Idlemind - nickcoster.com
Future gazing from a quiet corner of cyberspace.

Well it is 12:30pm on a Wednesday night. I have slurped down the better part of a bottle of wine an I am feeling slightly freeer for it. Now typing that I have to wonder whether “freeer” is a word. There is something about typing 3 e’s in a row that doesn’t “feeel” right.

For anyone who actually follows this ramble, I have made contact with Dad. He called, I apologised. Everything cool and now I have his number again.

I bought the PC that he was after yesterday. I hope it gets delivered soon. The case is rather funky, at least from the reviews pictures and the reviews. I had to draw the line at a gig of RAM. That had to fall out of the budget. 512MB will have to do.

I have just realised that this blog is nearly a year old. 18th of May is the first official post here. There were a few dabblings before that but I?ll call the 18th the official birthday of the site.

It is interesting to look back because this time last year I was thinking about similar things. Mainly writing, running and thinking. The ? marathon is coming around again in less than a month and thin time I am going to beat 100 minutes. There it is said now. No ?I hope to beat?, this time I WILL beat 100 minutes. In the mean time since last year I have run this race and finished and then run a Marathon later in the year.

Distance is no longer my enemy. Now I am against the clock. At the same time I still find the head space, the ?Idle mind?, to meditate as I run. This should lead to immediate writing but I am still not as fearless as some of my online peers and probably judge myself harder than any one else. I guess I am afraid of the overlap between the virtual space and the land of the real.

I was just speaking to my dad.

I am building a new PC for him while he travels the country side and he was calling for a progress report. Well given that there hasn’t been much progress it was a quick report.

Well dinner was on the go and i asked if I could call him back, only to discover to my shame that I have overwritten his mobile number in my contacts lists.

If anyone can call me who reads this can give me a buzz with the number i would appreciate it.

Dad, that includes you!!

UPDATE 19/04/04: We have made contact everything is cool.

Well i thought that it would be easy to bang up a new design for this little blog. Wrong. On the bright side it has been a learning experience. I hope that you will forgive the “under construction” colours while I play around a bit.
I want to include a list of links and a book list of the things that I am reading.

Unfortunately that will have to wait till some other time. 3 hours of stuffing around with style sheets on a ’school night’ is taking it’s toll. gotta sleeeeep……

I have been plotting for some time to get a domain name and extract myself from the shadows of ISP web hosting. At last I have done it!!
Today I own nickcoster.com. Ok it’s not clever but it is original like me.
I’ll be moving stuff over there shortly.. See ya over there..