Valentines Day Cards

Well, it’s a little late, but better than never. I can’t remember ever doing anything in particular on Valentines day… presumably I did when Sarah & I were together – I never would have gotten away with not doing something :D – but I can’t recall. So, in the true spirit of single guys everywhere,… Read more

Go-karting

Last Thursday Rob & I met again at Sidetracked, as we do, with the intention of playing Laserforce. If some opponents turned up. Lucky for us, a big after-work group (10 or so) rocked up. Unlucky for us is that they booked it out. So, we were left with the option of waiting around for… Read more

Thar she still sails!

Chris came down again last night, and today we went out sailing once more. The weather was warmer than last week, although similar in terms of wind – perhaps slightly more southerly and consistent, but we still had the same problems – we’d just start moving, then try to turn across the wind, it’d die,… Read more

My brakes still work

I very nearly had a car crash yesterday. I was on my way to pick up Chris from Frankston station, heading down Frankston-Dandenong road. Just before the Frankston freeway intersection, next to the golf club there. I was cruising along, doing just under 80 (the speed limit), when someone in a red stationwagon – I… Read more

How the other half lives

I am right handed. I always fancied myself to be at least hintingly ambidextrous as a [very young] child, but I never really pursued it beyond writing left-handed occasionally. I’ve decided to be left-handed for a while, see how that goes. Hopefully it’ll be interesting. The first problem I’ve hit, apart from being pretty spastic… Read more

Head-hunting spiders

I was accosted this evening upon entering the bathroom, by a rather sprightly huntsman which felt it necessary to jump on my head as I opened the door. Happily for me though, it jumped off again virtually straight away, such that I had enough time to realise something was in my hair, but not enough… Read more