Saturday, December 08, 2007

Tour of Duty: Intro

It's going to be massive. Bigger than Baryshnikov.

I've just got back from a trip to Vietnam and Thailand with Willis, so over the next few days I'll pull together a bit of a pictorial display of Willis and my 'Tour of Duty'.

I sent a few emails home whilst I was away, so apologies to my family who may have already heard some of these stories...

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Can't sleep...think'n.

Confusion abounds tonight.

I just flew back into Australia from a 2-week tour of Vietnam and Thailand...both wonderous countries in their own unique ways...but more about that later this weekend.

Right now, I can't sleep. It's bloody-well 11.30pm, I've slept about 4 hours in the last 41, and I still can't get my mind to rest with my family, love, mates, career and musings of what fate has in store for me all bouncing around my head like a dusty old pinball machine on overdrive.

As Bob Dylan once sang, the times are indeed a'changin...

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.

Sure, the rest of the song was a bit of a period catch-cry for the disgruntled youth of the mid-1960's at the state of the US Administration and social establishment, and Dylan was probably likening the Administration to the water, but what-ev.

I kind of like this verse...it says to me that sometimes you just need to be decisive when the waters of opportunity start to rise up.

Whatever lay ahead, I hope I get absolutely drenched. The next few months is going to be a very interesting time...