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This morning we drove over to Newtown to meet up with my wife s sketching club. I did this with her once before, and now I wanted to continue trying my new A4 sketching book. We parked at a friend s place, who lives nearby, and walked over to the designated meeting point, which was a random-seeming Continue reading Newtown for sketching and pies
On Friday, in between my usual Critical Thinking classes, I took Scully for a walk down to Berry Island. I was looking out for wildlife close enough to photograph, and got photos of an elegant snake-eyed skink: This is a tiny lizard, very skinny and shorter than a pencil. They re very common in suburban gardens. Continue reading Nature, sketching, and trip planning
My day was pretty normal today. Classes to teach in the morning and evening. Took Scully for a walk at lunch. In the afternoon I worked on new a Darths Droids strip. The main thing I want to talk about today is the H5N1 bird flu which has arrived in Australia. The first cases Continue reading Bird flu is hitting Australia
Like last Wednesday, both me and my wife had to head to work before the doggie daycare place opens at 8am, so I had to drop off Scully with another acquaintance to look after her for a while before dropping her in. My wife found another local dog owner who was happy to help out Continue reading Dropping off Scully at another new place
This morning I finished off my science class slides and then did the Zoom class with the student. We only really got about half way through al my material on eyes and vision, so I have plenty left over for Thursday s lesson. For lunch I took Scully on a big walk over to Bay Brew Continue reading A really big chicken burger
I had a busy day. Normally I have three Critical Thinking classes to teach in the morning, but I ve had another class at midday scheduled for a while with no students in it. But this week a new student enrolled int that timeslot, so I had a fourth class to teach. And then this evening Continue reading Many classes to work on
Yesterday I forgot to mention my wife and I filled in our Census forms. In the past it was on paper, but now it s all online and it was pretty quick and easy to do. They did it online for the first time five years ago and it was a bit of a debacle, but Continue reading Census questions and more Irish bookings
On Friday I had my regular Critical Thinking classes. In between I cleaned the house ready for my friends to come over for Dungeons Dragons in the evening. It was session 20 of our current campaign. Having recovered the magical Jaunt Lens, a device that can teleport them to wherever is depicted in a Continue reading D D session 20 and a new Thai restaurant
Today I had two Critical Thinking classes in the morning, and two in the evening, plus another science tutoring class. We went through examples and evidence for evolution today. Then I made some homework questions for the student to work through, and also read through her responses to the previous homework (from Tuesday), and wrote Continue reading D D prep and science homework
Australia does an official Census every five years, and the time has come around again. Census Night is Tuesday 11 August, but if you know who will be present in your home that night you can fill it out early online. I was thinking that an official government census is a bit of a wasted Continue reading It s Census time