Friday, 8 January 2010

Does anyone know the word for,...

You can say things like "back when I was single,..." or "when I was a bachelor,...". But what's the word for before you had a baby?

The best I can come up with is "back when I was free,..."

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

My day at work

"Uh, Karl,... It says here we don't get to keep Poland or Czechoslovakia. I'm starting to think this whole surrender thing mightn't have worked out as well for us as we'd hoped,..."

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Ahhhh,,... MS Word Sanity

It had never occurred to me before, but to bypass the hideous annoyance of word pasting the reformatting for everything you paste simply:
  1. Create a macro that does "paste unformatted"
  2. Assign it to Ctrl-V

Couldn't be simpler.

Sub PasteUnformatted()
Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatPlainText)
End Sub

Monday, 27 July 2009

Home sweet home

Within one hour of hitting Brunswick I've had an El Mirage coffee, a Sydney Rd vietnamese pork roll, hit the second-hand bookshop* and am sipping a coffee at Brunetti.


*Sadly closed today as they are moving from their old fire-damaged labyrinth to some new shmancier digs.

Saturday, 13 June 2009

Make a realistic wish

Sometimes people need to be reminded that for the cost of a trip to Disneyland or meeting a celebrity or sport-star (say $10,000) instead you could sponsor 20 underprivileged children for a year (eg: Plan @ $43/month), or maybe help an indigenous community in northern Australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS36ZuCW-7c

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

A decade

To my wife, mother of my child, my best friend, my closest family, my life.

My love.

Saturday, 2 May 2009

Rockin' the suburbs

Saturday afternoon relaxing. "What's that sound?"

Oh, yeah. A lawnmower. We aren't in Brunswick anymore.