I've not posted on here for a VERY long time.  It's not as though nothing has happened that is worthy of a post, but I've just drifted away this year and have been sorting out a number of things as time has gone by ( Read more... )

My new job has been a bit of an adjustment ( Read more... )

As Bakerypenguin pointed out, I am now having normal reactions.  When things are good, I am able to feel good ( Read more... )

I've been feeling rather odd recently, like I've not felt for quite a while.

There is a distinct possibility, and I want to be absolutely clear that this is not in any way a sure thing, that I might, possibly, in some way, be... happy.

Is that the right word?  Is that a word at all?

Let me go back a bit.

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There has been plenty of rain. Parts of Sydney and Canberra flooded, my burns are being cancelled, and it was a wet day for the Mardi Gras parade, though it dried up by the time we got going as we were near the end ( Read more... )

So here goes with Dreamwidth.  Lets see how it work.

My Monday training session went well.  I introduced five girls to Tabata, and one of them nearly spewed.  Nearly I said.  All of them will be back.

I am getting into training, and I feel like I am doing better at it than I did at politics.  Still, there is this sense in my head that it's not a real ( Read more... )

I was in Parliament this past week, and CoS mentioned that one of the departments that interviewed me for a job contacted him for a reference and that they were quite keen to hire me.  Unfortunately, they were hit with a hiring freeze.  That's good news, because it smashes the sense of pointlessness I had after being knocked back from other public ( Read more... )

YW; 50 medicine ball crunch throws, 50 medicine ball side throws both left and right.  Then 2 farmer's walk stairs, 10 clean and press and pushups with kettlebells, SDHP, and pullups - 5 rounds.  Then run 2.4km in under 11 minutes.

TW: 30 kettlebell swings, run 400m, 20 bench jumps - 5 rounds.

Yesterday I was robbed at trivia.  Robbed I say.  The ( Read more... )

Parliament met today, all the members were sworn in.

Some things I noticed.

Nearly all Coalition MPs made an oath (which includes references to God rather than an affirmation which does not.)  The PM and Deputy and many Labor MPs made affirmations.  I don't believe that being religious necessarily makes one conservative by any stretch of the ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a tiring day what with getting up many hours before dawn, working a full day, then going to the gym.  It's catching up with me.  I was oddly tired for a lot of today.  I wasn't nodding off or fighting off headaches.  I was alert, but felt a strange kind of tiredness that didn't stop me from another trip to the gym and trivia tonight.

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