captain mission

well the big news is in, from the front line, where i have a friend who is a PR expert and showed a great interest in my novel. she suggeste...

 it's been a long night and i was not sure i would wake up after eventually falling asleep, it took me ages and around 3pm i eventually ...

a week of hard work, one day left to go, before i can take some time out, it's been huge, so many dramas and events pass me by at work, ...

 the sarvant by douglass hoover a small group of prisoners in the first world war held in a barbaric work camp where they are treated with t...

last sunday i took a serious blow to the head, it sent me reeling into that high level pain area along with loss of awareness, disorientatio...

a strange powerful energy, almost a force has besieged me, my body over run with it's directive as i sit up at 3am for a few hours writi...

war interrupts the world, everyone is panicking, terror on the streets of sydney, the airways filled with opinion, somebody sees the future ...

apparently 64 years on earth in this body means i have lived quite a bit, it's true i crammed a lot in there but i'm also tired and ...

this morning i hear my ex wife debbie died. she had an aggressive cancer and passed away in sleep. our son was with her and as i spoke with ...

  vale dan simmons, one of the great science fiction writers of our time. i read hyperion many moons ago and it was a life changing book. i ...

finally after a week of disturbed sleep i manage to sleep 8 hours and wake up at a reasonable hour feeling good. it's been very challeng...

its strange after getting the antidote out there i unexpectedly began its sequel, it just started happening and i couldn't stop the flow...

the heart specialist said i need the electric shock, he changed my medication and seemed to think all was going to be fine. good news i gues...

i spent a few days in hospital, apparently my heart went back into AF and they thought i may require defibrillation. it was strange as i att...

sydney is expensive now, it's a ridiculous city when coffee costs the same as a loaf of bread. bills rates petrol all just seem out of c...

getting my heart scanned today and it does look like i have returned to arrhythmia which i will have to manage for two weeks before i see my...

lots of sad news this weekend, the first was from my brother informing me about a mutual friend of the family who was found dead in his bath...

morrissey - notre dame

the usual calamities at work, all i seem to do is pick up other peoples mistakes and have to correct them as well as attempt to do my own wo...

as i pull out the driveway a rabbit is revealed, he's cute, sitting there in his white skin looking like he's chowing down on some b...

over the last two days i have two random encounters with what i could only describe as nazi's. although they would never use that term, ...

time flips over, i'm confused by reality,  far to much hate it's an irrational thing, counter intuitive but i really wanna get away ...

the distorted news, lies and propaganda, idiot winds and the storm ahead, the zombie horde, better of dead you got the united nations, runni...

the old heart is damaged from the vaccine, it's playing up and the result is i'm down, but not out. however this makes me poor compa...

we took the old route, the old road, the winding remote path through the bush, thousands of years of trees and wilderness between us and tha...

it's a terrible world and a beautiful one, the older i get the more i choose beauty as my my drug of choice, i just don't wanna get ...

big messy waves, the ocean is wild, white water churns and spins me around challenging me even getting beyond, then there's a furious ri...

 

 feeling quite wretched i haul my ass down to the garage for it's 2 recall notices and full service, which i am told takes a full day. d...

sacred echoes playing from here and there, that percussion and drums, move along nicely, 'morning turns up drunk,' i think steve sin...

i was planning on an early night but ended up at terrible, with the gang just watching moonrise, it was lovely as the sky was incredibly dra...

i'm helping a client get ready for bed, she's a great lady, a very unique individual and we have a great friendship, although it...

what can i say, post bondi, it was inevitable. switched on people knew it was going to happen, how could it not. for 2 years thousands of zo...

on a train filled with beautiful monsters i don't feel quite the freak, just an old gothic twilight vampire out on the streets of sydney...

 exhaustion, i think i am officially burnt out.  i do feel physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually depleted, from a multitude of f...

down at terrible beach at dusk, big fat full moon coming up over the ocean, crisp summer light casting glorious details over the ever shifti...

the surf pounds along, beating out it's gentle rhythm, on crusty pristine sand i walk to greet the dawn, the gentle breeze comes in onsh...

this time last week i set of to see the church play the encore theatre on their singles tour,  which i must admit didn't sound appealing...

the morning surf was ferocious with waves all over the place, chopping me up and spitting me out, seaweed everywhere and although i enjoyed ...

i surf each morning, the water gets warmer each day and today was lovely although choppy. my head feels the same way as thoughts rattle arou...

cancer. that c word again, what is it why do we get it, i have theories, ideas i have collected that may or may not be true. it appears many...

okay early night, early morning, here i am waiting to be picked up for the blue mountains trip, i'm wearing long pants, a new church tee...

early mornings in the terrible surf as the sun rises and warms my skin, waves are okay but my fin is battered and falling apart, it is time ...

 

and here it is, out of the blue the new church tune and video, sacred echoes 2. interestingly based upon the photography of dorothy lange, a...

after last weekend i begun to burn out, exhaustion and fatigue had infected my psyche and the weariness was showing, i was finding it diffic...

 

great early morning surf out on the south end of terrible, waters sharp but waves are wild and i manage to catch a few but it is time to pic...

 

the carpet crawlers are here, well the cleaner is although he is on his hands and knees with his weird steam machines as he attempts to clea...

 great album from tom verlaine, i just discovered it. very hard to get on cd. love it.

the days have all blended, sometimes monday is sunday and i just don't care, as long as there's a wave that drives me forwards, the ...

what a fantastic weekend old captain mission has had, lots of surf, sun and laughter a spontaneous trip to merryweather up at newcastle, a v...

swimming at dawn again, water somewhat chilled today but it's so life affirming, the water is crystal clear and you can see the rays and...

i am glad the hostages are home, i am grateful war has finished despite the fact it will start again. i have lived in the middle east, and i...

 the final part of rays lennox path towards some sort of peace is as brilliant as the previous two books 'crime' and 'the long k...