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No I didn't just doze off and collapse on the keyboard in writing the title of this post.

These words are the emotive climax of the Welsh National Anthem.

I will be supporting Wales against France this weekend because I liked the way Wales played against Ireland, and also because I have some Welsh ancestors.  But I don't want to just claim Welshness ( Read more... )

I've not been posting at all for a week or more, so here is the news.

Internets

The internet has been very slow at our place and I've been relying on my portable wireless network that gets awful reception at Chez Canuck.  Two groups of tradies have been here on three days in the past week and now things are working much better.  Hooray!  You can ( Read more... )

I realised late this afternoon that they were interviewing my replacement today.  A couple of candidates came by and W was in town as he is currently acting opposition leader.  I actually wrote some letters and got them signed today and have now cleared off most of the corro that is left (or found excuses not to respond to it.)  We are well and ( Read more... )

It was a pretty good weekend, but when I got home I really felt like I was crashing ( Read more... )

Alleluia is leaving, which means we are replacing her with a new housemate.  We put out an ad and got a lot of response and two people came to view the place yesterday.

We were happy with both but we wound up settling on the older (and quieter) of the two.  And get this, she has been to the Olympics twice.  The freakin' OLYMPICS!!!


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I told most of the politicians I was leaving yesterday afternoon and over steak in the evening.  One fringe benefit of this job is that there is these kind of perks, in the case wagyu steaks donated by the Beef Council (or some similarly named group) on account of our side doing a lot to help them out during the recent live export controversy.  I ( Read more... )

I was having a bit of a work rant just now and wound up letting slip to our media guy that I am planning to leave.  Then I told the diary secretary.  I also mentioned to both that depression was part of the reason why ( Read more... )

Little was done at work today.  I'm not sure if I even answered the phone.  The whisperer wasn't even whispering.

TW: AMRAP 20 minutes - 10 burpees, 10 heavy bag get ups, 10 heavy bag lunge walk, 40kg farmers walk up and down the stairs.  Total: 7 even.  DOMS is a good feeling.

By the time I got home dinner preparation was in full swing.  Today we ( Read more... )

YW: Capping off the long weekend with a chest centric day.  10,9...1 Bench press and hand release pushups.  10 ring pushups, 10 clean and press, 10 ring pushups, 10 clean and press, 10 heavy bag getups.  Then to finish off: 1 minute maximum hand release pushups, 1 minute rest, continue until 300 pushups done.  Hand release pushups are much tougher ( Read more... )