going into landfill I’ll be happy.

But then I’ll never know, as that’s not the point of this blog. Even at my age I’m still learning and this platform in my eyes is my personal journal, if you are reading it then, welcome, I have let you do that.

My thoughts. My journal, My journey. My search for peace.

Anything else is a bonus.

Pathetic. But expected. That’s WP for you…

Describe your life in an alternate universe.

When you think the pillocks in the imaginarium of WordPress can’t dive any lower, they never fail to impress by reaching levels as yet undiscovered by people such as the late great Jacques Cousteau.

Give your heads a collective wobble chaps. Time to hand the baton to someone else 🤦‍♂️

Boring…..

Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

Well either the AI machine at WordPress is now working overtime or they now have a new member of staff creating these prompts. Either way, I’m not sure it’s working. Maybe the way WordPress attempts to steal information from us and gets us to freely give information that hackers have been trying to access for years needs to be reviewed.

I refer to the recent “list 30 things crap” or list this and list that, I’m sure you know what I’m referring you to if you’ve been scratching your head when waking up the last few days and reading these prompts.

If WordPress is the best there is, then I think it’s surely going to soon fail catastrophically. There seems to be an attitude of “we don’t really care” coming from those at WP.

Maybe I’ll start taking bets. I very much doubt the lifespan of this platform in its present state will survive the next 6 months.

I’ll give you evens at best.

To read and process

Describe one habit that brings you joy.

I’ve been trying to think of something different as I guess quite a few people will answer this question similarly to me.

I guess it’s reading. I’m fortunate to be able to read, my eyes have experienced some issues in recent years and temporarily losing my sight, only for part of a day two years ago when I had a mini seizure, really made me appreciate what I have got. It’s more of an ability than a habit, but once you believe you are losing that ability it becomes habitual.

I read a lot. I read pretty much anything that’s put in front of me and I especially like technical papers.

I don’t like fictional type funny enough, it has to be “real” for me.

So that’s it. Reading. It brings me immense joy.

Happiness to you all 🙏

Describe who you are, not who you wish you were.

How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?

Deep, non judgemental, 5ft 10” carrying a tad too much weight, likes beer, bad food and fixing stuff. Too nice, hates incompetence and liars. Dreams big, never achieves, gets taken for a ride, trusts the wrong people and is known to fart occasionally.

Of course no one on this site would quote the last fact as they’re only interested in quoting untruths of how they’d like to be described.

Be truthful, we’re all individuals with good and bad traits. Don’t be what you want to be. Be what you are. We all fart.

Hold on a minute

Was today typical?

I first saw this WordPress prompt at just after midnight having been out to a colleagues wedding. I thought answering at that time would be a tad impromptu so I’ve held off until closer to midday.

Well, we’ve awoken to a hot day, kind of unheard of here in the East Midlands so that’s not typical but appreciated all the same. I have no hangover due to the various concoctions that were afforded to me last evening so again, not typical. I also have a day off work, and as it’s too hot to venture into the garden at the moment I’ve decided to catch up with some soldering I need to do to repair a Sega game gear that ceases to work. Again this isn’t a typical day.

So, in all and so far, the only typical thing is that the sun rose as it always does and I suspect it will set in a similar fashion. No day is really the same, there may be aspects that give it that appearance however it’s not really the same.

We all have input into how our days unfurl, I guess it’s down to the individual if they want to continually have a ground hog day.

Not me, today’s looking ok and totally different from yesterday. Just watch some little sod come and ruin it for me 😂

Enjoy your days

The Micropachycephalosaurus

If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?

I think I’d bring back this little fellah as I believe it is the dinosaur with the longest name, with 23 letters and nine syllables.

Micropachycephalosaurus

For such a huge name, it was quite a small dinosaur as the name means `small thick-headed lizard’.

Well why not, just don’t ask me how to say it 😂

Peace everyone.

Southern Cyprus…every time

If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

Back to the sunny welcoming arms of the good people of Southern Cyprus.

Akamas peninsula- Cyprus

There is simply no where else I’d rather go.

Peace.

That’s my name

What’s the story behind your nickname?

Well, it’s there for the world (or the one or two people who occasionally pop by) to see at the foot of every post I create on this site.

It’s a rework of my surname and I’ve been called it for donkeys years. Everyone at work, even my boss uses it. I guess my first name, Dave is quite popular and there are a lot of us about, so the use of the nickname is highly individual and singles you out in particular.

My LCFC shirt…one of many

I even have it on the football shirts I wear along with the number 65.

It’s me.

Hi, I’m Balders. Nice to meet you 👌

Do whatever you fancy

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

Strategy? What a load of old tosh. if you have a strategy for your health and well being than you need to give your head a wobble as you’re over thinking it.

This is what the dictionary states:

Dictionary

Definitions from Oxford Languages ·

noun

noun: strategy; plural noun: strategies

  1. 1. a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.”time to develop a coherent economic strategy”Similar:master plan grand design game plan plan of action plan policy proposed action scheme blueprint programme procedure approach schedule tactics set of tactics
  2. 2. the art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle.”he was a genius when it came to military strategy”Similar:the art of war military science military tactics generalship
    • a plan for directing overall military operations and movements.”non-provocative defence strategies”

Here’s what I do though:

  • I eat what I want
  • I drink plenty of water
  • I sleep when my body tells me to
  • I get drunk occasionally
  • I do what I want, when I want
  • I don’t suffer fools
  • Don’t do social media
  • Don’t follow MSM
  • Enjoy life

Not much of a list to follow but basically do what you want and don’t follow the advise of a fool such as me, or some other numpty on social media who claims to know the answers to life. ( A dimfluencer )

However I’m still here after almost six decades, so I must be doing something right.

Happy days all….