Hm, I’m tired

It’s been a few weeks now since I decided to swap out my car for something slightly better, it’s also been a few weeks since I started my new job, it’s even been a few weeks since I had some terrible pain in my ear requiring a weeks worth of both oral and topical antibiotics.

So what do I have to show for it come the start of April. Well, my new car has a severe oil leak and has been in my possession for all of four days while garages try to identify the cost, my new job is, as any new job is, traumatic and stressful as I get my head around all the things I have to learn, and I have another raging ear infection which I’m currently treating with double the prescribed number of antibiotics as well as painkillers.

Not ideally a great start to 2010, although the job stress is perfectly normal and acceptable, I would in fact be worried about the job if there were no stress, so perhaps thats a positive.

This isn’t a rant though, more an, honest blog updating you on my life and my current ambitions. Providing things turn out ok on the car I should have some money left over for a holiday, perhaps even two, one to Thailand, and one to the States, providing of course that the repair bill to finally fix my car once and for all does not make me want to sell my kidneys or genitals on the black market.

Although those of you that do read this, might be surprised to know that this is probably the first real time I’ve talked about it, my near vice like grip on the obsession that is twitter has loosened somewhat, indeed in the last 30 days I must have posted, what, 100 times? if not slightly more. Don’t worry, there is no particular reason for this, I have simply been trying to be a good boy and not tweet much about work, while in work and I’m sure some people could use a break from my mini meltdowns for the time being.

As anyone knows, the internet has become more of an integral part of our daily lives than we first thought. In fact so integral is it, that a recent episode of House hi-lited one womans obsessions to simply blog everything might nearly have been the death of her, but its interesting in a way to see that popular TV shows now are demonstrating the internet more and more. Lord knows, if hollywood producers actually knew what you could do with the internet, we might see a whole host more TV shows and films that touch a little too close to home.

The episode of House did however get me thinking. If I were to blog on a daily basis about my predicaments, would I get more hits? would I have perhaps gotten useful feedback from someone who has actually had an oil leak on a 54 plate BMW 120d? Would I have gotten a lawsuit from potential slandering of the un-named garage I brought the car from and would have likely screamed about? Or would people turn around and read it, not give a crap and ignore the site once more.

it interests me. In fact my silence on twitter was more of an accidental experiment to see whether people noticed, or even cared.

There were, indeed, a few posts on twitter, asking of my whereabouts, but what really surprised me is that on this site alone, my visitor numbers briefly went up. At a low point I get 16 hits a day, on a high, over a thousand. In fact on the 10th of March I got a spike, of almost two and a half thousand visitors, it stayed fairly consistant after that, hovering around the one thousand mark until the 21st when they dropped back down to 600-ish. Strangely, it was only on the 21st that I got a text, asking if I was alright. Odd however that people check my twitter and then my site before texting or calling me to know if something is going on.

It does, however, give a good indication of just how integral the internet now is to peoples lives. I decided a while back that this website is becoming a blog, rather than a showcase of my photography work. I also decided that I would try to do more tech postings and talk less about my life and more about things people are interested in, but every now and then a regular blog can’t hurt.

In fact I would go as far as to say I need to update this far more often, given that people are now coming from twitter to read it (around 63%). I do however wish people would comment more, I like telling stories, even if they aren’t quite happy and jolly, but an accurate and public diary is still a part of me and life today as we know it.

Who knows, perhaps this story will generate some comments, perhaps I’ll have someone come along who has deconstructed the top half of a 120d engine and might offer some advice. Or maybe I’ll get some links to other peoples personal blogs and be able to comment directly on them.

This is now a life blog, more than anything else. But I do pause for a moment while I wonder just what impact technology has on your lives, and whether it is as integral to yours as it is to mine.