So, I'm about to head to Adelaide for a conference; I get home late Friday night and I'm baptizing a family of four on Sunday morning and Saturday's going to be spent organizing that. There's no way I can get down to Melbourne for Armageddon. So ( Read more... )

Winding country roads; torrential rain; excessive speed for the conditions - I ran my car off the road yesterday. I took a bend too fast, last control, hit the barrier, bounced across to the other side of the road, and ended up halfway up an embankment. At one point during the embankment climb I was sure the car was going to flip, but it was a very ( Read more... )

Two letters.

The first, dated 9 February 2010:

( Letter 1 )

Evil bloody Network Ten has taken Supernatural off.

Just got spoiled for something in 5.10. My own fault, I clicked recklessly. But I'm doing pretty well on the "not being spoiled" front and, please God, from Monday week I can start catching up. Just as my life goes into crazy pre-Christmas overdrive.

The altercation between my car and a concrete pylon looks like it is going to cost me between two and a half and three thousand dollars and it will take about ten days to repair the damage to the car. Damn!

Did you know that today is the International Day of Conscientious Objection? If you want to know more, the World Council of Churches has an article here.