Learning

I love learning things. However I do get carried away with it and end up trying to learn WAY too many things. It's always a trade off between breadth and depth. However, currently my list is

Psychology - have a bunch of books I'm wading through
Philosophy - I keep wading through a bunch of stuff
Drawing - I didn't mean to do this one, but it's fun
Mindmapping - Revisiting this, am using it for helping to learn psychology and philosophy
Speed Reading - Revisiting this also, I got a stack of books to get through and need to get my reading speed up.
Lua - Scripting Language
Software Design - solidifying my ideas and researching a wide variety of approaches

Oh, and something else that I started doing in the new year (though it doesn't have anything to do with learning) is based on this cool idea I came across. The idea is that on the 1st of Jan, you do a push up and a sit up, on the 2nd, you do 2 pushups and 2 situps, and onwards and upwards till your doing 365 pushups and situps at the end of the year. I thought this was a great idea! Except, I found this a bit too easy, so I modified it to be a little more ambitious, so now I'm increasing every day by 3, this way I will be doing over a 1000 pushups and situps by the end of the year, today it was 85, tomorrow, 88.

Tragic Death

A guy from work, Chris Sprigings, and his family was driving in the waikato on the 22nd of December when a vehicle collided with them head on causing them all severe injuries

On the 24th of December his daughter, Amy, aged 12 died.

On the 4th of Januray Chris was to be transfered from Waikato hospital to Tauranga when he suffered a heart attack and died.

He leaves behind a wife and son.

I spent a bunch of time with Chris in California and Tauranga on work related business. He was a cool guy, good to talk to, he had cool stories, and jokes, was extremely blunt about things.

Crazy sad stuff