time passes
It's been more than two weeks since I wrote anything in this blog.
Why's that? I just didn't feel like it, I suppose. It's autumn here at last - after a summer that spluttered and fizzed and then came back with warm shirt-sleeve weather in October. Today it's April showers with the added ingredient of dead leaves.
I suppose what I notice is that the last two weeks have been full of stuff - teaching the two classes a week, with a bagful of admin hindrances; rediscovering what fun it is to take a great photo; capturing the moment over and over again. I've just splashed out and bought myself a better camera - it's digital and I have a whole new vocabulary to learn. Plus I've discovered another TLA - "LBA" - apparently it stands for Lens Buying Addiction (or something like that).
And I discovered how addictive ebay can be; that rush when an auction is about to end - with the doubt "is this really something I want to pay real money for?" Several times in the last week I've ended up with an intact bank balance but a hole somewhere where that must-have item would have been.
And then the shock of finding the same thing cheaper elsewhere - and the reassurance when the ebay snipers jump in and pay even more than I did (or would have done)!
It's like they used to say in the old Soviet Union - if you see a queue, join it - even if you have no idea what it's for. So, is this the Union of Soviet Ebay Republics? or the United States of Ebay? or the Ebay Union?
Then, to cap it all, my old PC that I still keep for backups started its favourite trick of stopping just when I needed it. Which led to my PC guru advising me on yet another chase round for something to buy to fix it.
And the net result? A focus on now - on technology - and no creative writing. I just hope it won't last this way.
So, at least, here's some writing. And I have put a couple of photos on the website.
http://www.facilitator.demon.co.uk
Simon
Why's that? I just didn't feel like it, I suppose. It's autumn here at last - after a summer that spluttered and fizzed and then came back with warm shirt-sleeve weather in October. Today it's April showers with the added ingredient of dead leaves.
I suppose what I notice is that the last two weeks have been full of stuff - teaching the two classes a week, with a bagful of admin hindrances; rediscovering what fun it is to take a great photo; capturing the moment over and over again. I've just splashed out and bought myself a better camera - it's digital and I have a whole new vocabulary to learn. Plus I've discovered another TLA - "LBA" - apparently it stands for Lens Buying Addiction (or something like that).
And I discovered how addictive ebay can be; that rush when an auction is about to end - with the doubt "is this really something I want to pay real money for?" Several times in the last week I've ended up with an intact bank balance but a hole somewhere where that must-have item would have been.
And then the shock of finding the same thing cheaper elsewhere - and the reassurance when the ebay snipers jump in and pay even more than I did (or would have done)!
It's like they used to say in the old Soviet Union - if you see a queue, join it - even if you have no idea what it's for. So, is this the Union of Soviet Ebay Republics? or the United States of Ebay? or the Ebay Union?
Then, to cap it all, my old PC that I still keep for backups started its favourite trick of stopping just when I needed it. Which led to my PC guru advising me on yet another chase round for something to buy to fix it.
And the net result? A focus on now - on technology - and no creative writing. I just hope it won't last this way.
So, at least, here's some writing. And I have put a couple of photos on the website.
http://www.facilitator.demon.co.uk
Simon
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