Windy Scores on the Doors

Exploring the aforesaid cerebral rotating equipment devices as we cruise at 35000 ft over the middle east on a flight back for quickie Easter R&R in the UK, it is timely to review my performance during Q1 2009. Utilising an established scorecard approach my self evaluation is as follows:




Outstanding
- My reading rate and breadth is growing almost exponentially, and I am even starting to enjoy some Indian books – 2 in the last week White Tiger and In Custody, and I am toying with a Hemingway and Lawrence habit
- My detailed knowledge of Star Trek the Next Generation is approaching geek level
- Celebrity watch – my rugby training is with international players, I now know personally a published author, and have appeared with Mrs Reiver in the gossip column of the local paper

Above
- My word search performance on Facebook is close to 10k (sad or what)
- My cooking has been generally declared as adequate by Mrs Reiver
- I am getting fully moneys-worth from our new gym membership and have achieved new personal bests in sweating
- Our housewarming was a success

On Target
- The essential chocolate and cheese supplies in the fridge have been maintained
- Blogging has been maintained despite a slight drying up of the well of inspiration
- Rugby coaching has developed to include refereeing with hand actions and everything, although whether the Indian kids can differentiate these from Heads and Shoulders Knees and Toes is open to question
- We now have cable TV

Poor
- New headband to cope with gym sweatiness makes me look like a refugee from Fame
- Duetting Hotel California with Mrs Reiver’s Boss at Karaoke was definitely a crime against music
- Being refused entry to new Military based rugby training facility because I was the wrong colour
- Spending the weekend helping Mrs Reiver review architects plans for various new toilets at her work

Below
- Tolerance of Indian traffic, work processes, power cuts, security guards etc etc has left me occasionally howling at the moon and shouting at motorbikes – does pedestrian rage exist??
- Visit to Singapore – plastic, plastic, plastic!
- The Alchemist (play at the Leela) and the Book – schrott, schrott, schrott
- There is nothing worthwile on cable TV
- My knees still not right after the great January rugby de-skinning

So the challenge for Q2 – as the song goes will be to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and don’t mess with Mr In-Between. With IPL, T20 World Cup, Lions Tour and possible cooking/guitar lessons, Prince II training, new sports club, refereeing course and junior revier visit to come – all is not lost – as Mrs Reiver is fond of saying ‘80% of success is turning up’. As Brucie would have said ‘Good Game, Good Game’