So everyone out there that knows me, knows that I’m totally obsessed with motorcycles. My current bike is great, but a couple of months ago, Yamaha announced their intention to release a new bike. I’ve always had a passion for the Yamaha V-Max, it’s very me! I’ve had about 4 of them over the last 15 years and have always been sad to see them go.
Imagine my happiness and joy when Yamaha announce a New V-Max. Not only has it been created in the style of the old one, but additionally the old one when it was released in 1985 was notable because it was about 150BHP, and was instantly famous. Well projected figures for the new one are rumoured to have an engine of a approximately 2000cc (vs. 1200cc of the old model) and approximately 200BHP (vs. 150BHP of the old model). Take a few minutes to look at the site I’ve linked to, it really is a thing of beauty. For those that don’t want to go to the (slow) website, check out the image I prepared below.
Firstly apologies for the looooong post, I’ll split it so it doesn’t take up space on the syndications (update: it would appear that some syndications have recognised the post split and others have not, apologies).
Various events of the last few weeks have led me to go and seek some advice from a “Mental Health Professional”, yes, I went and got my head shrunk. Now bear in mind, I come from a world, where dealing with problems and getting them out in the open is much like it was in the film Crocodile Dundee, you go to the pub, and tell your mates you problems, they then tell everyone else, and your problem’s out in the open, no more problem!!
So this is very much new ground for me, but the short version is, people have been becoming increasingly aware of my lack of empathy and total obliviousness (?) to others emotional states and needs. Turns out this is a kind of emotional detachment or dissociative disorder (think similar to mild autism) where basically all my choices and all my actions were based on objectivity (hence the name of my blog) and just about never allowed for emotion into the decsion making process unless it was fun and humour (for some reason I grok those two things).
This has become a problem for others around me, but one of the the hardest parts about accepting that I really had a problem is because, this is the way I’ve always been (according to my mum), so I have no benchmark to compare my current state of mind with. So off I trundled to the shrink, who is the one that informed me about my dissociative state, but happily informs me that, getting the emotions to come to the surface and putting me in touch with them is the easy part, apparently the hard part is for me to decide if I want to go through the process of opening the emotional floodgates. If you want to read on, click on “more” below
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I’ve had my new laptop for a month or two now, and I can confirm it’s quite addictive. I’m not new to Macs but this is the first Apple laptop I’ve had, and it’s great. It’s fast, and along with Parallels VM, it runs Windows XP every bit as quickly as my old Vaio did, result!
I have a minor whinge though. Firstly damn it gets hot, damn hot, in fact I’ve never had a laptop get this hot ever before (someone said something about it being 80 watts, is this a lot for a laptop?).
Anyway, I’m not gonna go on for ages, everything about them has pretty much already been saids probably hundreds of times, I’ll simply say, I can highly recommend them. Go on, spoil yourself
