Christmas in Perth, Book Development

[tcpip]

I have spent the past few days in Perth with caseopaya's family (in-common-laws). Her mother remains in extraordinarily condition given her health issues. Christmas eve dinner was spent at Rockingham's Thai By The Sea, which apparently has become a staple family gathering. Christmas day was at holiday home at the seaside island suburb of Falcon. Apropos nephew Luke finally received the review of his band's debut EP 'Last Words' on Rocknerd (I do have a few others I should put up by the end of the year). Apropos of this lifestyle will be attending Reunion (FB) on NYE where aging Perth punks, goths, and indie-poppers from the 80s and early 90s will hang out.

Still working on the second book, apparently over-inspired by the idea of providing a near-comprehensive introduction to C and Fortran programming it is getting a bit larger than I previously expected (arrays in Fortran are particularly painful). An old university friend on Facebook described me as a relentless restless intellect, which is certainly true but also gave me a moment of consideration on why exactly I am such a person. Surely it would be easier and perhaps even more beneficial in my life if I was not so restless and relentless in my intellectual pursuits. It is perhaps with good fortune that I am able to engage in a modicum of organisation in this, but I have wondered that if I had specialised I would be somewhat more successful. But it is the variety of pursuits that I enjoy and by which I used to feed off one another; in the strait-jacket of a single discrete discipline I doubt I could be happy. So the second book goes well - even if I do continue with Duolingo, game development, academic research, and a range of other restless and relentless interests.

Comments

[delphipsmith]

"Restless and relentless" -- I quite like that. Sounds like a splendid thing to be :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was rather taken by it as well. I must confess I rather dislike the various forms of pop psychology that almost seem to argue that a 'restless mind' is not desireable. Certainly there is a great deal of hand-wringing about things that are either trivial or beyond the ability of a person to do anything about, and that is hardly helpful. However, for those things which one can at least attempt to try to understand, to change, and are worthwhile - well! - I can hardly imagine myself doing anything else.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Splendid indeed.