Categories: uncategorized
Date: 25 May 2005 23:49:01
Hello everyone,
I first found this site about 12 months ago and started reading the wiblogs occasionally. This was really a new thing for me as I often feel I lead a sort of hermit-like, unconnected to the world, existence.
I got so interested in the variety of experiences that you are sharing that I became a daily reader and now I guess (nervously) the next step is to have a go at writing my own.
I am not really a hermit. I have spent the last twenty years self-employed as a freelancer in the graphics industry. I work from a shed in our backyard (my wife insists I call it an office...”sounds more professional”) which is located in rural Victoria, about 120km from Melbourne. I have spent a lot of time by myself in this small shed and probably would be a hermit if I didn't have a lovely wife and four children (three of whom have now left home), and a church that has lots of meetings.
I am linked to the outside world by this thin black cable that goes underground from my shed to our house, and then from the front corner of the house, through the reaching branches of a liquidamber (the “colour tree” as the family has named it, and you'd know why if you saw it at the moment - autumn) to a pole halfway down our driveway, to the pole on our road and then via the world wide web to you all.
It's pretty amazing really, just a few years ago it would've been a very different scenario for me to emerge from my shed, rub the tiredness from my eyes and squint into the daylight whilst mouthing tentatively “hello world”.
At the moment I feel a bit like I imagine the contestants do when answering the first easy questions on “who wants to be a millionaire”, I'm scared that I may say something really dumb..