breakfast with ben and jackie Our church was looking for a way to raise money for overseas mission. They decided to run an auction – people in the congregation would offer products, or services, for sale, and everyone could bid on them. What did we have to offer? What else, but a cafe-style breakfast cooked …
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fresh look
A quick change of stylesheet, mostly for readability, and a banner image that better reflects where the site is at. Once I move house later in the month, I might have a little more time for the site, but for now, it’s a bowl latte that I poured myself, some greek text, and (in the …
Our MKC 2007 house
Our mkc 2007 house Not as close to the convention site as we would have liked, but a good spot to stay. After a quick game of khet, I reverted to practicing writing out greek while others continued to play settlers of catan. Retired to bed at a not-quite-crazy 1:40am – more sociable than last …
MKC 2007
Tonight I’m leaving for MKC 2007 for the weekend (well, overnight). Looking forward to a revisit to the Coffee Box Cafe, oh, and hearing some good talks, and hanging out with a bunch of guys.
the dangers of habit-breaking
One of the habits I have with movie watching is to check my phone as soon as the movie is over. This is the kind of habit that has been – in the past – ridiculed by stand-up comedians: the thought that it’s fairly self-important to think that during the past two hours, something so …
Church road closed
Church road closed An unusual sight on the way to church today: the road had been closed off for a block around the church! Gas leak? Terrorist activity? No: unannounced political launch. Thanks to the upcoming state election, people who had parked at church needed to ask permission to move their cars after the service.
Why keep blogging?
A person I’ve never met, who found me via Google – Todd Wheeler (a man who knows about the Oxford comma – asks why keep blogging?, and it’s an excellent question. Why are there years of archives on the site – archives that only the masochist would really wade through? Predominantly, these are more for …
back to work
Lunchtime at north sydney Hoping to keep the holiday vibe alive as long as I can, despite the prospect of country NSW being replaced by such things as this eerily deserted food court.
timbertown
timbertown’s big log If you’ve never been to timbertown, but you’re curious about what life was like in Australia in the 1880’s for people working in the timber industry (and let’s face it, who isn’t), then you owe it to yourself to make the journey over to Timbertown. Where else can you see actual bullocks …
didn’t even notice…
For the first time in a while last week, I left work, and headed outside expecting to see daylight, but it was already dark. I’d been under the fluorescent lights for a long stretch, and just lost touch with what was going on around me. A week later, and some much needed time out of …