Category Archives: Personal

95 percent of blogs are abandoned…

This is according to an article published on NYTimes.com. This blog is however not one of them. It’s certainly been on hiatus for a while, I’ll admit, but its not yet completely abandoned. If your interested and you want to buy me a drink sometime I’ll tell you the whole boring story in detail. It [...]

Boss-an-over

“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” Dave Mustaine As the actress said to the bishop… In my working life I have had many bosses, but the boss I’ve had for the past seven and a half years was pretty special (or possibly clinically insane). He was not cut from [...]

I felt the earth move – pity my wife had nothing to do with it.

A short time ago we felt an earth tremor shake the house (I’ve just had the bloody thing re-stumped – I thought). Twenty minutes of frantic Googleing and we had the answer a quake measured at magnitude 4.6 occurred north of Korumburra (aprox 92km away) was reported by Geoscience Australia. A short time after this [...]

Hot!!!

Its been hot!!! here in Melbourne; 3+ days straight of 40°c+ (104°f+). Our master bedroom has a skillion roof with little/no insulation so we’re sleeping in the lounge with the AC. Discovered the dreadful toll that such weather conditions can have this morning. Hopefully neither a metaphor nor a sign of things to come.