It looks like my plans have changed yet again, and yay it looks like now I’ll have time to go to the Bloggers Meet-up tomorrow at the Tilbury Hotel in Woolloomooloo. Apparently there are similar get-togethers in Melbourne and Brisbane, and apparently we need to boost they Sydney numbers as it appears that there are too many Melbourne people whiling away their precious time on blogs …. *ducks* So ignore the “Blogger” logo… everyone knows that LiveJournal is the place to be :p It looks like an interesting day.. I’ll get to meet people whose lives I’ve been reading about for so long… jeez I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing! They already know more about me than is considered safe…. hehhehe Adam is actually wanting to come with me too…. really wants to meet a few of these people that post such cute pictures of boys that he sees whilst reading over my shoulder at night :p Ahh, bless So Sydney bloggers… LiveJournallers especially, come down to the Tilbury tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon, 5pm. There’s apparently a “Blogger” sign or something, hopefully brought by Singe In The City, who I must remember to give a hug to tomorrow. If you’re coming, leave a comment here or with SITC’s post. See y’all there! |
Browsing Posts published in July, 2007
Once you have a man, what do you do with him? Well… funnily enough most people don’t seem to think that far. The hunt, the chase, the catch… there are seminars, books, tips and tricks from all kinds of “experts”, on how to catch a man. But it seems there is very little *credible* literature on how to maintain a stable, and maybe even monogamous, gay relationship. Many of you will know that Adam and my relationship has had its ups and downs, recently we experienced a big crashing down that neither of us wants to experience again, and after 3.5 years the prospect of breaking up is not one either of us really want to entertain, not when it can be avoided and worked through. So we decided to be a little proactive… bone up on literature from people who have seen it, done it, and have found one of many solutions that are out there. Of course, gay relationships are a tricky one… they have their own idiosyncrasies and power dynamics that are not seen so much in “straight” relationships. And besides gay relationships are greatly varied in themselves… I don’t think I’ve ever seen two the same. As such, I believe you should never get your advice from the one source… get armed with knowledge, weigh up its relevance to your own situation and relationship type, and hatch a plan together. I think that’s the only way. So my questions to my readers |
Forgive me, blog, for I have sinned. It’s been well over a week since my last update, and I feel I have much to tell yet no structure in which to say it! I seem to be doing a lot of traveling lately, and the way it’s looking it’s going to get worse before it gets better. This week it’s Canberra, where there is surprisingly little to do at night except lounge around at one of the many Irish Pubs and enjoy Guinness with my surprisingly attractive colleague who’s arrived from the UK. That being said… the accommodation has been surprisingly good… last few nights have been at the Hyatt, arguably Canberra’s classiest hotel. Marble bathrooms the size of my living room back home, and an overall feeling of living like a king. Tonight I’m at the Crowne Plaza, trading Old English livery for more contemporary furnishings. I’ve just seen Kommissar Rex on TV, my life feels complete In the next month or so I’ve got a few weeks planned in NZ, where I’m hoping to sample some skiing on the weekends. I doubt I’ll get enough time for the south islands, but I hear the north island has a few decent ski fields. But even more exciting… in two weeks time, I will be visited by the gorgeous YAY! |
I PASSED!!!!I got my results back on Friday… it’s OVER!!!!! Even the exam I thought I would have to beg and plead for, considering I didn’t do any assessments… passed that too I’m still in shock I think… hasn’t quite sunken in. Needless to say, my folks were as proud as anything, and Adam gave me the biggest, tightest hug in a long time. And Friday night was very drunken. Onto the next degree, huh? |
Meet our newest arrival… Flick. We picked her up a few days ago… the local pet shop up at Top Ryde is closing up shop and they needed to find homes for their bunnies, so we happily obliged! I first noticed her because she has this habit of letting one ear flop… is gorgeous! So I decided I’d create my first bunny macro… you like? I thought it was cute :p hehehe |
This one’s goin’ straight to the pool room! Another few days and semester results will be out, and my fate will be sealed. Will I be next? |
It’s all about being carbon neutral, isn’t it? With the Live World concerts just wrapping up, the next big personal attribute is your carbon footprint. I can just see it now… the next thing we’ll be boasting about at the pub is what our carbon footprint looks like. It’ll be the new defining factor to look out for in a date. Puh-lease! Whilst I agree that global warming and carbon dioxide emissions are a concern, this approach about everyone reducing their personal impact is a joke. I mean, really. If you want to make a difference, attack the problem at its root, not just attempt to cover it over with planting a few extra trees. That tree is going to take 10-20 years to grow, and by that time our “carbon emissions” are going to be through the roof. Nice thought, but completely pointless. The only answer is to invest in alternative fuels. Coal sure is cheap, but yes is a tad messy and does attribute to a lot of greenhouse gas emissions. Clean Coal, a favourite of the Greens Party and other hippies, is a completely impractical idea as the technology to perfect it is complex and will likely come after we’ve already exhausted our prime (black) coal deposits. Wind power, whilst nice, just doesn’t generate enough energy. Solar power is useless in the current