A wonderful Vietnamese dinner with three friends last night at Canley Vale. They dug into some shared fish and a soup while I, who has had a bit of a dodgy stomach of late, stuck with steamed vegetables and some chicken. Delicious.
One of these friends is back from London as he [...]
Hold music. It is often very poor.
And the constant, “You are important to us…”
But help may be at hand — at least with the hold music. I was listening to NPR’s All Things Considered programme last night. The final story was Hold, Please — And Enjoy the Music. [...]
While I’d never agree to violence [especially against a nun!], this thread [warning: language] on Ship of Fools expresses my frustration with people who take 14 or 15 (or even 11) items into the Ten Items or Less queue at supermarkets / department stores [and then there is my annoyance that it is not [...]
While away at the Baptist World Centenary Conference, Tractor Girl has had trouble logging into her wiblog.
I feel blessed that she posted a hello and let us know how great the BWC is on my blog. Feel free to add more comments Tractor Girl (and anyone else)!
A fascinating programme on SBS tonight, looking into the effects of adoption for three of the 280 babies and young children sent to Australia as part of an airlift of 3,000 Vietnamese children from orphanages in Saigon.
It was heartbreaking to see Christina head off to Vietnam, with no Vietnamese, to find her birth parents and [...]
Original post here.
My colleague came back to work today with the news that her friend told her not to go with him to the hospital for the results…and she hasn’t heard about it from him since. She has spoken to him, but he doesn’t answer any questions related to it. She suspects he [...]
Wiper blades [or more, properly, the things that hold them: no idea what they're called!]
I needed some new blades so I popped off to Big W [big spender I am!] where I saw some that actually came with a rather nice looking ’support’ — so I bought them.
Easy to install! the packaging screamed at me [...]
Journeyman James has made available three lectures from Bishop Kallistos. I’m very much looking forward to hearing them.
Bishop Kallistos, a convert from Anglicanism, has helped greatly to inform me about Orthodoxy and Orthodox spirituality through the two books of his I have read, The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way.
On the topic of converts, [...]
A friend of a work colleague gets his results from a test for AIDS tomorrow.
He is, naturally, not coping at all with the stress and pressure. And my work colleague seemed rather stressed today as well: she took more cigarette breaks than usual and appeared flustered.
Please pray for him, and for her as she [...]
Via Word from the Desert:
O Lord Jesus Christ my God,
Give me a good, sinless, and spotless day.
O Lord, forsake me not.
O Lord, do not stand afar off from me
O Lord, stretch out to me a helping hand.
O Lord, support me with the fear of You.
O Lord, plant this fear
And the love for You in my [...]