For 6 weeks, give or take, I haven’t been working. The contract that I had, for one reason or another, came to an unexpectedly early end and there has been nothing that suits my income-earning skillset available since then.
I am another statistic on the list of victims of these trying economic times.
My skills are [...]
Category > Personal
Another Turn of the Screw
Genealogy
My aunt has done a lot of work researching the family tree on my dad’s side. When I got married she gave me a framed print out of my direct lineage which went all the way back to the 16th/17th century. (Apparently, my mother’s family tree goes all the way back to the 13th [...]
Leap of faith
I’ve just accepted a new contract in London and am now shitting myself about whether it’s the right decision or not.
Thief of Time
I’ve been having anxiety dreams all this week mostly related to the things in my life that I keep putting off that I really, really, really know I should be doing. This has also lead to me waking up early even to the point at finding myself in the gym at 7:30 on Wednesday [...]
Taking the red pill
More introspection – it’s the month for it. This one takes the form of some hopes, desires, goals and ambitions for the year forthcoming. It’s more a wishlist than a plan because that way I allow for all the unexpected eventualities and take into consideration that which cannot be predicted. It’s subdivided [...]
Taking the blue pill
I only have one tattoo. It’s a dragon clutching a shield and embossed on the shield is the futhark rune called Thurisaz, commonly associated with the god Thor (and can be taken to represent Thor’s hammer, Miolnir) although that’s not the reason why I chose it. In script, Thurisaz can be transliterated into [...]
The Appointment
LOGLINE: A man struggles to come to terms with a doctor’s suggestion.
Based on true events. All rights cleared.
Picture Books
I logged into Flickr today for the first time in I don’t know how long (and boy do I have some issues with Yahoo at the moment). In my inbox was a message from an Argentinian publisher or, rather, a second message. He’d emailed me back in November and I never got around [...]
Blogging from work
Finally I can blog from work without any worry about getting slapped on the wrist or otherwise running the risk of facing the sack, humiliation or public execution. My current contract is a 6 week development project that I’m doing from home. Before I left Dublin in January, I made sure to point [...]
