How one night’s debauchery led from bar to hospital to sobriety — At 26, I attended a farewell party for an English teacher from New Zealand. It was at a Bar called Hatch’s, in a small ‘city’ called Tsu, in Central Japan. Entry was ¥2000 (about $35 Australian at the time) and it was “nomi-hodai”, all you can drink. …

Beware! Spitting Office Cobra Awaits… Somewhere, a sanitizer bottle is waiting to ruin your day… It was getting dark when the unexpected attack occurred. …

Do’h-mades!!! Well done. You’ve just survived the first pun of the round. The other day, I was driving my daughter to her Ju-jitsu class. “Will I need to wear a covid mask?”😷 She asked. “Not sure. You’d better Tae kwon do…”🤔 I said. 🙉 [Take one, though] 🥸 Such pun-ishment was…

A HUGE chunk of the content that appears for me to read in my Medium feed, is people telling me how to succeed. Succeed, succeed, succeed! True for Medium and all around the traps: “Get 100 Followers Before Your Toast Pops Up!” “How I make 2 Trillion Zloty per Quarter…

You Are a Better Writer Than AI Image: Markus Winkler, unsplash. I’ve been thinking about Artificial Intelligence a lot. Is spellcheck AI? Grammar suggestions from Grammarly? Perhaps not, but auto summarise in Word has been available for around 15 years and certainly uses components of AI to create a precis of a paragraph or document. I feel that…

Catching Omricon & Moving On Updated: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 Apparently, this article covers a divisive topic. Who knew? Although this article makes it clear, I am very much pro-vaccine. Here, I present some information about why, I believe, some people have concerns about vaccines, especially for Covid19. I also provide sources where anyone can…

Dad! Dad! It's too windy! I'm gonna blow away! That's ok I'll just get a new kid The front of the ferry is crowded Wind pushes at us all Low and rumbling pitching tilting Running spray off the Harbour A racing sailboat capsizes in our wake Kids are whooping with…