When I've got a bit of money on me from busking and I'm feeling in good spirits it's hard to know what to do in this world to have fun. Especially fun that doesn't involve buying anything or putting stuff in your mouth! I like to put things in my mouth and buy stuff but I don't want it to run my life so I try to do it in a fun way, so having fun first and then see what comes.
Today I woke up early and went to feed the horses near me some apples that I found, the horses were nowhere to be seen this morning so they must have gone back to wherever they sleep. I just left the apples where I knew they would find them, after taking the pips out because I think the experts will tell you pips are bad for them but who knows. I think they may be but I assume they would need to eat a hell of a lot of them for it to take any effect, none the less I chopped them up as I like to be a good boy sometimes.
My plan was to get some coffee at the Weatherspoons in Canton, I like Weatherspoons these days, they've done a very clever thing with their 7.5% price rise, which will likely irritate people. Frankly they are so cheap it kind of makes it ridiculous, the coffee in Canton went up from .99p to 1.02!
JD Wetherspoon to raise prices as pub sales continue recovery | JD Wetherspoon | The Guardian
Reading this article seems like they are very justified. What they are also cleverly doing is lowing it again for one day, I think it's the 14th of September. They are lowering it for 1 day only by 7.5% which I read in their free magazine from inside. This is to highlight that supermarkets don't pay any tax on the alcohol they buy but pubs have to. There are many agenda's at work here but the simple one is it encourages people to drink at home, because it's cheaper, which means they drink more, become less sociable and more isolated!
Wetherspoon slashes prices for one day to show benefit of VAT cut (thedrinksbusiness.com)
After my coffee I decided to go and play some tennis in Victoria Park and the public tennis courts were closed on a Saturday morning! I waited until about 11am until I thought, this is ridiculous and went and spoke to someone on site. They said I was lucky that they were there as they did have a key but the park ranger should have done it when he opened the kids water park. It's a very strange thing, the park rangers don't seem to know anything about the parks but they go around locking certain gates only and locking certain things at certain times and not doing a great job at it either. They have a list of dates on the door of the tennis courts with different closing times, day by day but no opening time. Apparently that's to try and be in line with when the sun sets!! I mean come on, that is one bored government admin assistant if you ask me just dreaming up a job for herself. I suppose it could be a him or these days it could be a they or a them!
I eventually got in and managed to practice some serves but it started to chuck it down so it stopped being fun pretty quickly. Luckily I found a football the other day and practiced my keepy-ups all the way back to Cardiff while having a natural shower and managing to blag a free coffee from some of my favorite spots that like to look after the homeless and generally like being asked politely by a homeless person.
So what's this got to do with the enneagram you are probably thinking?! Or you should be if you read the title.
Yup, another personality profiling tool but it's the simplest and most sensible one I've found that seems to work for me
It did take me a while to get on board with the enneagram, the woman that introduced it to me it kept on continuously about it. I would always say you and your bloody numbers, I won't be catagorised by a number and she would respond with "yeah well, that's just what an 8 would say!" I think she was right, a very smart lady. After learning enough about it to satisfy my need to understand myself and how I operate with other numbers in relationship I've lately been using it to live my life or at least make it more fun.
So last night I counted all the money I had left after the day and if I remember correctly I think I had £11.32, either way it was a number that rounded down to 7. So I then like to think to myself....I expect I'll be having an adventure tomorrow as 7's are the adventurers. Generally they talk a lot of crap and make no sense to me but they have to justify their next adventure some how. Well I have been on a bit of an adventure today actually. When I got back to Cardiff I used my burger king voucher that I received from answering the survey on the receipt. It gives you a free whopper if you order fries and a drink. So I ordered a small fries and a drink and got a whopper for £3.31, strange price but apparently it's because of the sugar tax! Seems crazy when you can just help yourself to sugar from one of the stations for free! The crazy world we live in. Anyway I essentially had a whopper meal for £3.31 which isn't a bad deal. Then I went to McDonalds and used a voucher I received from them for doing the same. You can get a BigMac and chips for £1.99 for answering their survey and I took in my drink from burger king as it was still going strong. So essentially I spent £5.30 on a big lunch, which on the enneagram rounds down to 8, which is my number so it was obviously meant to be. I could tell it was because I had a big poo afterwards which felt amazing, although I did have to use a code to get in!
I find it makes life more interesting when you round things down and focus on numbers, sometimes I look for the 3,6,9 in a day also which is the Tesla thing. In Weatherspoon's I sat at table 3 and I would have noticed a 6 and likely a 9 by now at some point today but to be honest I've got some good weed at the moment and it's hard to stay focused, plus I am supposed to be having fun ;)
I found an old football a few days ago and it's a Barclays Premier League one apparently.
I've been walking around with it and practicing my keepy-ups but it didn't bounce well and was a bit flat, so I thought, it's ok, I'll pop into a sports shop and they'll just quickly pump it up for me I'm sure. My first stop was Sports Direct in Cardiff and the staff "helper" there said no. I said you've got a pump behind the counter haven't you, can't you just put a bit of air in this for me and the answer again was no we're not allowed. I said but you would pump up a ball I bought and he said "yeah but you need to buy one". I just replied with something like, so you're not going to pump a ball up for 2 seconds on the basis that I didn't buy it here. Sports Direct are that desperate to sell pumps and footballs that they won't help a possible future customer that just wants a bit of free air, I don't think that will look good on them. He looked at me very confused and thought I was nuts I think. Anyway I left telling anyone that would listen that Sports Direct won't give you free air! I thought this may not look to great for them.
