Archive for the ‘Ma vie’ Category

Canon EOS 20D kit for sale

We interrupt this near-abandoned blog to flog my camera.
I have the following for sale:

Canon EOS 20D
EF 28-80 f/3.5-5.6 lens
EF 70-300 f/3.5-5.6 lens
1GB memory card (holds 100+ RAW or 200+ large JPG)
Battery & charger
USB cable
Strap
All in a Lowepro kit bag, below.

$600 the lot
Send me an electronic mail, at idrewthis<at>gmail<dot>com or ask any questions in [...]

Annoying complainy people

They’re everywhere and they’ll always find something they don’t like. And if the thing they don’t like gets better, then they’ll complain about the fact that it’s not what it used to be.
Case in point:
I work for a government institution. Everyone that works here has either a government email address or an institution email address. [...]

Luxury’s disappointment

My sister has a new “shack” on the south coast. I use inverted commas because it’s not a shack at all: it’s a brand spanking new house. But because it’s their house away from home by the coast, they use the vernacular and call it a shack. (All the more ironic when you consider their [...]

Low tech

I’m in Port Vincent for New Year’s. It’s a great place to be. On New Year’s Day there is a Gala Day, with street markets, lots of really shitty but tasty food, a big bouncy castle for the kidlets and really really bad entertainment played over an ancient PA.
It’s brilliant.
We’re staying with friends who live [...]

You can’t really tell I’m crippled

Firstly, mind the look of the place. This blog is like most people’s spare room at the moment. Nobody comes in here much, it’s a bit of a mess but there’s definitely a plan to fix the place up a bit. That said, Christmas is coming and with all the weekends pretty much booked out [...]

Yes, it still hurts

And no, I’m not about to launch into some kind of self-indulgent teenage song lyrics (is there any other kind of teenage song lyrics?). My heart isn’t broken, and thank you, I’m over all the nasty stuff that happened in high school. None of it was actually nasty, I was just there with a bunch [...]

It ain’t broke (but it ain’t fixed either)

This week marked my auspicious return to the volleyball court. I had forgotten which year it was that I last slipped on the knee pads but due to the magic of putting a lot of work into writing a blog since 2003, I can simply go back in time and see that my operation was [...]

Rush hour

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 [...]

Back

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 [...]

Hair cut

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 [...]