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Category Archives: Life Strategies
Black and Blue Walking Man: Seven Bridges to Cross (Epilogue)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 When I got off the train in the CBD, I decided to treat myself to dinner at one of my favourite restaurants down in Chinatown. That meant a 10-15 minute … Continue reading
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Black and Blue Walking Man: Seven Bridges to Cross (Part 5)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 The Seventh Bridge: The Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney NSW At first, the Walk from Lane Cove Village was uneventful. Soon, I found myself descending a long but pleasant and not-too-steep slope alongside … Continue reading
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Black and Blue Walking Man: Seven Bridges to Cross (Part 1)
My long-walk from Hornsby to Artarmon on Saturday 25 January 2014 would turn out to be my last one for many months. There were a few shorter walks in the months that followed, and then they stopped. This wasn’t due … Continue reading
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Building Again (Part 2)
Part 1 I traveled down to Liverpool and the 2013 Sydney Model Railway Exhibition. Soon, I found the display by the Lego group and the two members manning it. I introduced myself and we spent the next hour or so … Continue reading
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Rust and Marty and Steve and Danno (Part 1)
In my last post, I wrote about how half-meditating to Iron Butterfly’s 1968 psychedelic classic ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ has helped me get through a current period of grueling work. Since then, unfortunately, work has gotten worse. The large-scale project I’ve become involved … Continue reading
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Return to the Garden of Eden
Mid-morning, Tuesday 8 July 2014. It was the second morning of the second week of grueling work. I had only gotten up barely two hours before, but already I was feeling tired from poor sleep. I wanted to go back … Continue reading
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Black and Blue Walking Man: Hornsby to Artarmon (Part 3)
Part 1 Part 2 I continued south-east from Roseville towards Chatswood. About halfway to Chatswood, I saw something that made me laugh loud and take a chance on trying to photograph it. And the result in all its rushed and … Continue reading
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Black and Blue Walking Man: Hornsby to Artarmon (Part 2)
Part 1 The first half-hour of my walk was uneventful as I followed the Pacific Highway south-east through Waitara and Wahroonga. And then around 12:30pm in Wahroonga I had this amazing encounter. After that, I kept on walking and pushed … Continue reading
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Black and Blue Walking Man: Hornsby to Artarmon (Part 1)
Saturday, 25 January 2014. Once again I got up at 9am; made it to the local Subway by 10am; and boarded a northbound train from Town Hall station at around 11am. Just before noon I got off the train and … Continue reading
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Kindle: Year Three
Kindle Kindle, again Kindle: Year One Kindle: Year Two Three years ago today, I made one of my greatest life-changing purchases ever – my Amazon Kindle Keyboard 3. And it’s still going strong, with 1831 titles and 686MB of free … Continue reading
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