Yesterday starts tomorrow, tomorrow starts today
The problem with repetition in anything is that its like a clock. You can use a clock simply to tell the time or you can use it as a milestone. Every time you hit twelve you can think that another day has gone and that you are another day older. I get that feeling when I see a regular weekly email hit my inbox and (no offence) I see Neil Hopkins post his Sunday links. I could, of course, think “week finished, I wonder what great things next week has in store for me” but I suppose its a glass half empty or half full kind of thing. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a manic depressant or anything, its just that I’m really conscious about the passage of time at the moment. It could well be that its the nights drawing in and signalling the transition from summer to autumn or it could be that in the back of my mind I’m dreading having to do my daily commute in the dark.
I’ve been very happy in my work recently and my commute takes me right through the heart of cheshire but the best bit is that I never hit any traffic of note and that I do see is brushed aside once I open up the 3.2 V6 that is shoehorned into the front of my little roller skate. That said I really need to get rid of it. The petrol is costing me a fortune. Besides that I always know when its time to change cars, usually when washing them becomes a chore and you realise that you haven’t cleaned it in over a month.
I think that a lot of my state of mind can be summed up in wanting a fresh start. A lot of my troubles over the past 18 months have been resolved and I’m looking to put that behind me with a clean sheet. It is funny how these things spill over in a number of directions as I’ve just been sat staring at iTunes thinking that I need some new music. As Mr. Ant said, mine seems to have lost its flavour. I have played with the Genius function of the new iTunes 8 and it seems to do a really good job at digging out stuff that I like but haven’t heard for a while. If I can now extend that to the music store perhaps I can find that new playlist I’m yearning for.
On the subject of iTunes 8, it did facilitate a firmware update on my iPhone to 2.1. I’m yet to give it a full test drive in as far as the improved battery life but i am hoping that it sorts out the recent problems I had with the phone locking at the Apple logo. I’m almost sure it was linked to a dodgy 3rd party app as it happened every time I tried to delete a number of novelty apps left over from the App Store launch when I went for pretty much every free app available.
In other areas the kids are back to school. I say school but one of them has started college. James is doing media, film studies and photography. It never amazes me how it never gets any easier or costs any less with kids. No sooner has he started but he needs a digital SLR camera. I remember when all he needed was a HB pencil, a rubber and a pencil case. That said I’m sure I can have more fun with an SLR than a pencil. I bought a Nikon D60 and i fully intend on putting it to use myself at every opportunity. The opportunities to do so are increasing too as there is a good bit of design work coming my way and while I’m happy with the stuff I’ve been producing lately I did have a knock back with one of my favourite designs in recent times. They wanted me to remove one of the key elements which was frustrating as it was the bit that made it work. But as I said to a colleague I’ll just bank the design for my own use as I liked it so much.
And that pretty much wraps it up for the moment and brings us much more up to date than we were yesterday. I wonder what tomorrow brings.
