It was my birthday the other day and my parents took me to the revolving restaurant at Wrest Point. It was awesome! One weird thing was though that while just about everything there was the best the toilet sucked!
The square toilet
Aside from the shape being uncomfortable, it’s huge so when your sitting on it, your more sitting through it.
Anyway, I made a new picture:
I like lemmings…
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Hi all,
It seems I’m on a role i.e. this is my second post within an hour. My justification is a) my last post was put up yesterday (approximately 6 minutes ago, it is now 12:04am on a Friday 
) and b) its been just over a month since my last post.
Anyway, getting on with it. For those of you who don’t know I go to a bible study with a few of the lads from Wellspring. On Monday we looked at Thessalonians 4. The chapter is titled ‘Live to please God’ (NLT) and on the whole is a very encouraging book for us as christians. I don’t want to discuss the whole chapter here, just verses 11 and 12 (note: it is definitely worth reading the whole chapter at least).
In in this section Paul says “11 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. 12 Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.”
The first time I read this it didn’t seem to make much sense, I mean, generally when I talk about evangelism I have this idea of going out and being really proactive. Not saying that is wrong or inappropriate but these verses illustrate another way that we can ’spread the love.’
This ‘other way’ doesn’t require fearless extroversion or the ability to be able to strike up god related conversations. It challenges us to live as examples, being humble, living in a way that pleases God and not placing ourselves on the moral pedestal (minding our own business). By making sure we honour God in what we do, we can show our non-christian friends a glimpse of God’s kingdom.
Anyway, that’s my take. But now it’s late and I’m in need of sleep. Let me know what you think.
Dan out.
Hi, some of you may have heard the story already – too bad for you.
The other day I was at the McQuillans When Pat walks in with the phone saying “yeah I’ll just get him for you.” He then hands me the phone. The following takes place between 11:36am and 11:50isham on a date that was a little while ago:
TM: Good morning sir, are you the male in the house who has most recently had his birthday this year?
Dan: Sorry, I’m not the Mayor
TM: Sorry sir, the male who has had the last birthday in the household
Dan: there is no mayor in this house-
TM: The male-
Dan: a lady horse?-
TM: Sir, the Gentleman who has had the most recent birthday this year
Dan: Oh that’s me
TM: Alright sir, Is it ok if I ask you a few questions?
Dan: Yeah, that’s fine
TM: Are you between the ages of 18 and 35?
Dan: Yes
TM: Can you tell me how old you are sir?
Dan: Yes…
TM: …So how old are you?
Dan: I’m 32
TM: Alright, next question – do you smoke?
Dan: No
TM: Have you ever used tobacco products?
Dan: Does pot count?
TM: Hahahahahahaha, no sir – tobacco, like cigarettes
Dan: No
TM: Ok sir, I’m calling to see if you are interested in participating in our product testing trial. The products we will be asking you to test will include confectionary, alcohol-
Dan: FREE ALCOHOL?!!
TM: Sir-
Dan: Hang on I’ll put my mum on. *mouths the words ‘pretend to be my mum’ to Emily – she says no*
… End…
So, that’s my 3rd documented conversation with a telemarketer. Looking back I do feel slightly bad – I mean, I wasn’t as helpful as I otherwise could have been. Still, I’d like to think that our chat was the highlight of the telemarketers day – I mean it’s not everyday you get to talk to a ‘32’ year old who smokes pot in his mum’s house.
Anyway, on a side note, a couple of weeks back while I was up in Launceston, Humf came up with the idea of power rangas. I thought this was funny.
Go go power rangas: Humphrey Murray (left), Malachi Evans (back), Stuart Attenborrow (right), Sam Waterhouse - who looks like Dexter, who has red hair (front)
Dan presents:
Return of the home Barista – Rated MA (high level substance abuse and bandit faceness)
Starring - the zombie coffee crew
The bean grinding duo Dan and Andy return to form following a 2 month stint without a working espresso machine.
Ok – seriously
As some of you may know our machine hasn’t been working properly ie: leaking around the basket and generally crap tasting shots. We suspected that it may have had something to do with the seal, and it turns out we were right. After replacing the seal and giving the old sylvia a well needed clean we found there was no more leakage, we were able to insert and rotate the handle about 160 degrees (as opposed to the 70 degrees prior) and we could again make awesome coffee!!!
That night I swiped the machine and pumped out some coffees for the Wellspring anglican youthgroup – it was pretty emotional. Special thanks to our hommies at Villino for giving us two new seals (one for me to fiddle with and break) this wouldn’t be possible without you 
Huzzah!
Dan
Haldo,
As you may have noticed – I now has a blog. It is pretty.
Bye for now,
Love ,
Dan