form of photovoltaics, but has some potential, such as the Solar Tower project. What I don’t get is why everyone is overlooking nuclear power, a perfectly viable and clean form of energy, releasing only steam into the atmosphere. And talking about nuclear waste, if people actually realised how little nuclear waste is really generated by an active power station, they wouldn’t be so quick to judge. I seem to remember the total amount generated by an 800MW power station is in the order of 100 barrels a year, and technology and safety standards have risen somewhat such that we shouldn’t have to fear the nuclear boogeyman anymore. But really, it’s not optimal is it. What the world really needs is to finally perfect fusion power. Feed it deuterium / tritium, get helium as a byproduct. Potential power gained if perfected would far surpass any current known form of power generation. Combine this a light high-capacity energy storage device, and all power and ground-based transportation could be run with close to zero carbon dioxide emissions. Granted, this is expensive… but is it more expensive than the Kyoto treaty or this carbon netural crap, which is progress-inhibitive and just delaying the inevitable anyway? If governments were really serious about this, they would divert their R&D resources into solving this problem. A few thousand scientists and engineers with a big budget could probably knock it over within a decade or so. They’re getting pretty close already. So my view is… cut it out with “carbon footprint” business, forget these “eco-friendly” gimmicks and stop listening to rock concerts yabber on about “making a difference” whilst sucking down 100kVA of power to run the event. Instead of trying to ease your own conscience by signing a petition, go and learn some nuclear physics, or pay someone else to. The world will be a far better better place. |
Intelligence and its associated Quotient is something that many people do not like talking about. After all… if you have a low IQ, you don’t want to mention it, if you have an “average” IQ, you don’t want to be thought of as average, and if you have a high IQ if you ever mention it you will be accused of bragging. I was talking to someone tonight who recently did an IQ test (not one of those pseudo-tests that you take online, a proper one), and apparently he scored quite high, in the “second percentile”. Curiosity got the better of me… I had no idea how they shaped the bell curve or really what IQ represented… so I looked it up. It appears that the median for the human race would be 100, with 80 being the lower boundary and 120 the upper for “normal”. Whilst the tests exist, do we ever really want to know what our IQ is? Some people argue that IQ is not something that can substantially change (unlike body shape), and there’s not much you can do about it. Typically, I’ve read that a person’s IQ will tend to decrease over time by a small amount, the amount depending on how active and challenged you keep your mind during your developing years. So I ask… what is the point of IQ tests? If we are assessed to be stupid, we will be insecure for life. If we are assessed to be “average”, we will feel like we can never achieve something special because we’re stuck in the middle lane of the highway and someone else is bound to outsmart us. And if we’re “above average” we can be lulled into a false sense of security, or go down the path of perfectionism where we know we’re above average and self-loathe when we don’t achieve our potential. Even worse, on the extreme scales, we face other challenges with mental or physical disability, as unfortunately those extremes are rarely reached without some genetic abnormality. So if someone said to you “here is your IQ score… a numerical value representing your life’s worth”, how would you feel? I know I didn’t want to know mine when I did the test. Question to my readers… have you ever had an IQ test, and were you pleased / concerned with the result? No need to quote scores, unless you feel it’s important. Just your views on the whole process |
It’s over. I can’t believe it, but it’s over. I sat my last exam on Friday… was a difficult test, but passable I think. It still hasn’t hit me yet that the bane of my last 6.5 years is over. Yes I know I still have to wait until I get my results… nothing is guaranteed of course. But there here and now… no more uni ! I’ve always said that once the stress of uni is over, I would become a new man. I don’t think many people apart from myself understand just how much impact and stress it’s had on me, and how I’ve put most of my life on the sidelines whilst I’ve tried to juggle one of the university’s hardest degrees with a fulltime job. It’s been this black cloud that has impacted heavily on my mood. But now… it’s the next step in my life. I always said over the past year that once uni was over I would Indeed, I promised Adam that I would stop smoking, at the same time that NSW Pubs and Clubs banned smoking in their establishments… i.e. midnight tonight. So… I’ve stopped the cigarettes, and I’m sitting here under the patio heater with some Johnny Black enjoying a final cigar whilst I consider how I’m going to handle the next few weeks and convince myself that I won’t want to start up again. have to find a way to convince myself that I don’t need cigarettes to handle anxiety… I can find alternatives. I thought about hypnotherapy, but unfortunately I’m one of those rare people that cannot be hypnotised. I’ve tried with professionals many times. So I will have to find another way. As for the gym… no more procrastinating now! I’m joining Fitness First tomorrow with Adam… my workplace sits right over the top of the North Sydney branch, so no excuses now What’s better is now I will have a little more time to look at my blog and website as well. Today was Shelton’s First Birthday… he got a bath and a bone, as well as some new toys. However.. I’m still lacking in photos, now that he’s grown to a monsterous size *sighs* |
