american elf which is the work of James Kolchaka is amazing. The more i read of the daily diary the more I love what he's done with it. Bloody brilliant and sublime all at once. And it's updated daily. When I did a gig poster everyday of february it nearly goddamn killed me, and this guy updates daily!
This is just amazing read some of these stories to give you a bit of perspective.
Because we can't have my American visitors thinking that we keep Kangaroos in our backyards as pets... But... say hello to my new lawnmower!
World, meet Droofus the Wallaby. He's more awesome than a cat and a dog multiplied by 10. He's was orphaned, and for the next little while he's living with us, until he's big enough to go back into the wild.
Had a huge financial setback on friday, which was annoying - something cost a lot more than I thought it would, but that evening I got a letter with a huge bill in it, and after the initial freakout, i'm convinced they have made a mistake and will be speaking to them on Monday.
What's interesting is that considering the sums of money involved I didn't really fall off the deepend too badly. My teeth hurt though, I think I ground my teeth badly last night.
Being a nightowl is awesome, cause you get lots of stuff done late at night. But you also end up like the living dead the next day, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I would be more productive in daylight if I stopped staying up late all the time.
(The irony is not lost on me that it's taken me a few more minutes past the 11.30 mark to create this non-amusing o'rly ya'rly owl image, which has consequently taken me past my planned bedtime.)
Goodnight.
I'm trying synctoy, a free app from Microsoft for syncing folders. In my case I'm using it to backup my work folder which contains a hilarious amount* of work that I haven't backed up for the longest time.
*it's only hilarious if my pc crashes and I loose 2.5 years worth of work because i was too lazy to back it up. But because I don't want to get you too excited, here's a screen capture from sync toy working so you can calm down a notch.
Next up I need to back it up onto DVD.
You can get it from here: synctoy
From now on unless the email newsletter is something I actually read, I am unsubscribing, even through I think it might be nice to have a repository of meaningless mind-spam from places I've only randomly signed up to in my travels, I think it would be nicer to cut the crap.
I moved all my email, and after collecting my email I just discovered 30 new emails of varying importance. Most of it's shite though.
Good lord. And I have more folders of crap just sitting there to move also.
Sick of email hassles. Sick of not replying to other people's emails because they got lost in dross, and email lists and spam and duplicate emails.
I plan to apply inbox zero to my unwitting email client.
I also plan to rid myself of duplicate emails
I plan to automagically file my partners email into another folder so I stop accidentally loosing email from her friends.
Sometimes you realize that things have gotten on top of you. Sometimes you realize that you've let your life get out of control, and you want to take back control. Sometimes you realize you don't have a personal blog that deals with this shit so you keep it bottled up.
I just need a catalyst for positive change in my attitude. This year, in my mind at least, should have been a really positive one, but I've been dealing what I only recognise now as a creeping depression and if I don't do something about it, it's not going to get better.
So this will be 1 part personal blog, one part self improvement hippy garbage, and one part a central repository for my mental overflow.
I need some more optimism and I need a plan.
I reckon I will try and break it down like this:
Reflection will cover my thoughts about how I'm going.
Plans will cover my ideas for tacking problems and tasks in my life
Action will be the ongoing reporting of results.