the blog cycle

To the folks who've been wondering "Is that man alive??", my apologies.

I'm alive.

My routine has changed, however, and I think the Reset has yet to settle out. I elected to cut my work schedule in half, in order that I could dedicate my full efforts on finding a new career. Having the time off has led to some good "after pondering nuggets o'truth"

• If left to my own devices, I wake up late. .. Not because I hate mornings--more because I love evenings.
  
• Blogs happen in cycles. The impetus and/or mission of a blog changes with time. In my case, when I suddenly had time to communicate on a more regular basis with my family, blog motivation went down.
  
• I'm lazy. That's a huge reason why I do research with computers and I'm still in academia. I'm also scared of change and the hard bottom line.
  
• "Business" is getting people to do things your way. Whether they (or you) realize it or not doesn't matter. Not necessarily related to "Success"--that's more related to the quality of your decisions.
  
• I'd probably be most happy with the freedom & flexibility of working for a small company. But two problems with that are 1) I need to work for a big company in order to connect with said small company and 2) See above, re "lazy."

In addition to plenty of pondering & resume updates, I've been busy with Japanese lessons, LINUX upgrades, TV-watchin' (almost reached my limit there), back achin', and family chattin'. Of the Japanese lessons, Air Con Kanji has definitely been the most useful.

.. I have a number of interesting photos.. pester me with comments and I promise I'll post them