Category: Miscellaneous

Sorry for the so long since the last post. I’ll attribute it to a mix of being sick last week and being extra busy due to giving a midterm last week as well.

Not much to tell though…although I *did* buy a ticket to Australia (just me, not KLS) so that’s something exciting. I’ll be there shortly after Christmas and stay through mid January.

We haven’t made any effort to remove the autumn leaves yet, and they are starting to pile up, especially out the front. Even so, the ‘big trees’ have yet to shed most of their leaves, so the worst is definitely to come. I smiled when I got home today to find a flyer from a local landscaping company offering ‘fall cleanups’, especially since our neighbour with her immaculately raked lawn had no such flyer tucked into her front door.

Yesterday I bought Eye Of Judgment, the Playstation3 online CCG that uses a camera for card recognition. Immediately after this post I’m off to devote a few hours to the game. Expect my opinions later this weekend…

I went to the post office this afternoon to mail some stickers to my mum (you should get them in five days mum) and the postie picked up on my accent and started asking about it.

Now he was a soft-spoken, very gentle man. The sort that on first impression seemed like a genuinely nice person.

Anyway he seemed legitimately interested in Australia and asked a bunch of questions before disclosing that a few years ago he’d had the privilege of taking a ‘spiritual journey’ to Ulluru (aka Ayer’s Rock).

In case you don’t know, Ulluru is a large mountain in the centre of Australia, sacred to native aboriginals. It looks like this:

< Ulluru Anyway, he went on to tell me he'd been to many areas of 'spiritual significance' on our planet but the 'energy from Ayer's Rock, especially at sunrise' was like nothing else he'd ever experienced. I was bemused, of course. But I also respect people like this, for at least some faith is better than being a soul-less bastard isn't it? Reminded me also of the woman in Hawaii who tried to sell me amethyst on account of it's healing powers. When I mentioned my interest in the gem was purely scientific because I am a physicist (I am!), she literally ran away from me in embarrassment :)