October 20, 2008 by Ceolwulf.

I used to be quite a watch aficionado, with the complication that I couldn’t actually afford anything I really wanted.  So I mostly stopped caring.

The complication remains but my interests go in cycles and it seems I have come back to the fine art of horology.  Doing the best I can with what I have, today I purchased a nice Seiko 5 for a sum so low it is actually a bit embarrassing, so I won’t mention it here!  Picture is below.

I read a comment somewhere not long ago, that fine watches, since they do appreciate over time, may probably be better long-term investments than many stocks or bonds - particularly in a market climate such as exists at the present moment.  This may be all the excuse I need to buy something proper!  At least watches are something an engineer’s brain can understand, not like the endless abstractions of the financial market.

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October 5, 2008 by Ceolwulf.

I’m making up my life as I go along on my new Twitter.

I figure it might even get me to post here more!

(The general principle with my life is, of course, I won’t do anything until it requires the absolute minimum of effort.  Twitter, with the Spaz desktop widget for posting, meets this requirement very nicely.)

Oh - the name.  Lan’dorien is a name that I started out using as a character name for an elvish hunter in a popular MMORPG that I played for a while (goes back to that minimum effort thing).  Since then I’ve been using it a bit for various things.  Other than the vaguely elven sound, it has no actual meaning.

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October 2, 2008 by Ceolwulf.

Prolific, huh?

Does anyone actually read this?

I’m thinking I might start writing serialized fiction here.  That way if nothing happens in my life in two months I could at least make something up

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