The Goldfish Chronicles

I sat on the bus/shuttle this morning listening to Queen mp3s. I’ve a lot of Queen, so that’s been the case for the last few days. On came “The Prize”, a remix of “Gimme the Prize” from the Kind of Magic album, which is somewhat the Highlander album. If you recall the film, Ramirez, the oddly named Egyptian with a Scottish accent, tells the young McLeod that “When only a few of us are left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land… to fight for the prize. “.

Now, if you’re like my wife, then you only want to enter competitions for prizes you want. Does young Conor ask: “Old goat, with the cool Japanese sword, what prize is it thou speakest of?”? Nope. He knuckles down to learning how to run with the deer, goes on holiday while Ramirez is killed and has lots of adventures while waiting for that irresistible pull.

Dumb eh? Which got me thinking. What’s your prize? What’s my prize? There’s always the “get out of debt” one. I’m out of debt currently, but only because we rent. In effect I’ve exchanged debt for a high level of instability. What are the other prizes? Are we blindly obeying the Egtypo-Celt sages? Obviously for any of you who have followed this blog for a while (or care to dig into the history), the only new prize I give a crap about this year is having a healthy newborn baby in 2 weeks time.

This is all, I presume, somewhat related to my family/career/job post of the other month. It’s also, I’m sure, a juvenile set of thoughts to be pondering, but what can I say, I’m most at home thinking like a 3 year old nowadays

Here are some more Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez quotes. As he was “born 2,437 years ago”, Ramirez was born in or around 895 BC in Egypt. That would put him in the Third Intermediate Period, which looks like a bit of a messy time in ancient Egypt as this map shows. Did you know that Egypt was that fractured?

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