Over a year has passed, and I still can't see the progress.

I might have had to update this blog every once in a while I think, just to keep things going. I did manage to blog about Go for nearly a year, only to end up being sick again. My health isn't doing me any favours and every time my son comes home from the daycare he brings a new set of bacteria and/or viruses and gives them all to me. Thankfully it's over for the summer and I can hope to recover a bit before the fall comes and it all starts over again.

So I also played Go on the Advanced Study Room League for a while and ended up letting go again because of health issues. I was too embarrassed about it to log in on KGS to even let people know where I disappeared to. Been down about it ever since.

I applied for artisan studies this year. Three different courses; gold smith, "design and modelling" and graphic design. All the entry exams were held last month. I think they went rather well, although I managed to get a horrible flu in the middle of the last exam day. The results will be notified some time this month I guess.

When I still wasn't yet recovered from the flu I started reading r/GetMotivated again and found some new will power to try out the 100 push-ups program I used to try without success some while back, now with a tool that notifies me when I have to do the push-ups, and even sit-ups. It's pretty handy, as now I don't have to print or write the next day's sets beforehand, all I need to do is follow the instructions. That's pretty straightforward. So I decided to get my health back a bit by bit. And maybe also lose a few from my midsection. I haven't been to the dojo in a while, and it would be very nice to get back to training. And about that Go, I would like to start playing again. Maybe get back in shape first.

I actually managed to pull off making some gobans, albeit not from wood, but leather. I have plans of making more of them, if I can get my hands on similar tools and materials. Even sold a couple of them. That was fun.

I haven't been too motivated lately, but here I am, trying again, hoping to succeed this time. Wish me luck. ^^

One more thing. I am trying to set up an IPv6 connection through SixXS, but haven't yet been very successful. I got my router (Linksys w/ dd-wrt) almost working, but I still don't understand how to check if everything works allright. If anyone were so helpful to drop me a hint on how to make these things work I'd be very happy.


See ya soon!

Accomplished something today

I went to practice aikido today. I haven't been exercising that for almost a year, since we left for lappland last summer. When we returned, Leo started daycare and brought home some tough flu viruses.

Busy day ahead.

Finally. Well, I left my desk and the bookshelf unatttended, but as it is already late and it will just have to wait. What I am going to do now is play a game. Tomorrow will be a busy day. After I've taken Leo to the daycare, I'll have to walk to the town to visit the pharmacy and go buy some food. Then when I get back I need to finish my chores, namely clean up the desk, the shelf and some more dishes.

I visited Reddit today and I went through the r/GetMotivated subreddit and found a cool Wolf sticker poster and a really inspiring Web 2.0 talk by Gary Veynerchuck:



Damn! I say. Just, Damn! That's some inspiring shit. So I wrote this post describing my goals in life. It's something I want... really really want to do.

I'll just copy the message here:

I'm 34. This is going to be one tough challenge. As you see I like a certain game.


[goals] short term:

• do the dishes
• finish vacuuming (started yesterday)
• clean desk
• arrange books in the bookshelf
• play a game or two of Go on KGS
• upload pictures for a course I found on r/photoit
• design a goban on Blender
• blog about it

little longer term:

• prepare a room for the kid
• build window sils for all our windows
• buy a lot of new pots
• trim cut and re-pot my crassulas and cuttings
• become shodan in Go
• learn carpentry
• build a goban for the kid, and another for me (learning process)
• teach kid Go
• blog about it

long term:

• get work
• save money
• set up a Go-café

Impossible?

I think I have a plan.

Thanks. See ya all soon! ^^

Still slacking. Why?

Ok, I failed to fully execute my to-do list yesterday. I managed to do the dishes and clean up the floors from those toys. I even vacuumed around the apartment. But I fell behind in my schedule so I had to stop mid-way to pick up Leo from the daycare and go buy some groceries. Then had some dinner, spent some time with him, and eventually put him in bed and read bed time stories. After that I couldn't vacuum anymore, so I played a couple of games of Go instead and managed to forget to fill out the course applications. I will have to do those today. Additionally I found some more bills I have to pay today. So the today's list would be as follows:

• vacuum the rest of the floors
• fill out the applications
• pay the bills
• clean up desk
• do the dishes, again
• maybe arrange the books in the bookshelf

I hope I succeed better today.

See ya soon! ^^

A journal to Start.

Hi! I am an unemployed father of a four year old, who has recently decided there must come an end to doing nothing sooner or later, preferably sooner. This is my public journal.

A journal to start anew, to stop slacking and get away from the do-nothingness in my life.