Category Archives: Personal

Given humans in my family are slightly nuts about the Sims, I think this would sell in our house.

This weekend we are in Melbourne trying to find a house for the big move, which has been no easy feat. Due to most real estate agents only being open on Saturday we spent yesterday looking at 15 different houses between 10:30am and 2:30pm. Lucky we think might have found one. Completing the application formsContinue reading “Finding a house”

I started thinking about this while we were at Jonah’sfor our wedding anniversary in November, they had a number of brochures in the room with a message essentially saying something like “relax quickly” or “live slowly”. This got me thinking about how we rush around so much and do not spend enough time reflecting onContinue reading “Live slowly”

We are right into moving at the moment, official date of move 7th Feb, less than one month. This weekend we fly to Melbourne for the weekend to find somewhere to live. Spent the last couple of weeks reviewing domain.com.au and realestate.com.au and have narrowed things to about 15 places in south east Melbourne. TheContinue reading “The moving process”

I am a bit late in returning to my blog, just can’t seem to shake the holiday feeling, I guess that is what happens when you have 10 days off. While the break was good, there was a black cloud over most of it, I suspect for most people it was the same. The TsunamiContinue reading “A bit late returning”

Well it is really then end of another year, being 24th December and all. From today I will be taking a break until 3rd Jan, our holiday house has no telecommunications, besides a basic GSM mobile network (not even GPRS), which is fantastic as it forces you to take a break. Happy Christmas everyone andContinue reading “End of another year”

Caught up with Mick Stanic aka SplaTT for coffee @ Starbucks in Darling Harbour, first blogger I have met in person. If you don’t know Mick is one half of the G’Day World podcast. I should of blogged about this yesterday, before he was on DSC and BBC now I just look like a groupie!Continue reading “Coffee with SplaTT”

After many weeks of interviews, tests and a lot of hard thinking I have quit my job. I will be joining WMC in late January, based in Melbourne. For our oversea’s reader’s Melbourne is about just over 1 hour’s flight south of Sydney. I will no longer be working for a software vendor, back intoContinue reading “I just quit my job”