November 10, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 6:19 pm
Seven years ago I embarked on a journey that’s still continuing to this day. A journey I wouldn’t change for anything.
In other news, today I wore a reflective vest for the first time, to embark on a more mundane journey.
Thought I’d point out the similarities.
October 31, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 8:32 am
On Wednesday night I went out with a friend for dinner and a movie - the first time in quite a while. We even had a couple of gold class vouchers, so we managed to watch the movie in gold class for regular class prices.
Granted, gold class is designed as an experience for couples: [...]
October 27, 2008 (4 weeks ago) – 7:32 pm
I have a week off in between jobs at the moment. It’s a chance to catch up on family time, college work, and getting the house back in order before the pace of life picks up again.
October 24, 2008 (4 weeks ago) – 11:34 am
After five years in the one place, it’s odd to be moving on. I won’t miss the travel time, but the people and the sights and the familiarity of the area will, I think, take some getting used to.
There have been a lot of life changes in the past few months, some - the state [...]
October 20, 2008 – 2:16 pm
Who would have thought that having an extra member of the household, and a few late nights, would take such a toll on my immune system? Certainly not me, as evidenced by my sudden and prolonged lack of health!
After four days of having my only outing be trips to the doctor’s office, a visit to [...]
October 7, 2008 – 9:47 pm
It wasn’t until I spent some time reflecting on the long weekend that I realised it had gone a long way towards recharging me, and giving me more energy to get through this busy month.
For some reason, I was sick on Thursday, and ended up working from home on Friday - still not feeling well [...]
September 29, 2008 – 9:18 am
Before the end of October, i’m expecting that I will have:
- prepared and preached a sermon on sola fire (faith alone)
- completed three assignments for college, including one that requires me to conduct a 30-40 minute marriage counselling session on a role-play couple - If you’d like to help with that, let me know
- resumed [...]
September 20, 2008 – 6:50 am
When you least expect it, a milestone will fly by. Wordpress tells me that I’ve now written over 5000 posts on this blog, in the last 8 years. In that time, I’ve used Blogger, Movable Type, and now Wordpress, I’ve visited and blogged about over 350 cafes (some of which have closed down), and I’ve [...]
September 7, 2008 – 1:59 pm
For some reason, I’m not often tagged in memes, so even though life is quite busy at the moment, I thought I’d respond to this tagging from bec, and then also by george. Here are the rules of the meme:
Link to the person who ‘tagged’ you
Post the rules on your blog
List 6 random facts about [...]
August 13, 2008 – 10:53 pm
the resilient paperbark tree
Years ago, when we still lived at Hurstville, there was a large paperbark tree out the front of the unit block. One Friday night - just before friends from Canberra were coming up to visit us for the first time - someone parked a car next [...]
August 4, 2008 – 11:11 pm
A friend of mine suggests, each time he tries to arrange a weekend catch-up, that perhaps my talk of slowing down is merely rhetoric. Indeed, you could be forgiven for thinking that there are no upcoming projects that require a giant time commitment, based on my schedule.
This weekend past, I left work a little early [...]
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), [...]