Roy (Lloyd) Jones

Although Iraq is probably not on many peoples holiday list, it seems as though it is already being bandied as a possible tourist magnet. Deborah Haynes of The Times writes:

“Known as the birthplace of civilisation, Iraq is estimated to have between 20,000 and 100,000 historic sites, which should keep history-hungry travellers, as well as professional archaeologists, entertained for decades.”

For me, its probably too soon to be thinking of entering Iraq as a tourist, but I’m sure there will be those out there that are already buying their Iraqi Dinars!

Read the entire article here

Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 – 1973)

The mathematics of repeatedly carrying out a task are astounding. The numbers add up very quickly. For example, if you chose to ride a bike for eight hours in one day, peddling along at an average of five miles an hour, you would cover forty miles. Do this every day for a week and you would cycle 320 miles. In four weeks you would have completed 1,280 miles.

On a larger scale, forty miles a day, five days a week, for an entire year equates to 10,400 miles – or about the distance from London to Sydney (as a crow flies).

I stopped going to the gym last year.

I didn’t stop training though. I now train at home.

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As Friday comes around again, some thoughts to take into the weekend;

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning?
~Coleman Cox

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
~Leo Aikman

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
~Dandemis

“To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.”
~Sigmund Freud

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where — ” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
” — so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
~Alice in Wonderland