I haven't blogged for over a month now... that sucks. My aim at the start of the year was to blog once a week at least... you know, hit the magical 52 posts per year number. Unfortunately, things got in the way. So what's been going on in my world? Well, lets see.
Work: work is work. No raises on account of the recession or depression or what have you... so that sucks. No promotion... not that a promotion would have given me raise, so I am not sure what's worse... getting promoted but no $$$ or not getting promoted and not getting $$$.
Health: I've been working out a lot of late. I've lost a whopping 4 kg! Even that snarky little wii fit was concerned about my weight loss. I hope to keep going. I can run 45 minutes on a treadmill and not feel too bad after. Now, that may not sound like much to the hardcore types, but I think I can do some awesome stuff with that. Some day, I hope to run another 10k, a marathon and a triathlon. And when I go back home, I am going to hit up the grind and try and beat my best time.
Vacations: I've been to Vegas last week with my buddy Voja and was that ever fun. I'll post up another entry on Vegas and the whole experience.
Learnings: I've been writing apps for the BlackBerry; its kind of cool I have to say. Lots more to learn.
Reading: I've been trying to finish up reading Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival... but somehow I've never quite finished. I also have a tonne of other books waiting to be read; somehow I always end up reading the Asterix comic books though.
Garden: I've got a bunch of seeds in starter pots... and have been contemplating starting over again with Orchids. I am terrified that I will go nuts with orchids (I've spent significant amounts of time and money on them in the past) and so I'll wait on that. It dawned on me the other day that Ray's Orchids is no longer inaccessible (since I now live in the US) and I could indeed go nuts buying from there and other places.
What's left to do: I'm still working on a bunch of stuff... including moving back home, so far no luck with that. More reading, more traveling (I'm tempted to go across the pond as it were), less slacking off and what not.
Latest cool thing I have played with: Firefox 3.1 betas and google docs. I'm waiting for google to give me access to google voice as well. And I've been contemplating getting an iPod touch now that you can (almost) copy and paste and what not. I wonder if they will just come up with an even thinner or shinier version of it and if its worth waiting for. I don't mind paying for software update... but if they change the hardware (like they did the last time), that would suck. My good old trusty hard drive based 5 year old iPod still works fine though.
That's all for now folks...
Work: work is work. No raises on account of the recession or depression or what have you... so that sucks. No promotion... not that a promotion would have given me raise, so I am not sure what's worse... getting promoted but no $$$ or not getting promoted and not getting $$$.
Health: I've been working out a lot of late. I've lost a whopping 4 kg! Even that snarky little wii fit was concerned about my weight loss. I hope to keep going. I can run 45 minutes on a treadmill and not feel too bad after. Now, that may not sound like much to the hardcore types, but I think I can do some awesome stuff with that. Some day, I hope to run another 10k, a marathon and a triathlon. And when I go back home, I am going to hit up the grind and try and beat my best time.
Vacations: I've been to Vegas last week with my buddy Voja and was that ever fun. I'll post up another entry on Vegas and the whole experience.
Learnings: I've been writing apps for the BlackBerry; its kind of cool I have to say. Lots more to learn.
Reading: I've been trying to finish up reading Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival... but somehow I've never quite finished. I also have a tonne of other books waiting to be read; somehow I always end up reading the Asterix comic books though.
Garden: I've got a bunch of seeds in starter pots... and have been contemplating starting over again with Orchids. I am terrified that I will go nuts with orchids (I've spent significant amounts of time and money on them in the past) and so I'll wait on that. It dawned on me the other day that Ray's Orchids is no longer inaccessible (since I now live in the US) and I could indeed go nuts buying from there and other places.
What's left to do: I'm still working on a bunch of stuff... including moving back home, so far no luck with that. More reading, more traveling (I'm tempted to go across the pond as it were), less slacking off and what not.
Latest cool thing I have played with: Firefox 3.1 betas and google docs. I'm waiting for google to give me access to google voice as well. And I've been contemplating getting an iPod touch now that you can (almost) copy and paste and what not. I wonder if they will just come up with an even thinner or shinier version of it and if its worth waiting for. I don't mind paying for software update... but if they change the hardware (like they did the last time), that would suck. My good old trusty hard drive based 5 year old iPod still works fine though.
That's all for now folks...
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