our human interactions provide most of the joys or disappointments we receive from life rather than our possessions or accomplishments.

i've been the lone freelancer for a long time and its time to change. i missed working with people and am enjoying my new part time gig. not only supplements the income with a steady cash flow, but gets me out amongst my fellow man more.

don't get me wrong, i still like possessions and i measure still my success with accomplishments, but human interaction is where the joy lies. and while disappointments suck, they do provide great fodder for creativity. think of all the good bands that wrote powerful music and then once they got fat and sassy with success, went downhill fast.

mingle on.

posted by bluematrix at 03/25/07 21:10 | link | comments (1)

funny how...

...i used to make blogging at least once a week a priority for the last two year, my reasoning was 'hey it's only an hour or so a week'. but then again there are only so many hours in a day sometimes making a buck and getting a few winks becomes more important.

...i'm used to working out of my home for the most part these last few years and pretty much setting my own hours. now i find myself these past two months helping out a friend of mine who owns a printing company, and having to be at work at a regular time, and then working on my own clients at night. strange, time consuming, but not as bad as i thought it would be.

...i used to never get excited about watching sports. playing yes, watching no. but then in the last 7 years i watched this city's rams go to the superbowl twice, the cardinals win the world series last year, and my alma mater kansas seeded #1 in the college basketball big dance this week. its fun to cheer on a winner i guess. plus i find it very interesting when total strangers get totally psyched and high five or even hug each other when their team wins a championship of some kind. i've learned that sports, like alcohol, is a social lubricant.

...i am used to be on the teaching/training end of the education stick. but now i find myself on the other end again as a student working on my masters at the university of massachusetts at boston in instructional design, which should land me a decent teaching or corporate trainer gig. enjoyable, but quite a different beast going to school totally online.

...i used to have dogs as a kid, but then found cats much easier to maintain with a busy lifestyle. but now i have dog again. carlos is 10 week old cross between a pug and beagle, which sounded like a pretty ugliest dog to me, but is actually kinda cute. later we even found out its a popular designer hybrid going for up to $1200 (carlos was from the humane society). once he gets housetrained things will be much better.

watching sports on tv, going back to school, having regular hours, and raising a puppy. blogging may have dropped a few rungs on the priority ladder, but i doubt it will ever go away.

blog on.

posted by bluematrix at 03/12/07 20:39 | link | comments (1)