Packing Sux

Three more days till I fly out, and I have had about as much sorting, organising, and packing as I can stand :(

Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't such a multi-stage process. First, moving out of my flat, finding homes for all my furniture, shlepping carload after carload of stuff over to Jen and Rob's, unpacking the car, carrying armload after shoulder-straining armload of stuff up to their apartment..then living with all my crap stacked in boxes and bags all around me, then re-loading the car for the drive up to Hamiltron, then UNloading the car AGAIN, then doing the final sort and pack.

It's particularly hard for me because I am not, in general, an organised person, at least as far as filing and tidying goes. I can barely cope with the final stage of putting my clean laundry away - I'll happily sleep in a bed laden with clean clothes for a week. So naturally, all this packing is putting me in very bad mood :(

Gone Fishin'

Sometimes, you get reactions from people that show you that they really don't know you as well as they think they do. Case in point: As I write this, I'm happily settled in front of my parents' TV watching one of my favourite shows, "Gone Fishin". GF is a Saturday afternoon pleasure - one that I will happily admit to in social conversation. Yet, time after time, when I have expressed my enthusiasm for this show, I am met with reactions of surprise and disbelief from friends and colleagues. "Are you SERIOUS?" "You REALLY like to watch Gone Fishin?"

But I say, what's not to like? I like fishing, and GF takes all the best bits of the fishing process and condenses them into an action-packed half hour. The baiting, the catching, the cooking, with very little of the boring bits (the waiting, for example). Furthermore, the locations are fantastic, it showcases New Zealand like it's heaven on Earth, and it's almost always beautiful weather.

So why the disbelief from my friends? Perhaps they haven't really given it a chance?

I once heard that "Gone Fishin" was a big hit on US cable television. I'm not surprised. I bet my Uncle Butch in Texas would love it :)

To blog or not to blog..... that is the question....

So, I'm dithering about whether it's worth attempting to start a blog again in anticipation of my upcoming trip to Israel (and other places).

On one hand, several people have asked me if I will have a blog so they can keep track of me, but on the other hand, I have learned that most people - apart from the genuine geeks (amongst whom i count myself!!) - are actually pretty crap at checking in and reading their friends' blogs.

So people SAY I should blog, but are they gonna read it? Maybe I should stick to the mass email approach instead?

I guess I'll give it a try and see what happens. If no-one reads this, I shall be forced to send irritating emails telling people to go and look..... ;)