Archive for August, 2009

Oh no, I’ve done it again!

It’s my first day back at work today, after a week of holiday. I arrived at work a little after 0930, switched on the various PCs on my desk, and started to work through the large volume of email that had built up over the week. And then it happened. It always happens. I read [...]

I must remember to write

I’ve almost certainly said something like this before, but with my memory processes being what they are, I can’t remember if I have or not. Yesterday was about writing for me. I wrote the last two articles for the blog – some 1700 or so words. I wrote a bunch of replies to comments, and [...]

Tools of the trade

In the front left pocket of my jeans is a pen. And my mobile phone. Oh, and a tiny little USB thumb drive with data for things I’m working on. That last item is a new addition in the last couple of months. In the front right pocket of my jeans are all my coins, [...]

Announcements

I flicked through our local free weekly paper last night. Like free newspapers everywhere (I suspect), it is a mixture of the major local news and sports stories from the last week, which previously appeared in the local daily paper; adverts, and a couple of pages full of births, deaths, weddings, memorials and coming-of-age announcements. [...]

A bigger quotient

I received an email via the contact page of the website yesterday from Anna. I thought it might be of use to many of you, so here’s what she said: Hi James, I’m sure you must have done the AQ test, but I recently saw this PDF http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/docs/papers/2001_BCetal_AQ.pdf which shows on page 5 how the [...]

A holiday?

I’ve spent the last week listening. Listening to how my body reacts when pushed hard. I’ve been quite surprised at what I’ve heard. I shouldn’t be. My body reacted no differently than it ever has done. What was different this time was that I was seeing it through the eyes of Asperger’s. My old explanations [...]