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A wasp and a spider

While working out the back on our Caravan, I spotted this wasp or hornet or whatever desperately trying to carry this huntsman back home for lunch. It was so heavy it couldn’t fly, and had to drag it along the gutter, across the road, where it dropped it once and flew off when a car came and just missed it, flew around, found it again, dragged it to the other side of the road, down and across a driveway and off into the neighbour’s garden. It was really quite extraordinary to watch.

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Google App for iPhone/iPad

Google App for iPhone/iPad

Camera by Beccy Snell www.beccysnell.com

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Tue 20th November 2012

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External Hard Drives

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)

RAID (redundant array of independent disks, originally redundant array of inexpensive Disks)

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Video Blog Intro

I thought it was time I put my travel time to use and started a video conversation with the world, so here is Episode 0

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WordPress

I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress, giving me a heap of extra functionality. Lots of things are broken at the moment, and I’ll get through and clean them up ASAP

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Whelmed

I was hoping whelmed could be my new target state of mind, as it had to be better than overwhelmed, which is how I seem to be feeling most of the time now, but it seems they mean the same thing…

whelm [wɛlm]vb (tr) Archaic

1. to engulf entirely with or as if with water

2. another word for overwhelmed

oh well..

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Back home

After 2 months, much soul-searching, many tears, lots of long conversations, a large dose of faith and forgiveness, I moved back home on Tuesday (7/2).

We still have a lot of work to do, but all marriages require work. We just decided ours was worth working for.

It’s good to be home

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Separation

In the period since the start of December, our family has fallen apart to the point where I’m currently living at the office to give Bern the head space she needs to sort out what she wants, and what is best for her and the girls.

I’m pretty broken up about this, but the reality is, it is mostly my fault. Over many years, I have failed to cherish my wife the way I should, and I’ve put business ahead of family.

I’ve had a wakeup call and I’m now ready to change, and in fact I am changing, but it may be too late..

watch this space.

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Jessica Watson: True Spirit

I finished True Spirit by Jessica Watson yesterday. It is her autobiography of her successful attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, non stop. I always find it sad finishing a book, but thus one made me sadder than usual. What this young lady has accomplished at the age of 16 feels much greater than what I’ve managed to do in 39 years. Of course, our goals are different, and I have a beautiful wife, and two lovely children. I’ve built a business from nothing etc, but her story still makes me feel inadequate. Inspired, but inadequate.