Ouch January 30, 2007
Posted by Chris in Discouragement.1 comment so far
Today’s been one of those hard days. I had a pretty good weekend, the guys from one of the youth clubs I run had a sleepover on Saturday night, which was good fun. I was up playing OpenArena until 5:30 am on the Church Office computers. I even made it up by 8am to make porridge for everyone and was at Church for 10am! (It helps that the Church Office is next door to the Church!) Despite that, and a reasonably good day yesterday, I’ve been feeling pretty low today.
I had my normal fortnightly line management meeting with the two pastors of my church this morning which went ok, but not great. I guess I just worry that I’m doing stuff all wrong, or that I’m not efficient enough, or something like that. I’ve got to write a 1500 word essay a day for the next two weeks to catch up with my coursework that I’ve got a bit behind on. I suppose it was encouraging to be told by my tutor that I’m normal though, and that by this point in the first year everyone is panic writing! The church computers and ftp access have been playing up, and I can’t seem to figure out the problem at all. To finish it all off, the pastors have been dealing with some major issue in the church leadership (I don’t know what it is, it’s confidential) but they’ve been stressed out and inadvertently a bit abrupt towards me, and my fiance seems really upset that I told her to stop tidying my house!
She complains that I’m not tidying it (I am normally a tidy freak, but I’m so busy I can’t be at the moment). If ‘d asked her to help I wouldn’t be so annoyed by her complaining about how much tidying needs doing, but I haven’t even asked for her help! She said that my room being a bit untidy was stopping her moving stuff in for when we get married in May. Truth is, it’s only a bit of washing on the floor, sorted ready to go in the washing machine. It could go back under the bed where it normally lives if she wants it out of sight.
Ahh well, I feel a little better for airing all that. Thanks for reading. I hope I haven’t depressed you too much. Now for some more essay writing….
Dogs have feelings January 30, 2007
Posted by Chris in Humour, Video.1 comment so far
Kenzie presents her heartwarming story of searching for her sweetheart. Only thing is, Kenzie’s a Scottish Terrier.
TV as you’ve never seen it before January 18, 2007
Posted by Chris in Computers.add a comment
If you’ve come across Skype and you liked it, as I did, then you might like to know that the creators have been at it again. No, I’m not talking about another internet telephone thingy, but an internet television thingy! Joost is going to be (it’s still in closed beta) a cool new streaming video and television programme. If you’re interested, go and take a look at their website, it’s got more details and you can sign up for a newsletter and to help test.
One of my big thinking things at the moment is about how the internet is changing society, and Joost is another example of that. No longer are we a society of media for the masses – even the BBC have over 8 different TV channels now, and just look at how fast blogging, YouTube, and eBay have grown. We write for each other, create videos for each other and sell direct to each other more than ever before. Just last week I recieved my first vegbox from RiverNene – a farm fed up with supermarkets selling through a website direct to customers. The quality was far better than anything I’ve bought at Tesco recently. I don’t think the days of the big TV channels, newspapers, magazines or supermarkets are nigh yet, but maybe it won’t be many more decades before they are. Times are a changin’.
The Obligatory Boring First Post January 18, 2007
Posted by Chris in Blogged.1 comment so far
I’ve decided to start a blog. Not quite sure why really, because I’ll probably do it for a week or two and then run out of steam, but I’ll give it a go. I guess first of all I should give a shout out to myself on my other blog, at swapper.wordpress.com. That over, I can now start doing some ‘real‘ blogging. See you in the next post!
Swapper
