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having sleepless nights

Over the past several months I’ve been having sleepless nights where I can’t get to sleep till about 5.30 to 6.00 AM. I’m unable to calm my mind about stuff and other shit, and I want to do stuff during this time but I can’t (which I won’t get into). Though there are a lot of things that do keep me up at night – stuff like bills to finding a job of some kind. So when I do finally able to get to sleep I would only get about 4 to 6 hours of sleep which in turn effects my health.

To top all of this off – in the process of selling my home in Alaska since my family can no longer afford to keep the place. (Though it would be nice to find someone who has a lot of money to spend on a family who has reached close to finance-nail bottom.)

Anyways, its just a matter of time before I could get back to a regular sleeping schedule and I don’t want to take any sleeping aids if I really don’t have to on a regular basis.

I could go on and on about this – I would just keep repeating myself which isn’t good.

By the way …. Happy New Year (belayed!) folks,

Peter

P.S. There would be some more posting’s coming soon to this blog…. stay tuned.

No new posts for a little while longer

With some recent events in my life since late August / early September …. writing blog post has been low on my to do list and will be for sometime to come.

Most likely I won’t be doing any sort of writing till after the first of the year at the earliest.

lack of posts

Hello all,

Sorry of the lack of posts to this blog. Its just that I’ve been recovering from surgery that I had 2 weeks ago Monday night / Tuesday Morning. It was one of those totally unexpected things to happen to me even though I’ve been the healthy one in the family for a very long time.

Hopefully that my stay in the hospital would be the only one for a very long time to come.

bye for now….

Peter

this site

For those who visit this site and those follow this site in a reader. I just want to let you know that I know that my blog is a bit slow at the moment. It’s partly because a plugin that I activated Google XML Sitemaps. I’m going to see how this one plugin works over the course of the next 10 to 14 days, if not sooner. Please leave a comment if this blog is really slow.

Peter

Update: things appear to be working better – hopefully things would stay at the same current level.

Going back to University

After taking a break from classes at the local University for the last 18 or so months (give or take a several months), I think I’m ready to start taking classes again. I don’t know if it would be this fall or the following Spring of 2010, though I would prefer this coming fall.

I basically know what I want to do but the question that I’m facing is: Should I continue with Photojournalism? Or should I go with another degree?

I’m thinking of going with concentration in the Journalism Department at UAF that’s called “New Media.” Though I would like to do both, but then I could be pushing my luck about doing to much at the same time. If I do both concentrations at the same time, basically would be doing two things that I like doing – taking photographs and working on websites.

Another thing I am thinking of doing is take some language course’s that the University is offering in the fall. But the problem is that if I do that I would be adding maybe 6 months of course work to what I’m already planning to take. From what I worked out, I would be taking at least 15 credits for the next 2 years and classes during the summer months – not that I mind doing that – I just don’t want to do to much at once and on a consistent basis for the next 2 to 2 1/2 years. Then trying to work on top of studying which may or may not be a good thing, but I’m not sure at this moment, just need to see how things would go.

Continuing my education is it stands now is hold indefinitely till things are sorted out in regards to family and a few other things too.

Idle Thoughts (part 1 – maybe)

Note: This may or may not be part 1 of a multi part post that I *may* be doing. At this time I don’t know if I would do more posts along this theme.

There are many things that I wanted to write down into words and such. Its just that I wasn’t able to make a coherent and/or cohesive post. One of the things that I’ve been doing recently is that of thinking of the last 2 years or so. Unfortunately, I’ve been stuck in a situation that I haven’t been able to get out off – major family issues. I won’t get into specifics and if I did things won’t be looking peachy keen for me.

Let me say that there are people “pulling” at from many different directions and “wanting” or “would like” me to do things their way. Regardless of what I think is a good way of doing things. For example, one person wants me, in a way, just up and move while the person that I’m staying with recovers with any kind of assistance and expects that the person that I’m helping just jump back into the swing of things with no problems of any kind. This person, from my point of view and from I could tell from the specific person, basically wants me to work 40+ hours, do all of the shopping, house cleaning, drive the person that I’m staying with to and from a health care facility (which is a total time of 45 minutes to drive and back to the house each way). Also, pay ALL of the bills that this other person has and not including my own bills.

I could go on and complain about my family maybe in detail to some degree but I won’t. There are things that could be aired out but it probably be for the best that things shouldn’t be made known to a wider group of people.

