A late review

Ok it being later in the year than I had hoped and for that I feel as though I must apologize, but I will not apologize, this is because my absence is due to a desire to spend time with family because family is important. So, I am not sorry that this is late.

This is the blog that I intended for Pre New Years because this is my look back. Where I bring up amendments, additions and extra comments I have in association to the things I have written here over the 2012 year. Let’s dive right in.

So I started my 2012 blogging with talking about entering a photo into a contest followed the next day with how it did and me whining about it doing poorly. But that did not deter me, because they did an autumn showcase and I did enter again I still did not win, but this time I did not feel so bad about not winning. Here is the photo I entered. In my opinion a much better photo which I also framed and matted better than the first.

I also discussed starting the blog again, though I still don’t share it on Facebook, and I have stopped posting it to Twitter to prevent judgment from people I know IRL.

I then proceeded to talk about Twitter and communication. And this has not really changed a bit. I got blocked by a Twitter user that I followed because I was unable to properly convey my point in 140 characters, and me being, well, me. I proceeded to send several tweets consecutively in an attempt to get my point across. So I essentially spammed the Twitter user, got blocked and this was still even before I could entirely get my point across. I regret the spamming and getting blocked, but I don’t regret trying to stand up for something I believe in.

Then came two blogs which I have nothing to add to at this time.

Ahh, Boxes. Chronologically the first blog of 2012 I found myself proud of and what I actually referred back to in posts written after this one. Now looking back I can’t see if I mentioned this anywhere but I do believe that it is possible to both inside and outside of a box, not only that you can be in multiple boxes, or that you are in more than one box.

Looking back at the next post I made I realize that “Assumptions” and “Boxes” could have been merged into one post because they have some complementary ideas in them.

I then proceeded to talk about Christmas for five non-consecutive posts; I’ve got to say Christmas was great, and I’m not going to do any sort of haul post because I took a photo and put it on instagram http://instagram.com/p/T06a7PhQBe/

I also talked about using public restrooms which I still wholly stand behind.

I wrote a response to a YouTube video about me being scared about sharing the blog, I think that with the being a New Year I will start sharing this on Twitter again. Still a bit frightened about what some people on Facebook will think though.

For my birthday I shared 23 bits of unsolicited advice which I really enjoyed doing and next birthday I may very well share 24 bits.

Post Script: Double blog today. Also I need to get back into a blogging schedule. So sorry if this gets a little scattered.

Forward Motion

So in the town that I live in there are very few places that I have noticed for blossoming artists to display their works. But fortunately there is the Nanaimo Arts Council. Though what the Arts council does is not much in terms of nurturing young artists throughout the year they do have a couple showcases where local artists can submit their works to be displayed(at a price). Now I did this for their annual Summer Showcase, because I am proud of my photography and would really like to share is and possibly make money off of it. I didn’t mention that on top of the art work being showcased it is also judged with the possibility of cash prizes as well all submitted pieces must be for sale. And tomorrow night Thursday July 12, 7pm 2012, is the Awards reception for this. The winners will be announced there and I will probably be the most under dressed person there. No dress code was mentioned to me and the recent weather has been quite hot. As well I am by no means a small fellow, so showing up in formal wear would only make me sweat more. Therefore I shall be wearing what I refer to as Summer Formal Khaki shorts, a simple single colored t-shirt,   and a collared button down t-shirt unbuttoned over top and a pair of almost tumblr blue skate shoes that happen to be falling apart. 

Post script: This is the photo I entered.

Geocache!

So I tried something new yesterday. Geocaching, it's treasure hunting except more complicated. Usually you'd need to use a GPS device, but personally I don't have one. I did it anyway, and it worked. Since I don't have a GPS device I had to rely on the written clues and the Google map on the website. This website http://www.geocaching.com/. And geocaching Even with the map and clues, it wasn't the easiest but I did it! This was the first one I found, a camo style painted peanut butter container. People go all out in preparing these things, painting them going out and buying things to put in them. This one in particular had a disposible camera, a log book where the visitors can log their visits to the cache as well as several "Trade Items". The log is really the only essential item to any cache, but the trade items are interesting, they can be really anything, for example stickers, bouncy balls, bandages or even dice. They actually come in all different sizes, not only bigger ones like the peanut butter jar, but smaller ones about the size of film canisters. Geocaching isn't just limited to big cities, or just the US, I know this because I now live in a small community of approx. 4500 in Canada, and geocaches can be found all over the place. Even the choice in hiding places are interesting and unique. In my finds so far, base of a tree, hidden in a monument, hanging from a tree, and even in an air vent. Geocaching is an awesome way to get outdoors and explore your community. Even if you are on vacatiion and want something to do, geocaching might be a good idea. It gets you out of your house, or hotel room and you get to explore and find "treasure". It's something I want to do more of, and even get other people to do it with me.