Today is the day of The Race that Stops a Nation. That’s right folks, it’s Melbourne Cup Day. All my Australian readers will be well aware of this fact, it’s practically impossible to miss the hype, the constant discussions about The Favourite, The Weather and hats, and the plans your workplace has been making for [...]
I had lots of good intentions for this past weekend: I was going to do lots of writing, for work and for this blog and the other one, among other things. What happened instead was we played Civ IV. Civilization IV, to be exact, the game I have been waiting for all year. (It’s not [...]
It’s such a beautiful clear morning that I have been just sitting and enjoying it. The sun was up just after 5am, and it’s been raining overnight, so everything looks freshly washed and clean. Even the air smells clean. I have completely forgotten what I was going to write about today. Categories: navel-gazing