Archive for November 5th, 2009

5
Nov '09

Changing Landscapes

   Posted by: lyle    in Domestic, Thoughts

That’s the thing about this life – your options almost always narrow down

When you’re young, there’s always someone warning “Don’t burn your bridges”. What they fail to tell you is that those bridges are going to catch the spark anyway, spontaneously combust. The light that inferno throws off will only illuminate your failures and dead dreams. And you go on kidding yourself there’ll be other ways back home, other ways to start again. For Christ’s sake, we live in the land of the remake. Head west. Change your name. Find the frontier, and a new life.

But at some point you come to understand, in one of those blinding flashes of satori, that there just is no way back. That the landscape has changed and warped and eroded so much that not only are there no bridges, but there aren’t even any roads, there’s not even a way to turn around and have a clear vision, to get a fix on where it was you came from.

© Jack O’Connell, “Wireless”

Another in a series of quotes and lyrics I tend to throw up on my birthday…

Back in November ‘08, I made a more basic list of what the plans would be for 2008/9 on the Five Year Plan.

I’m now more than halfway through that plan, which also means that  2 years from today, I’ll be 40. Shite.

Anyway, here’s the list from November ‘08, along with how I’ve done with them..

  1. Sort out the mortgage renewal along with Herself (March/April) – we did this, but then didn’t actually go through with the deal, so it’ll carry through to next year
  2. Write and Launch the main site ideas that are in my head at the moment, and see how they do
    • Daily Word Challenge : launched, but not doing anything
    • Creativity Merger Site : done – but having second thoughts about it

    • Two Three other primary sites : under development
  3. Promote one of the other sites I’ve done, which has a big dollop of potentialnot done, but changed plans with it anyway
  4. Complete the NCFE Photography qualification/coursedone
  5. Redesign my photography site – considering a significant change of theme on this one
  6. Promote the photography and site more – still working on it
  7. Write at least one more big piece to get it out of my head at last – started some ideas, but not completed any of them
  8. Possibly redesign D4D™ a bit – I know, I’ve been talking about it now for years
    Oh yeah, and…
  9. Lose some weight, as my plans for doing so in 2008 have emphatically failed – primarily due to zero motivation to do so, but also due to life over-riding gym etc.  Working on it, as detailed in previous posts about weight-loss. I’m still not doing a load of gym-stuff, but the weight is going down, and I’ve lost more than a stone already.
5
Nov '09

Remember, Remember

   Posted by: lyle    in D4D™

It’s November 5th, which means I’m now thirty-fucking-eight.

Poo.