Summer is approaching. The weather has been fantastic of late, except for the seemingly endless days of rain, with temperatures and sunshine similar to a hot summer day in Canada. Soon when the temperatures rise to the mid 30’s and the humidity makes the air feel like a wall of water it will be time to gather round the family air conditioner.
Our bedroom air conditioner literally blew a gasket last year and it’s time to purchase a new one. Purchasing stuff is something that I have avoided for years on the simple assumption that we would be leaving this place at any moment. Those moments have lasted years now and everything is getting old or broken (like our ac).
This weekend I will succumb and head to the local hyper mart to purchase an ac with a brand name I am sure I will not have heard of. But only one. Which means all of will be sharing a single bedroom until sometime in the fall when the temperatures start to fall. I wonder how many people in Canada would consider sharing a bedroom with their kids in the winter in order to cut costs? Would I if I was rich?
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Adapting to change
John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change. [source]
I regularly receive news of impending doom in my native country due to the rising cost of heating oil. People worrying about the coming winter, wondering if they will be able to heat their homes. It’s a serious, though inflated, concern especially for those in rural areas living on marginal incomes.
If you know change is coming and you have the means why don’t people prepare? Part of the reason lies with Eastern Canadian culture whereby when faced with change there is a over-reliance on various provincial and federal government agencies to provide answers. Unfortunately, the pace of change is too fast to rely solely on others. Government is slow and they may not have the answers in time (if ever). It’s time to look to alternatives (one, two, three), change our expectations, and enjoy the new reality?
Hsuan Chuang University Journalism Program
A long title for a short post. A few things that they don’t teach at a local university journalism program is how to spell, proof read, and use a spell checker.
Reboot
Excluding a brief period last summer this weblog has been largely dormant since November of 2006. At first this was due to what I should have perhaps realised all along, that simply I didn’t have anything to say. But lately, and by lately I mean the past 8 months, I’ve wanted to have a place to write some thoughts and share the mundane with those few who might find it interesting (hi mom). A return to the bits I use to share when I started ‘blogging’ almost 9 years ago. I got hung up by wanting to redesign what is a dated visual and the contradictory desire to write longish articles of ‘importance’.
So here is the wireframe – in progress – and a return my stream of consciousness.