Today, I’ve made a decision.

I’m gonna be awesome.

Hello, world. it’s been a while. Although not due to a lack of thought.

Here’s the problem as I see it:

1. I would like to write in this blog more often. I have a lot of things to say, to write about, to observe. Whether people read this is secondary.
2. I am an intensely private person and am aware that somehow people may start reading this. For this reasons, I have not wanted to write about the following things lest my online and offline worlds collide: my work life (hello potential work stalkers), my environment (hello potential stalker stalkers), my married life (awesome, yet none of your goddamn business) and my social life (out of respect to those people who I care about and don’t want to be mentioned online). This does not leave much.
3. There is an aspect of my family life that takes over much of my thoughts, not in a good way. It has caused a toxic cancer that has festered for about fifteen years, and has got to the point where I need to let go and move on, lest it take over all of my feelings and turn me into a bitter shell. I would not mention it but I don’t want to be that angry person either offline or online. Cynical and sarcastic are a way of life for me, but combine it with rage and it’s not a pretty thing at all. These feelings have kept me away from writing things down.

So, what to do?

I’ve decided that I need to throw caution to the wind and be a little bit more open, talk about things that I enjoy doing, things that I have seen. Many, many more photos, although because I mainly use film cameras there is usually a lag between when I take a picture and when I put it online. I guess that means that in a lot of ways this will turn into a more ‘traditional’ blog but that ain’t such a horrible thing. It does mean that I need to make a concerted effort to post more to get a rhythm to work out what this blog is all about.

In conclusion, I’m back, for now. Let’s see where this leads us.

Usually Facebook advertising completely misses its mark- it seems to suggest all I want to know about are hens’ nights and babies. But today it seemed to know it’s audience- that being, people who post stuff on your wall with racist undertones.

Image below cut to protect the innocent.

EDIT 10/10/08 Rather than creating a new post, I thought I’d also mention that my last Amazon order before the arse fell out of the Australian Dollar contained the Bluray edition of ‘Wall Street’. Quelle ironie.