A Tribute to Edward Kennedy...

May those that remain carry Edward Kennedy's dreams and vision forward.

Some More Did You Know...

Always looking to entertain...enjoy!

1. Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand;

2. The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting for traffic lights to change;

3. 120 drops of water fill a teaspoon;

4. The Inca Indians of Panama tie a string of chillies behind their boat to repel sharks;

5. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards;

6. On average, women dream more than men;

7. The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm;

8. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word that you want;

9. Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they are an ox;

10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors;

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times; and,

12. 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

A Happy New Year

A Happy New Year to all those that follow and read these musings of mine.

I hope that 2009 is better than 2008 and that all your hopes, dreams, desires, aspirations, and whatever other choice words there are to describe what you want, are realized in 2009.

I must say 2008 has been a wonderful year for the Wife and I with the birth of our first child, Will. I am sure that whether you like it or not you will be forced to follow his journey as I blog about the comings and goings of his life.

I am certain that 2009 is going to see some significant changes for us, but you will just have to follow along to find out what those changes might be.

Here's hoping to see you all again in 2009.

The photo was borrowed from here. It is off Sydney sending off 2008 and welcoming 2009.

Woodrow Wilson and Dreams

All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1925)
28th US President, 1913 - 1921

Back to Blogging...

I have been somewhat blog lazy over the last couple of weeks. There is no particular reason for this other than pretending to be busy. Well, not really pretending as I have been editing 20 or so papers of varying degrees of English ranging from crappy to not so crappy! I am actually enjoying it as I am learning stuff about the oil and gas industry that I did not know before. It might come in handy for Trivial Pursuit one day!

I am busy though and the next couple of weeks are going to be busier still in terms of having to be here, there, and everywhere. On the plus side though I am organized so I won't need to prepare lots of 'stuff' and so I should be able to find blogging time if I want to!

It is 02.15 on Saturday morning. I should probably be in bed and dreaming about 'stuff'. The stuff used to be a lot more fun when I was younger! If you wanna know whether they were wetter, I have no comment on that! By the way just read an article in Campus Asia about 'sex and university life' maybe that inspired me to the wet dream comment because it seems the author is living in an idealistic dream world of his own. The mag though is about to be the next blog entry...

So, for those of you who pass by and read this wasted moment...enjoy your weekend!

Sir Edmund Hillary (1919 - 2008)

Sir Edmund Hillary passed away overnight and his passing is worthy of a blog post on my little blog. It is probably worthy of so much more but this is the best I can offer.

Why bother you might ask, well when I was growing up and much more adventurous than I am now (although in my mind I will always remain adventurous) I used to dream of climbing mountains and being like Sir Ed. I still harbor dreams of going to Nepal and Tibet and climbing mountains albeit with each passing year the mountains I aim for get shorter in stature.

For these dreams I have Sir Ed to thank--thank you!