Well, that really was most bizarre

Went in for my last day at work, mostly just to hand back my laptop and phone and stuff and it was very strange.  I had nothing to do, being my last day, so I just read the news and whathaveyou, chatted to a few people, went out for coffee, surfed so more.  And that took me to 10am. I called my boss –…

Okaaaay, boo yar!

You know I said the diet wasn’t going as well as planned due to the lack of walking Well, strike that. Scales this morning show a nice loss of 4kg (8 and a bit lbs) since I started. Ho yes. More healthy eating, only the minor-est of cheating (cos life’s too damn short to have zero food pleasures) and I’ll be back in my…

stormy weather

We’ve been on cyclone watch for the last few days as tropical cyclone Bianca has been making its way down the Indian Ocean from the tropics and is forecast to swing inland right over Perth today. Well I think its petered out and although the wind is increasing and the sky is looking very dark all of a sudden, apparently its not scheduled to…

work rest and play

It’s been a busy week after the pee-test drama. I’ve had lots of work to to for a really hard proposal, some interviews and generally me feeling like I need a weekend really badly.  Didn’t really get an Australia Day at all cos I was too busy with trying to create project plans and statements of work out of thin air. Anyway, blah blah….

O noes!

I had a meeting yesterday so I needed to be all smart, suit and tie and all that.  It’s been a while, normally I’m working from home, so shorts and a t-shirt are fine, especially when it’s hot like it is at the moment. Anyway, on with a shirt, humm, thats a bit snug. Suit trousers. Oh. There’s a problem.  an inch, maybe two…

A.T.G.A.N.I

All The Gear and No Idea. Its a common problem.  A newbie rocks up with many thousands of dollars of shiny new kit and has not a clue what to do with it. You can find examples of this everywhere and in sports and hobbies of all kinds.  Its an issue where people have lots of disposable income and somebody tells them (or maybe…

Lull

Well, dear readers, I trust you all had a wonderful Christmas 🙂 Its that little lull in the proceedings, that odd time of the year now between Christmas and New Year when nothing much happens.  Some people are at work, a lot of shops are shut on the Public Holidays that are in lieu of the Christmas weekend, but most people are kinda just…

Santa has been!!

Yes, I know, its early for most of the world, that’s one of the advantages of living this far east is we get things like Christmas and New Year before everyone else! Just for reference, Perth is:  (if my maths is correct) 5 hours behind New Zealand 3 hours behind Sydney same time as Kuala Lumpur and Singapore 2 hours ahead of New Delhi…

Brrrr, its a bit chilly

Yes, it’s cold, I might even have to put some jeans on. All of you in the Northern Hemisphere, up to your necks in white global warming, are probably thinking: “Ha, yeah right, you’re in Perth, I’ve watched some cricket (ok, it’s pretty unlikely that any Americans would say the last bit as cricket is as foreign to them as baseball is to the…

mad dash

I had my Tuesday free time again tonight, but as the sunset and golden hour is now later than the time I have available, its difficult to get any decent landscape shots. So, as there was a good breeze,  I bolted down to Safety Bay to see who was out on the water. I met a lad from Devon with a camcorder in a…