I asked myself many times whether the curry night concept would actually scale, was pleasantly surprised. Would something that worked for two people stretch out when it was ten people all learning to make curries? Would we end up with something edible? Indeed we would.
The invitation process was a bit too haphazard: the next time [...]
After a few weeks of fiddling around, I’ve put another redesign together for the site: the next step is to upgrade to the latest version of wordpress - they’re churning the releases out now!
The dream-run of good health seems to have taken a break. Both Kel and I are feeling unwell, and it’s a bit of a contest to see who can look after the other. Unfortunately, work is too busy at the moment for me to take much downtime, so I’m spending my sick leave with the [...]
Another semester has drawn to a close. And so, to celebrate, I’ve upgraded wordpress out of beta mode, and then, despite my best intentions, kept the template exactly as it was. I have, though, done some long-overdue pruning to my blogroll: let me know if you think you should be on there, or if you’ve [...]
fireworks 2/4
In an effort to avoid spending the whole weekend studying Greek, and to make sure we caught up with friends before their son grew up too much, we spent the majority of the long weekend down in Canberra.
I still remember those childhood fireworks nights: the bucket of [...]
While trying to run this morning, I spotted a discarded McDonalds Hot Cakes container, and started singing the mc-menu song to myself: something I haven’t thought of in many years. Thanks to the power of Google, I found the rest of the lyrics, which I record here for posterity:
I’ll have a big mac quater pounder [...]
Yesterday, I was trying to get hold of a friend who has two mobile phones, and two numbers: one is a work phone, and one is a personal phone. The trouble with trying to reach him is that you need to know which phone he’s carrying before you can call him.
An idea occurred to me [...]
Laura writes about the paid maternity leave scheme proposal that’s currently being considered by the Australian productivity commission. I can see where she’s coming from in her distaste for the proposal - it’s a case of throwing more government money at people to get them to breed - but I find myself in favour of [...]
Having finished digging the trench the previous weekend, this weekend was also set to involve time spent with friends, but without quite as much physical effort.
Here are the highlights:
spent Friday night having dinner with an old school friend and his family
Saturday morning - went running with my little brother
breakfast with friends at cordial (newtown cafe), [...]
Woke up on Friday to the radio broadcasting the dawn service at the War Memorial in Canberra. Sombre, reflective, and surprisingly Christian in its content. For some reason, I wasn’t organised enough to end up at a dawn service myself: maybe next year. Breakfast was after a ride in my brother’s new car, a walk [...]
all that remains
After a whirlwind few weeks of dog-sitting, Bandit has gone back home. I hate to say it, but the house does seem a little emptier without him - always ready to play a game of fetch: keen to go for a walk, happy for any attention that [...]
There are no lectures for the next few weeks, and I’m trying to make the most of the break by by doing as much reading and revision as I can. One of the books I’m reading through is a commentary on Romans by Cranfield. It’s a book that’s been around a little longer than I [...]
In bible study tonight, we read through the preamble and the crucifixion narrative in Matthew’s gospel - my very patient group put up with an hour and a half of looking at the different segments, and thinking about who was there, and what was going on.
It’s not completely unlike a season of 24: so much [...]
I’m in the process of upgrading to a new version of wordpress… this means that a few things will be broken. Let me know if you find anything particularly galling.
dragon cross-stitch
When we first moved in, a friend put together a hand towel with “Congratulations” embroidered on it. Though never a fan of my nickname for my wife - “dragon” - today we received another cross-stitch with this dragon.
I’ll tell you some more about it a bit later.
hakea
According to my pedometer, I’ve put in 21,532 steps since getting up about 18 hours ago. It’s been a good day: a day of spending time with people. First, a breakfast in Oatley where the food was good, and the conversation better (the decaf didn’t really rate).
Then, after only [...]
friday night 1
teppanyaki (caringbah)
saturday 1
early morning flight
gold coast growers’ markets
visit friends
stand in an empty swimming pool
regret not photographing it, as it would have helped explain john the baptist for next weeks’ sunday school
mexican food in the gold coast hinterland
flown home
reconnected with an old friend
sunday 1
early wake up
breakfast at grind
sunday school
lunch at bowen island bakery
walked the [...]
When I signed up to do Sunday school teaching, I thought that I would simply be able to project my own high school experience on the high schoolers of today.
To some extent, this is true: the experience of going to high school is much the same, even if the class sizes, timetables, and schools are [...]
It’s been an unusual couple of weeks. While trying to upgrade my internet connection, instead of being upgraded, it was completely broken. What would I do with no internet access at home? As it turns out, many useful things. I take on more of the housework, I have the spare mental capacity to think about [...]
Why haven’t I posted in a while? Because Telstra can’t seem to get its bigpond broadband service working at home: I’ve just been told it will be another week before they can send out a technician. Thanks, Telstra.