Musicstar

I feel it fitting that my first blog posting in well over a year and a half be on the topic of rituals and habits. I’ve never been one to keep a consistent schedule in my life. It’s always erratic and at the whims of my creative and professional meanderings.

I actually am sitting here attending the MUSA 8th anniversary which I have, oddly (for the guy who doesn’t observe annual rituals like Christmas or Easter) consitently been in regular attendance. It feels weird to think another year has crept by and again here I am.

So what does this boil down to? Perhaps if I make it a habit to blog more I might better capture the rituals in my life. So here goes (again)…

The other night I had a dream that my apartment was littered with kittens the size of my hands. As the dream progressed puppies started showing up within the mess of kittens. I told my roommate about this dream and said that all I needed was a pony to show up and I would have officially had the dream of a four-year-old girl. My roommate then wondered what some poor four-year-old girl had dreamed that night.

Well apparently I am a fast driver. I have in the past couple of days received two tickets from New Zealand for doing 70km in a 50km zone. Yikes, these aren't cheap too! They are from my last few days driving around Northland. So as a warning to all other tourists driving around Northland watch out for the photo radar. In fact I am amazed that they tracked me down considering it appears the car rental agent spelled my street name wrong. I guess I don't technically have to pay, except that I'd like to be able to return to New Zealand some day soon. Sigh.

I think I must have posted the same blog from Auckland 3 times yesterday trying to figure out why it wasn't showing up on the front page (or even in my administrative console). Today I went to my blog and saw my blog posted three times… sigh! I guess that because I am blogging from the future (my blog is run out of some place in the US) it does not show up until the present (or is that past). Global village indeed!