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14th May 2007

What I’ve Been Doing Today – 2007-05-14

  • 1002 – Enjoyed the church business breakfast overlooking Shoalwater bay islands. Easy to forget just what a beautiful place we live in #
  • 1030 – Got a call from a Dr friend asking if I want to go on a free trip to Noosa, Queensland in July. But I’ll be in LA. Missed out again #
  • 1157 – Whilst checking my itinerary for a blog post, I discovered 2 flights are listed as cancelled! We might be stuck in Hawaii forever… #
  • 1246 – Email from travel agent. Flights booked again. Guess we won’t be living in Hawaii after all… though we’d be temped to stay in Nashv #
  • 1348 – On the phone to Microsoft support to try and get my XBox 360 repaired. Has been out of order for a couple of weeks now #
  • 1357 – Nice American sounding guy at Microsoft will arrange to get our Xbox shipped and fixed. Saw a patient. Now reading Slacktivist blog #
  • 1441 – Very steady day at work today – surgery is crazy busy but not too bad for me. Running 9 minutes ahead of time at present #
  • 1523 – No patients waiting. Looking at pathology and radiology results. Also browsing Strange maps : http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ #
  • 1531 – Got 2 emails from Microsoft. The 2nd was weird and ended thus : “????? Xbox ????????????????????????????????????????????” Bizarre! #
  • 1549 – last patient of the day has cancelled (at least they actually bothered to call) so I’m off to pick up Luke and head home #
  • 1839 – Today I began collecting some essential items for our trip. Got two tubes of Vegemite spread – never leave Australia without it :P #



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14th May 2007

Plagiarising Penguins

Hello Internet: Moofies – Hijacked Penguin – Ben is getting annoyed at yet another penguin inspired movie coming out hot on the heels of Happy Feet, continuing a disturbing trend in animated movies… See if you can think of any other examples.



Categories : Blogs, Movies | 0 Comments

14th May 2007

Itinerary for July trip

 I’ve had some questions about our upcoming trip so here’s the rough itinerary as it currently stands :

  • 7 July – leave Perth
  • 8 – 14 July – Kampala, Uganda
  • 14 – 17 July – London, UK
  • 17 – 20 July – Manchester, UK
  • 20 – 27 July – Nashville, USA
  • 27 July – 4 Aug – Los Angeles, USA  (? and San Diego)
  • 4 – 8 Aug – Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
  • 9 – 10 Aug – Sydney, Australia

We’ve pretty much settled on our flights so I doubt that will change very much, however the details of what we’ll be doing, where we’ll be staying etc are still to be worked out.



Categories : Africa, Family, Travel | 2 Comments

14th May 2007

A child’s ransom

JK Rowling lifts reward to $9m | NEWS.com.au

Now I’m sympathetic towards the family of this little girl who has disappeared in Portugal (although to go off and have dinner whilst leaving your kids alone in a hotel room is not the brightest thing to do), but I must admit when I hear of a nine million dollar reward for the return of one child it just doesn’t quite feel right. I can’t help thinking of what else could be done with the millions – how many children’s lives could be saved in the third world for that amount? But I guess a gift to starving children in Africa doesn’t make as exciting headlines as a lost little girl in Europe.



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