dustyLogic

Life rocks! Yep, life is awesome! For me, the best thing about life is challenges. Seems like I can’t go through a day without challenging myself. The more I do, the more ideas I get about what to do next, and so on and so on and so on. Recently I found a bug in the way I live my life. I spend most of my time chasing stuff and not because I have to, but because it’s fun. I wish I would spend some time enjoying my achievements before I attack the next challenge standing in front of me.  Just looking at the last 12 months, we bought a brand new house, we got married, I worked on a lot of great projects, I made more money then I expected, I met a lot of cool and smart people, and lots more. But now that I look at it, I just took it all for granted, instead of stopping for a moment to say “WOW” or “sweet”, or whatever sounds fresh those days.

OK, the above paragraph totally sounds like I’m miserable. I’m not. No really, it’s all good. I’m just amazed with the endless pool of things that I can occupy my mind with. I don’t recall ever saying that I’m bored. There is just so many things I want to do. Now that I think of it, I don’t remember last time I brushed my hair, but that’s because I like to keep them short like my phone conversations. Perhaps a slightly different topic? …Anyways.

Recently I decided to brainwash myself by watching documentaries about the “Law of Attraction” (like “The Secret“). I came to the conclusion that it’s pretty much how I have been living my life without even knowing “the secret science” behind it. Yeah, I did have to deal with some unpleasant crap in the past, but I dealt with it and I moved on. Some might argue, but I think that one’s past doesn’t determine one’s future. There are so many different paths to chose from, that the path you chose doesn’t mater that much. That is, as long as you have a goal, a destination which you want to eventually reach and you are motivated to reach it. (The key word here is motivation). It’s sort of like driving on a highway at night. You’re driving from Saskatoon to Vancouver, and you know that you want to end up in Vancouver even if you can’t see it yet. The only thing you can see is what is few hundred feet in front of you, or whatever the headlights can reach. There is always a chance that you will take a wrong turn or you might get a flat, or the car will break down, or you will run out of gas money, or even stop along the way to enjoy the Okanagan Valley, but this might only slow you down, not prevent you from arriving in Vancouver.

So all this to say that life is awesome, and that I plan to take some tome to enjoy it. My goal is to organize myself to find time again for things that I used to have time for before. Like photography, music production, blogging, and most importantly my wife.

Definition of Ballmer Peak: “The theory that computer programmers obtain quasi-magical, superhuman coding ability when they have a blood alcohol concentration percentage between 0.129% and 0.138%. The discovery of this effect is attributed to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft – who probably “discovered” it by simply monitoring his own perpetually inebriated nervous system, and deducing that programming ability “peaks” after a few drinks and then dips dramatically after full-blown drunkenness ensues. …” from Urban Dictionary

Now a graphical proof by xkcd:

For the fun of it, few weeks ago I submitted some shots to a local competition and I just got back the results. My scores are better then expected. Here are the shots and their scores:

Pictorial 7/10, Technical 8/10, Interpretation 7/10, Comments: Nice close-up. Technically well done.

Pictorial 9/10, Technical 9/10, Interpretation 8/10, Comments: Too much empty space on top, Flash is very strong. Great shot.

Pictorial 7/10, Technical 7/10, Interpretation 7/10, Comments: Nice colors and shadows. No fill light. Nice title.

I figured it was time for a change, so I moved my blog to WordPress.  Setting it up and importing previous blog went very smoothly.  I did not have much time to play with all the settings, themes and CSS, but it will happen eventually. This new blog not only looks different, but it will contain more as well. Previously it was mostly work related, but there is a lot more going on in my life so I decided to take it one level further and share more with you.  Future posts will tell.

Other then this, as usual, a lot of stuff is happening. Few weeks ago I felt like everyone wanted me to do some work for them. Me being me and constantly trying to push myself to see when will I snap, I did end up accepting them all.  For the first time, I did outsource some of them, and it was a very positive experience. I can definitely get used to outsourcing. It does take a lot of load off my back, but there is a catch. How do you know if the person will do as good of a job as you would? In my case it was simple, I did previously work with the guy and I knew he was good.

So far winter has been awesome. 25C and up, for about 2 weeks now. I’m considering planting some palm trees in my backyard.