Still kickin!

A million years have passed since my last post. A lot of things have been happening and many a time I have thought, ‘I should write about that at deckchair guru’ but for various reasons, haven’t.

My wife and I have welcomed our first baby, a boy we named Leo! More will be at beingadaddy.net once I finally finish the opus that is the ‘Birth’ entry. So much to say and now, so little time in which to try and get it down on paper online. I have never felt so happy (wedding is very close though!) and I cannot wait for each new day as a family unit. Am sure to write loads more about this as we go along.

My workplace has moved offices, from a crappy dive in North Melbourne to brand-spanking new digs in the Docklands. Whilst I love being closer to the city and being able to look through a window again, it has meant I can’t drive to work anymore. My nice little 35 min commute is back to being a 70 min car-train-walk journey again. While it sucks as far as time goes, I do have time to read again and am enjoying that aspect. Just this week I knocked off The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer Uncut (tip of the hat to lunaminor for the good review). What a mogul he was, in every way. On to The Shark Net now, borrowed off the mother unit when I last visited her a few weeks ago.

Have finally engaged in this Twitter caper and added a little widget to the upper RHS. I’ll try and make it interesting but no promises.

Also discovered that Bob Ellis is still writing columns, for the ABC’s ‘Unleashed’. Given he hasn’t updated his own website for two years, this was a welcome discovery.

I’ve started keeping a diary again, a lovely Moleskine Much trepidation about whether it’ll last 3-4 weeks and fizzle, as has been my wont. Time will tell, as they say.

Obama won, slaying the limp forces of McCain-Palin, the freak show that political union was. I have a lot of hope (pardon the pun) that he will do some great things and am pleased he has a somewhat pliant Congress to assist. Again, time will tell.

Shall post again soon – proper entries too, not this pathetic little ‘Dear long-lost friend’ jotting.