Jagged Thoughts

Just some notes I took during a speech today, I make myself laugh..

- Lighten the mood (Part 1)!
- Blah blah blah (Part 2)
- More reason to exist than hospitals? What?
- Just won’t happen…. in a hurry (Yep that’s government)
- Talks a bit like Brad, i.e. smart but talks a lot of crap.

The end.

That’s right it’s now 2010 if you didn’t realise. The thing I find with the beginning of a new year, is you tend to look back on the previous year. You start to notice all the things you accomplished, the things that went wrong, what you need to concentrate on this year. The things to concentrate on this year… ahhh yes new years resolutions. I hate using the term new years resolutions. Because most people that make ‘new years resolutions’ seem to just forget about them or lose motivation within a month or two.

So instead I’m going to refer to it as ‘refreshing my goals’. I always have goals I want to achieve, but sometimes I go a bit off track. The new year is a chance to re-assess where I’m at, are my goals still relevant, are they what I want, how close am I to achieving them, what do I need to do to achieve them.

I have two major goals at the moment. The first is to manage my money better, by doing a few different things, I’m not going to go into any detail right now. The second is to get back into a regular gym routine, and build some muscle, which I started last week and enjoying. So far it’s a pretty good start to the new year!

I was driving into work this morning, traffic was slow for no apparent reason, but on the positive side the weather was fantastic. Sitting in traffic with the windows down, sunroof open, ahhh even in stop start traffic on the freeway it was pretty nice. I’m sort of in my own little world, listening to tunes, and then I notice a ladybug has joined me on my quest to work. He’s just sitting there relaxing on the car dash, I decide to call him Fred, Big Red Fred.

I spent the entire trip watching Fred. First he crawls to the right of the dash, and then to the left side, and then flies on to the windscreen and walks up it, then back down on to the dash and just chills there for a while. A bit later he decides to come back over to my side and sit directly in front of me looking at me, and then goes for another windscreen walk before finding a place to sit on the dash again.

Once we get into the inner city, he decides to check out the view, just buzzes over to the passenger doortrim, and sits on the top gazing out the window – just like a dog hanging it’s head out the window. But a bit further down little lonsdale he spots his destination, melbourne central. He jumps from the window and happily buzzed inside. He didn’t mention what he was doing, but my guess is shopping at general pants and then grabbing some starbucks.

Really it’s just a great day… I feel great!

I for once went to bed at a reasonable time last night and had a good sleep, so this morning coffee was more just a want rather than a NEED. I actually feel awake instead of half asleep! And the weather today is just awesome, it’s a nice spring day, not hot, just a nice warmth. My muscles are slightly achy and tight from going to gym yesterday.. but it’s a good feeling. The warm weather also seems to make me eat better.. instead of craving something hot like a toasted sandwich, I feel more like eating things like sushi and juice. The weather also let me cruise into work with the sunroof open, windows down, and the new muse album blaring (which i’m going to have to review shortly). And the morning at work has been really productive, I wrote two seperate datafixes for a database I support. I don’t usually write sql datafixes, so it was pretty awarding to finish one which turned out to be reasonably complex.

Going back to juice… I tried a juice today made by ‘emma and tom’s juice’. It was this funky green colour, and made out of all natural ingredients. Thought I would give it a shot, tasting fairly good actually. But halfway through drinking it I read over the ingredients and read that it contains…. STINGING NETTLE ??? WTF emma and tom? why are you putting stinging nettle’s in your juice. Maybe my great feeling today is really just because the stinging nettle is numbing my brain. Thanks Emma and Tom!

People always tell me that the internet is anti-social.  For example sitting in my room drinking a 6 pack of coronas while listening to el bronx is apparently anti-social.

But I completely disagree.. with the huge amount of different ways to communicate with people.. mainly i use windows live messenger, facebook, and good old mirc.  I’m actually much more social sitting at home on my computer than I probably am going out somewhere.  And not only that you can be much more comfortable, listen to the music you want to, you can choose how social you want to be, or who you want to be social with.

So ummm yes, the internet is social!