Come back.

I wonder if anyone is still reading this? I haven't been, so I can't expect anyone else to now can I?

Thought I would make a bit of a comback and get back into this. It helps to vent frustrations. I was reading through some of my older posts (didn't take long!) and I thought I must have been a grumpy wee sod. Or at least frustrated with a bunch of stuff. I still am, but I think I've mellowed slightly. Unless it's like a pot on a stove. You know, the kind that keeps boiling back up again, which I'm prone to do.

I work in the telco industry in NZ and it's been interesting to watch how reliant we all are on mobile networks and technology today. It's not until it's gone do we fully realise how much we need to stay in touch. I grew up in NZ before we all had cellphones and I don't really remember it being all that bad. You had a phone at home, and people called it. If you were there you answered it, otherwise you didn't. It was all very simple.

Computers I guess fall into the same category. Again, we didn't really have those until I was in my early teens, and even then they were pretty basic affairs. No real internet either.

I'm beginning to wonder what it was that I did with my time.....I do remember it being a lot of fun though. Treehouses and swimming pools and flying foxes and BMX tracks. All good fun.

But I'm older now with a wife and two kids. And things definitely have become more complicated. But in a very good way. I'm enjoying it all at the moment.

Life in Auckland NZ is really very nice. It's a lovely sunny February day and everything is alright.

Caught up with a good mate last night for dinner as we had a night off from the kids. Stayed with my parents. It is such a change of pace when you aren't trying to entertain and manage two little ones. But at the same time you find yourself thinking about them and missing them. And that's really what it's all about. Technology and all that comes with it, pales into insignificance when you have a family you love and which loves you.