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3D is coming!

This just rocks.  I cannot wait to have computer games which look 3D because of simple head movements.  Bring it!

I am coming back.

oh, for some time

Since doing Ironman about a month ago, I have been flat out: exams to write, meetings to facilitate and stuff. Only this week have I managed to get some down time. Just in time for Easter.
And you know what I find myself doing:
Filling up my days with all the things that I want to do. I just want to chill and have a few weeks of doing nothing but there is a part of me that just doesn't allow that. I want to run faster, cycle harder, do pilates, start an art course, edit more video, spend time with my wife, train for the the Avon decent and spend time with my friends. All in just 7 days a week. Damn it! Where is the time to see the movies that I want to watch and take the dogs for a walk and have a quite dinner and walk on the beach and just tidy the garden!
And I have to work as well.

I have to let some of this go. I cannot acheive all that and be chilled. Or maybe I just have to be chilled and do it all anyway. Or maybe I just need to take it one day at a time.
My stratagy is to start doing one thing at a time. I am going to to a Drawing Class on Thurday evenings for the next 6 weeks. If I can handle that I will add in the next thing to the schedual. So instead of doing everything all at once, I will fill in my days one at a time.

(as I am writing this I am thinking of all the stuff I would like to do and that i do do, that I have not written in the list above - crazy life)

thanks for listening.

f. is for facebook

so it has been ages since i blogged last. i think i have been giving myself time to decide what and how i am going to do this.
Yesterday I deleted my Facebook profile. It is something that i have been wanting to do for ages. i get no benefit from Facebook. So i can see what my friends have been up to and they can follow me (usually by other people putting up photos), but it is all passive. I chatted to my cousin the other day and we realised that we actually had not communicated in months. Yet, we felt like we had been connecting because we had been following eachother on facebook. that is not communication.

facebook is too easy and that makes it not special. if i get a "happy birthday" from someone on facebook i basically ignore it. It is easy when facebook tells you these things. there is no thought behind it.

So now i am going to blog and email and phone and text. if people want to know what i am up to they can log onto this blog or see my photos on picassa or just email me.
Facebook is dead to me.

12 Hour Enduro

It was an epic battle. Over the weekend the race was a 12 hour mountain bike event which started at 6pm and ended at 6am. It was Woop Woop vrs ADAMANTIUM entered in the 2 man teams.
For 12 hours we were only 4 mins apart maximum. The lead changed basically every lap. Then Woop Woop pulled out a massive lap and pulled ahead. ADAMANTIUM worked hard to pull it back but in the end it was a Woop Woop victory. They ended up coming 3rd in the 2 man teams.

A more epic race will never be seen again. What an awesome night.

results

Web Presence

so following on from yesterdays post; I am trying to develop a web presence. Why? I am not sure. It may be that I have a mild but pervasive desire for fame. It is funny though because this desire battles with my respect for humility. Part of me wants to tell everyone about everything and build myself up. But the people that I respect the most are the people that you find out are just awesome but never tell you them self. I want to be like that and am striving for it.