Last few days of 2010

My family and I are in the process of changing homes, moving from a flat to a house. The flat is increasingly growing small, and to me it seems, the flat limits also my perception, and therefore I'm currently seeing small... and need space!!!! Yeah, that was a scream.
A crowded apartment feels like a shoebox or cupboard where a lot of things need to be stored. So you're inevitably looking to put things into certain positions so they fit well and available space is optimized. This is fine until you're trying to organize space for yourself, or one of your kids... You actually start thinking in different terms as you normally would, where a silly simple box can become the most of nuisances as it, figuratively speaking, pokes into your ribs, continuously nagging, reminding you of that little space you've got, and nowhere else to go. Can't turn around, can't really go elsewhere... just amazingly tiring.

Despite this, one does feel very grateful to have a place of his own providing for and in opposition to the small space feeling, an incredible comfort of mind.

That said, it is not at all simple to acquire and change, it needs to be done in the working rules of the system which is made to protect the masses from themselves, the inherent ignorance or wishful thinking that everyone seems to fall under at a time or another. And so have I.

Basically, it is not because you own a place that a bank will necessarily help you. They need more to ascertain your viability, financially speaking of course. Revenue is the end word, provable revenue.
Now I have just started a business, and can hardly show for steady revenues, making it hard, both in simple reality, and in my self, my ego which was sure to just overcome the small financial hardship, passage...
This entails a completely different strategy. What to do now? First redo a certain amount of things, almost from scratch.

Getting on with it

Ok, second post. Hard to get going.

Currently sitting in my living room, in the afternoon sun, enjoying the life as a dad watching over my 1 year old daughter.
Amongst other things than typing away on my iPad, doing a little translation, I am thinking about the (my) future, which I tend to do a lot anyway. But the time is such, that I'm kind of unsure where it'll go.
It is hard to vision out the future, though I keep trying and it appears that I'm not much of the mark, usually (only) getting the timing wrong.
But which future am I babbling about? Ha! Did I manage to catch you drifting away with your own sense of what's going to happen next?
I'm currently concerned about my personal professional future. Although all matters are more or less inter-dependant, just depending on the timing (again!) of the various happenings.
Basically, I have one year to find a reasonable steady income solution... Part of the constraints is my location, based in south west France with wife and kids, from which we would not like to be separated. The local industries are mostly based around tourism with a heavy period during the summer. There's also a "flourishing" boardsports industry that includes most major brands such as Quiksilver, Billabong or Volcom... Otherwise, a lot of smaller businesses exist here, including a little Silicon Valley, still in a "wanabe" status, but I do have my hopes up (one of the reasons of my "New California" wording).
As I found the drift to write or tell some things about myself, I'll see to do a few more chapters in this subject line... Got to go now.

Coming to life, finally

I've been working in the internet sphere for overr 10 years, and I still find it tricky to get started on writing a ... blog.
I'm not sure where this adventure will take me, what and how I will copy here, as I'm actually a bit scared doing mistakes in spelling, or not managing to transmit what I'm trying to say effectively.

So there's a scope of sharing, helping, thanks to my peculiar insights and experience on number of subjects. I feel more erudite than anything else, not being particularly academic and a bit of a rebel, but more non-conformist than anti....

Read me who will, and I'll try to be objective, truthful on a variety of topics.

Thanks for having come by.

Cheers now
Alexander