the heretic genetic algorithm

EDIT - this just looks fun and something I'd like to do for people over the year - don't be shy or feel greedy if you respond! :))

Taken from a post by sepheri

The first five(ish) people to comment here will get something made by me. I've screened comments so you can leave your postal address (and also so I can make 5ish as 5+ as I feel like ;))

- Hopefully you'll like what I make (but I make no guarantee that you will).
- If you want to request something for someone else, then fire away, but I reserve the right to say no.
- It will be done before December 31st, 2010.
- It could be anything: something baked, something knitted, something sewn, something shiny, something written...

Spread the love, in return, re-post this somewhere and offer to make 5 things for 5 other people.

Let me know a few details about your own interests, fave colors, fave themes, etc. so that I can make your gift as personal as possible. If you don't, well, the results could be random! Although I do reserve the right to just be pure random anyway.

I saw a job I could apply for online today. Looked interesting and achievable (database manager for the HIV team in my local NHS). But you know what? I just can't be arsed to apply. I know I haven't applied for that many jobs, but all those I have applied for, I've not got. I've been second choice every time with feedback along the lines of you were good, but someone else was just better. I guess I don't interview too well.

The other reason is that it's 15 hours a week and I just can't be going through the ins-and-outs of trying to arrange childcare for that. It just ain't worth trying unless the job is worth my putting the offspring into nursery for, and what job is worth that?

Monty Don's personal assistant with unlimited access to cake, gin and recreational substances of my choice?

Probably that. But probably if I'm honest I'm just not career motivated enough to keep on trying to go there, even for jobs which, like this one, look quite interesting. I'm tired of trying to justify what I consider my realistic and pragmatic attitude towards work in general to try and inspire people (including myself) to get on my side.

More cheerfully, though, the gardening work is really taking off. The lady I garden for has suggested two more clients for me. Now I just need to get motivated to phone them up and sort it out :)

In other news, my note to self is that I need to do some head-work on a few issues.

I'm doing ok. Juggling 5 jobs, a garden overhaul, an IT course and a small child, but generally positive. Life is good.

More like goals for the rest of the year than goals for the month - I'd like to reduce my 5k time to 30 mins (currently 34:39) and lose a stone. The two will probably combine quite nicely. I'm quite happy with my weight, actually, but I have a wedding coming up - wedding = pics, and I'd like to look my best. It's a nice position to be in, to actually like my physical appearance. Yay for exercise :)

Not a lot else to say. I'm going on a yoga workshop at the end of the month. I'm also going to Greece for a week. Hellboy 2 was much better than I expected. Hostel was much worse. I would like to do two trips with the boy down to Devon, so fingers crossed for the weather.

Like I said, life is good :)

(1) Eat healthily for the majority of the time. Wholemeal toast, salad and yoghurt in the day, and many less snacks
(2) Start running again during my February holiday. Do the Race for Life, then a 10k in the Autumn
(3) Go to yoga class once a week
(4) Stretch out after exercise
(5) Totally quit smoking when I go back to work in May. "One or two" always ends up as "five or six"
(6) Organise a wedding and a marriage. Without losing my marbles or killing anyone.
(7) Get a tattoo of the Maes Howe dragon.
(8) Keep my allotment together all year
(9) Finish my RHS course.
(10)Get a new job. One that I don't hate. For one day a week, ideally in Stroud.