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At 4:20am


Been up all night again, it's either insomnia or caffeine or maybe a little of both.

If I'm going to blog this early with my Mac turned off, I should maybe get an iPad or a laptop.

I want to say more but typing on an iPhone isn't such a great thing.



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I need a.....

Where do i start, Well i guess i need a new iMac, the new 27inch looks tasty and powerful enough to handle what ever i throw at it. My current iMac is nearly 4 years old, you know the one's, the Whites ones, before the Black and Grey ones.

Yea, so i need a new iMac, i looked over on Apple.com earlier and i seemed to get the price up to nearly £2000, oh well, guess i'd better start saving.

Also, being a writer, i need to write, but i hate sitting at my desk infront of this computer, so i guess i want, not need, a Laptop, in this case a MacBook, i thought about getting a cheap £350 laptop, but all the word processing i do is Mac based, i use Pages and Final Draft (Mac Version) so i really should get a MacBook, to make switching between the two easier, why you ask, will my iMac is set up with Time Machine, if you don't know what that is, its a back up device, every hour my iMac backs up my hard drive, and i mean all of it, its a 1TB external drive and it'll fill that up before it starts to over write stuff, pretty cool, so transferring to my iMac would mean that all my writings would get backed up, i also have external server space with Apple, in my Mobile Me account, 20GB, and i also back up there.

While i was in California, i was taking pictures of pretty much anything, and when i got my new iPhone 4 i started to use the 5mp camera to snap random stuff as and when i saw something i though was worth it, because of this i opened a Flickr account (HERE)

[One of the last pictures i took with my iPhone]

That picture has no post work, thats how the sky looked from my window, So i figured maybe i should invert in a really good digital camera and some lenses. I guess i'm looking at Canon and Nikon cameras, the mega pixel is fine, a high one, but what i want is a fast shutter speed, big lenses to let as much light in as possible, and a wide angle lens as well as a telephoto lens.

So to some up;

I need a new iMac

I want a new MacBook

I want a new Digital Camera

Mind the Gap

Yes you should.


It's nearly 6am and I'll soon be heading home from work for the last time this week, to sleep, where I my only get a few hours which is good, because it means I'll be able to sleep properly later on, or I'll sleep until 6pm which is bad because then I want be able to sleep tonight and it'll ruin my whole week.

But before I even get a chance to do that I have to get home, using the London Underground, or the Tube, this 150 year old mode of transport is an hateful thing, but needs must so I shall bite my lip, and try not to fall asleep. Falling asleep on London's public transport basically means you have given your permission for whom ever decides to either video record you and or take closeup pictures of you. So stay awake on the tube.

For more Tube tails read my blog entitled "it's all about the seats" which was written shortly after a bad tube ride into work.


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My Doors

I have another blog called 'The Doors' which was supposed to be a series of short stories.

One night while at work self deprecating i though about my subconscious mind, and that there is a light side and a dark side to us all, and being that the dark side is more interesting, from a writers point of view, i decided to write the stories, i called them 'The Corridor of my Subconscious' then add a door number. There are 48 doors, starting with 00, and 47 is at the end of this subconscious corridor, i would write a short story based on one of the doors, each being different and each holding something different inside, an end to whom ever goes inside, some want to, some don't, some fear the unknown, other attack it. They all loss.

I figured i might start writing these again, i finished 3, doors 00, 18 and 11 i was in the middle or writing another but for the life of my i can't find it anywhere. These would be a good place to start, or to just give me something to write.

They didn't take long, 5 maybe 6 hours to finish, then a quick spell/grammar check, then post.

Maybe writing these would get me in the mood to write more, re: last blog.

Long time...

Haven't written a blog in like forever.

So whats been happening with my writing, not much is the short answer.

I've come to the conclustion that i'm lazy, to lazy infact to better my own life. Now what does that say about me? Does it mean that i just don't care about my current currcumstances, no matter how much i complain about them, does it make me a hypocrit? Or just a guy in his early 30's who still doesn't know exactly what he wants and or needs in his life? Answers in a postcard.

