I don’t know how people can hold garage sales for the fun of it. And now I can understand the forlorn hope written on the faces of storekeepers who stand in their doorway, anxiously scanning the street for their next customer. I had hopes that nearly everything in Mum’s house would sell at the garage […]
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go the eeePC!
Woo hoo! I’m typing this with James’ eeePC, which is on loan from him for my trip to China. He’s very kindly lent it to me to allow me to blog my trip and photos, and it’s clearly a much more reliable and sturdy device than my windows-based work laptop! More posts to come – […]
friday night
It’s been another night successfully avoiding Chinese study. I don’t know why, as I really want to learn, but I just wasn’t in the mood this evening. At least I spent the night productively. I finally got around to blogging again and resumed my love/hate relationship with Facebook, I researched second-hand furniture prices on Trading […]
still here
Yes, I’m still here. Somehow the fact that I can now say “I’m very busy” in three languages doesn’t make the fact any easier to deal with! And I clearly haven’t got the hang of regular blogging yet, but I will get better at it, honest… Too much has happened in the past three weeks […]
My car is trying to kill me
Normally with a heading like that you’d expect this to be a light-hearted, hopefully humorous piece about my car. I wish that were the case, but sadly this post is deadly serious and a warning to others: I’ve just discovered that my car has been seeping carbon monoxide into the cabin. I’ve been slowly getting […]
day off
Today was the first complete day off I’ve had in a long time. No work, no tidying up of Mum’s house, no running, nothing. Bliss! I woke up somewhat late, read the paper for a while on the back deck, then set off to Avoca Beach to lay in the sun while reading a book. […]
