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Confusion of events of the last two weeks.
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All these things happened in the last two weeks. I wish to note them, because what else is a blog for? In no particular order:
- I started classes for Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Now accompanied with brand new Three Letter Acronym "TAE" instead of the "TAA" used by the old Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. I choose Chris Morton Powerful Seminars as the RTO as I could get the class time out of the way in five days, and it was cheaper than doing one at a TAFE.
- On the same day I started the Cert IV, I discovered the administrators had been called in on one of my English teaching schools. Seems they owed the tax department a couple of years of money. So the school was declared insolvent in order to prevent the tax office closing it and taken all assets for itself. Now unpaid staff such as myself get first go of any funds remaining.
- Not much later, being advised to check out the General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme, just in case.
- Going to a wake for the school at the Story Bridge Hotel. Nice to catch up with people for the penulntimate time, but not so pleased at how yuppiefied the venue has become. But then it's been more than 10 years since I visited it. Not that I want my next workplace to go bust, but if there's a wake, it should be at the Joynt.
- Myriad updates on blog's development environment, such as adding Tinymce javascript to forms. Then discover I can't upload to production server, because 100+ mm of rain has really screwed up the ADSL to my house.
Goodbye to the Noughties, and goodbye to 2009
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I'm not going to blow off the [20]00's, as Paul Krugman did, by calling it The Big Zero. His country fared far worse than mine, or my wife's, during these years. Australia seem to have avoided major recession, and the nearest Việt Nam came to it is a measly 4% growth. Better than the soup kitchens and the 18% unofficial unemployment and the medical bankruptcies and the general malaise over there.
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I'm an uncle!
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I'd like to welcome to the world my first (and for the time being, my only) nephew - Silas Crow Tomlinson. He was born last night (the 18th) to my darling sister, Karen, after a 10 hour labor. Congratulations to her and partner Piers. Woohoo!
On Introductory Blog Posts
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I intended to write an introduction for this site - an archetypal "Welcome to my blog" post. Unfortunately, Google tells me that by now, there are 40,900,000 results for the phrase. It's a bloody cliché, and I don't like writing clichés. Faced with the embarrassing possibility of uttering them in public, I get writer's block.
So I decided to write a post celebrating my wife's birthday instead.
Happy Birthday An
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Happy birthday to my wife. She's 33 years old today.
Photo grabbed shamelessly from her Facebook page.
Blog Post #0
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Because it would be premature to announce a blog without testing it.