Wireless-lessness
Thursday, 28 April, 2005
Broadband has been down since Friday and so I have been incommunicado and surf-less ever since I got back from our nation's capital (thankfully my weekend has already been recorded by both Deb and Ben with some nice piccies to boot. If I ever get a break, I'll put some of mine up and add my own ANZAC weekend memories ...)
I returned to the hustle and bustle of Sydney to find that my lovely husband mowed all the lawns, swept up the leaves, vacuumed all the carpets and cleaned the kitchen and bathroom floors. I am so impressed with his domesticity, I can't stop raving about it. And I like living in a much cleaner house! I want to do something about the leaves in our gutters however we don't have a ladder tall enough so I will have to re-think that one ... My aunt comes back in a week; I hope the place is respectable enough for her. She'll be here 'til June and, for about two weeks, we have to be out because family and wedding guests will be arriving for my cousin's nuptials so we will be fleeing south to my in-laws'.
Confusingly, College is in its final week of Term 1. With so many public holidays and recovery days, we haven't had a New Testament 1 lecture in about six or seven weeks. It is good to be back at college but it also reminds me of how much work I haven't done. Even so, I am grateful for all the R & R I did get while on break. Gibbo reminded us on Tuesday of our “half-yearly insignificant test” which is a massive misnomer because it's actually only a couple of weeks away so I've been brushing up on my Greek (though I still don't get deponent verbs; they are the bane of my existence!!!) Our Doctrine lecture this week was on the Trinity and I was amazed at how such a doctrine impacts our understanding of what it means to be human and to have relationships with other human beings. I'm ashamed to say how much I've trivialised it in the past but John Woodhouse has now convinced me that, if you don't believe in the Trinity, you are not a Christian. His lecture is almost worth putting up on this blog but perhaps that might break some Moore College conventions and I should ask first. (And, incidentally, that rumour about Tony Payne at Moore is not true! He started laughing when I asked him about it.)
In the past, I've always felt a bit funny about being paid to write but now I love it. Behold: my first CHN (here is your chance to petition Guan for a frame-free MM site!)
Next week is mission week and we will be at Campsie Anglican Church. I've never been on an 8-day mission before but we are not being billeted and there are not a huge number of activities to participate in day and night. My first task is to sing an item for the two congregations on Sunday morning. On Sunday evening I've been rostered on to cook dinner for PEC. If anyone has any recipes for things that go well with rice which do not contain anything with gluten, soy, shellfish, dairy or peanuts, I would be most grateful; I am starting to run out of ideas.
I really really need to re-format my hard drive but have no idea how to go about doing it—especially as I'm working off a laptop that has an external CD drive and surely that needs a driver to operate it, otherwise I won't be able to reinstall the operating system ...? (Why didn't I do a degree in computers ... oh yeah, because it would be BORING!)
And now I should go to bed so I don't get that nasty bug again. Goodnight.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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the laptop should have come with a CD that lets you reinstall everything; such a CD generally does a better job of getting a laptop up-and-running again. Having said that, recent versions of windows are pretty good at recognising hardware without too much trouble.
I have to agree on the boring-ness of a computer degree, too… although it’s been my experience that you’ll never be short of a dinner invite if you can fix computers.
Please, please, syndicate CHN - it would make life SO much easier…
No, please don’t petition me. I already agree with you, and don’t like frames either.
And Craig: RSS and Atom.
... please don’t ask the obvious question.
Sorry Guam, I must -
Why aren’t the sydnicate links on the home page ??????
Poor Guan is underpaid and overworked. Or those hamsters of his are grumbling with unrest.
A computer degree, boring? I protest! Well, not capital-letters boring anyway
. Though having done a few months of ministry training, the thought of returning to computer work is distinctly unappealing.
James