What am I doing starting the day at 4am? Such is marriage. Sometimes, it’s worth giving up some sleep to make your spouse happy. In this case, it’s to take kel to see Adam Spencer and Wil Anderson for their final JJJ breakfast show. Yes, we’ve already seen them once this week, but it’s an …
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pew decoration
pew decoration Another year, another wedding rehearsal. It’s a testimony to how forgetful I am, but I really can’t remember how many bridal parties I’ve been in. Everyone arranges their wedding slightly differently, which keeps you on your toes. The biggest challenge on the day – and completely unrehearsed – will be fitting in that …
highlight of the weekend
corn In a weekend with so many great things: catching up with friends, watching a comedy show, surprising kel successfully, it’s probably worth pointing to the first really good thing that happened: eating corn on the cob.
thinking and exercising
I’ve been going to the gym on a somewhat regular basis for almost a year now. I’ve seen a bunch of improvements in my co-ordination, and my ability to do exercise for longer periods of time without having to stop, which has been really good. A long time ago, when I was trying to fit …
learning chinese, one menu item at a time
learning-chinese Originally uploaded by cafedave. There were a lot of different menu items at tonight’s on the wall at dinner, and many were written in Chinese with no translation. Rather than put up with our ignorance any longer, one of our party asked for some translations: our waitress wrote it down for us.
the end of holiness?
big breakfast 13-11-04 Originally uploaded by cafedave. I’ve spent a number of Saturday mornings this year meeting together at different cafes with a couple of guys from church reading through the book Holiness by J.C. Ryle. One of the guys has a tradition of getting the biggest breakfast on the menu, and today’s was no …
three years – a retrospective
Time passes so quickly. It seems like yesterday I was single, living with my parents, and a full-time uni student… but it’s today marks three years since my wedding day. When did three years start feeling like only a few minutes? Since that day, I’ve finished a masters degree, moved house, changed jobs; A lot …
six and a half hours
Normally it takes about three hours (with rest breaks) to drive to Gloucester (NSW) from Sydney; from North Sydney, you’d expect it to be a little quicker. Not so two Fridays ago: A big accident on the F3 freeway (the only real way to head north from Sydney) meant that traffic had slowed to a …
split infinitives
At the start of the musical that kel and I saw on Saturday night (Into the Woods, at the Cumberland State Forest), there was an announcement made: the usual stuff – no cameras, ending with “the use of recording equipment is strictly prohibited”. I heard a voice behind me tsk-ing “they shouldn’t have split the …
ignoring the warning signs
The drive was fairly uneventful until the “fuel light” came on. that’s not really an issue, though. The fuel light has three “settings” – off (plenty of fuel), on (not much fuel, it’s time to look for a petrol station) and flashing (better move now or you’re going to look like an idiot). I thought …