I didn't really get this bit. Being present with human beings. Until tonight.
I've a mobile phone, and I realised, thanks to Gareth this evening, that it's become me. I treat it as if it's a part of me, ignoring everything around me in order to be with the phone. And the funny thing? Coincidence, I know, but the name by which I wanted people to know me at the weekend was "Al". Not funny in that context. But imagine it typed in a font face that makes it, from a distance, look like "AI" - Artificial Intelligence. Then you will see the funny side of that realisation I made tonight. I am a meaning machine, something I've realised for 3 weeks now. But tonight, in the pub with Gareth, I got a clarity of it beyond anything I've had 'til now.
I better get to bed, after all a machine needs it's rest 
