Unlucky coupl'a weeks, and costly too

Just wanting to have a whinge. In the last two weeks, a number of my items of property have decided that they have reached their used by date. Firstly, and most devastatingly, my relatively new (but past their warranty date) snowboard boots. Damn expensive too, and going great, when just last week the stitching figured that it had had enough and was going to bust. Next, the video camera that I've been struggling with for a few years (always had problems, not user based I assure you), has also gone one step too far and must be replaced. To top that off, the tripod that holds said beast, has also managed to fall into numerous pieces while being transported around town. This one is slipped in just for good measure, because it has also been dying over some time, but just so happens to be at an all time low; my laptop PC is giving up the ghost more regularly than ever and needs to be replaced. It is presenting me with the blue screen of death after sometimes only half an hour of use (I used to get a least 2 hours before it rebooted). I'll let you know when I get something else, these things like to attack in large groups.

January's almost GONE!

It's time I woke up from my post Christmas and New Years slumber and put a few things down. My trip back to Australia this last holiday period turned out to be quite inspiring, because it gave me a good chance to sit down and try to give a bit more focus to my life. I'm 28 now and I still seem to be hovering in much the same way as I was at 21. Deep, I know, hence the large pause between postings.
One of the major decisions that I have made in the last month, is the decision to go back to Uni and do some more study, something I hoped that I would never have to do. I'd been pondering it for about a year, but had not been able to find a course that I felt was suitable, since I was looking to get some practical skills, and engineering courses are pretty much an impossibility for me to do by distance education.
When back in Australia, I started to get interested in the idea of heading up to be a part of the mining boom, which is still getting bigger by the day. I was once able to witness the mining lifestyle first hand, when I took a trip up to Roxby Downs during my high school years. When I was there, I had a feeling that one day I would be back there, if only for a short while. The job that I have been most interested in so far, has been the position of purchasing officer. Not the most glamorous position but I am reckoning that it's a pretty good place to start, since people in charge of the flow of money get to know fairly well how a business truly runs. With the mining town 2 weeks on, 1 week off roster, I would also have enough time to devote to other business pursuits that I have been thinking of for a while. In addition to all this, I have been pondering whether or not to try to get myself into the army reserves as an officer. I could do with the added fitness and self discipline, also the tax free money would be a bonus (though not huge), but I'm still not too certain on the almost guaranteed tours of duty. I'm thinking that the current world climate doesn't leave too many military personnel sitting around resting on their laurels, even the finance officers.
The two options that I've left myself for study at the moment are to work towards a Grad Dip in Accounting, or a Grad Dip in Information Technology. I'm leaning quite heavily towards the Accounting right now, because I can't see it being outdated any time soon, and it is a skill in demand by almost every company. If I were to branch out on my own, the skills learnt would also be invaluable. Study begins in May, so I'm looking to enroll soon and try to get my hands on a reading list or two and get started.
While in Japan my brain has been severely under worked. I've been at times very busy, but I wouldn't say mentally taxed. It's time I knocked off a few cobwebs and got back into it. I also can't say that I ever thought that I'd be studying more into accounting, my low level Pass 2 in Accounting 1 in first year Uni, just goes to show how much effort I put into it at that stage.
Anyway, no-one is likely to have read this far, so I may as well sign off here. There have been numerous other distraction in the last month, but I will have to try to get onto detailing some of those at another time.