After the events with my relative health and the last 2 yrs of getting back to a stable state of health. It has basically taken this long time to work out health problems that I won’t need to concentrate much or if at all on helping a lot around the house. Because of this I haven’t been able to what I want when I want to do whatever I felt like and had to put off my education for a little while.

As it is, it looks like that I’m going to have to and need to put going back to school till the fall of 2009. Not that I mind doing this, giving the way things have been going for the last year, in regards to money and family reasons.

Though I thought of transferring to another University shortly after a couple of years at the local University. It just so happens that I wanted/needed and should re-take some math classes and maybe 1 or 2 other remedial classes before I even think of going to another University. But then I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to study in. I haven’t been taking classes for the last year and I thought I haven’t been taking classes for the 2 yrs, and its weird that I thought of that just now. I was thinking of taking some classes this coming term, but I fell like that I’m not just ready to start taking classes again. In part because of my family life and another reason is that I’m not comfortable going back to school just yet. I know that I shouldn’t wait too long to take classes again and hopefully I won’t have to.

Once things settle down with my family life and things – hopefully – get worked out between various people and sorted, it might be then when I would go back to school and with my life. After taking classes for 6 years or so, I mostly know what I want to do with my life – generally speaking. I haven’t laid out any specific plans for the rest of life but I won’t be in Alaska for a long time. But I do know thing is that I want and desire a “simpler” life, just don’t want things to get kayo tic on a consistent basis. If things get really complicated with my life and/or doing things, I just can’t stand being in this type of situations.

As I might have said in past posting that I don’t like to get into specifics on this blog, is that I don’t want to deal with any legal issues. Which is why I try to say things in the most general since here on this site.

later….

Diigo Links 12/03/2008 (p.m.)

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Diigo Links 12/03/2008 (a.m.)

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

FYI

Update: This site won’t be going offline at the end of the month – however – sometime over the next 6 months where it might actually happen as to when I wouldn’t know when.

For those who follow this blog… that this blog and the rest of my site might go down temporally towards the end of the month. Let me say that its been really tight this month in regards to funds – hopefully things will improve by the end of the month.

On a another topic…

Even though I want or wanted to write more post things, it’s just thing’s haven’t come together to form any cohesive posts as of late.

laters….

Looking for a new Camera

Over this last weekend the digital camera gave up on working basically I got it wet by the way of rain. It is and was a stupid thing to do and let it happen. Though its working to some degree, at this point in time I’m basically for a newer camera with a whole lot more features and such. The type of camera I would like to get will be said later in the post.

Basically what happened was that I walked around my family’s undeveloped property and took my Olympus camera with me to take some pictures that I might want to take. Didn’t find worth while stuff to take pictures of then before I started back to my family home, rain started to come down and I wasn’t able to cover the camera from the rain – so in turn it got wet. I didn’t do a good job cleaning off the water from the camera and so when I tried to take a picture on Saturday evening of the sun on some clouds during the sunset – that’s when I noticed the camera wasn’t turning on. At this point I was swearing at myself for getting the camera wet.

The camera that I have is an Olympus SP-510 UZ granted it may not be the better cameras to have after reading some reviews on the web. As it is I’ve been planning to get a much better Olympus model or one of the following cameras: Nikon, Canon, or Sony camera.

I’m not quite sure to what I’m looking for in a new camera at the moment. Though I want both 35mm SLR and a Digital SLR, I’m not sure which one to get first and that’s part of the problem that I’m having at the moment is choosing the type of camera that I want to use one a regular basis. When I do get both types of cameras I’m planning to get several lenses for each kind of camera. Like telescoping, mid range, and use a standard range of lenses or at least I think there is.

Though in planning in getting both types of cameras I’m planning to spend some serious money so it wouldn’t really be an issue when I would actually buy the cameras.

In the mean time, what I might do is to get a similar Olympus type camera for the interim basis entail I get a good quality digital and 35mm SLR.

But my problem is the researching part of the equation of the endeavor of getting a new camera. So for those who follow this blog or to anyone else to reads this blog – my question to you is: Do any of you know any site’s that have a good array of reviews of camera’s ?

Peter

P.S. I may post something when I would get a new camera whether if its for the interim basis or when I finally get a good quality Digital and 35mm SLR.

P.S.S. This post may be edited further at some point, don’t know for sure at the moment.

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