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96 days ago
Not a bad score right? 63% is a pass! Except that's the number of teaching weeks this year. 15 more weeks before I can take the 6 weeks that non-teachers think are unfair and unnecessary. 15 more weeks of wondering on a daily basis if one of these little cherubs is going to cross the line and get themselves strangled. The upside is that I'm now carpooling so I don't have to ride to and from work in the same day. A 47km one way trip is much more achievable than a 94km round trip. And to prove my point I rode home from work twice last week, making last week the 7th biggest mileage week 4th biggest mileage month this year. I’m currently negotiating the roster allocation because week-for-me, week-for-you means flip-flopping between huge miles and none. I’m going for me to drive Wednesday, Friday and alternative Tuesdays giving me Monday and Thursday on the bike. It smells like a nice idea. If it works.
181 days ago
... in less than a week that MSN has let me log in and post. I don't actually have a post prepared because I click the link on my custom favourites every single day and get nothing in return but that bizarre half-logged-in "Continue" screen, then nothing. But I just wanted to acknowledge the quantum leap MSN has made in letting me log in twice in 8 days. 2 thumbs way up .
189 days ago
Is everyone else as disappointed with the ongoing login problems plaguing MSN Spaces? ... ... ... Yep, that's what I thought. No-one has responded. Because no-one has been able to get connected and see my cry for help. Maybe one day it will all be sorted. Or maybe one day I'll be proactive enough to seek out another blogging service, or innovative enough to register a URL and get my own blog hosted somewhere cheap. And by cheap I don't mean inexpensive; I mean inexpensive and proportionally crappy. But anything is a step up from the level of crappiness you get with a competely free product like this. And so you know, just like MSN Spaces, my riding is in the toilet. The new job I started 4 months ago last Friday is a near perfect 48km (30mi) from home. So in the 77 available working days I have managed to ride to work exactly once. That's 7300km (4500mi) of riding gone begging. In contrast with what could have been, what actually was is this... ...
243 days ago
I'm living proof that you can get in way over your depth without anybody noticing. I can't believe how busy and stressed I am right now. I think I'm hovering right on the edge of sanity that awaits any 41 year old 10 weeks into a career backflip. I’ve lost 11kg in that time despite riding less than 80km. But I’m offsetting the lack of riding with a lack of sleep.
260 days ago
When I got home from work last night, my wife demanded that I take her out to some place expensive... So I took her to a petrol station!!!
