Today I got the meeting we never hope we're going to have, the words we work our lives to never hear. The few little audible sounds that take the entire world from under our feet.

"We haven't got the work on, we'll have to let you go."

It's unfortunate, and you can go your entire life without hearing it, but when it happens, there's nothing to do, you recoil from it, you have your cry, your angry lash out, you work till you drop, whatever your mechanism (I did two of those, working was my life for a long time, it's hard to see it go) you can't change what has happened.

I'd be lying if I said I knew what was coming in the future for me, my life is now anything but certain. I've got a lot of difficult decisions to make, which will decide if I'm going to be broke, or surviving over the next few months, or potentially years, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared, petrified, but might as well stand up, take the punches to the belly, dust myself off and then carry on. After all, who else is going to take care of me, if not myself?

So I registered with twitter, it was something I'd heard of, but never felt tempted by, until that is I saw someone had registered which is quite important to me.

About 4 hours later I saw Stephen Fry on Top Gear was an avid fan, at this point, I realised this probably would be something I begrudged for taking up my time.

The G1 has a few apps for using twitter, I installed twidroid after googling for a bit. I have no idea if this is "the best", people so frequently argue these things, and I'd rather just get on with it. the addition of it to my phone has made my phone both much more enjoyable & twitter far more accessible, it's just too convenient to pass up.

The fact that this is enhanced by the ability to take a picture on the phone and upload in one simple action is such a feature, instantly publishing both news and random trivia or tid bits.

Twitter does a great job of making me, at least, feeling invited, and also like I'm within the social network of whoever I add. It makes you feel closer to idols, friends, and loved ones, by such a simple thing, asking one question.

What are you doing?

P.S I will see about installing the twitter feed to the website when I get time, the church website (yes I know, ironic, me being busy with a church website as an atheist) is taking up a lot of time, but uses twitter in the design.

I was messing around with some ideas for sketches to put on my new bedroom wall, I came up with this as one of the ideas, influenced by Banksy & by Douglas Adams.