I spend all day wishing I was on the computer and then when I get home I wonder what I should do.

Falling in love with Linux. Actually Ubuntu. Actually Eeebuntu on the eee pc. It’s great getting to know a new operating system. I’ve dual booted it before on other computers but always switched back to the default mac or pc os because I needed it to sync my ipod or some other reason.

On an Eee pc, I only need it for surfing and a bit of text editing and other tomfoolery so it’s really fun getting to grips with the terminal, sudo apt-get installing new free programs. My favourite os is still Mac OS X but I really want Linux to get more appreciated. And it suits my price point.

I’m also thinking about a career move. The job I’m in now was a stop gap job for getting the wife and kids out of Japan and back with me as soon as possible.

Unfortunately the stop-gap has become a permanent position. I don’t use any of the language skills I trained for over the years and although I’ve learnt to sell things people don’t want to people who don’t need them it’s not fulfilling my purpose on the planet, fulfilling me mentally.

This blogging malarkey really started something you know. I read so many blogs and my mind has opened and been intrigued by so many things. I got a love of photography from reading jaw droppingly beautiful photoblogs like Sushicam, it rekindled my love of computers from videogames because of lifehacker.com. I tried at the start of my blogging endeavours to emulate Tony Pierce’s Busblog and whilst those endeavours may have subsided in the last couple of months, I’m trying to reignite them now.

Yoroshikuonegaishimasu