I think its time to get cultural! Let us talk about ancient history for a while!
On this photo, you can see a piece of petrified wood from Madagascar of a 180 million year old “Monkey-puzzle” or Araucaria sp. On top of it, you’ll see a Coprolit (or, put in terms of a not so cultural connoisseur of ancient history: shit) from a small dinosaur (Theropoda) made sometime between 144 and 65 million years ago.
Isn’t history just fascinating? 😉
I’ll try to take a photo now and then of places near my home, and send them out on this blog the same day. You’ll find all the Home Base messages under the category Home Base photos. (Yes, it can be that simple!)
The first photo (called #1) is taken with a cell phone camera, on a January day (today, actually), with the sun almost directly in the lens (contre-jour). Though the motif isn’t far away from my house (can’t be seen on the photo), I seldom go there. There’s just a small road leading to nowhere – Well, if you walk for about an hour, and turn right each time you get the chance, you’ll end up where you started. But then again – for some people, that would be nowhere – for me it is home.
In the past, I have been so nice and often done the right things – which sometimes have been the wrong thing to do.
Finally I have planned the entire 2007. So if you ask me questions like “What will you do with your life?” or “What are your traveling plans this year?” I now have the answer:
I have no clue whatsoever.
The job I have now will most likely still be my job in end of 2007 (I’m not planning to leave – they’ll have to throw me out). I’m probably also living the same place a year from now – probably. I might have some ideas of which direction to go, but other than that? Well, I don’t know. And I don’t mind that I don’t know.
I’m vague, and I’m proud of it! 🙂
(Made with Stripgenerator)
2006 has come to an end, and 2007 is about to begin. Normally I don’t look back, but I’ll make an exception this time. So: what did happen in 2006, worth mentioning?
Well, in a way, my 2006 started in December 2005. Unlike other years, I had a New Year Wish. Not the normal one (smoke, drink or eat less), but instead: In 2006, I would find myself a new job! I really wanted it to happen early 2006 – preferably in the first quarter of 2006, but I knew that would be hard to obtain.
But I did it! I found a job ad late January, went to job interview in February, quitted my old job in the end of February, and started in my new job April 1.
I have long had a dream of seeing more of the world, but until now, it hadn’t been more than small trips. In 2006, I said “Well, f… it!” and went on an absolutely wonderful – and extremely expensive – journey to Greenland. I still suffer from the aftereffects in form of an almost empty bank account. But I’ll never ever regret that I did it! To other people, traveling round the globe, it might not sound as much. But to me it was something special! And something I tend to do again!
Me on ice (in bright sunlight).
Looking back, 2006 will probably also be remembered as the year of broken stuff. Normally I have a lucky touch in buying things of good quality. Or – that was before 2006 started. Never has so many of my things broke down in such short time!
I think it started out with a broken water pipe. Later on my laptop computer has been repaired twice (!), and my hard disk recorder has crashed yet another drive (the first one not in 2006 though). Oh, and if you haven’t heard of anyone, getting a new steering wheel, because the original one suddenly started to melt – well, you have now!
These days, in the last days of 2006, I have some trouble with my kitchen sink. Hopefully that’ll be the last part breaking down for me for some while!
The rest of the country might remember 2006 as the year Christian Valdemar Henri John got christened.
And that, my friends, was 2006 as I have seen it.
Happy New Year to all of you out there! My best wishes for 2007!
Quote:
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,
and yet I’m happy.
I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
(Charles M. Schulz)
It seems like my two spam-filters and an added anti spam rule has done the job. Normally I would have to delete maybe 50 spam-messages each day, when I only had one spam filter attached. The last few days, I haven’t had to delete a single one! It’s all been taken care of. 😉
But now, I have to be careful that I’m not blocking real comments too. So: If you’re having problems making comments, please let me know!
