The Nearlypod is almost launched

Hello to all you out there whether you and your possessions completely or nearly work. I have always been perplexed by the relation of man and technology and how the two interact. This relationship has always been pushed to the forefront of my mind by the constant job of repairing, servicing or just managing things. These struggles compete with my full time job in terms of time and energy. All I can say is I'm glad I have left cars alone. These really are a nearlyworks black hole. Of course one has to fully dismantle a car engine and rebuild it at least once, just to quench that particular thirst and to reassure oneself that those schematics in the "how things work" books were actually correct. Having abandoned cars, I have realised that the structure of my home has needed undoing and redoing, partly through curiosity and partly through need. One day I realised that most people don't actually go through this struggle. When things don't work they get someone in, get a new one, phone up and complain etc. When things of mine go wrong, I get a secret internal surge of joy; something has failed but now I can smell the project looming. There is a good reason to get the casing undone! There are part numbers to look up, internet searches, more fun is buying used parts on ebay (what bigger thrill than to buy a part knowing that there is a risk that it too might only nearly work?) This is the like the stage when you point the video camera at the TV that is monitoring it. You may be falling down the speeding tunnel to the very answer of dark matter and stuff itself. Or you have slipped through a time-door into the video for Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

Don't worry, I fully intend to bore you all in great detail about my various bodged projects but recently something happened to me, so as I sit here typing this I look over the top of the laptop to view the cast on my right leg. Having recently ruptured my achilles tendon, a surgeon has fashioned it back together and it sits healing in its warm dark encasement, awaiting rehabilitation. So now I nearly work. The one benefit of nearly working is that whole sections of your life get cordoned off. Going to work. Gardening. Driving. Cycling. Running. Skateboarding. Snowboarding. Rebuilding shelves. Carrying a cup of tea from one room to the next. So there is an imposed restraint which I must say I am quite enjoying because my scatterbrain concentration is gathered in a little. So now I can read, read the whole of the newspaper and read books. Ah yes, books those wonderful things that the average nearlyworker neglects, such is the velocity of thoughts passing through his/her mind. A book would simply cause the thoughts, projects and ideas to bottleneck, causing immense strain. Not now though...

Oh yes, podcasts. I did my first podcast yesterday and in the "all about me theme", it consists entirely of music and other noises that I have made, or at least been part of making with others.

Inspired by the rockmother and her wonderful set of podcasts, I thought: if she can do it so can I, so here it is, or at least it will be later tonight when I have worked out how to upload the thing..

Get Nearlypod One now!