Last day for Gayle
It was Gayle’s last day on Thursday. A very emotional time, not just of sadness at her leaving; I have felt a lot of anger and resentment about it too. Irrational thoughts along the lines of “how dare she have expectations about how I do my job here when she’s leaving”. I’m not proud of […]
Successful grant application
Some good news today, a grant submission I prepared for the Hospice was successful. We’ve been awarded more than $20k towards new office/IT equipment from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund.
Suzuki swift
Yesterday the mechanic had a mishap with my car, and somehow managed to smash the coollant temperature guage. So this weekend I am temporarily in custody of a brand new little Suzuki until the replacement part arrives on Monday. Nice little car.
Rubik’s cube party
We’ve been invited to Lee-Ann’s 40th birthday today, it is a “Rubik’s cube” themed party. The idea is you come to the party dressed in the different colours of the Rubik’s cube (red, blue, green, orange, yellow, white), and swap items with other party goers until you are dressed in one colour. H has to […]
Financial services in Australia
Materials arrived for my bookkeeping course and the first unit looks at the financial services industry. It’s been many years since Australia’s economy rode upon a sheep’s back, and now the services sector outstrips even the mining industry. The financial services industry in particular plays a major role, and contributes over 8.6% in Gross Domestic […]
Gayle’s going
Big news at work today – Gayle has been offered a job in payroll processing by Queensland Health, and handed in her resignation. She leaves in two weeks. I was all geared up to cover for her next month anyway, while she was away on annual leave. I just might be doing it a bit […]