I’ve spent the last week catching up on all the reading that I didn’t do last month – sigh. Last month was `assignment month’ with 4 of the things to do. Each one seems to take about a week, and I find it difficult to concentrate on an assignment and keep up with [...]

Forget Farmer wants a Wife. It’s time for a tv show that the world is screaming out for.
Engineer wants a Wife!!
There is a definite need out there. With only 10-15% of engineers being female the male engineers don’t have much of a chance – unless they’re in enviro I suppose. I’ll accept [...]

I am giving Twitter a go. No particular reason to give it a try, other than it sounded new, hip and cool.
Turns out I only know one person who is on twitter, and he is currently in San Fran. Not all that useful to know when Martin is on Castro St, as I [...]

I noticed Barak Obama’s campaign slogan on the tv news the other night. “Change we can believe in”.
Appears to be a case of ending a sentence with a preposition. I didn’t listen to his speech very much – because the slogan was posted at the bottom of the screen and the [...]

Went for my first flight in a small aeroplane yesterday. Very exciting.
I’ve been thinking about learning to fly for a while. The amount of driving I do for work is ridiculous at times. Averaged about 1000km a week during November. It would be so much nicer (and probably safer) to just [...]

The time has come to depart our current abode. We will be moving out of Royal Parade early in January. I will be heading to Yarraville for a short time, and then onwards to Lake Boga for the majority of 2008.
Not quite sure how I feel about the full time study [...]

I went to the final session of the Career Lifecycle Management seminar last Tuesday night. This is the 4th of these sessions that I’ve been to. The sessions are run by Engineers Australia, and aimed at young engineers – like me! They’ve generally been pretty good. Although occasionally the presenters have focused [...]

October already, so that makes about 3 months of full time work left before I switch back into the full time study mode. I’ll be living at the family home in northern Victoria, which will be a big change from being in Melbourne. Not to worried about not seeing people regularly – I [...]

I’ve been thinking about learning to sail properly. We’ve got a little Laser at home, which I can handle pretty well. But, it might be nice to learn to sail a cruising yacht and have a holiday in the Whitsundays or something. Or sail around the carribian….arrr!!!
Have checked out www.sunsail.com.au, who were [...]

After a fair few emails asking me to sign up to Facebook, I’m now there. I’m yet to decide whether I really like it or not. On the plus side I have caught up with 3 friends from overseas who I haven’t seen or heard from for years. On the downside, it’s [...]