Clear Ambiguity

I have just come back from the doctors and my blood pressure is at normal levels. Apparently I am now at 120/80. The major difference seems to be that I no longer get large headaches. Hopefully the high blood pressure was causing them and now I am free. I will try to keep these stories over at my Health and Fitness Diary.

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Here is a rather bad (sorry mobile phone picture) photograph of a hiding echidna. Unfortunately I didn’t get to take one of it moving around as it wasn’t all that pleased to see me.

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I work for a living. I put in around 20 hours a week into a non-profit. I also get called on to work on lots of computer issues for free, and I want it to stop.

I am known around these parts as the person that fixes computer problems. I have reasonable skills and typically do the work required at a professional level. However, I am doing most of this for free and lots of people are taking advantage of me. Not all though, some offer money, some feed my children and some offer contra in the form of cartons of beer, or bottles of wine. Some even go out of their way and do something in return, like help around the yard, etc. I have no problems with this minority.

It is the people that expect me to work on their computer for no return and usually have the audacity to push their time frames on to me that this article is about.

I really need to take charge of this aspect of my life and now is the time. I will post here aboiut my progress :)

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This site has indeed been suffering from Clear Ambiguity. There is no clear direction and nothing to imply to readers that the fire fighting article one day will be followed up by a similar topic. I have started creating a few more blogs which will have one main theme. There will be a link to the blogs in the blogroll (over there on the right), and I will drop some links in posts here. I imagine that this blog will stay as my peronsal diary, with the occasional political rant and biased opinion.

Other blogs are going to be focussed on
firefighting
online auctions
personal finance (getting out of debt)
woodworking
fly fishing
bsd
linux
hosting (so you wont have to deal with those annoying dreamhost stories anymore)

cheers

shaun

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I am sick of polititions dragging innocent people to harm. I am Australian, something I used to be proud of. I love this country more than most people and fortunately manage to get out and see a little of it. I am however getting frustrated at how Australian’s no logner have a choice in this US centric world. We vote for the standing conservatives. I have no idea why, but we do. They in turn do whatever the USA governement tells them to do and I just follow along, pretending that my $25 / month does Amnesty some good, or foolishly hoping that my Greens Party membership will one day influence anyone.

I am pissed off at how the media ignores attrocities in Africa, glosses over and romanticises Middle East violence and yet get all serious about a handful of Australian’s getting blown up in Bali. How dare an Australian life be worth more than one hundred thousand Sudanese. I feel for the people involved in the latest Bali bombings, I really do. I am a parent, a brother, a son, a friend and a husband myself. Ofcourse I sypathise, and am grateful that empathy is a step away. However, I also consider one human life an equal of another.

Worse of all, I am appalled at my own lack of feelings for this latest bombing. I can’t stand the fact that mass violence has become so main stream that the headlines are only worth a brief glance. How can we become a generation that just gets back to work when confronted by distant atrocities. Please world, vote out the current crop of selfish, shallow right wingers and sort this out. It will take years to turn this around. We can’t just walk out of Iraq now, we have a debt to pay for destroying their infrastructure. We must complete the job somehow, but perhaps next time, we can have a good think about the future and consequences before we invade the next country.

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