Hello from Rob

I have severe brain damage, (it was identified as very severe in hospital, but I like to look on the bright side) and one of its side effects is that I endure major fatigue. Alongside other problems from it, it's almost at the top of the list of what I hate most about my 'new' life. Our energy levels motivate and sustain so much of what we do, so when I'm constantly tired I get little accomplished, and what I do undertake can take so long - much of what I start doesn't get finished, I take a pause, stuff gets left, and I'm surrounded by stuff that I've now forgotten what I was actually doing with it. My 'new' kitchen is almost finished, that's had several restarts and, I think, just needs some tiling and re-installation of a gas cooker. I've been working on this kitchen for several years now... The fact that I have a new greenhouse, albeit with some of its own problems, shows that my priorities are perhaps more towards growing things, than having a finished kitchen

It'll be time to start a new kitchen afresh, potentially before this one's even completed.

What this does give me, apart from a little stress, is a greater ability to become more patient. I used to be incredibly charged, motivated and ambitious, liking to achieve the impossible, where others would not go. So, that's a little against the grain now, to be calmer about things, sometimes settling for second and third best, and generally having a slow time of things. I've always liked tranquility, and my slower pace of life is in harmony with this. I'm not really materialistic, so whilst many in the world struggle with desires for much more, I'm content to have less, it seems more natural.

Today Rob is tired, and I do have many things to do, but achieving little. It's often good at these points to go to do something else, so that I don't get a failure notch, or notches, from those things that I didn't get manage to do much, if anything upon.

I raised an Opera wishlists forum post for something like Sticky Notes, to supplement the Notes functionality that Opera currently has. As I'm somewhat disorganised, I wanted a more feature rich notes function, that could be a better aide memoire, potentially including time/date functionality too. It hasn't had much feedback from others, and doesn't seem to be in great demand, so I'm guessing Opera won't move much from their current notes.