About the day

So this is a quick post from my phone app just to try it out.

I don’t really have a topic, but I knew I had to post something in order to get into the habit. I think it’s a very good sign that I remembered to post at all.

I’m hopeful that as time goes on I’ll have more interesting things to blog about, however in the meantime these useless topics and the filler tripe will have to suffice. Remember, this is more about forming the habit of frequency than about the quality of content.

Cheers
~Scott

Hating my decision

I’ve determined that Ineed to join the rest of the world and be more “Socially Media Aware”.
Turns out this is much harder than it sounds. I have little patience for these types of interactions, and less patience for the tools which allow them.
Still, there can be only improvements for myself, so I stick with it. Despite the predictions that I will fail, I carry on.

Yay me.

Something old, something reviewed…

I thought I might cheat a little bit and repost something from before, so here it is:

7 Things I Want to Do Before I Die:
an excerpt from “100 Things to do Before I Die”, by M S Doyle
1. learn to make explosives from common household products.. uh wait, wrong list. =) Let me start again…
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1. write, direct, produce and edit a film of my own
2. be recognized by my community for having done things without recognition
3. publish 3 books – of poetry, of Tarot, and a novel
4. live at beach-house that faces the tropical sea, with white-sand beaches, servants, and beautiful weather (and par-tay’s)
5. Eat sushi in the Royal Gardens in Kyoto, Japan
6. Have a personal assistant follow me around
7. get filthy, stinking, fabulously wealthy

7 Things I Can Do:
1. fix computers of almost any make and age
2. read tarot, decipher dreams, cogitate on secret mysteries
3. drive almost any vehicle that allows me to go too fast for safety
4. plan the strategic and hostile takeover of nearly any urban environment
5. entertain people for hours by ranting about almost anything
6. defeat many in an “open-style tournament” martial-arts match from my weight class & age group
7. Cook. (I can whip together a 4-course meal, complete with selected beverages and desserts – and they would be delicious!)

7 Things I Can’t Do:
1. figure out women
2. put toothpaste back into the tube
3. fix my car
4. quote chapter and verse from the Koran
5. make fudge
6. teach myself C++ or Visual Basic programming languages
7. bring myself to break free of the chains of mediocrity that surrounds and permeates the very fabric of our culture

7 Things That Makes A Girl Attractive:
1. eyes (bright, clear and it helps if they are mischievous)
2. tummy (flat or slightly concave)
3. natural (very little make-up)
4. tall (anywhere from 5’7″ to 6’0″)
5. confident (but not cocky or arrogant)
6. intelligent and knowledgeable
7. an accent (almost any European)

7 Celebrity Crushes:
The order of these ladies is arbitrary
1. Courtney Cox
2. Alyssa Milano
3. Natalie Portman
4. Amanda Bynes
5. Scarlett Johanssen
6. Elizabeth Shue
7. Heather Graham

7 Things I Say the Most:
There are so many to choose from…
  1. No
  2. Did you print a self-test page?
  3. I thought I told you not to do that!
  4. Don’t make me repeat myself.
  5. I had nothing to do with that.
  6. Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
  7. I have no recollection of that, senator.

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I will try to update these lists and add more “Lists of 7″ to them. 

Cheers,
~ Scott

Starting Again (Again)

Wow.
Seriously, wow.  It’s been almost 3 years since I published anything on this web-blog. COuld I be so boring that I have nothing to say, nothing to share? 

Yeah, that’s it.

Well my “New Year’s Resolution” was to begin social media participation, and this marks the beginning.  I am going to try to blog/post everyday this year.  I’m mentally gearing up to do exactly that, although my previous track record would suggest that I will post 3 more times this month and then once again late in 2014…

Still, we all need to make adjustments in our lives, and adapting to the new paradigm of “social-media connectedness” is the paradigm I need to adapt.

So this is the start of something that may in fact become enjoyable for me – I do hope it becomes enjoyable, but I will also accept “less painful” and “not bothersome” in the interim.

Happy blogging!

~ Scott

Well Life Has Changed

… and yet so much has stayed the same.