I stopped and told one of the security guards in the center called Steve and he directed me to JD sports but he also said on the way you could try Rugby Heaven as I think they may do it for you. Well he was right, they did do it for me. They did mention the pumps for sale while doing it and they obviously don't want to pump everyone's ball up all day long but how often do they really get asked and I think in that moment a sensible human being makes a decision based on his own morality and common sense rather than following a policy which is often what most "helpers", "workers" or "order followers" have been brainwashed to do. The security guard said to say that Steve sent you, which actually worked and made them all smile and I think they were pleased they helped me in the end.
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The Welsh do love their rugby but they did pump up a football for me so fair play to them, rugby players aren't as bad as they seem. I just thought they liked to pretend to play a mans game while actually just cuddling a lot! ;) A bit like Brazilian ju-jitsu I suppose but you wouldn't say that to their face or to a Gracie's face! I actually like rugby players and the ethics they use on pitch compared to football but unfortunately I just find the game incredibly boring to watch and play for some reason. We all like what we like I suppose.
Anyway I managed to get my balled pumped up so I walked back through the Arcade (they call these places arcade's now but in my day they were called Andales??), I really don't understand what's happening to the world. There wasn't a fruit machine in sight! As walking back down the alleged "arcade" I bounced the ball as I went past sports direct saying nerny, nerny, ner, ner, I got my ball pumped and didn't get charged for air. I have to get some enjoyment out of this ridiculous reality we live in!
Finally here I am at the library and the number 8 computer is taken, it's my number on the enneagram and it's very upsetting so I walk around mumbling to myself trying to find one that will satisfy my need to make more of a situation than it needs! Luckily I found the number 31 which rounds down to 4. Phew, I like 4s on the enneagram, the women that is. They don't like rules, they are arty and creative and generally amazing in bed. I really hate the 2s, they run the world, the passive aggressive helpers! Man they are everywhere and doing everything in the name of a misguided understanding about love! The worst thing for me is that an 8 is supposed to progress to the good traits of a 2 when I progress! I find this quite sickening at times ;) The 2's progress to a 4 so they love the 4s, they help them to be creative and free spirited and they are basically everything they want to be. However the 4s (or the healthy ones), hate the 2s as they regress to the bad traits of a 2 which is the overbearing passive aggressive, it's all for your benefit loving. So generally what I've experienced is having a great time with a 4 until one of their 2 friends tells them otherwise! He's not loving you right, etc etc and the not so healthy ones will listen to them.....sigh
It is what it is I suppose and while I was in Clevedon I saw a painting that literally was just a box with "it is what it is" written in the middle and it was priced at £4500!! Nope I didn't mistype that, it is what it is! There was a painting next to it that had clearly taken the guy a long time and was pretty good and that was only £2500, now he must have been annoyed. Or maybe not. I'm hoping that the artist had some kind of credibility for other work but who knows in this world.
So there you go, a bit about my adventure (my day). Although I made the adventure part up in my head (as we all do) because frankly life is so boring. They've made this world so boring I can't even be bothered to pay attention and apparently that's my fault! I think they call it ADHD. Yes I have an attention deficit but I don't move around a lot so what does that mean?
Diagnosis, possibly another blog post for another time maybe...
One thing I will mention, just incase she reads this blog to the end, is a lovely 20 year old girl I met in Sophia Gardens. They have musical instruments in the park that you can play and one of them (my favorite) one sounds like panpipes and I love to bang it like a drum, it's fun and free. It generally gets a good response and she seemed to like it as she was sat on the bench next to it. I joined her and we had a nice conversation which I think entailed me talking at her for about 10 minutes because I don't get to talk to a lot of people these days! Anyway I was pleased to see that she didn't believe in the illusion that her face was wrong and wasn't wearing any makeup, although she was getting her nose pierced but on the other hand what else is there for a young girl to do with herself these days! She could get her eyelashes lifted and linted! She was 20 years old and judging by her quiet personality and the things she told me in the little time I let her speak I would imagine she is a 2 which makes sense as it's what her age rounds down to. But fingers crossed if she reads this blog and continues to listen to the 8's of this world she may just be a health one! ;)
Unfortunately I couldn't find any meaningful pictures or writeups about Sophia Gardens to show the delight it can be to walk through, run around or have a free workout in. It's all been taken over by the cricket basically which is another sport I find incredibly boring. I don't get it, most people that go, are in the crowds reading a book and the fielders just look so bored. I think they should have 4 people batting at the same time and the fielders can catch any ball! That would certainly make it more exciting and speed things up a bit. It's the perfect sport though to keep people in one area and distracted on what you want to distract them with because lets face it they won't be focusing too hard on the cricket! Anyway possibly a blog post for another time - how cricket ruined football in England.
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