Five years ago I did an ankle. Today I am on the tail end of recovery from a knee injury. Therein lies the proof I am a mere mortal.
Stay Focused
FTR: It is spelt 'focusing'. One s, not two. IMHO, the definition of 'focussing' is either: fake swearing, OR cussing at photographs that don't turn out as you expected. / Originally posted on my Facebook on 28 December 2012
Everything Old is New Again
Here's your chance to read some of my posts, written 10 years ago, that I have now updated. Many had outdated links, some appear to be written in a rush, and those with lists or instructions have been revised and cleaned up. According to my site statistics they are popular to my readers. So I... Continue Reading →
101 Ways to Make a Few Extra Dollars
Not all are online, not all can be done in Australia, but very many of these 101 ways to make a few extra dollars each month can be achieved by any one of us. I've now got an idea to combine a few of them into one package!
3 Important Lessons I have Learnt in life
1. Some negative opinions are from people with no self confidence. Some are from people with no imagination. If you have self confidence and can imagine, then their opinions don't matter. 2. Most negative opinions are from people who cannot imagine you succeeding. That is their problem, not yours. Stay focused on your success. 3.... Continue Reading →
The Best Line from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Seems Douglas Adams knew it was a dumb idea long before Donald Trump thought it was a good idea. This is one of the most impressive quotes from a book my generation grew up on: "It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least... Continue Reading →
4 Years Later…
This was originally written as a comment to If You Never Hear From Me Again by David Simmer II . But once I got started, it turned into the last short story about our blue insignificant planet. 4 Years Later... Planet Earth is nearly barren, one very large dust-bowl. The only nuclear warheads not destroyed... Continue Reading →
Where The Streets Have No Name – U2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZWSrr5wFI Whenever this song comes on the radio, I crank the volume up to 20. Pity they never play anymore than 3 minutes of it. It is over 7 minutes of amazing U2 music that I grew up listening to constantly.
Never Give Up
The title is not misleading, it's a serious moral to this story. At about 8am this morning I flicked on the radio - right as they were doing a 10 question competition. Simply put, the caller was told to provide the correct answer to questions about Australia to win a small cash prize. Of the... Continue Reading →
My Favorite 17 Online Tools
I am a list maker. It's a byproduct of working in state government for twenty years. So my browser bookmarks are regularly scrutinized, alphabetized and regularly saved for backups. This has proved beneficial: I once misplaced a website that I eventually realised I was spelling it wrong. Today I am listing and highlighting (thus explaining... Continue Reading →
Leave Well Enough Alone
This morning I posted a story on Facebook that I found buried on a friend's timeline. I found it funny enough to republish on my timeline. Cattle Guards For those of you who have never traveled to the US South West, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in... Continue Reading →
Ten Years on WordPress
I celebrated 10 years of blogging within the last few weeks. I'd planned to publish this on the actual day, but hey, kids. Yet the date is not accurate. I started blogging towards the end of the last millennia. I had discovered the art of blog via Samela Harris, a local journalist, in the Adelaide... Continue Reading →
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