Universal flood

I was up at 6.25am this morning (it's a saturday?!?) to go running. It was a bit chilly but otherwise ok, but it started horrible, freezing rain whilst I was about 10 minutes from home..and it hasn't stopped since.
A day of being housebound researching one of my business (!) ideas, and when I did leave the house, getting a hosing from cars splashing through puddles.
We (me and my flatmate) got the fire going again today - let it roar a bit too long and wasted a lot of the wood before working out how to reduce it down to embers so it'll stay warm, but it's a learning process.

Stop Showing Off

Seth's post today - how everyone (well, a lot of people) are screaming for attention on the 'net. 'ooh ooh look at me, I'm so funny / clever / talented / deliver goods quickly / have a flashy design...or whatever. Well, he didn't state it like that but that's how I interpret what my older brother is saying...
...it struck a cord as I think that is what I am trying to do with this blog, even if, as yet it has no followers and I can type what I like since noone's reading it anyway. I wonder how many other blogs there are that can say that?
Anyway I persevere; he said, if you aim to be trusted, respected, bought from, etc, the notice might come later. Worth remembering in this time of isolation..

I Gotta Tell You About A Great New Product! (Of Mine,That I Need To Sell)

Canfield, Proctor, Nightingale, Zagler, Hill, Robbins, Tracy, Aaron... step aside please..there's a new success guru in town! Walt is a highly successful, internationally renowned author of motivational books and CDs and other products. With a career spanning four decades he has enthralled readers with such titles as You Can Do It!, You Can Do It! Too, Literally Make Your House Work For You and Become a Millionaire Whilst On The Toilet.
Hi, Walt here and thanks for reading my post. Just a short email to let you know about a new product I know you're gonna love. It's a bad quality recording of a seminar I gave in Wilmington, Minnihaha, when I was half cut on the free wine that was provided beforehand. For just $9.99* you can have this in CD or some other format. The recording contains some revolutionary new information and tells you to:
- get up earlier in the morning if you need more time.
- go to work, if you want to get ahead.
-go to sleep at night.
-eat food and drink drinks.
-not go to work drunk or badly hungover.
Oh, and that's not all, I'll throw in an extra special free gift, just because I'm so nice: a link to my friend Dirk Vileslayer's 'special people's club' forum. With just 2 members so far, it sure is special and an excellent way to network and meet a lot of like minded individuals. I think Dirk's plugging my new recording too.
Bye for now!
W.
* per day, plus sales tax.