Myke’s travelling family

Many many weeks back now, Myke invited me to take some relatives of his (Marie and name-escapes-me-now), over from Norway (I think it was), on a wee tour of the place. Santa Cruz, as it turned out. With Matt too. We went down there, checked out the board walk, convinced them to try all too… Read more

Sean & Sket

Two weeks ago Sean & Sket arrived, having already spent a couple of weeks touring around California and Nevada with Sean’s family, and before that eight months backpacking in Asia. This was their last stop before heading on to Canada, where they are presently, and where they’re hoping to make a go of it on… Read more

4th of July

Last weekend was something of a highlight, and an anomaly. Sket & Sean were here, as I’ll get to eventually, and they suggested heading up to Napa to see Sean’s uncle, Mike. As it turns out, we drove up to Petaluma, met Mike at the marina, and then spent the afternoon on Mike’s boat, along… Read more

Boo

Still alive, haven’t been taken by wolves, badgers, armadillos, mountain lions or bigfoot. Just haven’t had the motivation to write much, for a while now. Though I’ve been pretty busy in hindsight, so I guess while I’m here…

Desk goes up, desk goes down

I now have, at work, a desk which can be raised and lowered at the touch of a button. I have for a long while been curious about the affects of standing instead of sitting, while I work, and now I get to explore them. Thus far I like it, though with the notable caveat… Read more

Old La Honda

Two weekends back now, I finally got ye ol’ pushbike out for a bit of rotary motion. ’twas my birthday weekend, you see, so I: Since I’m not really at fiscal liberty to splurge on say a new iMac, as last year, given I’m still stubbornly trying to pay off HECS, some decent chocolate was… Read more

Vegas

’bout time I wrote this up, I suppose. Some months I’m just not in the mood for writing. Then I sit down abruptly and spend four hours doing it. Go figure. It was a lot more continuous when I was back in Oz and had more immediate feedback from people. Or just social contact in… Read more