So we are out of the new house an into the new.
Now we just have to spend weeks and months unpacking 🙁
Moving this weekend
Ok so we are moving this weekend and for once we a basically ready.
So our forecast for the next couple of days… rain and more rain. Not heavy just constant.
Monday when the truck arrives should be dry (man I hope so).
Another year passing away
This year has flown by, both work and home life have been amazingly busy.
Milestones have come and gone this year:
- I am now 45
- my daughter turns 20 in a week
- my son turned 14
- in December I will celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary
- one full year as a public servant has come and gone
- the computer system upgrade I have been working on for 2 years has gone live
There are however many things I have not done this year (mostly due to time constraints due to the last item above) that I am planning to do next year. First and foremost would be a real holiday, you know all the family go somewhere and do something., Tasmania seems like a likely spot.
Social Comment
After reading an entry on Tonya’s site, and having a chat with my good friend (pommie_al), I have decided to write up some things that have been nagging me for a while. Our continuing drive to growth, wealth creation, corporate and private greed is going to be the undoing off our society. However I am getting ahead of myself and I do want to express this argument logically.
Currently we see several issues that are effecting our society and I hope to engage in meaningful discussion about them over the next few posts. Now I understand that some of the stuff we will post will be controversial and we are going to be trying to “solve the worlds problemsâ€.
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Some of the topics we will cover include:
- Peak Oil
- Globalization
- Corporate Greed
- Personal Greed
- Poverty
- Social responsibility.
OK I know that this is a little heavier than you usually see on my site, but things are starting to annoy me and I think it is about time I stood up and gave an opinion, or at least point to opinions I agree with.
Photo Night
Last night on the news we saw an article on World Refugee Day and that some buildings in Canberra were specially lit for the night. So my daughter and I braved the 5 degree night and shot some photos.
Rugged up we went out and passed the fountain lit in neon blue, we found a park, walked to the lake edge and …. they’d turned off the fountain. 😥 Well you can catch some of the other photos on my Flickr page.
Big News!
Ok well things that have been on simmer for a while have come to the boil.
I have been offered and accepted a new role and promotion down in Canberra. This means that in the next 2 – 4 weeks I am going to have to pack up the whole family and move them.
So if I am a little slack on the web site, photos, email, phone calls and the like please understand.
Flickr Fun
As you can see on my sidebar I have a Flickr account and I love it!
One of the amazing things about Flickr is the API’s that allow people to create great applications that interact with Flickr. Here are a couple of my favourites.
New Software
Ok well I have decided to go mainstream. I found I could not add the features I wanted to my software and keep my content up to date.
So welcome to the new Brog Blog powered by WordPress.