Lunchtime meeting

At BUCO today we held a lunchtime meeting in the church hall. Among other things discussed was the fact that we are getting new laptop computers. The interviewers will have the option of using them. Also there will be more case managers on the site.

Finished.....for now

I stayed home for most of the day and worked on the website. I am finished for now. All I need is a place to host it. Unfortunately, FreeColdfusionHosting is playing up and will not let me in.

At the library, I borrowed a book on "Second Life".

Australia Day 2010

Today is Australia day. I really don't care - it just means a day off. I used the day to keep working on the Connect Church website. I have just about gone as far as I can go for now.

56 years old today

I am 56 years old today! How does that make me feel. Not good, not bad. But look on the bright side - one day closer to eternity - which must be a good thing. I got a phone call from mum who is in Canberra as well as emails from John and Pauline. I did not end up going to church this morning as I slept in. It was a quite day generally bit I had my own private celebration in the evening.

Happy birthday to me - and a few others

At BUCO today, there were a few people having birthdays about this time. Myself, Brett and Sue. There was birthday cake, chocolates and other sweets laid out in the lunch room and they sang happy birthday to us, which was nice.

When I got home, I found a slightly unexpected but useful birthday 'present'. Some tradesmen had arrived and replaced my aging hot water system, which was overflowing. I now have a nice new one. That is nice.

Wednesday the 20th

Today marks the first anniversary since President Obama took office. Cool!! As for myself, the highlight of my day was meeting Ps Simon Williams at Connect Church at 10.00 am and telling him about my progress with the website. He seemed impressed that I have got as far with it as I have.

He offered all the support that he could.

Getting back to the "basics"

At church today Ps Simon Williams preached on "Getting back to Basics". After church, Simon asked me to contact him next tuesday morning to talk about the internship. Peter Fox and his wife Mundy attended church this morning as well.

Back to work - on the website

I decided not to go to BUCO today as I wanted to get a handle on the website. I have made pretty good progress and I should have a draft to demonstrate soon. I got an email from mum telling me that she and Bill have decided NOT to come to Bendigo at this time as it is too expensive. Some other time then.

Connect Church Website

I stayed home for most of the day and recommenced work on the Connect Church website. After some frustration, I made some good progress. The weather is getting very hot. It will be a really hot weekend.

Back in Bendigo

Here I am, now back in Bendigo. To recap, here is what has happened since my last blog.

Sunday the 3rd January. I slept in late as I had little sleep from the night before. The night was hot and muggy. Today was a bit of a do nothing day, except watch the cricket. The aussies were terrible. Even Ponting went for a golden duck.

Monday the 4th. My older sister Pauline came back from Cairns where she had stayed for christmas with her daughter Kirsten. It was nice to see her again. In the evening we went to the Pat Rafter Tennis Center, which is virtually just around the corner from Mum's place, to see the Brisbane International. We saw 2 games. In the first Radek Stepanek from the Czech Republic beat John Millman from Australia. In the next game, Andy Roddick from the USA beat Peter Luczak from Australia. It was my first time watching international tennis. It was a good experience except for a few idiots in the crowd who seemed to think that people only come to tennis to listen to them!!

Tuesday the 5th. I flew back to Melbourne with Virgin Blue. The flight took just over two hours and was pretty smooth except for some turbulence coming into Melbourne. I got back home by 7.00 pm. It was good to be back even though I could not have a hot shower as I had turned off the hot water before I left and I had to clean up the fridge as a bit of mould had gotten in. I was tired by the end of the evening.

Update from Brisbane

Here I am in sunny (and rather muggy) Brisbane. Mum and myself flew here yesterday from Perth. The flight with Qantas took about 4 hours. It was quicker flying East because we have the wind at our back. We left Perth at 12.45 pm and were in Brisbane 4 hours later.

To recap since my last blog entry, here is what has happened since:

* Wednesday 3oth december. Mum, myself and Bill went on a river cruise to down the Swan river to Fremantle. It was a great cruise. We saw "millionaires row" and "new millionaires row" plus the Royal Perth Yacht club. It was a really good cruise. I did not realise how big or wide the river is. After the cruise we went to Burswood Hotel/Casino complex for lunch. The lunch was great and the hotel complex was very swanky: real 5 star stuff. We saw the Casino later. it was very big and packed with "punters" - probably all losing their money.

*Thursday the 31st - New Years eve. This was a do nothing day! The most exciting thing that I did was go for a walk along the beach. It was a good day to do nothing after such a busy week. We had a small New Year's eve celebration - just the three of us. We played the latest version of Trivial Pursuit - it uses a DVD to ask the key questions. It was cool.

*Friday the 1st January 2010 - flew to Brisbane.

As for today I am walking around Brisbane and just checking the place out.