In late November last year Optus rang up saying that my contract was just about up and asked if I was going to renew my contract. The phone caller offered a new Nokia 6710 Navigator as part of the 2-year contract. After telling them that there was still 3 months to they offered to waive [...]

I’m starting to feel like a motoring journalist or “Top Gear” on the cheap. I’m teaching in Lithgow each Tuesday for this semester so I get a TAFE car to travel back and forth on Tuesdays. I’ve made 3 trips in 3 different cars – a Toyota Ascent sedan, Toyota Camry and a Holden Epica. [...]

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Please remember to say thank you to a Veteran on Remembrance Day.

The Federation Executive met this morning, Monday 31 August 2009, and resolved the following:
“Executive expresses its grave concern that neither the Premier nor the Minister of Education and Training have responded to urgent requests by the Federation on 20 August seeking their intervention in the dispute over TAFE teachers’ salaries.
Executive notes that the Department of [...]

Australia Post Bathurst!
They leave a card in the mailbox that says pick up the article after 4:00 PM, then close at 5:00 PM when everyone finishes work! Great, I’ll see what time they open on Saturday morning so I can go and pick up the package they have been paid to deliver. Fucking useless, they [...]

My teenage daughters decided that they would throw their grandfather (my father-in-law) a surprise birthday party. It was at the local lawn bowling club with about 60 guests, including a few friends granddaughters who ae aged from 2 – 8 years old. Like lots of people do at at parties I took along a digital [...]

Wow, over a week since I posted! Time just seems to fly at this time of year, the Christmas break looms, end of year/semester marking starts piling up and a number of people wanting jobs done.
And I decided to get a new laptop for myself after seeing some ASUS G1S models available on ebay.com.au for [...]

Well, it’s been a long time since I posted anything and my web site was getting a bit dated, so I decided to install Wordpress into my site as the main feature and use the “Pages” feature for content about my business and my other interests. My web host offers to do an install that [...]

It’s been a long time since I posted anything. My poor health before Christmas and then I have been flat out since New Years. I had plenty of hassles with hardware orders over the same period. I ordered some Cisco hardware, an Integrated Services 857W ADSL Wireless Router and Catalyst 500 Switch, back at the [...]

Well, I’ve been out of action for a while. I had surgery that got infected and was having daily antibiotics intravenously which is a real pain. A couple of weeks in bed off work and then trying to catch up with everything has been hectic.
It has all started to settle down now and I have [...]