Everything in your past has succeeded in bringing you here today
I made a commitment to write at least 200 crappy words a day, but sometimes ‘stuff’ happens and I can’t write 200 crappy words. Like today. A long, busy day at work, followed by dinner with some friends, followed by … Read more …
One of the people I see occasionally at work mentioned to me late last year that he recognises me from somewhere, but he couldn’t remember where. He was somewhat familiar to me too, but I couldn’t place him. I saw … Read more …
I’ve had Aspergers Syndrome all my life, and it’s meant that I’ve struggled to understand what ‘normal’ is. It’s always felt like normal is what everyone else is, and I never got the memo on how to fit in amongst … Read more …
Back in 2004 I started thinking that it was going to be important to invest. The motivation at the time was not having enough money to enjoy a holiday around New Zealand at the time, and I knew something had … Read more …
Yesterday I came upon a story about a man who I’d never heard of before, but who was quite outspoken about Indonesia and its upcoming execution of a couple of Australian citizens who were arrested a decade ago for drug offences, and … Read more …
Last night I sat up in bed at midnight and wrote 200 crappy words because I knew that I had to. I learned a long time ago that if you want to succeed at something, you need to keep at … Read more …
One of the greatest challenges of modern times is to work out what our purpose in life is. It used to be that our purpose was to breed in order to further the human race, and hopefully to stay alive long … Read more …
I was driving home after dropping a friend off tonight, after we spent the evening catching up and socialising together. It was about 10pm. There was a cyclist riding towards me on my side of the road with a bright light … Read more …
I’ve had a lot of friends over the years, far more than I can count on two hands. It’s said that you’re lucky if you have one good friend in your life, that with one friend you can get through anything. … Read more …
As I’ve been reading my blog posts from 1998 through to 2007 so far, one of the things that’s struck me is that they were about my life, the experiences that I’ve had, and the things that I’ve learned. For … Read more …
I started work on changing the archive of my writing today. I’ve spent about 10 hours on it so far, and I’m probably only a third of the way through. What I’m doing is going through every single post and … Read more …
There’s a background theme to my life that’s slowly changing. I can feel it, and as some of the changes are occurring, I can see it. It started with this feeling of deleting everything on the blog and only maintaining popular, … Read more …
Imagine this scenario: a man walks into a job interview and during the interview he advises that within the next few months he’s going to need time off for 6 weeks or more due to a medical condition, followed by … Read more …