Be The Jam

Date 18th May

Stage Planning Expedition

Location Oxford

Weather Variable

Health Good

Fitness Poor.

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Readership On target to exceed 4000 unique hits this month

Prospect of Mission Improbable happening Reasonable

Today's "genius" idea See bellow

It seems as though I might have found an answer to some of the funding issue. I'm not sure that "found" is the word I'm looking for as this implies that there was some positive searching on my part when in actual fact it would probably be more accurate to say that I stumbled over the solution, ignored it, went home, went to bed and then woke up in the middle of the night with a start and a loud "of course!" that was answered by a curious screech from the owl. What has happened is that I have been busily, yet unenthusiastically, applying for jobs over the past couple of weeks and I now might have a part time job that I can do from the comfort of home, or any remote location with a computer. The beauty of this being that as I'm already on the PC all day working on various projects doing a few extra hours here and there would fit in nicely. What I failed to realise until hours later was that I could also work from the jungle and then regardless of how well the travel guide goes at least I have an income. An income would be good.

Last night for the first time in as long as I can remember I actually felt comfortable and content sleeping in the woods, things have been a bit of a struggle recently but as someone once said "success is 99% failure" so I've been slogging away at this project like a fly banging at a closed window on a summer's day in the hope of finding a way through. I think there might be. When I woke this morning the sun was out, the ground was drying and I saw my first deer of the year whilst walking to the bus. Change is in the air.

Todays travel story of the day is wandering around in Sequoia National Park (don't feed the wildlife).