RoyII

To answer the question of the title, probably not...but I recently had my first attempt at writing an article.  This originated from a bit of late night surfing I was doing one Saturday night. I found this site where you have to submit articles on specified subjects (the title of this category was Vampires and Vampirism), and this gadget called a rating engine gives a ranking to it in respect of all the other articles submitted in the category. If you are still awake and interested, an example would be article A by A is the highest ranked and so is at the top of the list of articles in that category...and so on.

To cut a short story even shorter, I had a go, and the following is the article I submitted:

‘Vampires have always had a bit of an image problem in modern culture - personally I blame the movies - all those films starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing portrayed Dracula as an evil, corrupt, red eyed fiend who was very much into vestal virgins, but not very partial to stake. Later on, the ‘Blade' movies developed this theme further, adding a political element into the mix  - the undead now had a foreign policy of world domination, wanting to topple us humans from the top of the food chain, which is not very sporting if you think about it.

With all this bad press it is not surprising that Vampirism is not exactly a celebrated cause. Even in these politically correct times, there are no lobbyists for vampire rights, calls for garlic free zones, or even concessions on coffins - whatever way you look at it, they are given a very hard time - is this fair when all they really want is a drink? OK, they do feed on human blood, but in modern life there are plenty of other ways in which you can be bled dry - any one who has had any dealings with the tax system will know what I mean.

If you actually think about the pros and cons, Vampirism is not a necessarily an unpleasant proposition - there is the possibility to live for thousands of years, relationships are not really a problem as it is usually a case of love at first bite, you don't have to get up in the morning. All you have to worry about is the extra dental care and avoiding getting a suntan. As a lifestyle option it has it's attractions.'

The rating engine ranked this opus 2nd out of the two articles in the category. I am not bitter though - the author of the other article had done a whole lot more research than my good self, and probably had consumed a lot less alcohol when writing it. I guess that is enough excuses.

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Yeah I know....it's been almost a year!

 What have I been doing since then? Well the boring answer is mainly work, which has gone mental of late! But there have been a few other things...

- I went back to Croatia for another holiday which was great. It envolved kayaking, hiking, cycling and snorkling not necessarily in that order.

- this next one is a very recent development - very soon I am to go on a date with a lady who I don't know that well. To be honest I haven't been dating for a while and am feeling a bit apprehensive. Advice anyone?

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