I’ve complained a lot about the weather this Spring early on, but honestly, it’s been really nice so far this year. So I won’t complain about the rain today, and it makes a nice break to stop and be contemplative about things. So if you feel like listening to me be contemplative, read on.
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\nThere are a few things I’m pondering right now. Most have to do with trying to discover what ‘normal’ is. For a long time I’ve felt that things just weren’t right in life because either I’d put too much pressure on myself to be perfect (and usually succeed, says I, smuggly – just kidding), or there was some sort of extraordinary external pressure that made me act very defensively. (Don’t ask me to explain exactly what I mean by that – it’s rather vague, but you can assume that I simply wouldn’t let myself enjoy life. Also, please don’t assume you know what ‘external pressure’ I’m referring to, as I have several totally unrelated things in mind.)<\/p>\n
I actually think it would be swell if I could actually get some feedback on this first thing. Namely, I haven’t ever really been on a pure vacation, and I’d like some suggestions on where to go and what to do. I just got a new passport a few months ago and really, no place in the world is out of bounds. First off, let me tell you what I don’t want – I absolutely am not interested in cruises or places where the primary focus is on the beach. Next let me tell you that one of the places I think would be lots of fun to go is a place like Iceland. It’s got really nice urban areas within quick reach of really nice natural areas. That means I can go out and explore, hike, take pictures, etc. during the day and still hit the bars and get a good sleep in a nice hotel at night.<\/p>\n
The Iceland trip is one I will make at some point, hopefully within a year, so I guess what I’m soliciting is advise on other places I may potentially find interesting. Feel free to leave any thoughts you may have on the topic in the comments or send me an email.<\/p>\n
Next in the same line of thought is trying to find more activies that I like to do and can keep me occupied. I used to really like doing photography stuff, but I pretty much stopped doing it when I lost access to a darkroom. I’ve pretty much ruled out building a darkroom, but the new generation of digital SLRs make doing photography stuff again a pretty interesting proposition. So I think I may be picking up one of these<\/a> I’ve complained a lot about the weather this Spring early on, but honestly, it’s been really nice so far this year. So I won’t complain about the rain today, and it makes a nice break to stop and be contemplative about things. So if you feel like listening to me be contemplative, read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nule.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin the near future. That’ll also go well if I start taking more trips on places. Maybe CCF will send me to Vegas again this year for a conference and I can take a few extra days and travel to the Grand Canyon to take pictures. (Of course I could just do that on my own, but why if they are willing to pay for the flight? \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"