Hi everyone,
So it’s been a while since I posted. The honest truth is, I ran out of random things to say.
BUT, I’ve now teamed up with my wonderful wife to create a blog that is purely dedicated to the travel part of our lives. So there will be regular posts and photos, some of which have been posted here before, but mostly new content of course!
So please head on over to https://strachan2bewild.com/ and follow me there instead 😉
Cheers
Mike 🙂
How often do you judge strangers on a daily basis?
How often do you judge co-workers?
What right do we have to judge anyone at all?
Despite advances in technology, medicine, intelligence, and health, which have all rapidly accelerated our world into the modern 21st century, humans still have an unusual tendency to point to the caveman as a reference for forging ahead with their meat-eating addiction. Continue reading “The meaty manly myth”
So this is the year my writing finally comes to the foreground. A quick glance over my blog for 2017 will take you 2 seconds (don’t do it, it’s not worth the time) to see I put up zip, zero, nada, a goose egg! Alright, so I did publish a few posts, but they were certainly nothing substantial, but just enough words on the screen to let you wonderful people know I hadn’t disappeared.
We arrived in Vegas on Sunday afternoon, Oct 1, and we went to a show that night at the MGM at 7pm. We came out around 8:30pm. A few hours later, unfortunately, history was made…
Continue reading “What happens in Vegas travels around the world”
So it’s travel time again.
To the U.S of A (again) for the next 4 weeks.
This time we’re taking 10 friends with us!
What’s the first thought that enters your mind when you wake up in the morning?
Do you look forward to the day ahead, or do you skip the weekdays and only look ahead to the weekend?
Do you think of those pesky tasks on your to-do list and immediately start dreading them?
Do you wake up like a zombie with no thought at all? Continue reading “Wake up & smell the coffee!”
Here’s an experimental short story I knocked up on my morning train journey to work over the past two weeks. Continue reading “Eli’s journey (Fiction)”
6 months ago I made the decision to trial a life of not eating animals or animal-related products for a few weeks. No more meat, cheese, milk, honey and so on. After a few weeks, I realised the likelihood of reverting back was slim. And so it proved, the trial turned into a permanent change. So, how am I doing 6 months on?
Last year I posted about not having New Year’s resolutions… hastily constructed, alcohol-fueled, forgotten tomorrow, whinge, rant and so on. I’ll admit this post is me backtracking a little, but I’m cool with that.
I haven’t done a song list for a while, so I’ve added a few extra this time. As the year comes to a close, here’s 10 non-Xmas-y tracks for you to check out so you can cruise right into 2017 (it’ll help if you’re partial to electronic/chillout music with a touch of hip hop/RnB). Unfortunately I couldn’t get videos for the first two tracks. Continue reading “10 songs to take you into 2017”
September 2008; I’m working night shift and need something to keep my brain active through the day. So I enrol through Griffith University to study a degree in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
November 29, 2016; I walk out of my final exam and feel strange. I’ve finally finished. 24 modules, and a hideous amount of $$ later, I’ve earned myself a piece of paper. Continue reading “8 long years & a piece of paper”
About 8 months ago, Sel went vegan. She’d already cut down on meat prior to that, but she finally decided to do away with the dairy, eggs, honey and so on. Come November ’16, which was World Vegan Month (unofficially?), I decided to try it myself. I admit I’d had a head start. Most meals I eat at home are primarily vegetarian, and sometimes vegan anyway. The difference was that I always gravitated to a meat dish when we went out. Or at least something covered in cheese. Or both. Not anymore. Continue reading “Food for thought”
A while ago, I watched an episode of Black Mirror (S1 E3 – The Entire History of You) and it was about inserting a tiny device into the base of your skull, allowing you to revisit and replay your memories. You could even bring the memories up on a screen for other people to watch. During a replayed memory, you could even zoom in on people on the other side of the room who would have barely entered your consciousness at the time. So in one scene the protagonist, Liam, applied a lip-reading ‘app’ to his memory to find out what two people were talking about.
Sometime it’s nice to get a different perspective on things.
Here are my tracks to get you through April. Enjoy! Continue reading “5 songs to get you through April ’16”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dance
One of the things I loved about Venice Beach when we visited last year? Dancing on roller-skates!
Here are my five tracks to get you through March. Enjoy!
Sitting down to dinner tonight in Ubud, Indonesia, it dawned on Sel and I that Indonesia has no concept of what a millionaire is.
Why? Because 1,000,000 rupiah is the equivalent of about 96 Aussie bucks.
The photo challenge this week is Time
Using my phone, I quickly snapped this pic yesterday afternoon on the (usually busy) streets of Ubud, Indonesia. This little pup sat there as if he was waiting patiently for the traffic to pass, as if he had all the time in the world. He eventually trotted over to the other side and disappeared behind a row of scooters.
I’m typing this at 10,000 feet, cruising through the clouds, bound for Indonesia. Sel and I will do our best to switch off our sources of stress, avoid avenues of anxiety, and just have a damn good relax.
Before boarding this flight though, I couldn’t help but notice my airport experience, and although it was like every other airport experience I’ve had, this time I had a keyboard handy so I thought I’d take a few notes.
Here are my five six tracks to get you through February. What do you think?
Driving to work the other day, I knew a particular road on my route was blocked due to flooding. For the first 40 minutes of the drive, I knew not to take the turn off.
What do I do when I eventually reach the aforementioned turn-off? Take it of course. Did I immediately realise what I’d done? No. Not until a minute later when I came upon the ‘Road Closed’, or more specifically, the ‘stupid fool, you knew not to come this way’ barrier. Continue reading “My name’s Mike, and I’m Autopilotic.”
Before Sel embarks on her upcoming blogging adventure, my first instinct was to impart on her my advice about how to approach it. I know what you’re thinking,
“Mike, you haven’t reached 300 readers and your posts don’t get published elsewhere. You’re not exactly a blogging role model, are you?”
a coffee break with mike 