back from beach - stuff happenings.

Well, been back from the beach for about a week now, we had a great time and it was just the thing Nadia and I needed.

...too bad the day we come home her parents stress her the hell out about getting finishing the packing/moving from the last house IN ONE DAY. Nadia's parents move more way too often for a sane family, and because of this her posessions of the last seven or so years are still in cardboard boxes. Eventually she stopped unpacking and just shifted her cardboard boxes from one house to the next. These people... well intending and otherwise good they may be, have this insanity about changing houses. So when we moved into this house, it was a rush job. We moved in first, and then a few months later they followed us, and subsequently most of Nadia's things (and a lot of everyone else's) remained in the last house. Which, to add to the insanity, is a five minute drive down the road

Anyhow, they finally decided they where going to finish moving (after about 8 months) and the day we come back from the nice, calm, relaxing beach, Nadia's stress-o-meter peaked as she stressed out over having to go back and revisit a house with a lot of mixed memories, and sort through a ton of stuff to pack. IN ONE DAY. I managed to calm her down somewhat before we went to sleep that night, reassuring her it was completely bonkers and that they where probably trying to 'trick' us into doing it nice and fast.

A week and a half later, we're finally going to finish packing/moving tomorrow after about four days work.

The insanity and stress aside (which has contributed to a medium flare up of her MS), it's actually been great for Nadia. As she goes through her old art and art supplies, she's getting her inspiration back, we're finding all her old cameras (she's taken the holga style to the digital age - with a collection of crappy digital cameras) and she's resubmitting art (new and old) to deviantart - AND! - getting back into the swing of the GD things (she never really stopped, but now she's getting public, with them articles you may have noticed: Resourceful! specials for Textures, Fonts, and Photoshop brushes.)

Some real Yin and Yang going on

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After returning from the beach I also had about five days where I was really motivated to work on the Creative Journal CSS guide/tutorial/behemoth.

I'm finding that when it comes to working on that darned thing, I'm quite like the binge drinker. I wont for a while, then I'll have too much, and then I'll not want to do it again for a while.

It's coming along rather nicely though. I've come to realise I'd being going about the section for total beginners all wrong, so I'll have to re-write that, but all is good.

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Since the day we left for the beach I've been reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins because I wanted to see what the fuss was about

I'm an atheist (on my own, long before this book), and reading this book has inspired me to put to words what I think about life, religion and humanity in general. I'd like to write a journal about it one day, but I feel compelled to say the following now.

I cannot fathom why we still have religion in this modern society. We don't need gods any more, we should be smarter than that! And you know what? We are smarter than that.

I know there are plenty of discussions to be found in the forums here on religion, but if somebody would like to have a discussion about it here, with me, I welcome the debate, and will genuinely admire anyone who steps up. I wont call you names, I wont think less of you for your 'faith' - only that perhaps you've been mislead. I don't hate you, I just wonder why you stopped believing in santa clause, but not the other make-believe (incidentally, ever noticed how a child will believe anything a parent tells them? doesn't that come in handy!)