Since now Deb and Meghan and Kymm and Lucy put up their Kabalarian name analysis, I could buck the trend... Naaaah! Amanda The name of Amanda has given you an appreciation for many beautiful and refined aspects of life--music and art, literature, drama, and nature where you find much peace and relaxation, but it creates a far too sensitive nature. You sense and feel much that you do not understand, and sometimes you are alarmed at your thoughts and wonder about their origin. You rarely experience the tranquility that comes with stability of thinking or emotional control, for at times you are very inspired, desiring to be with people and to entertain others as the "life of the party," while at other times you are aloof and choose to remove yourself entirely from association. You crave understanding and affection but your intensity of desire and self-consciousness prevent you from finding happiness through any lasting relationships. You have suffered many disappointments and misunderstandings because of your inability to express your inner thoughts. You could experience sensitivity in the heart, lungs, or bronchial organs, causing tuberculosis, asthma, or depletion of your energies. This name is far too sensitive and unstable and should be changed for your greater happiness and fulfilment. Jeffrey Jeffrey as a first name gives you a very independent nature, yet friendly, approachable, and generous. You can be a very spontaneous, expressive, and talkative person. Generally you are good-natured, though at times you can be rather blunt and sarcastic. This name incorporates creative, artistic, and musical abilities, and there would be an element of originality in all that you do. You like to do things on the spur of the moment without planning or prior arrangements. Your spirits are buoyed up greatly by encouragement and appreciation. There is a tendency to be scattering in your efforts and you prefer to avoid menial jobs of a routine and repetitive nature. You are inclined to pursue good times and emotional indulgences to excess. Weaknesses in health due to the influence of this name centre in the head. You could experience headaches, or difficulties with your teeth, ears, eyes, or sinuses. Hmmmm.... Think I'm going to change my name... to Jeffrey... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's Diary Collaboration Day! well, OK, so that was on the 18th.. and I missed it, but Buck's a lovely boy, he'll let me in.... So, this months topic is this: "What would you do if you had a steady source of money that was almost enough to support yourself? That is, you do not have to work full time, and you only need to earn a bit of money to top up the income. What would you do to earn money? What would you do with the rest of the time? Would you stay at your current job?" Would I stay at my current job... Well, now, this really depends on when you ask me. If you ask me in the middle of Systems Testing when I can't get the advices printed out for my testers, and there's problems with the Overnight Runs, and I can't get anyone to call me BACK, then... the answer would be an emphatic NO!!! Gimme the Money! But if you asked me after a day like today, when I had a productive day, I started to piece together some more materials that will improve Systems Testing, when I got myself organised and got down to what I really like to do, and that's organise Testing, then it's a harder question. I would propose to my employer that I work part-time, 3 days a week. On the wage I'm on, that would satisfactorily top up this mythical steady source of income. I would stay doing the stuff I'm good at, making up the materials, the doco, being the techo whiz, and not being in charge of or supervised by anyone..... The biggest bliss of this proposition is all the extra time I'd have. I'd read, everything I could, online and offline. I'd get my garden in order. I'd tidy up the dreaded shed, 12 years of accumulated papers and memory joggers, get it into order so I could dive through it, and dip into particular bits at will. And I would write. Daily. Online and offline. I have kept all these papers and memory storers with one main plan in mind. To dip into them, and write about the memory they contain. I have electronic memory storers now, I keep just about every email I receive. I packrat my life, and the time this idea would give me, would be used to get this accumulation into order. I would travel, as much as the limited budget would allow, and until Jeff moved to where I live, my first stop would always be to where he is, and then take him with me. I would go meet all the people I talk to on the Net, put a face and a person to the Invisible friends I have. I'd do all the sensible things too, I'd pay off my debts as quickly as possible, I'd save for a deposit on a house. I want a house of my own, I hate moving, I despise packing, and I loathe having to clean the house I'm leaving. Next time I move, I'll be paying someone to come in and pack my stuff, and I'll be paying someone to come and clean after I'm gone. If I had this income, I could afford to do this, and move to where I really want to be, instead of staying in Canberra for the job. The job that I like, and that pays me quite well, but doesn't make up for not liking the city in which I live. If I did the bits of my current job that I've described above, I could do a fair chunk of that remotely, patch in via email, become one of the first trialing working from home. Gimme email, gimme a line into my Departments server, and I could do practically everything I do now, but do it at home. And my home would be Adelaide. This idea, this collaboration idea, taps into some of my deepest needs and wants, and gets me to thinking how I can make them happen in reality. I can be so disorganised, and unplanned, and a complete disaster area financially, but when I set my mind to something, I achieve it. I have the skills and the motivation (polite word for being an obsessive compulsive when I get hooked in) to get what I want. Watch this space..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Notify List is starting to take shape, and I'm seriously chuffed that people are reading this... Of course, of course it's the point of me putting it out here, for people to read it! ooppss... I may have given the impression that Alethea doesn't have a notify list.. Well she does, it's here! And it's going to be on my Notify List Page too... That's right, I'm starting a Notify List Page, as inspired by Buck's suggestion to the Diary-L mailing list I'm on. So.. If you have an online Journal, and you have a notify list, notify me, and I'll add you to the page. No, I can't give you an URL yet, the idea was only floated yesterday, and I'm still constructing the page. Yes, I will come back and link to it on this page. I came back! It's 30/8, but here's the Notify Burb URL!

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