Shownotes:
Deepest thoughts on my finances, depression and supporting your friends in tough times.
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Segments:
- Close To Home
- ... in which I speak of matters around my house
- The fine weather we've been having, house guests in Highlands
- The reality of finances... getting my head around the need to earn an income
- "Most individuals could be deemed to … be only three paydays away from bankruptcy"
- Website for that quote
- That my BMI isn't quite in the obese range... yet
- Community... and enjoying a dinner with friends to celebrate the descent into winter
- a.d. musing on the fragility of life
- Out There
- ... where I go head-to-head with world events
- This week I labour a point about depression and looking out for your fellow man
- News article "Something So Wrong" on Paul Hester
- Website - suicide statistics (Australia)
- Website - BeyondBlue - the national depression initiative - practical hints for action when you're feeling blue
- Podsafe music
- ... this week, a song written and recorded the night before the show
- The Jordans - Four Winds
- Website
- Write to me if you're interested in hearing a soundseeing tour of the songwriting and recording process
- Word!
- ... showing off my vocabulary (at great risk!)
- The word of the week is fancy... which I'm enjoying because of Neil Stephenson's latest series in which he uses the historial form, phant'sy
- Word of the week 2! It's antimacassar. See Dictionary.com definition
- On my bedside table
- ... what I'm reading, old or new, borrowed or...
- Ze Frank... see his website here
- "Code Name Ginger" by Steve Kemper (book also published as "Reinventing the Wheel")
- "Dumbo Feather - pass it on" - magazine - Website
- Bugged
- ... what's getting on my goat this week
- How hard it is to invent new words
- Authentic Indian Name Generator - Website (note: this wasn't a 'bug'!!)
- The fact that I need to purchase a second box from the same manufacturer to make my ISDN modem properly serve my network
- Stuff I Want
- ... fairly self-explanatory, I would've thought
- See the previous item... I just want a decent way of accessing the Internet!
- And I want 48 hours in every day
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