Entries from March 2008

March 31, 2008

Neil Gaiman’s Australian Tour

One of my favourite authors’ is coming to Australia at the end of April/beginning of May to do a whole heap of book signings and author talks.
His Australian tour dates are listed here.
Anyone want to join me at Books Kinokuniya in Sydney on the 6th May at 6pm?

March 31, 2008

So You Want To Be A Blogging Star?

The New York Times has written a fantastic article titled, “So you want to be a blogging star?” about the realities of the blogging world. It is the first article I have read that takes a realistic view of blogging and the potential to earn money from it. The NY Times has interviewed [...]

March 30, 2008

One Year On

A year ago this week I started experiencing pain in my knees, by the end of the week the pain had spread to my entire body and I could barely move. A month later, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is best described as a widespread chronic pain disorder. It causes pain [...]

March 30, 2008

I didn’t plan this to happen

I am rather embarrassed to admit this, but the two Pay It Forward competitions I mentioned last week, well, I won them both. This means I have to have a kick ass Pay It Forward competition to make it up for it.  One of the things I won was my own domain name and a [...]

March 29, 2008

Light Reading?

Besides doing two loads of laundry and taking the dogs for a walk, I have spent the remainder of the day on the couch reading.  Such a relaxing way to spend a Saturday.  I have read two books this afternoon, “A Child Called It” and “A Brother’s Journey”.  Both books are about surviving child abuse.  [...]

March 28, 2008

Earth Hour

On Saturday 29th Saturday at 8pm, the world is going to turn off its lights for one hour to help bring awareness to our environment and how we are damaging it by living beyond our world’s resources. Earth Hour last year was a Sydney only event, but this year it is going global. All you [...]

March 27, 2008

Drip

For the past three days I have battled with a sinus infection.  I have mucus dripping down the back of the throat, my teeth on one side of the top of my mouth are sore and generally I just feel awful.  I have problems talking for long periods of time cause everything gets all blocked [...]

March 26, 2008

Calling All Passive-Aggressive People

Long term readers will know about the mystery at my workplace about who keeps dumping piles of toilet paper on the floor. I thought I had worked out who the culprit was after they took a couple of days off work and the floor remained free of toilet paper. But when they returned, [...]

March 25, 2008

I’m Spartacus!

Because my day absolutely sucked, I thought instead of posting a rant about how much it sucked, I would instead post something that is guaranteed to make me (and hopefully you too) laugh.
These are a clip from the American version of “Whose Line Is it Anyway?”.Ffor those of you unfamiliar with this show, it is [...]

March 24, 2008

End of Holiday Blues

It is the final evening of my four day Easter holiday.  I have done all my washing and ironed all my work shirts.  As the evening progresses those end of holiday blues increase.  Whilst I do enjoy my job, I have loved these past four days.  I have spent hours on the couch reading and [...]