Gaming, Music, The Internet, Whatever….

In an effort to try and think up a new and (hopefully though probably not) interesting update for today, I stumbled on the genius idea of doing a bit of cross self promotion. So…

Before the weather became colder than a Polar Bear’s jockstrap, it was incredibly windy instead (Who says the UK lacks variety in weather?) This made for some stormy weather as the wind whipped up the sea something rotten and made conditions by the coast quite interesting. Though if you’re the young lad in the photo, all you are interested in is playing Chicken with the sea. Anyroad, it also gave me a chance to try out my new telephoto lens. Which turns out stunning pictures without ever really feels like it is putting in any effort. Still, given what it cost me, it should do.

Anyroad, here are the best 30 or so I took that day all loving preserved at Flickr forever more. I will be posting links to any new Flickr sets here, mainly cause I’ve yet to find a decent WordPress/Flickr plugin that works properly.

Force Of Nature, a 36 picture set @ Flickr.com

So 2010 then, the year of giant baby feotus’s in space, giant black monoliths devouring the planet of Jupiter to help speed up the evolution of nearby Europa and the subsequent appearance of two giant suns in the sky.

Yes, I’m sure someone has done the whole 2010 thing alot better than I have but it’s difficult as a Sci-Fi fan NOT to love either the book, and dare I say it, the film. Like so much great Science Fiction, and indeed Fiction generally, it fires up the imagination so well. Which kind of leads me to todays ramblings. Every New Year starts off in the same way; resolutions, promises, efforts to improve oneself that of course never actually a) last or b) improve yourself.  Even a cursory glance down below will see that the efforts to improve myself last year managed to stay in place for a whole 6 days before the whole thing fell apart, as it so usually does.

2009 wont exactly be remembered as a vintage year but it certainly wasn’t bad either; just a bit meh. Ok maybe not meh, definitely a bit bland though. Why? Do you even care? Not if the Google Analytics are anything to go by. I guess 2009 and the other 9 years that belonged to the noughties (thanks The Daily Mail!) were one where I probably manned up a bit.

Perhaps not as much as a certain Tim Maughan has proposed some people do but certainly looking back at the way I was in December 1999 and where I am now, at least as a person, is quite a shock.

I still don’t feel like I’ve found my “calling” as yet but as a person I feel far more learned than I did ten years ago. I wouldn’t claim for one second that the last ten years have been all smiles and sunshine, cause it quite clearly hasn’t but I wouldn’t change any of it for a second. And if we do manage to survive past December 2012 and live to see 2013, then I do think that the next 10 years have the potential to be very, very special. Will it? Find out in about 3644 days when I next update the site. You know, if I’m not busy.