I may put more effort into taking photos this year. I miss it.
Maybe I'll see you here next Tuesday.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Picture Tuesday
I started this blog to document my trip to San Francisco in 2010. It's evolved, as blogs do, but after spending hours looking at the amazing photos on Claire Porter.net I've been inspired to drag out some of my favourite pictures of this year. Or last year as it turns out.
I may put more effort into taking photos this year. I miss it.
Maybe I'll see you here next Tuesday.
I may put more effort into taking photos this year. I miss it.
Maybe I'll see you here next Tuesday.
Monday, 21 January 2013
Lucky 13
Thirteen has always been my lucky number. Therefore, without jinxing it, I'm hoping 2013 will be my lucky year.
Because this is going to be my lucky year, I'm going to set myself some goals. Not new years resolutions, just things I'd like to do this year, things to work towards, things I'd like to achieve.
1. I'd like to not give up on this list at the end of the month, as I do.
I'm flighty. Very flighty. I get distracted and bored easily and let myself give up on things. This is the year of will power and getting past my willingness to give up easily.
2. Saving money.
It's always a thing I'd like to achieve, but this year I'm going to do it, come what may. In order to get Americo here in this country I need to have it. I have to pay off my personal loan, and get $5000 in the bank. I've budgeted it out and in theory I can get one of these done by the end of the year. If one of these two things is going to come first, it's going to be Americo. And so, saving. In two weeks I'll be at savings goal number one with a little help of my leave bonus. now to resist new shoes.
3. Fiance visa.
The "why they hell has it taken 6 years" visa. The "I don't know how you do it" visa. The "you guys are so patient" visa.
I don't have answers for you about the above things people say. But enough is enough. Our 6 year anniversary is in August, and hell or high water I will have enough in savings to apply for a visa by our 5 year anniversary. Sacrifices will be made.
HOLY FUCK I just realised our 6 year anniversary is in August. Excuse me while I try to figure out why it's taken this long.
4. Exercising.
I want to commit. I'm not good at it. Any slight distraction, flu, weekend, holiday, I give up. I want to do it this year. I want to be able to do pull-ups, and dips, and free lift weights. I want to be powerful.
There are other things I'd like to do. I'd like a new job, but on the flip side of that coin, I'd also like to achieve certain work things that I can't do if I change jobs. It's an idea that I've been struggling with since I was at an interview on Friday. I want to be able to leave my current position saying I achieved all the things I set out to do when I got the job 5 years ago. I haven't done all those things yet. I'm committed to making that happen. But on the other side of that coin, I'm exhausted. It's been a hard 5 years.
It's all a bit premature, the speculation, I don't even know if I have the job, I won't know for two weeks. Speculating seems to be very close to jinxing myself so I guess I should shut up.
I'm writing this all down to make myself accountable. Feel free to pressure or remind me on occasion, I could really use the help.
Because this is going to be my lucky year, I'm going to set myself some goals. Not new years resolutions, just things I'd like to do this year, things to work towards, things I'd like to achieve.
1. I'd like to not give up on this list at the end of the month, as I do.
I'm flighty. Very flighty. I get distracted and bored easily and let myself give up on things. This is the year of will power and getting past my willingness to give up easily.
2. Saving money.
It's always a thing I'd like to achieve, but this year I'm going to do it, come what may. In order to get Americo here in this country I need to have it. I have to pay off my personal loan, and get $5000 in the bank. I've budgeted it out and in theory I can get one of these done by the end of the year. If one of these two things is going to come first, it's going to be Americo. And so, saving. In two weeks I'll be at savings goal number one with a little help of my leave bonus. now to resist new shoes.
3. Fiance visa.
The "why they hell has it taken 6 years" visa. The "I don't know how you do it" visa. The "you guys are so patient" visa.
I don't have answers for you about the above things people say. But enough is enough. Our 6 year anniversary is in August, and hell or high water I will have enough in savings to apply for a visa by our 5 year anniversary. Sacrifices will be made.
HOLY FUCK I just realised our 6 year anniversary is in August. Excuse me while I try to figure out why it's taken this long.
4. Exercising.
I want to commit. I'm not good at it. Any slight distraction, flu, weekend, holiday, I give up. I want to do it this year. I want to be able to do pull-ups, and dips, and free lift weights. I want to be powerful.
There are other things I'd like to do. I'd like a new job, but on the flip side of that coin, I'd also like to achieve certain work things that I can't do if I change jobs. It's an idea that I've been struggling with since I was at an interview on Friday. I want to be able to leave my current position saying I achieved all the things I set out to do when I got the job 5 years ago. I haven't done all those things yet. I'm committed to making that happen. But on the other side of that coin, I'm exhausted. It's been a hard 5 years.
It's all a bit premature, the speculation, I don't even know if I have the job, I won't know for two weeks. Speculating seems to be very close to jinxing myself so I guess I should shut up.
I'm writing this all down to make myself accountable. Feel free to pressure or remind me on occasion, I could really use the help.
Monday, 7 January 2013
The Human Condition
As a group humanity is often known for violence, water, inequality, death, disease, bad politics, and all the hateful debate that comes with those topics.
They're important topics that need to be discussed, but today you should think about this:
Professional surgeons operate for, at times, over 18 and 24 hours at a stretch. They do that after years of punishing study. Years of being short of sleep and overworked. They do that for you.
Man landed on the moon. With less computing power than your iPhone they put three guys in a rocket, sent them into space, and landed on another heavenly body. They left this planet and put their foot prints in space. Somewhere that no other human had ever been. With less power than your iPhone. They did that for you.
There are people, right now, orbiting the earth and learning ways to progress the future of humanity in space. And they're having twitter conversations with Captain Kirk. And also doing science that nobody has ever done. They're changing the face of the world. They're changing the future of more specialities than I can possibly list. They do that for you.
We invented antibiotics, computers, twitter, google, facebook, cars, phones, TV's and virtual streaming of data from one device to the other. We can fix broken legs, put cancer into remission, we can break a persons legs and fix them so they grow a couple of inches. We can give the deaf sound and we're working on the bionic eye so the blind can see. We can build scaffolding to rebuild internal organs to extend human life.
We, humanity, perform amazing miracles every day. We change the future of the world and the human race by reaching beyond ourselves and wanting to give more than we take.
We are amazing.
And, just so you know, YOU are amazing.
They're important topics that need to be discussed, but today you should think about this:
Professional surgeons operate for, at times, over 18 and 24 hours at a stretch. They do that after years of punishing study. Years of being short of sleep and overworked. They do that for you.
Man landed on the moon. With less computing power than your iPhone they put three guys in a rocket, sent them into space, and landed on another heavenly body. They left this planet and put their foot prints in space. Somewhere that no other human had ever been. With less power than your iPhone. They did that for you.
There are people, right now, orbiting the earth and learning ways to progress the future of humanity in space. And they're having twitter conversations with Captain Kirk. And also doing science that nobody has ever done. They're changing the face of the world. They're changing the future of more specialities than I can possibly list. They do that for you.
We invented antibiotics, computers, twitter, google, facebook, cars, phones, TV's and virtual streaming of data from one device to the other. We can fix broken legs, put cancer into remission, we can break a persons legs and fix them so they grow a couple of inches. We can give the deaf sound and we're working on the bionic eye so the blind can see. We can build scaffolding to rebuild internal organs to extend human life.
We, humanity, perform amazing miracles every day. We change the future of the world and the human race by reaching beyond ourselves and wanting to give more than we take.
We are amazing.
And, just so you know, YOU are amazing.
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