tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-269609712024-03-07T20:04:48.215-05:00Hello World<img src="http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/747/blogbanmp6.png" border="0" alt="">
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Boring the world to death, one post at a time.Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-15564606678745064922018-09-03T18:03:00.004-05:002018-09-03T18:03:38.235-05:002018 - Hello from the other side
Still alive,
It's been a few years,
I have not forsaken you.
See you again soon.
Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com1Portland Parish, Jamaica18.0844274 -76.410026717.6015274 -77.055473700000007 18.5673274 -75.7645797tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-42176101477177863062014-01-13T00:17:00.001-05:002014-01-13T00:18:33.560-05:00New year, same direction"Like a raft or ruderless boat" was the title of my first post(and as of now not my only post) for the year. I had intended to talk about my general lack of interest in reaching any goals(or setting any for that matter) for 2013 and my plans for 2014 but my rustyness of blogging got that thrown offtrack rather quickly.
Let me start off by stating that I have always had my bar set very low(by my Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-85871836536803568042014-01-01T22:19:00.001-05:002014-01-01T22:19:26.457-05:00Like a raft or rudderless boatI haven't been a very good blogger over the past few years and it is unlikely that I will improve over the years to come. In fact I have had internal turmoil throughout 2013 as to whether or not to post a final entry informing those who may stumble upon this lonely site or to delete the whole site all together. I may have stated this before but it is simply because I am in a different state of Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-48603500298977390482013-01-17T12:41:00.002-05:002013-01-17T12:41:49.638-05:00Kicking the bucket.. list
On July 14, 2009 I published a post titled Homeowner: check with the following excerpt of my goals list as at that date.
- Go back to Disney world.- Get post graduate degree.- Become propertied by 26.- ... etc.Well
this is one life goal I am glad to cross off the list and I have now
replaced it with the goal of shaving 17 years off my mortgage term to
finish paying back my loan in 8 Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-12891124151665052862012-05-11T18:07:00.000-05:002012-05-11T18:07:40.470-05:00To Cayman and backTo continue on recapping all that has happened in the past it was exactly one year ago to this date I was in Cayman.
There is much I can write about the two weeks I spent on the island of Grand Cayman but I will try to keep it light. I stayed in a hotel close to their famous "7 Mile Beach" just North of the capital Georgetown. Being a Jamaican and all I was never impressed when I heard Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-33513379200432286842012-03-30T23:59:00.001-05:002012-03-30T23:59:55.283-05:00R and RIt is late and I do not particularly feel like thinking so I shall not be recapping any of the bulleted points of what I did over the last two years but I will leave you with the photo of the oh so lovely Kingston harbor below(you can thank me later for cropping out the floating debris with my mad gimp skills).
I don't know about y'all but I'm going to the beach this weekend. It is
the same Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-5975127643799522892012-03-24T00:50:00.000-05:002012-03-24T00:50:04.734-05:00Loosing teethAs I mentioned before, I lost some of my wisdom in my fist surgery ever. My dentist had been trying to get me to remove all four of my wisdom teeth and I have been putting it off as I was not into throwing my money at some monster who wants to inflict pain on me. That being the case I stuck his referral to the dental surgeon on my fridge and it sat their for years getting tattered.
I had a Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-84989705340135422662012-03-13T23:11:00.002-05:002012-03-13T23:11:35.804-05:00So what have you been up to?Well I must apologize for being noticeably absent from this page but I had good reason, I'll get into that in a later post. This is just an update of a few of things I consider note worthy that occurred in the past 19 or so months of this blackout. It may be out of order but I'll try my best.
Zoe, my daughter for those of you who don't know, turned one!
I lost a bit of wisdom with my first Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-52000705237436950022011-12-06T19:37:00.000-05:002011-12-06T19:37:16.662-05:00It only takes a minuteHappy birthday Santa!
A couple years ago I was 'Traveling' via google earth and I came across a Sinterklaas celebration that occurs on this day.
How odd. It looked like Santa, the concepts were the same as Santa but the dates where wrong. The long and short of it was that the Santa that I grew up to is based off this Dutch version of St. Nicholas. Every year since then I have always had it in Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-10378811174543976962010-08-27T03:40:00.001-05:002010-08-27T03:42:12.519-05:00Made it back in one pieceTwo posts in one month! holiday has been good to me. I spent the last few days in Portland giving my daughter her a proper introduction to my true love, the beach. She saw so many beaches in such a few days it was crazy, Frenchman's Cove, San San bay, Boston Bay, Long Bay and finally she stamped her name in the Visitors book of the Morant Point Lighthouse at the east most point of our little Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-44648534391724324962010-08-19T16:06:00.000-05:002010-08-19T16:06:28.650-05:00When the stars align
This is not my garden, I am somewhere in middle Jamaica approximately 2100 feet above sea level in a cool and windy Manchester. For some reason I have no courses scheduled(and more importantly no projects outstanding) for the next couple of weeks so I made the best of this odd occasion and took two weeks off work.
I plan to make the most of these few days off and plan to tour this little isle aAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-59703551738030475252010-07-30T23:31:00.001-05:002010-07-30T23:32:19.464-05:00slacking off..It has been two months without a post and yep I said it, finding time to write a post is me slacking off.
