Random thoughts and observations
I don’t know what prompted me to think of this subject today. Probably it was a repressed memory which must have been triggered by something. Certainly it was a memory I had banished from my conscious mind. After Michael was born in 1996 Juliet decided to have no more children. It wasn’t something I agreed [...]
I started high school at St Paul’s College, Traralgon, in 1979. For music, students had a choice of learning the recorder or guitar. I chose the recorder, with a view to later learning the clarinet, which I began in form two (year 8). I made good progress with the recorder and can still play tunes [...]
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine offers hours of browsing fun. The archive contains 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present. You simply enter a web address to be taken back in time to cached pages of that site. This is potentially embarrassing for web site owners. My own site [...]
I’ve just read Karyn’s blog about driving on the wrong side of the road in Spain while on holiday. I should say she was driving on the “right” side of the road, but that would be confusing because we drive on the right side of the road, which is the “left”. I can’t think of [...]
I had a hit of squash today for the first time in 15 years. It was at the YMCA for Michael’s birthday, playing against kids and solo practice. I used to be a pretty good at squash. I peaked when I was about 17. After that I played irregularly except for a solid season at [...]
