a picture my son drew of a wave on a beach

Fury

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tagged with: #breakup

Shit, pain and filthy fury.

Fury is an ugly filthy monster. I pretend my fury does not exist. I ignore it, down inside my dark recesses but today it got out. My calm exterior hid the boiling fury inside me. I casually hurt the one most dear to me. When …

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I have a ­customer

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tagged with: #work

He wants me to build him that thing, you know, only different.

You know what I want”.

I know what I think you want. That is what I build. It is not what my customer wanted. I ask my customer to be more specific. My customer specifies what he does …

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Ideas

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tagged with: #kids-project

Where are we going with this? I don’t know it all started because Agrippa, Choppy and I love making up stories with each other. I thought we could brainstorm some ideas. Mixed in with reality and random ideas from us, spat out here (nothing has come of it) —->


From …

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My Best ­Rose

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tagged with: #letter #reading #friends

Dear Z,

Thank you so much for your package, it is lovely and I shall treasure it.

You surprised me. I felt you were exactly the person I remembered but the lens of time and the walls of distance left me ignorant of the truth. I feel so stupid that …

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Not ­Nano

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tagged with: #writing

How do I go about filling three pages of foolscap from within a text editor? Do I write it longhand count the words and compare it the same number of words on the screen? I’m not sure if it matters. I do not want to write it longhand. I …

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Sore ­Eyes

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tagged with: #breakup

I have a sore eye. Actually they are both sore one is worse. Red and inflamed, I’m sure they don’t look too good. The dust from the tree bark I was shovelling today is the culprit. That and the dry wind and sun.

I should go to sleep …

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Spike

rbn
tagged with: #letter

Dear Spike,

I am not sure you will read this. This is me, Ben. We grew up together. Your mum does not think you will remember anything. You cannot forget this and I have to tell you. You need to know everything.

We were just little boys when we met …

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Chiang ­Trikes

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tagged with: #travel #bicycle #ev #thailand

Last Post from Thailand.

A trike bike, thai style
The human powered pedal thing in Thailand are next level

Our first night in Chiang Mai was pretty stressful but the rest of our trip has been awesome. Before going home we will travel down south to learn how to SCUBA dive.

I have been sending …

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Bum

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tagged with: #travel #ev #thailand
A scrappy old street do from Chiang Mai having a drink of water from one of several plastic cups
At the gym Ev and I went to there’s a dog called Bum. Bum is on one of the videos. He was much like this dog which we saw in town one day. Kind of ugly but proud of it.

Bum is one of the dogs that lives at …

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Chiang Mai Computer ­Shop

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tagged with: #travel #kids #ev #thailand

Riding around Northern Chiang Mai earlier today I passed this and another of my interests was piqued:

Chiang Mai Computer Shop
A computer shop in Chiang Mai

I woke the owner up, he spoke a little english and said that We Open Source people should stick together and share the knowledge. He looked a …

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Zoo

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tagged with: #travel #ev #thailand
Ev in the ring facing up to his trainer
Ev in his element in Chiang Mai

Ev has flaked out on the bed. We went to training this morning, and followed that with a trip to the Zoo. I had been looking for an excuse to hire Noi’s Songtaw. Noi and her partner (Nuu-ie, I think) looked after …

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