2009 begins
I'm back. I returned to Sydney on Saturday night and hit the ground running starting with getting to church at 8:00 am (that's 7:00 am Queensland time, which I had been operating on for the previous two weeks!) to set up and then back to work yesterday etc. I had a nice Christmas, made all the nicer by my sister and brother-in-law and two girls staying over Christmas Eve, and New Year and general rest from my usual life
I didn't get to as many things as I would have liked, but that happens every year so eventually I will learn not to take so many books and projects away with me. I caught up with my immediate family and Mum's extended family in Brisbane (where the effect wrought by SingStar was very amusing) and Toowoomba and my Dad's family at the Gold Coast (which always reminds me where I got my legs, only they do useful things with theirs like volunteer surf life-saving), and old friends in Brisbane, including Simone, which was all very pleasant.
I've thought of a few New Year's resolutions, but haven't committed them to paper yet, and I have reflected a little on 2008, but the same for that. I find it really beneficial to think through and articulate such things (I still have last year's on the whiteboard) and am looking forward to doing so soon.
I am posting over at the EQUIP book club and you can read the first post here. The book I am discussing is on singleness, which perhaps narrows the readership, though it comes to us all at some time in our lives, we all have some single friends and I'd appreciate comments from married people also
Right now I am off to the hardware store down the road from my workplace. Yesterday morning I got up for work and was in the shower and rinsing out the shampoo when I suddenly thought 'hang on a minute, why am I splashing around in water?' and I discovered that the shower drain must have suddenly and completely blocked and that if I didn't turn the taps off quick there was going to be water everywhere. So then I had to get in the bath and finish what I'd started. And the taps are in the middle of our bath, and not at one end, which means a tall person has to do ridiculous things to get their head under them. I soon gave up and moved onto the hand basin. Then the blockage didn't go away because I ignored it yesterday, which was my hopeful plan. Drain problems in our building tend to extend beyond our individual unit pipes and be beyond the scope of my handy-man solutions but I'll try DIY first.