horsemouth and work. and how it relates to his mental health

the big advantage of working (for horsemouth) was that, while he did it, he couldn't think about other things. 

and in addition to that there was the money. this could be used to pay his rent (and enable him to stay in the seaside towns and carry on working), 

work, travelling to work, travelling between jobs, and travelling back from work, doing the paperwork, took up a good proportion of his day (monday to friday) and occupied his thoughts most wonderfully. 

further, horsemouth, who did not posses a smartphone, was unable to check facebook, myspace etc. during his day. he was compelled to read (or make notes in his diary, or doodle etc.) the work required horsemouth to travel across the town and enabled him to visit many second hand bookshops and charity shops.

in the early days horsemouth would work weekends and evenings as well (it was better paid) but when they stopped paying that work better he stopped doing it (proportionately). he also got in additional work (sometimes over the summer holidays) with much wider travel. eventually he gave this up because it was too much trouble (this was probably a mistake but not such a bad mistake that horsemouth actually regrets it).

horsemouth found working and being paid very reassuring. it gave him a measure of how well he as doing. initially he worked everything he was offered but eventually he relaxed into it and stopped chasing work. he became more confident that they would pay him, that he would make enough money to live and that there would be enough work next year to re-employ him. 

but it was the breaking up of horsemouth's day that was most useful. this meant he came back to issues afresh. 

at the communal endeavour things proceed slowly (if indeed they are proceeding at all). indeed the may be being rolled back.  they proceeded just as slowly before but it didn't seem that way because horsemouth's attention was diverted with other things. someday horsemouth will retire from it. 

enza got the fall of the house of fitzgerald shown at the renaissance festival at electrowerkz (thanks enza). horsemouth now has photos of himself being shown on a screen (and presumably to an audience). howard has recorded another mix for the golden glow (and very good it is too). 

john will be over visiting soon (he is ahead of horsemouth in this 'retirement' lark). horsemouth will ask him how it is going. at the weekend probably a brief meet up with howard.