General notes on being an Outsider in many different ways
I’ve now published my sort-of film-script ‘Eureka!‘ in book-form – see the Tetradian Books website here for the book-info, and here for the free-download PDF e-book. Set in the Australian 1850s goldfields (mostly), it’s best described as a comedy/satire about …
If you do a web-search on ‘Tom Graves’, you’ll find there are several of us, including a very pleasant and exuberant photographer in San Francisco, about the same age as me, with the website TomGraves.com . A few years back …
Progress report on my NaNoWriMo – 1697 words for the first day. Less than I’d hoped (given that I already have 60,000+ words on the same material), but more than I thought I’d done by the time I checked this …
Okay, okay, my least-popular subject, I know… As part of my work for my current client I’m looking at social support-services in general throughout the state. And one of the more obvious glaring holes is that of domestic-violence support services …
Hadn’t realised how much I’d been pinning my communication hopes on getting some kind of mobile always-on connection: yesterday’s ‘Declined‘ seems to have triggered my first serious downer for months. To put it simply, I hate being out of touch …
A well-dressed businessman in the queue in front of me at Liverpool Street, apparently asking for money from the middle-aged couple in front of me. “Two pounds, that’s all I’m askin’. I just wanna get home!” They look at him …
I’ve grabbed some time off over the Easter break to go visit friends, pick up some essential items from storage, and generally have an attempt at being human again. Good to meet up at old places, like the regular Saturday …
I’m off to Sydney tonight, on a four-month contract to set up an enterprise-architecture capability for a government department there. Will be off-air till I get things settled down in Aus. Shouldn’t be more than a couple of days, though.
After three months of time-wasting travail in this “foggy, dull and raw… nook-shotten isle of Albion”, turns out the only place I can get a real enterprise-architecture gig is back in Australia… So it looks like I’m back on the …
(This one’s quite long and quite personal: if either don’t interest you, skip it! 🙂 )