You said WHAT!?

My boss messaged me to say “Have a good weekend.” I really shouldn’t have rushed my reply, sending back “You tool!” instead of You too. Pretty clear indication it’s time to leave.

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Strangely blown away – April 2015

I don’t know the cause of the strange events. Was it the full moon (a Red Moon at that)? Or perhaps it was the fact that in the days before, I watched two trippy movies which were challenging reality. First it was all five dimensions of Interstellar, then Fight Club. (I started Inception also, though […]

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Half companion, half trouble-maker

(An imagined real story :-)) Norm was a typical Australian bloke, with a typical Australian dog. The dog was called Rusty.  He was half companion, half trouble-maker. It proved difficult to keep such an active, free-spirited dog under control. He would always fall into mischief.  And some mischief was clearly worse than others. In fact, […]

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Specificity

I was clearly under the wrong impression that the latest Microsoft releases supplied more useful error messages.

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Dubai public transport “adventure”

Wednesday night the boys and I decided to catch a metro after dinner to The Dubai Mall and watch the water fountain show. At 6:30pm, the decision was possibly a bit late, but the boys hadn’t been out of the apartment, and Mum wasn’t around so the boys felt like partying. In hindsight, it was […]

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Woops

I made my first faux pas today, and lived to tell the tale.  Well actually it’s my second faux pas if you count the time I was walking out of thesupermarket and inadvertently made eye contact with a prostitute, then looked curiously when I noticed she was beaming a massive, suggestive smile at me. This resulted in […]

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