Watching TV make my brain go to sleep. It really does. I normally stay awake until at least 1 or 2am. Pretty much every night. Yet, last night and tonight after sitting watching the Commonwealth Games coverage, in which I’m taking an interest, I’m dropping off in my seat by 11pm. What it going on?
I can only imagine that it is because I’m being passive. When I normally stay awake until 1am or later, I am either reading, coding, browsing websites, emailing, or chatting. I’m using my brain, I’m actively engaged. Yet watching TV seems to turn off my brain. The funny thing is that I can watch a film through to the early hours. At least if it’s an interesting one, even if I’ve seen it before. So like books, films hold my interest.
It may also be true that sitting in the lounge means that I am not sat upright. The so -called comfortable seating in the lounge only allows one to slouch, leaning back. Whereas sitting reading in the kitchen or sitting at my computer I tend to sit upright with quite good posture.
So after falling asleep in front of the TV at probably around 10:30pm, I’m now sat in front of the computer feeling quite alert.
Very strange. Perhaps this explains why I don’t watch TV at all. I reckon that the nearly eight hours I’ve watched in the past two days has doubled my TV consumption this year!

I’ve just finished watching the opening ceremony for the Manchester 2002 commonwealth games. I really enjoyed it. It was actually very good. Much better than many opening ceremonies I have seen. There’s going to be saturation coverage on TV for the next 10 days. I guess I’ll get to see a lot of it. Jan and Jamie are going to see the Women’s Gymnastics on Sunday at the GMex centre.

The Guardian is running a Best British Blogs competition with a £10,000 prize.
Hmmm… should I enter?

Oh go on then! I’ll jump on the band wagon too. 😉
Lots of Bloggers/Journal-ists have been doing this kind of Google Search.
So now we know that Mike Is…

• Hungry
• hooptyloops
• a real card
• Tonkas, tonkas and more tonkas
• Cool!
• Into the Lake of Fire
• making money
• a former LAPD narcotics investigator
• supporting
• healed from cancer!

Some others:

• Michel
• Meg
• Nikolai
• Firda
• Lele
• Nadine

Hi to whoever registered three times with false email addresses! 🙂

Things have quietened down now. We’re mostly sorted for tomorrow. It will be an early start — we need to get up at 7! Jan wants to be at church at 9:00 so she can sort some last minute things for the kids’ party.

Despite the fact that I got the name from The Random Word Generator, it appears that journalized is not uncommon. A Google search reveals over 3000 hits!

I’ve finally decided on a new name. Helped by The random word generator I’ve settled for Journalized. I like it because it’s got the word journal, which this is, and the zed of zed1.com.