I am pretty sure that my comments are down.
My site stats seem to say that I am still getting plenty of readers, but I haven’t had a comment in a couple of weeks! I will have to have a chat to Chris, the local guru about it.
Chris, if you are reading, in two weeks time I am on holidays, then we are totally going out for a couple of beers & that “blogfest” that we have been talking about!
Wagga Wagga was very cool. My nieces and nephews continue to be pretty darn awesome & the sadness of leaving them was tempered by the knowledge that I get to see them all in a couple of weeks time when they come up to the Hunter Valley!
The drive home was long, a little over 6 hours, but a stop-off at Krispy Kreme’s at the end of it made everything OK. When I got back to college it was time to watch “Ronin” with some of the boys, while eating a dozen doughnuts. Man, that is good times right there!
So here I am. Four weeks away from broadband access, two weeks away from holidays (though the essays I have to do will keep them from being as exciting as they should be) and only 1 week away from mission. I will try & keep everyone in the loop, but this week will involve the writing & practice of 2 sermons, 2 evangelistic talks, 1 after-school talk & lesson and a bunch of other little bits & pieces. Prayers would be appreciated from those of you who are into that sort of thing.
In the mean time, cheer me up. Write me an email! Chris tells me I should post my email address where it will get picked up by spam robots, so I will confuse them by sayign it is “tim at timgoldsmith.com”.
Later gators!

I think I can say with absolutely no bias that I have the cutest and coolest nieces and nephews on earth!

Heapy, Amy, Beth & Mum with Jossie & Toby on their backs.

Three of the coolest kids I know. Of course one of them made the other two of them!

Thank heavens she doesn’t look like her uncle!

I would apologise for being away for the last week, but I haven’t received a comment in that time, so I don’t feel too bad.
Well, I am down in Wagga Wagga & I have access to Heapy’s WiFi, so I should be able to do a decent post at some time. In the meanwhile, here is a couple more pics from the last week and a bit.

Stu “Captain Stubbing” Beattie. Working his mojo on the camera @ Daz Man’s 30th.

Nige, Ev, Daz & Stu giving the “pinky salute”!

The shipping tower in Sydney Harbour.

I love stained glass windows!

The Bride and Groom, Mandy & Chris, doing a little salsa at their lovely reception at the QVB.

I left SMBC feeling a little unloved last night. The guys that had shown interest in coming to the Belgian Beer Cafe all piked because of stresses over essays & stuff, so it was just me, driving by my lonesome to Cammeray.
Any feelings on inadequacy disappeared faster than beers at a frat-party when I rocked up & met up with Bairdy and Hanbo’s though. Being fellow vetran’s of the “Boys House”, these guys & I have a bond that can only otherwise be forged through war, or being made to watch an entire series of “Gilmore Girls” together. After love and manly hugs, came the equally manly beer. That was followed by a slightly less manly, but most definately tasty Thai dinner. The disturbing part about the Thai dinner was the very manly waitress, or is that womanly waiter? Either way, I am pretty sure it was a man, man!
The night continued back at the Belgian Beer Cafe afterwards & we were lated joined by Dancin’ Daz Man, AY & his wife Sal (Happy Birthday mate) and then Mike Way & Nick Bell made an appearance too!
Lots of laughs, lots of “Leffe” and lashings of light and fluffy french fries made it a top night. I’d love to punctuate the tale with a picture or two, but that might have to wait till I am back online upstairs.
In the mean time, here’s to you, boys (and girl) of the Belgian Beer Cafe!

The Busy bee in me.
Camp from Friday to Sunday, N8 & Amy’s engagement party squeezed into the middle of that, leading church on Sunday night, then research this week! To top everything off, we are getting rid of the wire-free internet at college because it didn’t get great reception, and trading up to some ISDN/ADSL or some other acronimous connection. Good news because it will be twice as fast & half as expensive, bad news because it will take two weeks before we are hooked up.
That leads me to be here, sitting at my brothers house, holding my little zip disk so I can give you, dear readers, a couple of pics to hold you over till I am back online.
I could write so much more, but, this being study week, I need to devote all of my creative energy to discussions of the possibilities of Chiasms in Judges & the effects of post-Wittenberg Luther.
As usual, click for an enlarged view…

After a game of “glowstick capture the flag” I got shannyn and Geneveive to throw the glosticks in the air, while I held the lens open. This was the best of the results.

N8 & Amy. What an awesome couple! What a fun morning! What a shame I couldn’t stay for more than an hour! That will teach N8 to plan things on camp week!

What a blessing to have friends like C8! Any day when I see C8 is automatically a good one! I think N8 & Amy are going to be as cool a couple as C8 & Dan.

For the obvious child-safety reasons, these kids shall remain nameless. They were cool to hang out with at the party though.

A couch at college. Sometimes even I don’t know why I like some photos, but this one I kind of do.

Ah, the Sydney Botanical Gardens, where nature meets the city & shakes its hand!

This, dear brothers and sisters, is the look of a man who has just spent a week listening to some very academic lectures. full time college can do that to a man!

Don’t be fooled friends. Soon after munching through her mum’s necklace (above), Charlotte went straight for the throat! She may be cute, but she’s also deadly, so be kind to my niece!

Back to the city to take some more pictures. This time it wasn’t just “things” that I was capturing though. My sis-in-law Kristin, my Niece Charlotte & her Grandma Valerie came in with my little Bro Phil, so I could get some family pics of three generations of girls.
I got there a little early, so I had a chance to take one or two pics of the Opera House while I was at it.
Why should I say, when you can just see?

Love the lines & the angles of the Opera House

It’s rare that I do anything in photoshop other than a little colour saturation, but I kind of liked this effect.

Charlotte gives playing in the park a 10 out of 10!

Three generations of lovelly ladies!

Even tiny little alleys hid pubs in the great city of Prague.

You get an imaginary helicopter if you can guess what this picture is of.

Two of my pics have to do with drinks today. Just coincidence. I’ve just been playing around with everyday things that are around me.

A sunny day & a cool drink of cordial. Sugar isn’t always good though, when you need to concentrate in lectures…

I made a great buy last weekend, when I picked up a bottle of “Angostura Bitters”, some “Bickfords Lime Cordial” and a bottle of Lemonade. Lemon, Lime & Bitters is the most awesome of non-alcoholic drinks! Now all I need is a hi-ball glass!

I was sitting up last night thinking about how you might portray feeling depressed through a picture, but in a different way. This was one of the ideas that I came up with.

This was the other way.