I am now in Quebec (yes I am still married) working for the CF. That’s the Canadian Forces – you know, the Army.  I enrolled in Dec ’08, and I started Basic Training(sometimes called boot camp) on 4th Jan ’09.  I am still there, although the training is on hold ATM.

It seems I have blown out my knee, at least that’s what the results are.  I found out this morning that I “probably” won’t require surgery.  More to follow.

I am hopeful that this injury will not prevent me from completing BMQ (boot camp) and moving forward with my career. I have no current back-up plan… sort of put all my eggs in one basket, you might say.

I am due to go home for a visit soon (93 hours from right now!) and I will hopefully be able to recharge and remind myself why I joined in the first place.  After that, I hope to return and complete my BMQ, then I will be on to Gagetown,NB to begin my career as a Combat Engineer.  More To Follow.

So that is the update that you’ve all been waiting breathlessly for. That’s all.  I shall try to make it back here a little more often than once every 5 or 6 months,but I make no promises.

Cheers all, and be well.

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Well I have no idea what I will write about today.  I only know that I have made a conscious decision to write, and therefore I need to fill the space with something.  that being said, I will need to narrow the field somewhat.

I could talk about the bad weather, but that would really be avoiding a post.

I could talk about the weird dreams I have been having recently, but that would be awkward, and more to the point embarrassing for me, and I am not yet ready to post the embarrassing things here yet.  In time, perhaps.

I have almost given up on the notion of posting anything along the lines of “I am feeling out of sorts”; I always feel out of sorts.  Since that seems to be my baseline, wouldn’t that mean it was “normal” to feel that way, and therefore I should stop complaining about it?  I will return to that concept at another time, but not today.

Yes, it is decidedly difficult to find anything to post here today.  I know!  I shall merely post the following message:

NO POST TODAY.

Thank you.

Some updates.

OK.

It has been a really long time since I updated this blog, however I have spent the last 2 hours making the new header (do you like it?) so I guess I should spend at least as much time writing some blog entries.

So here goes…

First of all, I notice from the last entry date that I was living at another location then.  I have moved and we now live uptown Saint John, NB.  We are very close to the Farmer’s Market and the uptown mall.  We can walk to the boardwalk from here in about 12 minutes or so, even with the kids in tow.

We have a new car.  The van finally died at the end of March, and we went for more than 2 months with no vehicle.  Major PITA.  All is well, now, however thanks to my father.  I know we have some pics here somewhere of the car.. I will find them…

The girls are back in school again, grades 4 and 1, and they are loving it, of course.  Kimber had to reschedule her birthday party until September, since we had no money and she had no way to contact her friends for invites.  Now that school has resumed, the invites are forthcoming.

I have been getting steadily more work for IBM/TES and most recently made Team Lead for the latest batch of contracts.  I am very excited about that, as it may mean more opportunities for work in the very near future.  With Christmas looming in the near distance that prospect is very uplifting.

In game news, I received an invite to beta test the WoW expansion Wrath of the Lich King.  So far it is awesome, and it has been a source of secret joy as I watch my game friends squirm, knowing I can see what is coming and they cannot!  muhaa!

I have not made much progress in personal endeavors, such as with my tarot, or in making more progress with the Order.  These things will need a dedicated effort on my part, but I have not been motivated to apply that effort as of this writing.  I have started to write fiction again, encouraged by my wife and oldest daughter. I have decided to use my WoW character Himhotepp as a basis for the story.  We’ll see how that goes…

And there, now you are mostly up to date.  I guess the real reason I do not blog more often is there just isn’t that much to say.  I spoke with my wife about that last night.  I told her that blogging to me feels like “electronically talking to myself” and therefore could not see the point.

She assures me, however, if I blog regularly that other people will start to read it, and I will get the feedback I am looking for.  Harrumph.  I’ve heard that story before.  We shall see then, won’t we?

In closing, if you are reading this, and I am not in fact electronically talking to myself, then I hope you will return to read again.  I will post more, just in case.

Cheers.