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Mike blogs in two places on Orble, and two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.

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Work Report - October 2009

Free Health Care

October 29th 2009 08:57

For several years now, a friend of mine called John Arnold (he's actually a doctor, but we don't let that come between us) and I have been getting together about once a week to chew the fat.

We started out on this journey when I was still working at the bookshop, and could take time off in the morning for an hour-long tea-break. John and I used to meet in a cafe out in South Dunedin (where his medical practice is) and at first the purpose was for me to take him through a discipleship course. He'd not long become a Christian

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October 14th 2009 08:12

While avoiding working on things on the computer I was supposed to be doing, and spending too much time on things I wasn't, I received a couple of emails.

One was from a guy in Canada who is the historian for a magazine called Chess Scotland. He'd been looking for something completely different and found a photo of my father and some dozen or more other chess players at a tournament in Australia. I'd posted the photo on my family blog, and then put a second post up after having tried to decipher my father's writing on the back of the photo, and list the people who were there

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Clutter !

October 9th 2009 08:29

This week at work I've been on my own in the office the whole time. It's been great: I've got rid of a whole pile of little jobs that had accumulated, and a good deal more on top. I had the time to concentrate on stuff that needed thinking about (especially when it came to thinking about figures and why they didn't balance). I enjoy working with the other two people, but it's also good just to have some time to focus without interruption!

One thing I haven't managed to do much with is the clutter. Ours is a great office for piles of cluttered paper. Usually we each have a fairly good idea what's on our desks, but it's not ideal. A lot of stuff could be filed away if we had time to do filing

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