Keks

Another year older, Yet none the wiser.
If anything,
The opposite is probably true.
Happy none the less.
With my life, that is,
Not with the increment to the age counter (age++).
Positive is that after today there’s another 365 days until the next one.

I’ve mentioned avatar creators in the past… and how they may be used to generate a customised avatar or icon for use on a forum etc… Abi-Station probably have the best set of online software which lets you make your avatar, icon, or portrait.

If however, none of these appeal to you, and you’d rather create one similar to that which appears in my banner… you’ll have to get yourself an account at Gaia Online, earn some points an purchase a wardrobe… or you could just cheat and photoshop a final product to your liking.

With all these tools at my disposal, I might even be able to knockup a comic strip or two… just a matter of having the time.

Yesterday, a friend started spewing forth platitude upon platitude… many of which were so good, I felt compelled to record them to share with the world.
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On Friday, I recieved an email containing a story which sounded a little suss’ but wasn’t yet verified or debunked on Snopes… so I left them a comment containing the body of the email and information I was able to find on the matter online.

Well, Snopes have published the result of their investigation… and as I suspected, it turns out that the story about the wife of dead contractor taking him to work so that she can continue to collect his pay, and his longevity bonus was in fact false.

Despite an early(ish) start to a Sunday morning (sure I’m usually up by 7am thanks to the kids, but I’d hardly class my usual Sunday morning state as “functional) and a touch of nerves, today’s Panel Topic at the St Kilda Writers’ Festival went quite well, thanks largely to my fellow panelists eloquence and intelligence on the subject of blogging.

I thoroughly enjoyed the experience despite stumbling on a few occassions as I searched for the write right words… unlike while blogging, one is unable to refer to dictionary.com for the words needed to express a thought.

So… thank you Meredith, David and Ms Fits, for sharing the experience, and thank you Simon for giving me the privelage of sharing the stage with some great writers/bloggers/people.