Let's Rock !

On Saturday night I went to see the Vampire Rock show at the local theatre with my friend Gary who is over from Hong Kong on holiday. I've seen the show before so knew pretty much what to expect, loud rock music, scantily clad babes and pyrotechnics. Last time I caught the show Toyah was in the production but this time it was the usual show format.

Not long into the show the guy next to me produced his mobile phone and began texting which was pretty distracting as I was trying to watch the show. The last thing you need is bright light waving about at the side of you especially when the theatre was in darkness for the show. Then he actually tried to make a call which amazed me as the show was anything but quiet!

I shot him a couple of hard looks and I think he got the message as he slipped his phone away and then made the call at the interval. I just don't understand these people that go to the theatre or cinema and have to mess about with their phones. 

Anyway the show was excellent and for the last few songs the whole theatre was on its feet clapping and singing along.

Spatial Awareness

If there is one thing that really irks me these days is people and their spatial awareness. Walk down a town or city centre street these days and people are usually doing everything except looking where they are going. 

One of the main culprits that lends itself heavily to being spatially inept is the mobile phone as people walk headlong at you whilst staring into their phone screen. Another spatial awareness crime is walking out of a shop straight into the throng of passing people without even a cursory left or right glance. Would you pull out onto a busy road without looking? Or course not. People would benefit from actually applying the rules of the road to walking in busy pedestrian areas. 

Not being the tallest person I try plan ahead slightly when walking, crowded areas can be problematic though as the view of possible horizons can be obscured thus I try to scan ahead and read what's going on, though like anyone I can make mistakes. These days walking from A to B isn't easy, distractions, people in a hurry, others just sauntering and lunatics on bicycles in my town (which is very flat) all add to making walking a chore at times. Let's not forget old people too, who can be very zombie apocalypse in the way they gravitate towards you at times or the ones quite willing to take you out with their mobility scooters.

Old Hobbit's Never Die, They Carry on Blogging.

So here I am, still blogging. My old blog that ran from 2004-14 had become somewhat old, tired and I'd lost my mojo with it to be honest. Looking at it I felt it represented a different me and now after ten years I'd changed as a person quite considerably. So, time to take a new direction I set to work.

Deciding to change the look and feel of the blog I experimented with templates and editing HTML code which resulted in something of a disaster as my HTML knowledge is very amateur and seemingly changing templates resulted in lots of broken links to images and videos. Whilst it still exists and has a link to it I may well archive it in time and remove it from the net.

Instead of letting the old site name/page slowly die I decided to start a new blog with an almost identical name and a fresh new look. This new project will hopefully represent ten years blogging experience, has a new simpler format that's less cluttered and easier to read. I want this blog to contain lots of life experience articles but also have shorter, snappier and straight to the point posts. As an experienced blogger I felt that the two main incentives for me when reading other blogs was an easy template on the eyes and posts that don't waffle on forever. I'm guilty of both in my last blog, the first template was white writing on a black background and I was partial to long posts on occasion. I guess you live and learn and listen to feedback from friends.

Just like a phoenix rising from the ashes the hobbit's journal continues albeit it more of a part deux. Expect more political content (the times they are a-changin'), candid opinions, personal musings, life events and no doubt the odd bit of controversy!

So please bookmark me and hopefully like the last blog this one will last ten years or longer. Thanks for reading.