I am a thirty something married gay boy living in Sydney, almost on top of the gay scene but not in it!
Why Sometimes blue?, because I love blue, but also I am sometimes blue :)
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I had one of those sorts of weekends where I wanted to be a social outcast.
I didn't really want to be social, see people or even leave the apartment, no I am not depressed, anxious or agoraphobic. I just enjoyed doing very little.
It's not to say that I have not been out on the weekend or done things, quite the opposite, there have still be dinner with friends, shopping trips and other bits and pieces.
I have just been enjoying doing not much after a year of doing so much especially working so much on weekends.
The media conversion is still ongoing and I am also trying to consolidate all the music we have on our media center, deleting duplicates, creating playlists and cataloguing the genres etc.
I am still battling the issue with the iPhone Remote which works if I reboot the router every time I use it which is a bloody pain in the butt, but when it does work it works fantastically.
I even managed to do some cleaning up of things around the apartment that I have been meaning to do for a while because we have guests staying with us from Friday for the Sleaze Ball dance parties weekend.
This week will be pretty hectic for me, I have a lot of clients to 'go live' and some decisions to make about staffing etc.
We also finished the re-branding phase one of one of our products and we now have to integrate the new brand into the product which will take a lot of effort to get right.
As I become more of the borg and integrate more with Steve Jobs new world order - Read: become an Apple aficionado, I have decided to convert all of our video files of movies, TV shows etc to use through iTunes.
I have limited success with getting the Apple Remote working with the main media centre PC, it works sometimes then it drops off, but I have worked a 'work around' for this, I just reboot the router and it all seems to work then.
As much as I would like a Mac Mini for the main media centre for the time being I will keep the old Dell PC running to save costs.
My issue has been that avi, wmv video files can't be imported into iTunes, which means that I don't have full control of my media from the one easy to use interface.
So for the last couple of days I have been Googling all sorts of weird and wonderful solutions to convert these files to something that I can import easily into iTunes.
You just would not believe the trouble I have had on this issue, I have trialed Shareware and freeware and at first thought I was onto something with a freeware product called Handbrake.
But it took as long to convert one movie as it would take to watch it! Not to mention it was not particularly easy to batch process the videos I have.
So far so good, I have done a couple of test conversions and all seems cool, the quality has stayed the same, the average 2 hour video took about 15 - 20 minutes to convert.
And even better than that it batch processes the videos!
I said to the boy last night as I was trying to find something to do this that it was bloody difficult to find the right application and most non technical minded people would have just given up.
So there we go I will be converting video for the next week I would say based on the size of my library.
But then at the end of it it will all be iTunes enabled yippeeeee!
And I will be finally wittling down the good old video library and getting rid of stuff that I have not watched and will never watch either.
I have had a very lackluster return to the gym in the last few months, most weeks I have not ventured anywhere near the gym let alone done proper exercise apart from walking everywhere.
I lack the motivation, energy and drive at the moment to get to the gym even though I have a trainer, who I have cancelled week after week of sessions because or work commitments and being away.
My last SMS conversation with him I promised to commit to a training regime, but again this afternoon I know I should go to the gym tonight but I am already tired from the day and have work to get done.
I know I need to go to the gym and I know that when I do go to the gym I feel much better physically and mentally, but making that step and actually going is just a step too far at the moment.
We were at a house party on the weekend and it seems that everyone I know is going to the gym with a religious fervor (well it is only two weeks till Sleaze Ball I suppose).
In many ways this is a symptom of a whole malady or overall 'malaise' at the moment. I feel quite burnt out in general, the holiday was fantastic although too short, but it will tide me over for a while.
I am finding it difficult to find inspiration in many things right now, I have huge amounts of work to do and sometimes I feel as though it just never ever ends.
I am slightly envious of people who have several weeks off work and don't have to work while they are away or quite frankly can even take that much time off work in general.
But then I balance that against the fact that in other ways I am achieving things and have things they do not, or don't want to have either.
I need to find inspiration and balance and get back to enjoying the gym but I am not sure I know how..
I have to say I am in love with Whitney's new album, and in particular two songs.
It's such an interesting sound she has now, sure her voice is not the same as it was but it's so much earthier,, so much more real.
I saw excerpts of the new Oprah interview she did and all I can say is wow girl!
I have watched am watching friends whose lives have fallen apart with crack addictions and I am in awe of the fact the Whitney has come back from the brink.
Let's all just keep our fingers crossed she stays clean!
It's been ages since I last blogged, not for lack of things to say more so juts either lack of time or lack of interest in sitting in front of my computer.
Last week we had an amazing short break on Hayman Island which was perfect although a bit short.
The Whitsundays are truly amazing and just so beautiful.
Work is a bit slower than it has been for a while and I am taking advantage of this to get a whole lot of things done I have put on the back burner for a while.