We seek freedom, but to get it, we must take responsibility.

Gardening – you take the responsibility of rearing your own food, put in a bit of hard yakka and in return you can stay home eating instead of shopping.

If you want the freedom to express things through music, take the responsibility of playing everyday until the facility grows.

If you want to breath freely, give up smoking.

If you want the freedom to look the world in the eye, make an effort to act with honesty and integrity.

We did it!

Jak just sent this to the SCU teams:

Tomorrow Di, Emma, Lisa and I are heading up the coast to get prepared for The Race which starts on Saturday.
I have been magnifying every twinge and ache in my mind, getting paranoid that I am going to pop out a kneecap or pull a ligament. However my stupendous Captain Di has covered all possibilities and arranged for us to get taped up to prevent us rolling ankles or twisting knees. Thank You Chris!!

Emma and I will try and keep everyone up to date via the Live Kokoda Updates (see the feed on the left of this page). Our Twitter names are, tregeagle and diemma.
If you would like to get mangled groans via a text message in the middle of the night, subscribe and be my guest.

We'll be finished this time next week! Holy cow!
The emails are starting to fly around the uni is writing articles about us and we're getting space in the local paper. We are all frantically making lists of stuff to do before the start. For example:

1. Monday - Arg! that's tomorrow.
2. Tuesday - Put together kit, be amazed by the amount of donations pouring in!!
3. Wednesday - Make sure gear is packed
4. Thursday - See physio, get ankle taped
5. Friday - 9am Heading up the coast
6. Saturday - 5.30am race registration opens. 7am race starts
7. Sunday - hopefully will finish the walk in under 32 hours and go eat and sleep at the Zenith not before having a much needed rest in the spa though.

You can track my teams (Southern Cross University Wanderers, team 66) progress

John is another year older, well beyond second puberty now. Remember the day he battled King Kong and a T-rex? As I remember it he had his arse kicked by the little blonde woman when he gave King Kong a black eye....

After stacking my bicycle, pulling a wheely after work, I found a physio who did a great job of taping up my ankle. I had to skip the mini-kokoda on Sunday (Sorry team!!) but went ahead and did the ride.

It definitely deserved the title, "Old Farts Cycle".

I stuck the photos over on flickr. Some of which I expect I'll be regretting ...

What a geek. Here I am, a night on the Razz at Cav Avenue on the Gold Coast without my family in tow... and what do I do? Go talk to my self on my blog, hello me.

After stacking my bicycle on Thursday night, like a fool (I'll let someone else share that story in the comments). I have been limping around like a pirate all weekend. I had to bunk off doing the Mini-Kokoda which really sucked. I feel like a limping piratical blob after having hung around all day.

Di, Emma and Lisa did the +30k walk like arctic explorers, they faced the hardships, conquered hills (despite grinding knee bones) all with a smile. Or possibly slightly insane grins... grimaces? Luckily nobody had to sacrifice themselves for the good of the expedition, unless you include me, but the girls just said it was because I was a wuss.

Today [18th June] is Download Day!

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The third version of Firefox has been released today.
Firefox is synonymous with: security, stability and ease of use. If you want to try it out... it is only a small download and installing is a cinch.

If not, well that's fine too. There are much more important things to do with your time :)

Chris took a pic of Emma, Di and me - after she had made us walk up every single mountain between Crossmaglen and Coffs. That was last week, this weekend we are all heading up to the Gold Coast hinterland to take part in the Mini Kokoda on Sunday. A 30km walk up and down the mountains. Then on Monday I am meeting Matt somewhere on the Goldcoast. We will then start cycling inland before heading down the dividing range (via pubs of course).

I'm a bit ditsy today so here is my checklist for everyone else to remind me....