Day 4 / 5 - Maitland

Well arrived in Maitland after sorting out my Telstra problems. My phone would not let me tether it to my laptop for internet access. My god imagine living in a a disconnected world. Found a guru at the store who had it working in a matter of minutes. Whoever said teenage boys spend too much time in front of their computers got that wrong. 

Golf - The Tragedy

Well this post will be down and dirty. I had to make more room in the car and the golf clubs had to go. So one thing less will be crossed off the bucket list.

Day Three - On The Road

Well I finally get to leave Muswellbrook but not in the direction I was intending. First I had to do lunch at the Linga Longa Inn in Gundy. Well I didn't need to have another drink so I stuck to the espresso machine and the ice water dispenser. A sad indication of my encroaching middle age. 

Day Two - The Hangover

I awoke this morning to the soothing melody of leaves rustling in the wind. Only it didn't have that relaxing autumnal sound, it was more like a tribe of angry Scotsmen tuning bagpipes in my head. I slowly came to the conclusion that I had drunk way to much.

Day One - Attempting Some Music

Its my first day off away from work and what a weight has been lifted, although I'm sure I'll still get a few phone calls. 

I am off to a town at the base of the Barrington Tops. Its a gorgeous part of the world only blighted, ever so slightly, by being the most recent hideout of Malcom Naden (one of Australia's more infamous criminals). 

Ode To My Kindle

Kindle, Kindle; made in the U.S.
Sent in to the wild, no more printing press
Fight Genesis fruit with bright jungle fire
While feeling the wrath of all hard copy's ire
Smiting the robots, in a world without borders
How I love my Kindle; bring on new world order.

A MODERN MAN by George Carlin - from "When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops"

I’m a modern man, digital and smoke-free; a man for the millennium.

A diversified, multicultural, post-modern deconstructionist; politically, anatomically and ecologically incorrect.

I've been uplinked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced. I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading.

Scoring Life

It seems that you can no longer just live your life, you now have to keep score. I always thought the best way to do that was by using the maxim ..... "Whoever dies with the most toys wins". The trouble with doing that is of course you have to first die to get the score, you'll never know what it is and some other bastard may end up beating you, which kind of makes the concept a little irrelevant. So I am going to invent another measurement tool to keep track of my meandering. See what you think of it.

The Journey Begins

Since arriving in Muswellbrook in early 2006 I have barely left the town. I have made a few fleeting visits to Sydney, have taken some time off for the purposes of personal study and had an all too brief 4 day trip to the Barrington Tops (no I didn't catch up with Australia's most wanted criminal Naden when I was there). My life had given me other complexities and a rare opportunity during those six years. Then in early February 2012 my own world was turned inside out, it was an incredibly sad and emotional time but it was also an opportunity for some renewal. So rather than dwell on the negatives, its a case of finding the positives, and that's what this trip is all about. 

Healthy Weight Part 1

In late 2011 my weight had reached a staggering 148 kilos (326 pounds). Now even for me that is humongous. I was so fat I was taller lying down than I was standing up. I decided it was time to act. So being the nerd that I am scoured the internet for websites that may be of use. I read articles, web pages and blogs and I soon discovered that the health, fitness and diet industry had a language all of its own. I needed to crack the code. So I started with some diet books that I heard about in the media including the ones by Pritikin, Atkins and that one that Kate Middleton used before she married Prince William by Dukan. Now all of these had some good information but they had their detractors as well.