Writing has once again been on my mind which is why i'm writing this blog right now, I have many books to read, books in the genre i like, Thrillers, Crime and or Spy, the book i 'want' to write is a Sci-Fi Spy Thriller, I wanted to down play the Sci-Fi aspect. "So why write one then?" Because its a particular Sci-Fi franchise, it can really only be one of two, Star Trek or Star Wars. Now, i happen to know quite a lot about this franchise and figured i'd write my first novel in the time and place of that franchise, to make things a little easier for myself. So i spent more time thinking about the Story-Plot-Characters etc etc...

It hasn't gone well, i have maybe 8 pages written so far, 8 pages in how many months?

I keep hearing people say that "You need to get in habbit of writing" to find a quite corner/place with no window or other distractions and just start, first set a goal, weather it be a time goal like an hour or two, or a word goal like 500 or 1000 words, and once you've reached that goal, run out of time or reached your 1000 words, STOP. But do this every day, maybe giving yourself a day off each week, say Sunday, it is a day of rest after all.

What about the dreadid "Writers Block". I read a book awhile back by Anne Lamottcalled 'Bird by Bird' it was an insightful read, about her Anne goes about her writing, in it she said that Writers Block is incurrect, because your creativity isn't being blocked, you've simply run dry, like a car running out of fuel, and all you need to do if get a refill. Instead of forcing it out, stop writing and refill your creativity. Go for a long walk, watch a film, read a book, have a discussion with friends, do something else besides sitting infront of your computer word processor, save - close - turn off. The more you try to force creativity the harder it is to find, So give yourself permission to finish early.

Now, to me this all makes perfect sense, does it to you? (leave a comment below if it does or does not) So if all this makes perfect sense to me, why do i have so much trouble writing, i wrote this blog on the spur of the moment. I spend, Waste, so much time every day, either watching reruns of Top Gear on Dave (Sky ch 111) or visiting the miriad of social networks online, sitting refreshing pages incase i miss something. Television, The Internet (Ironic) and Noisy Children are among the biggest distracts i now of, so let me tell you a story.

London, Heathrow Airport, June 21.

I sit in the departure lounge waiting for my already late Virgin Boaing 747-700 to start boarding, 1 hour and 15 minutes late, its called 'Cosmic Girl' and bares an image of Dita Von Tess below the cockpit windows. I really hate airports, but its a necessary evil for intaintercontinental travel. The ride was terrible, the sits are to crammed together, people need space, but that economy for you, next time i might spend a little more and upgrade to Premiem Econemy, Maybe. So i watch a few films on the inflight entertainment screen. Landing 11 hours laters in San Francsico International Airport, no trouble with US customs, at all, infact he was very nice. I meet my friend and we drive back to his place, where several others were waiting. Ok, now for the point of this little story, I spend 3 days in his house, with no Internet and no Television (by choice) and i switched off my mobile phone because of the roaming charges, i just checked my emails a few times a day, that it, we then spent 4 days on Berryessa Lake in a house boat. No TV, No Internet, just 11 other people, Booze a speed boat and some water sport devices, the rubber ring and a knee board, needless to say i didn't miss television or the internet, again irony, i uploaded all the video i shot and pictures i took to the internet so i could share them with the eleven others. Point is, i really didn't need television, or the internet.

The Web is fine, its a great tool for research and buying stuff like books, DVD's and furniture, but don't let it take over your life or you'll spend valuable moments of your life pixelated, Turn off the Television, switch off the computer, go out with friends, socialise with real people, people you can see and hear without having to look at a 2 dimentional screen.

So, if i can spend a week with no Television and no Internet, why can't i do it while at home, is it because i'm lazy, because its just easier to entertain myself with Television and the Web. Could i spend time at home, without using either? Could i sit and read books, plan a book, write a book, and or film script.

Maybe my attention span is just to short for something as involved as writing.