One of the features that blogger have is to count the number of posts you have made, and mine has now reached the magical number of 100. I wanted to mark this ocassion with some highly humourous, witty and acerbic attack on some injustice in the world, or to give you all something to chuckle at, but with the time it was taking to come up with something, it was starting to feel like there was a millstone around my neck, ‘how could I breach the 100th post barrier?’ So in the end decided just to tell you and write some drivel.

Of course, I have deleted several posts over my time here and so I probably passed the 100 post count several weeks back. In which case, this is a totally pointless post anyway! And while I’m writing this the tea I made is slowly going cold too. (Ah feel better now after that mini-rant).

So what does 2006 have lined up up for ‘cold tea again’? Well hopefully a lot more of the same, as I do battle with the frustrations of life, love and the joy of procrastinating.

‘Ok pay the money into the account details I sent you. You told me you had the details and that payment would be in 14 days. If you don’t I will add a £15 administartion charge and will be adding interest on a daily basis… as per my conditions’

‘We paid the money into your account several days ago, please can you check’

‘No it hasn’t, not into the account that I sent you.’

‘Well it was paid before Christmas’

‘Hey Darren,’ the co-dependent ‘that 1 and 1 payment has gone into my account, do you want it transfered’

‘yes please’

‘Thank you for paying me the money, but you paid it into the account that I expressly told you not too because I don’t have access to it.’

‘Sorry for the inconvenience.’

Ironically, and I think I am using it in the right context here, I just received a customer satisfaction questionnaire from 1 and 1 Internet. I’ll enjoy filling that in.

very small print because I am so embarrased
The bank details I sent to 1 and 1 were wrong and so if they had done what I asked I wouldn’t have got the money at all. Praise be for inefficiency.

I wonder why Charles Dickens chose Christmas as the feast for his Scrooge story. Ok, the main character is a little thrifty and caught up in his own world, but I wonder why Christmas. Yes, it is the season of goodwill and joy to all men, but really there is a much better time for pessimists, anti-philanthropists and people who write ‘cold-tea’ blogs… of course I refer to the annual out-pouring of optimism that heralds in the New Year.

We write our long lists of resolutions and send best wishes for the forthcoming weeks and months, as though we really do believe that things will change. But to be perfectly honest they won’t, they haven’t for millennia so why should 2006 be any different. We’ll still be killing each other and slowly dissolving the planet, being polite in front of others while sticking pins in their proxies when they aren’t looking. Things wont be any different. We’ll still loseWeight Exercise close freinds, some I fear wont be seeing 2007 unless something miraculous happens, so perhaps 2006 will be different for them as it will be their last here. But hey, that is life (or death).

So a merry post to start the year? Well actually I think it is. By recognising that everything isn’t going to change overnight, we may be able to realise that we have to put some effort in. If we want things to be better, we have to choose to act and be better. Sitting back and living the anaesthetized existence that we all love to hate won’t change a thing, but living, breathing and making this world a better place can. Take a page from Rio Ferdinand’s book, he’s now scored twice in four games… miracles don’t just happen at Christmas. And for those who can’t do anything to change their current circumstances perhaps that miracle could be ahead this year