Developing opinions, insights and thinking they matter

Kristy from Canada was visiting London the other day and she asked why I don't blog anymore.

Apart from having a job that keeps me busy such that I don't have half a day to sit around twiddling my thumbs (or blogging) anymore, I started to be of the opinion that blogging was rather self-indulgent and I am not sure that people really need to know my random ramblings (of the verbal pursuation) on a variety of things...unless they help to better humanity, etc, etc.

So....I am trying to read books and the business and sports sections of papers (usually they reach the recycling bin first!) and watch films and learn various things about various things...like economics, politics and history, and how to best manage my worm composter.

Furthermore, I realised that I have never been one for expressing an opinion much beyond that the Leafs are my favourite team and that I missed snow this winter. That's another skill I need to work on...

I do manage to update my flickr site though...so keep checking that... I am thinking about abandoning facebook too...I have redisovered proper conversations with my friends, and they are lovely things to have!

Another thing I have been working on is talking to random people and trying to be a bit more bold in reaching out to make London a bit of a smaller and more friendly place. So far it has worked a bit...I made friends with Iris and Jeff at a Nottingham ice hockey game because they were wearing Peterborough (Ontario) Petes jerseys, and I may soon be meeting up for a casual drink with a newspaper columnist I like simply because I emailed and said I enjoyed the column and would love to meet up for a drink to discuss it...

This may only be the beginning my friends!

Oh, and I would like to express my congratuations to Rich who handed in his Dissertation yesterday. This completes two years of very hard work and hardly seeing him on the weekends (although he did manage to find and marry a wife in that time, so it couldn't have been all bad!). Yay Rich! I am so proud!

Anyways, I am looking forward to testing my new skills and hope that you will all be patient with (and not to hard on) me.