At the company I work for, we recently held a leadership offsite to improve relationships between managers in different departments.  To break the ice with two leaders in the business, I thought I’d tell a funny story about one of my staff members.  This staff member, a thirty year old male, approached me one day and said that when he ...

I was saddened to hear about the passing of Phillip Seymour Hoffman yesterday.  Hoffman was found dead in his apartment due to an overdose on heroin.  Apparently he had relapsed into a drug addiction from which he had stayed sober for two decades. Hoffman was one of my favourite actors of the past decade.  I first came to know him ...

BRISBANE ROAR 2 – WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 ADELAIDE UNITED 2 MELBOURNE HEART 2 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 3 NEWCASTLE JETS 0 MELBOURNE VICTORY 0 SYDNEY FC 5 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 3 PERTH GLORY 1 The Week Where Everything Happened So here’s how the week went down. Tuesday:  Besart Berisha writes a letter to Brisbane Roar fans explaining that he is leaving ...

Something For Cate

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Lego Minifig Series 12 arrived in Australia recently.  You might recall that I mentioned in my blog that after Series 11, I was feeling a bit of burn out with the Lego Mini-fig range.  They pump them out at a rate of one every four Although Series 12 has a number of repeated characters (robots and construction workers), I ...

I will listen to this song on repeat for the 48 hours before the Rumble. It’s the Royal Rumble long weekend!*  Only a couple of days left before my favourite pay-per-view of the year is on. “Ladies and Gentleman, it is now time for the Royal Rumble! Earlier today the 30 participants who entered, drew numbers at random. In just ...

NEWCASTLE JETS 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 PERTH GLORY 3 MELBOURNE HEART 0 BRISBANE ROAR 1 ADELAIDE UNITED 2 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 SYDNEY FC 0 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 MELBOURNE VICTORY 3 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 MELBOURNE HEART 3 NEWCASTLE JETS 1 PERTH GLORY 0 BRISBANE ROAR 0 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 5 MELBOURNE VICTORY 0 <- WTF SYDNEY ...

Free Tilly

Of Mice and Men