Mark O’Meara: the blog

Broad by Rebel Angel

For the second half of August Broad is touring right across this big brown beautiful and mysterious land we cally Strallya and I am sorry to say that this year we won’t be going.

This is a great pity because it is ace. Actually it is beyond ace, it is inspired.

Happily by the time Broad 2008 rolls around Leila and Finn will be at better ages to be easily babysat so I am sure we’ll be there (quite possibly with bells on).

Lesson for the day - catch it if you can.

Time Traveling Tiger by randomlife

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I look so damn happy by gallagher_krista

It is all too easy to think of things in opposites and so often this binary thinking seems to work. If you want something to be right then fix what is wrong and so forth.

Now I am not suggesting throwing this out completely.

But sometimes I suspect is just doesn’t work. For example I don’t know that being happy is just the absence of problems or the absence of being miserable. Rather than knocking down the problems I wonder if it wouldn’t be better putting our energies simply into being happy.

Lesson for the day - keep your eye on the goal not the obstacle.

Queenscliff Train Station by naz’s stuff

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The Boy’s Own Annual - 1924 by mando maniac

I am very sorry to say that when I see Finn of an evening I have a fair bit to get done and I raise my voice with him which makes me feel fairly horrible and probably doesn’t cheer him up any either. The solution is for me to manage my time a bit better and make an effort to maintain my calm.

I also thought it might be nice for us boys to have some dedicated boy time so I have booked a little cabin for Saturday night and we are off for an adventure together overnight. Hopefully he will enjoy spending the time with me. I know I am looking forward to spending some completely non-productive time letting him just be a kid at his own pace (and without me hollering at him).

As something of a bonus Fig and Danny are able to come with us with should add to Finn’s fun by a factor of about two hundred.

Lesson for the day - sometimes you need to break your patterns to break some patterns.

FIN by dumell

One of the things I have to get my head around this term is producing the necessary paperwork for full registration as a teacher. I don’t think any of it is too taxing mentally and it probably only amounts to fifteen or twenty hours work.

All the same I have been diligently ignoring it all year and, sooner or later, that has to change.

I might try to work out a plan of attack this week on this baby.

Lesson for the day - I can understand why they need to check all of this but it is still a drag to do.

Connecting by Down in the Blue (DitB)

I am trying to connect the school’s hard disk video camera to my school windows laptop and I am quite certain that it can be achieved. Last time a clever year nine kid solved the problem with me but I didn’t see how.

This time I am all on my own and utterly stumped. And I feel both.

Lesson for the day - it is easy to want to connect and hard to actually connect.

Literature by Robby Garbett

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the cafe zuppa by ’stee

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Rush Hour by Bihari No.1

In the small hours I woke up to let a dog outside and then back in. In the minutes that followed before I lost consciousness again I resolved to get up as soon as the six AM alarm went off. There would be no more of this rushing around in the morning and, if all went well, I could record today’s podcast.

I maintain this was a good plan.

So when I lazily rolled over and checked the time I was a little surprised to find that it was six-forty already. That made it a choice between creating a podcast and having a shower.

Lesson for the day - students and staff noses are more important than my five listener’s ears.