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 …
Category Archives: long
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 …
early to bed
I was reading about someone who was trying to wake up early. First, an alarm was set, but it’s too easy just to switch the alarm off and stay asleep. Next, the alarm was moved across the room, but they worked out how to walk across the room, switch off the alarm, and go back …
waiting at the physio
I had my laptop with me while waiting at the physio for kel, so I re-skinned the site to show off some of the scenery that we saw over the weekend. The top left is a “cliff edge” warning sign, and the top main photo is the water (and – if your screen is wide …
on always being late
When I’m invited somewhere, or have arranged to meet someone at a particular time, I’ll generally arrange things so that I’m there at that time – and no earlier. This means that if anything doesn’t go to plan, I’m automatically late for things. This is after I started allowing time to actually get where I …
Speck Week.
One of Jesus’ parables contains the phrase “take the log out of your own eye before you remove the speck from your brother’s eye”. Every now and again, I’d like to declare it “Speck Week”: that time where you can (ever so helpfully) point out someone else’s problems, even though your own aren’t under control. …
Catching Up.
We’ve all had conversations after spending time with friends that go like this:“I had lunch with [mutual friend] today”“Oh really? ?” Inevitably, half the time when I encounter one of these questions, I’m not able to answer their question: it just hadn’t occurred to me to ask that particular question. For years I was haunted …
Database Humour
This is out of step with the overall themes of this blog, but I had to share this story. Non-database people be warned: you probably won’t find this funny. We had a minor database problem at work today; I was asked why I had provided a lot of suburbs that were called “Croa”. I thought …