Oh... yeah...

Also, I haven't recorded here yet that I've:

a) got a job
b) bought a house
c) made the move to go live outside of Melbourne for the first time in my life.

I really should get around to doing that one day :-)

New shoes

It was one of my goals when we invented this website with Zuz that, one day, I'd be able to write

NEW SHOES NEW SHOES NEW SHOES!!!

I'm now the proud owner of a pair (actually quite expensive) New Balance tennis shoes so that I can play tennis up here in Cohuna.

Next stop: restring or replace my racquet which has been used 3 times in the last 8 years.

Happy happy news!!

Last night, in a quiet moment after a BBQ:

Son: Dad, do you believe in God?
Me: (pause) No I don't.
Son: Me neither. I don't believe in things you can't see.

............................... HOORAY!!!!

I swear to - goodness - that I never once put him up to it!

Success!! Rational parenting win!!

We had a brief chat about how we wouldn't say things like that Gran, because it's not very polite, and my wife was listening so I couldn't fall to my knees and say "Oh, thankyou thankyou thankyou." I think I handled it very neutrally.

I wish I had a camera in my eyes...

...so that when I put on goggles and swim under the water I could forever capture the image of seeing my son swimming without floaties for the first time under the water to pick things up off the bottom of the pool.

I substituted by saying 'click' to myself and trying to etch it into my visual memory forever.

Ella also learnt to kick today, so she can now make her way around through the water. Every time I take them swimming they get new skills without even seeming to try.

Happy and hungover on the eighteenth of october...

Well, I managed to get pretty swimmingly drunk on my trip to the Faroes. I'm going through my receipts (it was a work trip), and I seem to have still been buying rounds at 3:45am, which is soooo not me. I remember singing eurovision songs with some surprisingly drunk Icelanders, and talking five kinds of garble with (very drunk) Faroese people, aaaand I remember having a D&M in an underground bomb-shelter-like thing outside the toilets. The amazing part here is, while I quite naturally enjoyed every second of the night as it was unfolding, I also enjoyed the hangover the next day, and, most astoundingly of all, the D&M isn't embarrassing me! Now I count THAT as a win for t!

I did it.

Am now incredibly tired, but satisfied to say that on top of (and despite) everything that's been going on in the last couple of months I've now done the 210km Around The Bay In A Day for a second time.

Highlights include being the last over the bridge - WOOHOO, the amazing weather (14-16 and a bit overcast the entire day) and not having to do THAT again for another 12 months.

I was three kinds of knackered when we rolled into Alexandra Gardens, but you better believe there was a sprint finish!!

I did it.

And that can't be undone.

Afternoon mini-vacation

My team leader said that since I've been exceeding my hours recently and am meeting all my targets and stuff, I can have an afternoon off next week. Yea!

Any suggestions for an afternoon mini-vacation?