Well, later tonight I'm off bowling (but not for soup, I hasten to add...)with my Scout Troop.... should be fun... I think it is a primal urge within all of us to throw things at other things in the hope that one of the things breaks, or one of the things gets stuck in one of the other things, or... but you get the drift... now this was all very useful in the so-called cavemen days, when a skill at chucking literally could be the difference between life and death.... but nowadays?? Some very learned people have pointed out that this indicates that for us evolution is over, and that to alter our behaviour we must now make the effort to do it ourselves.... this unfortunately presupposes several things.... (i) that evolution exists... (ii) that evolution is entirely non-voluntary and cannot be influenced by personal effort, (iii) that doing it ourselves is not evolution per se, and (iv) that chucking is no longer a useful skill..... I demolish this argument with all the innate smugness of the non expert, and wait to be shot down... (i) is not proven yet.... (ii) denies that we can take conytrol over our own destinies, (iii) does not take into account that we could have evolved the ability to evolve delibeerately (albeit clumsily...) and as for (iv).... chucking is very definitely a useful skill today....from the bowler in a cricket match (and I dare anyone to tell me that sports and entertainment are not useful) to the Amazonian tribesman who still needs to spear his fish.... so why need we lose the skill....

Anyway, despite the importance of chucking, I am still notoriously bad at it... something I always believed of my songwriting skills... until now.... a drummer of my aquaintance, now turned lead guitarer and singist,happened to see a couple of my lyrical efforts... ok, I forced them on him.... and, guess what... he liked one... but not the other... but there we are... he took them both, showed his band, and hey presto, they thought the same as him.... and as a result, they put music to the one they like (Family Life) and chucked the other away.... so when Insuffuicient Funds (or whatever they end up as ) go on stage for the first time, my song will be in the playlist.... "Family Life, " by Kirk Wisebeard and Insufficient Funds.... so I can now call myself a songwriter for real..... so thats another ambition achieved,... now there's just the publishing of poetry, and my appearance in a Musical to achieve.... preferably Blood Brothers (in which i would like to play the narrator), Les Mis (where for preference I would be Eponine, but not having the figure for it, would settle for Javert or Thenadier) or Oliver, where i believe my Fagin would steal the show... although I'm told Bumble is more in my line.... failing any of this, a role in Chess or Rocky Horror would suffice.... but I digress.... also, my stage appearance as a country and western singer is in the pipeline.... possibly.... but there we are... anyway, until all drummers become seen as musicians, Wisebeard salutes you.....!!!!!