There is so much to do
house work
school work
baby work
work work
standby work
overtime work
sidejob work
Even my books are no longer balanced don't be fooled though, they are still mostly correct. On the plus side, my postgrad studies has reaped benifits already, I can now easily model my Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-73352542851731175252010-05-16T00:19:00.001-05:002010-05-16T00:21:42.756-05:00Objective function changedMy civic had served me well for the past 6 years but it was time for a change, when I bought this car I wanted something high performance and sporty. I have always wondered what my next car would be, I didn't really fancy any of the new cars on the market that I could afford. The civic still runs fine but I am very weary of such an old car that has been through so much. Seeing as I had a young Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-13328251739242838572010-05-06T20:09:00.001-05:002010-05-06T20:09:54.535-05:00rubber cowyWho knew the importance of a rubber ducky? the little monster now splashes and kicks up a storm if she doesn't have her bath toys to distract her.
FYI that is not a rubber duck it is a rubber chicken.. really now? she also has a sheep and a few other oddball animals.
The cow is my favorite. mooo!Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-85773623396702414902010-04-21T22:55:00.003-05:002010-04-21T23:01:13.028-05:00just passing timetiny ink stone
tiny bowl
tiny spoon
tiny ink stick
tiny brush (x2)
tiny rice paper
tiny introductory guide to Chinese calligraphy
I got this from the Logos Hope book ship earlier this year and like most other things else I own, it sits idly waiting for me to give it a try. For those of you who think I have given up on blogging, I haven't. I even want to start a photo blog on tumblr. Please Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-82606444889989548782010-03-29T00:04:00.000-05:002010-03-29T00:04:12.515-05:00Jamaica not living up to its nameWho knows what that is?
Give up? it's a swing check valve I bought last week to replace a spring check valve that is on the outlet of my water tank that is preventing me from getting the last few liters of water that potentially remain in my tank. To back track a bit let me bring everybody up to speed for those of you who do not live in Kingston, Jamaica. We are currently going through an Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-5432829129074630862010-03-13T23:58:00.000-05:002010-03-13T23:58:41.581-05:00UWI Carnival '10As with my usual tradition I was at the UWI Mona ring road Carnival event today. Unlike the other years things have changed though. First of all I actually belonged there, I stepped out class around 4:30pm and things were just getting kicked off. I heard them advertise it a few times on the radio leading up to this so I came prepared with my EOS body, 50mm and 135mm M42 lenses, this is the other Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-70049967598572853752010-03-04T01:16:00.000-05:002010-03-04T01:16:05.393-05:00At work..*sigh*
It is almost 1am and I am at work yet again. I was in the middle of watching the hurt locker(great movie so far) and I got the call to come in. meh.
My work here is just to watch the building services people flip between JPS, UPS and all sorts of combinations of bypass while my servers go flip flop waiting for the power to settle.
All is well though, I haven't blogged in a bit for good Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-42951200314831463782009-12-19T01:19:00.000-05:002009-12-19T01:19:22.990-05:00The Zolomonster
I was looking for an exciting photo to reintroduce myself to blogsphere and I could only find pictures of my daughter. I am not sure if it is sad that all the photos I have taken in the last 2+ months are of the same theme.
Tonight is my first entire night alone with my daughter and thus far she has been mostly well behaved. She just woke up and I fed her with formula for the first time. I Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-65937836561269385742009-10-10T21:40:00.004-05:002009-10-10T21:58:46.980-05:00Hello WorldIt was a few hours after my last post and was now 3:30am.I was awoken by groans from a mommy to be ready to pop so it was off to the hospital.The wait was not long(for me) and at 5:33am out pops a pink hot mess that immediately starts crying.Hello WorldShe makes the cutest faces.I now spend my mornings before work trying to dodge projectile poop while we bath her.Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-67461480826000163672009-09-27T19:55:00.003-05:002009-09-27T23:10:23.807-05:00September to rememberI would like to introduce a 36 hour day.It is now the end of September and this is my first post. The last time I wrote a post I was living at my old apartment, I am now fully moved and almost finished settling in. As with every other procedure that involves the Jamaican government offices I could not get the new place certified in time but I still had to move since I gave notice. I ended up Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-36198551018166975822009-08-10T06:29:00.003-05:002009-08-10T07:07:32.740-05:00August updatesOh blog how I have forsaken you.Time is not on my side, there have been many things to do.Tie up loose ends with the old landlordGet electrician to re-certify new house then get power supply activatedGet metalwork contractors to install security grills in the new house, a must in Jamaica.Buying baby stuff to quell the irate pregnant girl.Get curtains made to stop new neighbours on spying on Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-35771297706437221822009-07-25T22:14:00.003-05:002009-07-25T23:18:38.736-05:00summer workDid I mention that I had an intern? the key word being had.I did mention that they were slashing 20% of my department at work and that some how maths out to one person with that person being my coworker. We had the same job title, worked at the same level and sat in the same large empty room alone in a mostly abandoned building downtown for many years. I always figured that he was my competitionAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-81456475600833028982009-07-14T22:30:00.003-05:002009-07-14T23:08:15.789-05:00Homeowner: check.- Go back to Disney world.- Get post graduate degree.- Become propertied by 26.- ... etc.Well this is one life goal I am glad to cross off the list and I have now replaced it with the goal of shaving 17 years off my mortgage term to finish paying back my loan in 8 years. This of course is under the assumption that all things remain equal, yes I aim high.It has been one week since I got the Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26960971.post-64791698172671041512009-07-05T22:06:00.002-05:002009-07-05T23:25:11.051-05:00Holocost moviesI think the first Holocaust movie I watched was 'The pianist' a few years ago. I don't remember much about it but I remember that I liked it very much. Recently I started watching the HBO series Band of Brothers and my interest on that time in history awoke again. Since then I have watched:ValkyrieThe boy in striped pyjamasSchindler's listI've always heard about Schindler's list, never saw it on Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04396373925638870110noreply@blogger.com7