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Category: Personal
Personal stuff, like posts involving family and friends or life observations.
This is a fictionalised retelling of a dream I had in the wee hours of this morning. It flows basically the same as the action from the dream, but some of the thinking and interpretation occurred in the couple of hours after I woke up and still had the dream in my head. I also … Continue reading Good Luck: a dream
The last couple of weeks have seen a radically positive shift in my state of mind, ironically triggered by finding out that my ex-wife has her boyfriend moving in. I've realised that life is too short to live in the past (even though I wasn't conscious of doing so) and that looking forward is the … Continue reading Beginning Again
It's easy to treat a silly slogan on a coffee mug as little more than just a few words designed to evoke a wry grin from a slightly antisocial co-worker. Sometimes it can take on a deeper meaning, if you let it.
I had an unexpectedly emotional departure from Brisbane last week. It was supposed to be a standard flight to Sydney, but became something a lot more. When I first started travelling by air, flights to Melbourne were on 737s and to Sydney were 767s. I guess you knew you were going to the "big smoke" … Continue reading The last time
So I messed up. I let the domain name registration for veejoe-dot-net expire, which was bad enough, but it turns out that even a low-visibility low-traffic domain like mine can still end up getting heisted by domain squatters. Which is why it lives in Czechoslovakia now. The other thing that I had been trying to find … Continue reading I’m back
I have settled into a somewhat sedentary lifestyle. My partner tries valiantly to get me involved in her personal training sessions, but I have a lot of inertia. I know that I need to do something about being more active and increasing my fitness level, but have struggled to find a motivator. While in Europe … Continue reading I lost my Fitbit… and found it
Like most international travellers in the Internet age, during our recent travel through Europe I was confronted by the ridiculous situation that exists for mobile data access. By ridiculous I mean ridiculously expensive. Look, don't get me wrong: the technology that allows GSM/UMTS global roaming is pretty magical[1]. But it's not exactly new! It's not … Continue reading On global roaming for data
Back when I last posted here, I would never have imagined that within twelve months I would be in a new relationship, travelling overseas on holiday, and generally happy with my life. And yet, that's exactly where I am. I write this from a hotel room in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, having recently returned … Continue reading A long time away
Partly for R U OK? Day, but also because the time has come to stop hiding from it, I've decided to disclose the change in my life that occurred in February 2012.
Crossed Wires 