Whilst I endeavour to make this blog somewhat informative and interesting to those aside from myself and my Mum, it is a somewhat narcissistic pursuit to document your own projects and interests with the expectation that others will want to read about them. Accepting this, I thought I should write a brief section on who I am and what this blog is here for.
I'm in the early part of my thirties, married to my beautiful and intelligent wife Ashly(who has her own blog which is better than this one, you should check it out JustUndiscovered) we have two dogs, miniature schnauzers, named Lenny and Marcel and we live in Perth, Western Australia. I work in a calibration lab as a metrologist(not to be confused with a meteorologist, I can't tell you what the weather will be), basically, I do electronics stuff. I have many interests which tend to fluctuate in focus and enthusiasm and I'll go into those a little bit further seeing as they are the main focus of this blog.
I have a history of becoming extremely enthusiastic about new interests, possibly to the point of obsession and then after a few months my interest often wanes and I move on to something else for a while. I love learning how things work and I think often once I've learnt all the fundamental stuff I lose a bit of interest. One of my focuses over the last year(and to a lesser extent the last 5) has been trying to moderate my enthusiasm and turn these short interests into longer running ones.
My longest running proactive interest is triathlon which ties into running and cycling, swimming is involved as well but I do that more because it's part of triathlon whereas running and cycling I enjoy on their own. I've been running and doing triathlons for about 5 years, riding has been something I've always done a bit of but became more serious when I started triathlon. The thing about triathlon is I can shift focus between the three disciplines, I generally keep all of them going but will do more of one than the others.
I've always enjoyed making and fixing things, I did have a project car about 10 years ago which I eventually sold before finishing, I'd started triathlon and I allowed myself to shift focus to the healthier and cheaper of the two fairly time consuming hobbies. Since then I've built a few bikes to satisfy that love of making things as well as doing things around the house such as paving down the side of the house and building our deck for our alfresco area. At the moment I'm just getting into woodworking, so undoubtedly the first few posts here are likely to be related to that.
The last of my current interests at the moment is gymnastics, or more generally moving better, which is actually one of my main motivations for triathlon, improving the way my body works. I started going to Movement Co in May 2017 after spending the previous 6 months doing some programs at home through GMB. Since May I've been doing two classes a week; a handstand class and a gymnastics/bodyweight class. Rather than go into detail here I'm planning to do a post on my handstand and general movement progress.
So, at the moment, triathlon, woodworking and gymnastics are the main things that occupy my time and mind, I'll leave it at that for now and get into writing some posts for the blog.
I'm in the early part of my thirties, married to my beautiful and intelligent wife Ashly(who has her own blog which is better than this one, you should check it out JustUndiscovered) we have two dogs, miniature schnauzers, named Lenny and Marcel and we live in Perth, Western Australia. I work in a calibration lab as a metrologist(not to be confused with a meteorologist, I can't tell you what the weather will be), basically, I do electronics stuff. I have many interests which tend to fluctuate in focus and enthusiasm and I'll go into those a little bit further seeing as they are the main focus of this blog.
I have a history of becoming extremely enthusiastic about new interests, possibly to the point of obsession and then after a few months my interest often wanes and I move on to something else for a while. I love learning how things work and I think often once I've learnt all the fundamental stuff I lose a bit of interest. One of my focuses over the last year(and to a lesser extent the last 5) has been trying to moderate my enthusiasm and turn these short interests into longer running ones.
My longest running proactive interest is triathlon which ties into running and cycling, swimming is involved as well but I do that more because it's part of triathlon whereas running and cycling I enjoy on their own. I've been running and doing triathlons for about 5 years, riding has been something I've always done a bit of but became more serious when I started triathlon. The thing about triathlon is I can shift focus between the three disciplines, I generally keep all of them going but will do more of one than the others.
I've always enjoyed making and fixing things, I did have a project car about 10 years ago which I eventually sold before finishing, I'd started triathlon and I allowed myself to shift focus to the healthier and cheaper of the two fairly time consuming hobbies. Since then I've built a few bikes to satisfy that love of making things as well as doing things around the house such as paving down the side of the house and building our deck for our alfresco area. At the moment I'm just getting into woodworking, so undoubtedly the first few posts here are likely to be related to that.
The last of my current interests at the moment is gymnastics, or more generally moving better, which is actually one of my main motivations for triathlon, improving the way my body works. I started going to Movement Co in May 2017 after spending the previous 6 months doing some programs at home through GMB. Since May I've been doing two classes a week; a handstand class and a gymnastics/bodyweight class. Rather than go into detail here I'm planning to do a post on my handstand and general movement progress.
So, at the moment, triathlon, woodworking and gymnastics are the main things that occupy my time and mind, I'll leave it at that for now and get into writing some posts for the blog.
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