So it’s been a week since I mentioned the challenge to lose 5kgs in 5 weeks, and due to a good result in the first week you a now reading a blog about it.

 Not much to say, but I’m on track. Lost 1.7kgs!

The figures won’t be this high each week, and I expect to get sick at about week 3 and have to take it easy for a while, then just scrape home at the end.

Hear ye, hear ye!

The Duke has been sold.

After such a journey together, yesterday the Duke found itself a new owner.

No longer will there be 2 bikes sitting in my car space… We will miss you.

We’ve now gone wireless with our home internet access, previously we were using an old modem that didn’t do wireless.

Nat dropped in at Officeworks and picked us up a bargain wireless modem router and I finally got it working this morning.

So this means that now I can do a blog while sitting on the toilet without the need to lay cable.

I now have a Maton, now all I have to do is learn to play the thing.

Ok, so it’s on lend from a friend who had to go overseas for a few months or more, but hopefully I’ll be able to put some time in and learn a bit.

Played two games of indoor soccer last. For Free. Which of course is the best form of indoor soccer.

A friend refs at the indoor sports centre and a team couldn’t make it so he called a few friends to fill in.

I was trashed at the end of it, they were both mens games and one directly after the other. I haven’t played sport in ages and my body didn’t like the hour straight of it.

You know what but, I LOVE the feeling you get after having done something like that. Well except for the the crying like a little girl part…

Just played in the annual Youthworks College Vs Moore College rugby league match.

We had a team of 13 and 2 reserves.

Moore had about 26 players!

We came, we saw, we played well…

Final score: Moore College 24-20 over Youthworks.

I scored a try. Yay me.  And now I’m incredibly sore…

Last year I bought a jacket at Camden markets in London, well… actually I kinda bought 2. The first jacket I bought was really the one I wanted -it was predominately green with a yellow stripe down the arm - but… the zipper broke within about 20 minutes, and so I went through all the hassle of trying to get my money back which was basically impossible.

In the end I had to exchange the jacket for one which I didn’t like as much (great deal…). It was still nice - 100% cotton, made in Nepal, mostly blue with a couple of red an white stripes down the arm and a couple of big white panels on the sides (very patriotic). The zipper worked fine on this one, and so I walked away a partially satisfied customer…

Yesterday I washed this jacket for the first time since buying it (which isn’t as bad as it sounds because I’ve only worn it a handful of times last winter… really…).

All’s well until I pulled out the jumper to find the jumper had run all over itself (which I find an amusing expression). What I mean is that the blue dye has pretty much stained everything else on the jacket. It’s no longer blue red and white, it’s blue, light blue, spotty blue, and red with blue spots… Admittedly the washing instruction do say wash by hand in cold water, but I mean really, come on, who reads the labels? We’ve all put stuff in the dryer that says “do not tumble dry” haven’t we? But what was I supposed to do, cut white bits out of the jacket?

I have no idea where to go from here. Do I just keep washing it until it’s all a nice shade of the same blue? do I try some bleach? Do I soak it in water and drop it off the balcony in an experiment to see if it falls faster? I don’t know…

I can’t help but think that if I had the green jacket I wanted, I wouldn’t have this problem… though I wouldn’t have a zipper either.

We hung outside in the warm springish-like evening to check out the eclipse.

Nice one.

What’s even better is that we were doing Revelation 6-7 for our young adults bible study tonight, and if you know Revelation 6-7 then you know it’s got one of the descriptions of the final judgement; and…

“There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.”

Coincidence? I think not…

Now I have to wait another 4 years before we come back to that passage just to get the same effect.

Ok, so we’ve been on dial-up at home forever, like we’ve never had broadband, except when lived next to that guy with unsecured wireless access, but technically never!

Finally the day has come, the prices were at their optimal point for us to jump on in and connect to broadband.

The plan we went with was a TPG 512/126 connection, at a cost to us of $0 a month!!

That’s right, my boss is another step closer to being crowned coolest boss in the world! He’s paying for it! Awesome!

Now I can play scrabble on facebook, a newly found game (like today), with Dicker at blistering speeds! Anyone else who want a shot??

Wy do doornockers always come when you’re making lunch or at some equally unconvenient time?

This time it wasn’t the Ho Joes, or the Mormons, but a couple of young Asian girls and I don’t know where they were from…

I don’t mind the odd conversation with the doornockers - it keeps the apologetics sharp - but I had some chicken soup on the boil and I was waiting for the rabbit to make a run for it past my legs, out the open door, and off to who knows where…

So I was already a bit edgy to begin with, and it must have looked like a sight from their end as well - some guy in his comfy homeware stained tracky daks with one eye on tracing every move of the rabbit, and the other darting between a boiling chicken soup and meeting the eye of his new guests at the door, not to mention he has a cold, and a nose that threatens to leak at any moment -lovely.

So their openning line is going to need to be a good one… “Skusemee. Ello. We fom da chuch to spek you bout da hooly mudder.”

‘What.’

“Da hooly mudder.”

‘Holy Mother?’

“yis.”

So the converstaion goes on in broken english. They seem to think that there is one God and also a holy mother as well. So I say “alright show where it says that in the Bible.” (this’ll be good).

They go to Romans 1:20 where it says (paraphrase) that God’s invisible qualities can be seen from what he has made. Then they flip over to Hebrews 12:9 where it says (paraphrase) we have all had human fathers that disciplened us.

Confused? (Here is a case of mishandeling God’s word for all you kiddies out there) their argument was something like: We can discover new things about God by looking at the world around us, therefore just as people have human fathers and mothers, there must also be God the Father and God the Mother.

That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

What would you say?
Well I went to Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created…” Humans need a man and a woman to create offspring but God creates all things by himself.

Not the best refined argument, and could surely have been better put, but I was ready to go to Jesus as the exact representation of God (hebrews 1:1-4; and Colossoans 1:15 etc) But they said “OK. Tankyou. Bye Bye.” and that was it.

I have no idea where they were from, but given better circumstances I would like to help them sort this one out.