Life update

[gerbie]

I know I don't really post here regularly. And even then I post my newsletters and bookreports, hardly anything else. It's just the way I like to use LJ. Those of you who read my first posts last year July, (I'm nearly here for a year now), know I hadn't got a clue why or what to do here.

But I am enjoying it now. Apart from posting my things and getting the occasional response to that, I enjoy reading my friends page. It is a weird phenomena these friends. I don't know any of you, you are all posting a lot more than I do, use your LJ for different reasons than I do. But that is the charm. I like to see that some people use this as a real journal, telling it all, baring their soul, sometimes in 'friends only' posts (I don't even know how to do them), whereas others write their weird idea's here, their brain spin offs. I like to see lyrics to good songs here, I save them on one of my disks, I love to read politcally motivated rants, but am also amused by a fast food review.

There are people there I think I got to know a bit, others I don't understand at all. But one thing you've all got in common, you're my LJ-friends list. Even though I can't afford too much in internetcafe's while travelling, very often I copied the last 100 posts in my friends journals to notepad and read them later on my 80's laptop. I know I can't comment that way, but at least I stay partially updated. Soon this will all be over. I will leave Australia, and do the last country on this big spending trip: Indonesia.

Somehow I've got the idea that it's not a good country to walk around with a laptop at the moment. I might not be a journalist, I do like to publish things, and apart from that I guess that the Dutch, with their huge colonial past over there are not very popular either. This combination makes it possibly dangerous. It might sound paranoid, but I'd rather not take any risks. Apart from that it is not a practical thing to do, carry an extra stone or so with me while backpacking. So together with my car, my laptop is for sale. I will miss it. I can't write as much anymore, can't download things anymore. I will continue to come in LJ-land, but not as often as I would like. Forgive me my friends...

While I still can use my laptop, I might as well enjoy it. I have today. 9 emails written, 4 long ones read, 1 travel story done and two edited (i.e. reread and corrected them), three more book reports (does anybody actually read them?) and this post. Inbetween I managed to finish reading a book and started the next one, which I will continue now, before going to sleep. It's been a good day. I am tired now.

Comments

[jeroen.livejournal.com]

That's a very sensible thing to do, especially with the unstable political situation over there in Indonesia. I hope you have a great time over there!

Niels

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Only had an offer for my laptop now though, I want to get rid of my car! Why doesn't anybody want it :-(((

[tbone.livejournal.com]

Pity you won't be around as much. I do like reading about your travels in places that I would never go myself.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I will continue my travel reports, though I am nearly at the end of my journey, and skinned as well :-)