Musings For A Lazy Sunday
I’m on another one of my life laundry/declutter your existence rambles today.
Since taking a step off the seemingly never ending treadmill of day to day living for a short while everything has seemed so…so….quiet. You know what it is like sometimes, one hundred and one thoughts racing through your mind and barely enough time to pay a decent amount of attention to any one of them? Take away those thoughts and things just seem so peaceful.
It is true what a dozen life coaches/efficiency experts/self help book authors say though. When you strip away the meaningless and unproductive parts of your life you get a good opportunity to focus on what is really important.
Fear not though gentle readers, I’m not about to start wearing sandals, grow my hair and go on a tour in the back of a VW camper van/Mystery Machine. Just providing a little bit of balanced insight. Life isn’t all shooting people in the head. Or playing videogames (ahem).
I’m now dangerously close to having all of the media related stuff in the house under control as well. I spent all of yesterday afternoon ripping dozens of CDs into MP3 format to store on the Windows Home Server (making them available to each computer in the house thanks to Libraries in Windows 7) while catching up with half a dozen episodes from this season of 24. That show really needs to bow out gracefully too. If I had continued watching one episode a week, I would have given up at around episode six. At least when watching the episodes in a batch it’s background noise while I can do something more productive at the same time.
Having completed all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last weekend we have now moved to the Angel box set. Three and a half seasons of that to go and then we are done. And I’m not starting another series with multiple seasons and hundreds of episodes either! The warmer weather is gradually getting here, and I want Angel completed by the summer so we can do something more fulfilling with our evenings than watch TV.
For those of you who are following the progress of my Mum’s book and have been asking about it, the latest is this. Everything is now complete. I have locked down the final master copy and things are ready to go. The cover has been designed by my ever awesome designer Anto (who designed the header for this site and the Cullen IT logo) and I have just received the high resolution photograph from the superb photographer Alex Nail who has licensed the image to us for a run of 1,000 copies.
As soon as Ant sends me the final front cover then the digital DRM free version of the book will be available on the site.
This week I will also be sorting out the physical book details with Lulu. It is my aim to have absolutely everything completed on that project by the end of March. After that I should be heading back into the IT arena (provided people want to give me work that is).
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