not quite tired enough
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Just came home from a 12 hour night shift, and for some reason I don't feel like falling down asleep in bed the second I've gotten in the door. And with no one else around to keep me company, I'll have to settle in for a gigantic bowl of shreddies and some random blathering.
I don't think I do enough of stream of consiousness type writing here. I use the blog, as I have for years, to post my thoughts, but I think I don't keep in mind that this is for me way more than its for anyone else, and keeping a journal is cathartic even when you have nothing seemingly meaningful to talk about.
I was telling a friend at work the other day how I haven't been being a very good consumer lately. How I haven't been reading anything other than comic books, haven't bought any movies or new videogames or gadgets, basically how I haven't spent any money on anything other than the bills in awhile. But then I realized that I have been listening to audiobooks on my iPod, watching movies that I have either downloaded or been doing reviews for, so I have been doing plenty of consuming. I just haven't been paying for it.
Those aforementioned comics that I have been reading lately include the spectacular Dynamo 5, which I highly recommend, as well as the summer series from the big two, Secret Invasion and Final Crisis, both of which are really good, but bear the distinct smell of off-shoot books that I am never going to buy any of.
And I got a big stack of Blu-Rays to review from the company I review for, so I will be continuing to consume those without paying for them. I actually wasn't sure if the guy who owns the company was going to have me work for him anymore; I thought he might have been a little sore that I bailed on going to Comic-Con on him. But the bottom line there was I just couldn't justify spending money I didn't have on something so frivolous, no matter how much fun I might have had doing it. Not when Superwife isn't working, and there are always things I could be doing for her, my daughter, the new house. Either way, it seems like there are no hard feelings.
And as far as gadgets go, I have been very close to taking the iPhone plunge lately, in light of the new data plans released along with the 3G, but the bottom line is the iPhone blows for taking pictures, and if I can't get a smartphone that shoots at least good pics as the cell I have, what's the point of trading up at all. So no consuming there either.
What else? I have been twittering a lot lately, both following and updating myself. I see that it could be mildly addictive, but not in the pervasive way that things like facebook and myspace were for me.
I opted in for the hundred pushups challenge. In 6 weeks, following the program, one is supposed to be able to do 100 push-ups in a row. I took the intial test and could do a grand total of 18 before I collapsed on the floor. So I have my work cut out for me.
And now that I feel a little more tired than when I sat down, here's to hoping that if Trin wakes me up early this afternoon, its a little more pleasant than the rude awakenings her tantrums have been waking me up with the last few days.
I don't think I do enough of stream of consiousness type writing here. I use the blog, as I have for years, to post my thoughts, but I think I don't keep in mind that this is for me way more than its for anyone else, and keeping a journal is cathartic even when you have nothing seemingly meaningful to talk about.
I was telling a friend at work the other day how I haven't been being a very good consumer lately. How I haven't been reading anything other than comic books, haven't bought any movies or new videogames or gadgets, basically how I haven't spent any money on anything other than the bills in awhile. But then I realized that I have been listening to audiobooks on my iPod, watching movies that I have either downloaded or been doing reviews for, so I have been doing plenty of consuming. I just haven't been paying for it.
Those aforementioned comics that I have been reading lately include the spectacular Dynamo 5, which I highly recommend, as well as the summer series from the big two, Secret Invasion and Final Crisis, both of which are really good, but bear the distinct smell of off-shoot books that I am never going to buy any of.
And I got a big stack of Blu-Rays to review from the company I review for, so I will be continuing to consume those without paying for them. I actually wasn't sure if the guy who owns the company was going to have me work for him anymore; I thought he might have been a little sore that I bailed on going to Comic-Con on him. But the bottom line there was I just couldn't justify spending money I didn't have on something so frivolous, no matter how much fun I might have had doing it. Not when Superwife isn't working, and there are always things I could be doing for her, my daughter, the new house. Either way, it seems like there are no hard feelings.
And as far as gadgets go, I have been very close to taking the iPhone plunge lately, in light of the new data plans released along with the 3G, but the bottom line is the iPhone blows for taking pictures, and if I can't get a smartphone that shoots at least good pics as the cell I have, what's the point of trading up at all. So no consuming there either.
What else? I have been twittering a lot lately, both following and updating myself. I see that it could be mildly addictive, but not in the pervasive way that things like facebook and myspace were for me.
I opted in for the hundred pushups challenge. In 6 weeks, following the program, one is supposed to be able to do 100 push-ups in a row. I took the intial test and could do a grand total of 18 before I collapsed on the floor. So I have my work cut out for me.
And now that I feel a little more tired than when I sat down, here's to hoping that if Trin wakes me up early this afternoon, its a little more pleasant than the rude awakenings her tantrums have been waking me up with the last few days.
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posted by raistlinsghost at 7/17/2008 06:55:00 AM
2 Comments:
I don't get the whole twitter thing. Facebook I get, I'm not addicted, but I like it.
And I totally thought of you as we stopped in NB at the Sobeys for some timmies and some picnic fixins.
See for me, facebook was way too involving. I was getting too into what people whom I had fallen out of touch with on purpose in the first place were doing, and spending too much time in the process.
Twitter is just a short, lazy way to communicate, and I am all over that.
And that's cool that you thought of me. I could have pointed out a couple of cooler things to do while you were blowing through. There's only one or two of them, so it wouldn't have taken long. ;)
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