Vacant Mind

Favourites from week 13 of 2008

favorite podcasts at Five Public Opinions

Top 10 Ways to Build Muscle Mass Fast at Ririan Project

From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems at Ars Technica

How to Stay Healthy While Sitting At Your Desk All Day at Diet Hack

Joint Account

Do you have one? Was it an easy decision? Mine wasn’t.

The more people that I tell the more that they caution me that it’s one of the big steps and to look out she will be asking for a ring next (I’ve already encountered that one)

My hesitation isn’t complex, it’s quite simple - I didn’t want to be held accountable.
I’m great when I need to save for a goal I’ve got no problems putting money away when I need to.
When I do have money I enjoy spending it, on nights out, on my new crumpler bag or looking forward to new camera lens.

I never saw the problem in spending money if I had saved for it, I had made the conscious decision to buy something  and months ago started saving and months later still want it. But now I am no longer justified in buying said item - the logic doesn’t make sense to me. The rational does, “well now that you have saved the money you might as well not spend it and save it for something more useful’ I was astonished to say the least.

This is why I have still kept my original account and will continue to be paid into that for as long as I can, because I think that why I have saved I have the right to spend.

The Sorry Debate

I’m not going to weight to much into the debate about the stolen generation or about sorry day.  I don’t think that I am qualified enough even though I do have feelings about the situation. I am posting this picture of an article that I found int he MX, because it really got me thinking about arguments from both sides of the fence.

I hope that you get something out of it as well.

Wage Slave

So now that I’ve got a full time job I am feeling what it is like to work the 40+ a week not having weekends or any free time for that matter. It’s amazing how much time it does suck out of your life, someone told us that work will take up 75% of your time.

I suppose what makes the days that much longer is the travel to and from the city 1 hour is a lot of time to spend being unproductive or doing something that you don’t want to do. I tried reading a novel and that worked quite well because it was a story that I was really into. Since that worked I thought that I would read stuff that I could learn from like a philosophy book or something about the stockmarket, for some reason it made me go to sleep more than anything else.

I have a routine that I enjoy at the moment that seems to be working except for one thing the early nights. I get up at 5.30am (early I know) and I hit the gym for an hour, get on the train at 7am and then I’m at work at 8am (if the trains are on time). But like I said the sleeping on time is the biggest problem I am unable to get to bed on time not because I can’t sleep but because I don’t want to. There are too many things that I want to do, blogging being one of them, learning about active directory and learning photoshop and photography in general.

The time after work is what I miss the most, that 6 hours that I used to have has been whittled down to 3 hours, 1 of which is spent getting ready for the next day (packing, preparing food, reading work etc…). Time with my family has gone, time with the girlfriend is less but the most precious of all is time with myself that I don’t have anymore.

I guess that it is one of the downsides of life, I can’t have everything my way.