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The
Journal of Alan Howard
Monday - 6th August 2001 -
4:50pm
Hey, surprise surprise, it's
time for another journal entry. There's not much new on the work
front, other than them agreeing to me spending time with the
network engineer to learn about his job. I've also talked to
Scot last night, back in Canberra, and he's set me up with
online course material. I'm going to be using that to help me
study for my MCSE, which should be a lot of fun. Once I get that
behind me, the world should be my oyster... figuratively
speaking, of course. Hehehe. I'm quite excited about what I'm
doing, it's going to be leading me in an entirely new direction.
Who knows where I'll end up? Hmmm... that seems to be the
continuing story of my life. <smile>
I'm going to be selling the BMW soon. Due to the changes in my
living conditions and expenses, I've decided that the car can go
as an unjustified expense right now. Once things change again,
I'll get another BMW, but I hardly use it right now. Mainly
'cause it's cheaper and quicker to get a bus and train from
where I'm living now, than it is to drive in and park in the
city. It was pretty difficult to come to that decision, 'cause
it's such a wonderful car, but it's only a car, and I can get
another one again later on when things get better financially.
When I get a higher paying job, I'll probably be able to get
myself an even later model BMW... woohoo!
I've been having this really interesting time in a dating site
lately, and have been posting various comments to a message
board they have there. One of the issues on the site has been
the posting of photos, with a lot of women unhappy about putting
their photo on the site, for one reason for another, and having
conflicts with people who want to see what they look like. The
comments that I've made has, as of today, helped a few of them
decide that it's ok to post their photo, and it's ok to be happy
with themselves, and it's ok to not care what other people
think. It's been quite exciting, having this kind of positive
effect on the self esteem of those people. After talking about
it with various friends on ICQ and others in the site's chat
room, I decided to take my comments and make an article out of
them. You can find it here - Self
Esteem and Photos on Singles Websites. Now that I've
just finished writing it this afternoon, I'll have to write a
follow-up article that's likely to be about how to focus on the
positives in your life and move forward. It's pretty
exciting for me to be inspired with writing these
articles... I really want to get some good stuff into the
articles section on this site, and the only way to do that is to
do it myself and hope that people will send me their own
articles for submission as well.
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