This Week: A Summary

  • Posted by Pete
  • June 2, 2007

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  • Best Thing I Came Across Off-line: The twister-like phenomenon near my house. By the time I got the camera and snapped off the photo below, it had begun to dissipate. But this is something you don’t see in suburban Melbourne Australia.

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  • The Week’s Best Quote: “The trick isn’t to live forever. It’s to live with yourself, forever.” (Keith Richards in Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - probably the best thing in the entire 2 & 3/4 hours of the film!)
  • The Week’s Most Embarrassing Typo: A friend emailed me and asked me what I thought about this season of the TV show LOST. I thought I’d written in reply “Actually I prefer Heroes”. What I actually typed was, “Actually I prefer Herpes” (sigh)
  • The Week’s Heroes: Sal, Mark, Tanz, Steve, Matt and all the other volunteer leaders of Nexus Youth Keysborough where my eldest son is enjoying fun, community and values development. You guys rock!
  • The Week’s Arch-Nemesis: It’s a toss-up between two arrogant and greedy Corporate Giants: the oil companies with their soaring petrol prices and my Bank (for so many reasons) 
  •  The Week’s Toughest Challenge: Back pain.
  • The Week’s Biggest Win: A young lady in one of our training programs making the statement “I’ve remembered who I am” (this young lady has now relaunched a  career plan that suits who she is, rather than mere convenience).

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Written by:
Rosa Say
Posted on:
June 2, 2007 at 10:43 am

Congratulations on that big win Pete, for I know how profound that can be for that young woman and for you: Great job coach!

And I do hope you can banish that back pain. ouch.

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Written by:
Markk
Posted on:
June 2, 2007 at 6:23 pm

Do you mean to tell us that Jack is now of Nexus age? Ye gods! The time, it flies …

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Written by:
Mat
Posted on:
June 2, 2007 at 6:51 pm

HEy

Re: the twister

When we lived in Aspendale Gardens, the area turned out to be a bit of a wind tunnel and we had some pretty crazy experiences.. while we lived there, several small tornadoes happened. One caused quite a bit of damage to a business on Governor Rd Mordialloc (just around the corner.)

One time, the wind was so strong it tore a 2mx3m section of fence off from our neighbour, blew it OVER our fence and straight through Peter’s bedroom window (he was in the lounge room at the time, thank God.) It was like something out of the news in the USA yet happened to us!

You’d think that the news media would pick up on that sort of thing more but no.

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Written by:
Pete
Posted on:
June 2, 2007 at 7:08 pm

Rosa: thanks, interestingly the back pain has disappeared today with some good old fashioned gardening.

Markk: yes, the wheel has turned. Once it was me providing program and mentoring for the very leaders who are now providing it for my son. There’s a message in there somewhere…

Mat, glad your brother survived!

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Written by:
david douglas
Posted on:
June 3, 2007 at 2:03 am

that twister is nuts!

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Written by:
Pete
Posted on:
June 3, 2007 at 1:35 pm

Looked better in real life.

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Written by:
Robert Hruzek
Posted on:
June 4, 2007 at 11:33 pm

“‘Actually, I prefer herpes’ (sigh)”

Well, different strokes, I guess… Always knew you were a strange one, Pete! :-D

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Written by:
Pete
Posted on:
June 5, 2007 at 8:12 am

Different strokes. lol.

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Written by:
Mad Cow
Posted on:
June 7, 2007 at 4:13 pm

Hey - sorry to hear about your herpes, but that comment made my day!

Only slighly better than my offering a “10% disoc*nt” to my advertisers - um, whoops!

And that falling out of a tree did wonders of Keith Richards. It was that or the script writers - either way, I can see why you chose it!

Mad Cow (aka Amanda)
xo

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Written by:
Pete
Posted on:
June 7, 2007 at 4:16 pm

lol - isn’t it great when it’s in print for all the world to see?