When I was a kid, I spent quite a bit of time on buses on long trips back and forth to Brisbane for various extra-curricular events. While all the cool and hip kids passed the time away on their Nintendo Game Boys playing Tetris, Donkey Kong or Mario Brothers, I passed the time sleeping, trying [...]
I imagine most people south of the border are accustomed to days starting pretty much like this – overcast, bleak, foggy and miserable. I love being a Queenslander, purely for the fact that although some winter days start out like that, the sun soon rises and brings with it a gorgeous day.
Seriously, what’s not [...]
It’s interesting the stuff you find on the back of toilet doors. You expect the weird and wacky in public restrooms but the place I wouldn’t expect to find anything interesting is in a government facility. Traditionally, they’ve been fans of stark bathrooms with any form of graffiti removed or painted over pretty quickly. But [...]
I could hardly believe my eyes. Among all the food courts in the shopping centres dotted across SE Queensland, I have NEVER ever seen a vendor with a Vegemite sandwich on their board. I guess when people are out shopping and in need of a feed, they generally want something that their mum didn’t throw [...]
I remember the first time I visited Tasmania. It was an exciting time, my first “big” trip away as a family interstate. We had a wonderful time travelling across the island over a few weeks, making the most of the time we had despite the sometimes inclement weather. The Tasmanian wilderness really struck a chord [...]
Occasionally, I get a bit of a bee in my bonnet about something that annoys me and I can’t help myself – I have to try to do something about it. A few months ago, I was on the warpath about people at work not restocking trays and equipment after they have used them. After [...]
Last weekend, I got to the Gold Coast airport for my flight out to Newcastle and remembered I’d forgotten something to read. They had a very small bookstore in the newsagency so I thought I’d have a browse through the shelf for something to read on the plane. They had a pretty small range and [...]
Eight and a half years.
One hundred and two months.
Two hundred and four pay periods.
Four hundred and eight weeks.
One thousand six hundred and thirty-two shifts.
No matter how I look at it, it’s a long period of time to stay in one place. Most of my friends I went to uni or school with are on their [...]
The last couple of weeks I have been engaged in an exercise of futility called “getting my package from FactoryFast”. What started out as a simple online order for a foldup keyboard has turned into a test of my patience. I waited 2.5 weeks to get it and when I finally got the package, it [...]
When I first heard about K-Rudd’s latest spending spree, I was quite angry. Fair enough give the old age pensioners a bonus for Christmas because I don’t think they get adequate funding as it is. They deserve a bit of play money, even if it’s only to make things just a little less stretched for [...]
