Coming Out (* sort of clickbait)

So, I haven’t done much with this blog for a while. I’m not sure what to write, what to post about – life seems to kind of be the same over and over – most of the photos I have are of me walking the dog or the house looking pretty in the sun/rain/mist. I had a very low point at the start of…

Freeing Up Time

I realised recently that I was spending too much of my valuable time stuffing about on the Internet, reading news that made me cross or just endlessly playing games or checking my phone constantly or getting drawn into chats or sidetracked with Pokemon Go. All these things were adding little or no value to my life except for ruining productivity at home and also…

redundancy

2012 never was a year to just stand idly by and play nice. It’s been an utter shit to a load of people I know.  I thought I’d made it through unscathed, I mean, only 6 or 7 weeks to go before 2013, I’d be fine, right? Well, for the last 3 months, I saw trouble ahead, but the good ship Charlie, despite steering…

Stormville

So, a few hours after having chilled out and watched the sun go down on the beach (in the last post) we got hit by the mother of all storms. This pic was taken by a local photographer, Grahame Kelaher, about 10km from us to the south, so those lightning strikes were the ones over our head! We got woken up at 2am by…

bike restoration

As you may remember, I am restoring my old mountain bike from 1993 with plans to turn it into a lightweight singlespeed demon street racer. Having stripped the frame, bought the replacement parts, fixed up the old suspension forks with parts from a niche supplier in the US, prepared, under coated and resprayed the frame in storm trooper white, I then discovered that the…

I am man

I think I’ve finally (at 40 years old) made it into manhood. Yes, even having 2 children doesn’t cut it. What you need to be a proper bona fide man is to own some loud power tools. Lots of them.

West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Sometimes, Perth does unexpected things.  Like having the West Australian Symphony Orchestra play lunchtime mini concerts in the street, shopping malls and office quadrants. How awesome is that? Well, as it turns out, very awesome.

search terms

I was just about to start writing my weekly blog (I know, it’s come to that, such is the lack of free time I have due to my work) when I thought I’d look at the wordpress dashboard and my stats section You know, to see how many lovely people actually tune in (there’s quite a few of you actually – hello *waves*) –…

Sleeeeeep

I was talking to Charlene about sleep, more specifically the narcoleptic napping kind. I’m good at it. A seasoned pro in fact.  Especially on a train. I used to work in London and always managed fall asleep on the one hour train journey home.  Mostly, I’d set an alarm so I would be woken up before my stop, which, being towards the end of…

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….