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Aussies Are Fast-Walking Pricks

I was fortunate enough to spend about 8 weeks in Sydney and Melbourne last year while on my gypsy travel binge, and I’d like to share a few quick light-hearted thoughts.

Dave’s Back in NZ… Again

Wow things really change fast sometimes. Especially when you’re on one side of the planet, people you care about are on the other side, and the shit decides this would be the best time to hit the fan.
So without elaborating too much, I abruptly changed my plans on the 12th of June by moving back [...]

Dave’s 2007 Year in Review

It’s been a while since I’ve recapped the big stuff in my life, so here’s what went down in 2007.
At the risk of seeming like a complete nerd, I thought I’d share five goals I set in August 2006 before leaving Arizona to complete my last year at The University of Auckland. I’ll share what [...]

National Depression: Unavoidable Even If I Don’t Give a Crap

So I’m just browsing the Web, minding my own business, and then I happen to check the feed of my friends’ status updates on Facebook. I see some rather distressing updates like “… is in disbelief” and “… is predicting national depression.” Obviously something really bad is happening, and because all the doom and gloom [...]

It Hurts So Good

Just as my stars are starting to align for the future, I got some bad news this week. My good friend Ellie unfortunately has to move back to Singapore on extremely short notice. What a bummer. I met Ellie back in 2004 when we lived in O’Rorke. I didn’t really hang with her much then, [...]

Free Idea: Free (or Cheap As) Community Shipping Service

Last December I was on a major road trip up the west coast of the US with my friend Paul from Arizona when my engine burnt to a crisp outside of Olympia, Washington. I was forced to get rid of just about all of my possessions that couldn’t fit on an airplane, which was not [...]

Free Idea: Asian Mystery Menu

ATTENTION ALL ASIAN RESTAURATEURS: You’re Missing A Huge Opportunity!

So I was having dinner with my friend Priscilla at a Japanese restaurant last night, and realised that Asian restaurants are missing out on a huge opportunity. As with almost any non-Asians, both of us had pretty much no idea what all of the options were on [...]

I’m Lazy, So Shoot Me (What I’ve Been Up To Lately)

Okay, for for the none of you that read my blog on a regular basis, you’d know that back in November of 2007 I wrote my first blog post in over 2 years recapping the previous couple years of my life. In the post I promised a series of 9 following posts to give a [...]

2006 Travels, Back to NZ, Random Jobs, AZ Reflection

During my time in Phoenix, I�ve been able to take some pretty cool trips. First was when my friends Sean and Tim, and my brother Rob came out to visit over New Years ‘06 and we all went up to Las Vegas. And yeah, the place lives up to its reputation. I also went out [...]

Working in Phoenix, Paul, Social Digression

So after Europe, a brief trip home, and a cross-country drive, I got to work full time at the Phoenix offices of the software firm I had been working for remotely in New Zealand.
(Just in case you’re wondering, I have intentionally concealed information about the company to prevent the competition from finding my blog.)
Looking back [...]