Payday is Monday, so in the preceding weekend, things sometimes get a bit tight. We banked a cheque on Wednesday which was supposed to have cleared by this morning.
It hasn’t.
I called the bank, who have admitted a “processing fault”. So I just emailed them this:
Dear Co******alth Bank,
I have just been speaking to one of your [...]
I used to work in the city.
And yeah, I already mentioned this in a post. It’s just that it weighs so heavily on my mind, I’m hoping that writing about it will be a little cathartic.
Mornings are all go in our house. There are kids to get up and dressed, lunches to pack, kids to [...]
Two net-related things that annoy me recently:
1.Twitter.
Or, more specifically, twitterspam. I wrote something about looking through stock images the other day and within a few hours, I was being followed by a company that was all about providing stock images.
This is an interesting example, because although I hate the concept of trawling twitter for keywords [...]
I started a new job a little over a month ago. The actual job, where I sit down and do the actual work, isn’t too bad.
But I’m now working north of the city.
I live south of the city.
So getting here, taking so long to get here, having to catch the bus rather than the train, [...]
I have two daughters. They were born 2.5 years apart and the birth of my second roughly coincided with when gmail was starting up by invitation only and giving email addresses to blogger users.
I thought, being the forward thinking type, it would be a good idea to sign my girls up right then. Sure, neither [...]
Where to begin. Or, where to pick up.
Time is precious and this has always been the project I’ve dabbled at using the time that’s fallen between the cracks of Important Things. I kind of disappeared for a while though. I changed jobs and the way I had structured my time previous to that completely changed [...]
I’ve often thought I should try liveblogging. If only for my own entertainment. But y’know…
Firstly, at the time most liveblogworthy things are on, I’m usually getting kids to bed, loading the dishwasher and generally cleaning up the mess I’ve made earlier in the afternoon.
Secondly, and probably more pertinently, I live in South Australia so unless [...]
Thought I should put up some kind of notification along the lines of “we will resume normal service as soon as possible as we can” even though it’s a bit like me chopping down a tree in the forest, popping in some earplugs, getting out of the way and letting it fall.
I will get around [...]
I didn’t take a lunch break today, so finished up a little early and used a bit of time at the end of the day to go and have my hair cut.
I changed jobs a few weeks ago, so I’m on the other side of the city, which means the barbers’ shops in proximity to [...]
So I had lunch at the Central Markets today. I’d been drinking a lot of water at work though after having a few beers last night and feeling strangely hungover today, despite the “few” only numbering three (weird, I go for a session at the pub and wake up feeling nothing worse than a little [...]
