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 sand and bucket of water …
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mcmenu song
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 …
a phone with two SIM cards?
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 …
paid maternity leave
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 …
birthday highlights
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 …
what I did on the weekend
Woke up on Friday to the radio broadcasting the dawn service at the War Memorial in Canberra. Sombre, reflective, and surprisingly Christian in its content. For some reason, I wasn’t organised enough to end up at a dawn service myself: maybe next year. Breakfast was after a ride in my brother’s new car, a walk …
Sunrise, Sunset
all that remains After a whirlwind few weeks of dog-sitting, Bandit has gone back home. I hate to say it, but the house does seem a little emptier without him – always ready to play a game of fetch: keen to go for a walk, happy for any attention that you could pay to him. …
college mid-term break
There are no lectures for the next few weeks, and I’m trying to make the most of the break by by doing as much reading and revision as I can. One of the books I’m reading through is a commentary on Romans by Cranfield. It’s a book that’s been around a little longer than I …
good friday and 24
In bible study tonight, we read through the preamble and the crucifixion narrative in Matthew’s gospel – my very patient group put up with an hour and a half of looking at the different segments, and thinking about who was there, and what was going on. It’s not completely unlike a season of 24: so …
upgrading
I’m in the process of upgrading to a new version of wordpress… this means that a few things will be broken. Let me know if you find anything particularly galling.