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Future gazing from a quiet corner of cyberspace.

The Christmas festivities are now beginning to blur into the New Year ones. The last few days have been largely unproductive with the exception of a few days of client work.

I always find this a joyous but difficult time. It is joyous mainly because Adrienne is the living embodiment of Christmas Spirit. She delights in everything related to Christmas and more often than not brings everyone else along with her energy. Even more exciting in the past two years has been seeing this same excitement being shared with her delightful Goddaughter who is nearly four. In fact it is this little angel who has become the key focus of this time of year.

The difficulty comes from the multiple challenges of having family located all over the place and the desire to try and use the slow business environment to take a holiday of some sort. Lately (past 3-4 years) Adrienne and I have tried to escape the contortions of being everywhere and have opted to travel overseas to experience Christmas’s around the world. Well that was the plan anyway. This idea has appealed to others in the clan and instead of a quiet little escape we have ended up with a travelling Christmas family circus.

The difficulty increases for me because my side of the family no longer gets together in the same place, live in different places and don’t get excited about Christmas anymore. This year I have seen more of my family that normal, although it has been more of a drop in to my brother and dad than any sort of Christmas event. It is my mum that I miss right now. She has moved to central New South Wales, between 3-4 hours drive away (depending on traffic) which means that it is pointless to do just a day trip and even a weekend is half consumed by the driving.

Ultimately I really don’t know what to do. Christmas is complicated but we will wait and see what 2008 holds.

Coincidentally the previous post was the 100th on the site. It has been around for a while now, since 2003 when I started just throwing junk at the page. That makes it nearly 4 and a half years old and although the posts have not been exactly flying off the page it has been limping along. Hopefully I can keep my promise to myself and start getting some daily posts going.

Ok, here is my first promise to myself. Every day I will write 100 words for my personal blog. I will type it in Word because it counts the words for me. I will also force myself to use good touch typing technique to improve my speed. The topic can be anything that happened that day, even if it was just a new thought. The word count won’t include the title either. That would be cheating.
I expect most of it to be total crap, but that is fine. It is not the objective to write beautiful prose. Just write.