No Idea

Another sporadic update

Stephen — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:07:31 PST

OK folks, yet again months have passed without a word from me on here. I really am not much of a blogger, I don’t have that many interesting thoughts to share. Cut to the chase. I have a new job in Sydney, so it looks like I will be staying here for a year or so. [...]

Eskimo roles and rips

Stephen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:00:52 PST

Here we go with a round up of Thursday’s surfing. I was supposed to rent a board and skip the lesson, but I am a spaz and forgot to bring some ID or credit card to secure the deposit on the board. So I took another lesson, got to wear my own new wetsuit though, [...]

Identify me

Stephen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:12 PST

What the heck is this thing? It’s kind of big and certainly an arachnid but nothing I have seen before. My skin is creeping just thinking about it. Look how close it is to coming in the house. Looks like it is a Netcasting spider, I really hope it does not spin a [...]

Not again…

Stephen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:37:35 PST

Back in 2004 I got bitten on my hand by some insect or perhaps a spider, I don’t know what it was. But the result was an itching painful inflammation that kind of took over my hand and looked not unlike the following picture (I sincerely apologise for the poor taste of newspaper article, [...]

Surf Report

Stephen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:03:53 PST

I went out into the surf with a 10ft foam ironing board again on Sunday. This time I was fairly well rested and had no hangover, I also went for an 11:30am lesson instead of a 9am so I had time for a pancake breakfast. Food, rest and no alcohol make for a [...]

Housekeeping

Stephen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:12:35 PST

(Warning: WordPress geek speak ahead) As you can see things have changed a bit round here. I have done this for a couple of reasons, firstly the old theme was, well a bit old. I spent a lot of time building that theme from scratch, completely custom, however it relied heavily on some clumsy stuff and [...]

Manly, Surfing

Stephen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:06:40 PST

It’s been a while since I last posted so I will endeavour to give a summary of the highlights of the past two weeks. First, I moved into a flat in Manly, for those who are less informed Manly is small suburb North of Sydney. I share this flat with the charming sister of one of [...]

Walkabout Ctrl+Alt+Del

Stephen — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:36:23 PST

Walkabout has been aborted early, the task was not functioning as it should have and so I have quit. This morning while sucking up some expensive internet at the “Gaol Break Café” (a pun on a local landmark) I received an email offering some easy work from London. I said yes and quickly, [...]

Walkabout

Stephen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:30:10 PDT

Tomorrow morning I set off in a small car for a ten day adventure. My only real plan is to head north up the coast from Sydney and see what I can see. I want to do a bit of snorkeling and maybe get a few surf lessons on the way. I [...]

Neighbours

Stephen — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:24:52 PDT

I am staying in a hotel Alan Partridge style at the moment. Every morning I wake up just after the guy in the single room next to me wakes up. He is a noisy bugger, snoring when he sleeps and coughing and hacking when he wakes up. I don’t know what he [...]