Archive for May, 2008

I told him once or twice

Z’s discovered yelling as a form of communication and is now banished to the jailhouse.The good news is, at long last, we’re back on line!
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There is such a thing as bad press

I feel like the only thing I’ve written since we arrived in Australia has been various bitching and moaning about not having an internet connection. Well, from today I’m going to endeavor to move back to the eclectic, if underwhelming, ramblings to which you’ve become accustomed here at afreeman.org
One of the luxuries in which I’ve [...]

%&*^$#!!

I’m trying really hard to restrain myself from publishing my “Things About Australia That Piss Me Off” post. But if you’ll indulge me just one – it takes nearly a month to get a home phone and internet. It wouldn’t be so bad, but they keep teasing us. Giving us dates and then changing them. [...]

Sharon Van Etten’s First Time

Crikey (to use the local parlance), that was a longer break than I had intended. A Free Man is settled in Oz, but still lacking a proper internet connection. So, posting will continue to be sparse for the short term. But today, we’re back with an interview of talented new singer-songwriter whose music appeared in [...]

The time to rise has been engaged

I’m by no means a workaholic, in fact those who have worked with me or supervised me might describe me as having a casual work ethic. Or the more direct of them might describe me as lazy. The original relocation plan called for me to take a few months off after we got Down Under [...]

In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.

Laying in the sand eating fish and chips while the Southern Ocean lapped at my toes I remembered why I wanted to come down here. It was all about quality of life. It was about being a quarter of an hour away from the beach. It was about having a little bit more living space [...]

The Ocean Breathes Salty

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The price some pay for a simple life

Thank goodness for the library! After a week in Aus I’ve found a source for free, reliable, internet. We joined the library at Noarlunga yesterday and I spent an hour in wireless surfing bliss. It would have been more than an hour but apparently there is a download limit that I exceeded fairly rapidly. I [...]

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