Fallen by the wayside

Things defintely have gotten really quiet on here, I agree, Lauren.

We have to start posting again, all of us.

Doesn't have to be profound.

Doesn't have to be earth-shattering.

Doesn't even have to be coherent.

It's a forum for all of us to stay in touch, to inform others of cool/interesting stuff, to post recent work (pics, stories, drawings, etc), or whatever else you want it to be.

I know for my part (re: my excuse) is that I am working and therefore I don't have the time. That is a horrible reason not to be posting here. All it takes is a few minutes a day, week, whatever, to do so.

So:

On the news front, I have an interview with Steele Communications on Monday. VOCM are looking for a copywriter. Cross your extremities that I get the job.

I also applied to MUN, they are looking for IT consultants. Not likely I will get that job.

I continue to work on my "Barge" idea. Going to put in some time at it today in fact.

Other than that it's status quo.

Let's all make a better effort to resume posting here. Find something you are interested in, an issue that concerns you, and write about it.

Pretty simple really.

Anyone out there?

Is this thing on? I cant believe I was the last one to post something! Whats everyone up to these days, nobody have anything to put up?

Get out the joysticks!

I have not been posting in ages, well i guess none of us have regularly. But I recently came across this lovely piece and it brought me back. With all the computer games played on a Macbook ( sorry Declan :-) ) and games played on a Wii and a PS3 I thought this was a great reminder of how simple and great games can be. No complication, and boy i remember sucking royally at the diving portion of the game. This also could be the reason I got carpal tunnel later in life!

So here it is, and I hope i get a chance to find Winter Games as well!!

Looks like I will be at The Tire for the rest of the summer

Didn't get the job at Upstream. No big deal. At least I have some money coming in with the CT job. Going to move on, and continue to look for opportunities.

I am planning on having one (maybe two) pieces of writing ready for The Telegram's Cuffer Prize. Working on them today as I rest up from a horrible gout attack I had over the weekend.

War Memorial

Lauren and myself are back in St John's for holidays. Last week we visited Bowring Park and saw the new memorial to the dead of World War I, a replica of the Beaumont Hamel memorial in France. It's nice to see the dead of World War I are still being remembered and that new memorials are being built. Normally the list of names on a war memorial can be a little impersonal, rows of name after name. Like masses of soldiers forming an army the names combine to become the memorial, but on the day we visited the memorial a photograph had been placed in a wreath just below the corresponding name on the memorial, George Stringer lost in HMS Viknor.

In Ireland we still have to come to term with our war dead. Prior to independence our troops fought in the British army, still a touchy subject. The War of Independence is not widely commemorated, thugs and criminals have hijacked the name Republican and events such as Easter 1916 so the media and general public have been too afraid to be Republican. Since independence we have been neutral, even sending condolences to the people of Germany on the death of Hitler because that was the neutral thing to do.

Hopefully when the 100th anniversary of World War I comes up in 5 years we will be ready to remember the cost paid by Irish soldiers from towns all over Ireland. We should be able to erect monuments in every town listing our war dead from all wars regardless of the political sensibilities of people living today.

Interview next week

I have an interview next week with Upstream Marketing, who are based out of MUN campus. They said they liked my writing and want me to come in to speak to them.

So, keep your fingers crossed that it works out. I am going to try and do up a small portfolio to bring them, and I have been looking at their client list and the work they have done so far.

Hopefully soon I will be saying goodbye to 6am shifts and sore feet.

Two weeks done

About to begin Week Three at CT.

It's been hard (physically) so far. My feet and back are hurting a lot. I am still not liking the 5am start to my day. But, I'm going to hang in there. I got paid Friday, so that helped take some of the sting out of the negativity.

One of the two jobs I was hoping for is no longer an option. I am still waiting to (not) hear back from the second. And I am always on the lookout for a writing job.

If I can get through the summer I will hopefully be going back to MUN in September.