Once again, I have let eons slip by between updates.  Let’s see, I’m in Korea with 2 months to go before heading home.  Keith and I have released The Unshow International 2 (and currently working on number 3).  Oh yeah, and I’m engaged.

Yes!  Engaged!  Can you believe it?

At the top of Mt. Bukhan, I popped the question and made her cry again, but this time the good kind of crying.  We are planning to head back to Australia together in early September.

But actually this has been a plan more than a year in the making.  When I arrived in China, I knew I had left something precious behind in Korea, and no matter how fun and awesome living in Shanghai was, I couldn’t escape that feeling.

All I can really say about the matter is, man do the years fly by.  Here I am on the verge of 30.  Me.  30.  How did that happen?  I have come a long way from 20.  Then, if you asked me about marriage I would’ve said that I didn’t plan on getting married.  I always wonder what would happen if I talked to my 20-year-old self.  Would I teach me all the valuable lessons or would the younger me lecture the current me about my lack of idealism?

Stepping toward 30 reframes your life, like it or not.  The equation changes, the factors change and shift their weights.  Things which weren’t important are important.  Things which were, aren’t any more.  Youthful idealism turns into mature pragmatism before you even really notice.  Yet the equation balances itself.  We find a higher plane on which to dwell.  We color our worlds with shades of nuance we were unable to see before.  I heard it said once that our eyes yellow as we age turning our world a different shade.  Is there also a yellowing of our intellects?  Of our sense of certainty?  Of our own perception of the meaning of life?

The trick is to perceive 30 as though you were really 40, looking back.  What lessons may I learn from that future me?  My thought is that the answer would be the same as my message to 20-me:  Be true to yourself.  It has worked well for you so far.

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After four years, I have decided to close down my site davidadaire.com.  The renewal notice came in the mail recently and I couldn’t think of a good reason to keep it open any longer. Since last year, I’ve been blogging here and have transferred all of the davidadaire.com archives over here.

Initially, David Adaire seemed to me to be a cool-sounding pen name to have. It still has a certain ring to it. But I suppose more than anything I have grown tired of its ambiguity. No that’s not it.

So why am I closing it down? Ah yes, I don’t want to pay the renewal fee. Not a satisfying reason? Well then, I don’t want to pay, plus all that other stuff about names and duplication.

Plus, I’ll rest more soundly at night now knowing that the real David Adaires of the world need no longer suffer the intolerable shame of being davidadaire1.com or even therealdavidadaire.com. Poor guys have had it hard the past few years.

This will not be the last domain name I shut down in my life, but it was my first ever domain. It saw me starting out as a naive English teacher in Korea and saw me blossom into the delicate flower that I am today.

Goodbye David Adaire dot com. May you find your one true nameserver somewhere, someday out there in cyberspace.

Goodbye too David Adaire.  Your name was okay, but you just didn’t write anything dude.

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