Office Dares

One of those gem emails that goes around from time-to-time. I feel it deserves to be embedded somewhere so here it is. I hope you enjoy:
ONE-POINT DARES
1. Run one lap around the office at top speed
2. Groan out loud in the toilet cubicle (at least one other ‘non-player’must be in the toilet at the time).
3. [...]

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What stupid things have you done for your career?

Hmmm. Where to begin really…*
(*if you know me, or work with me, I will not confirm which if any of these events are real)
- Turning up at 9am on the first day. Turning up at closer to 10am pretty much most other days. Isn’t flexi-time great. Getting home closer to 7pm than 6pm most [...]

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The Jarvis Nebulae Files – Part Five

© Duncan Wheeler 1997-2008
The smell of hospital strength detergent nearly brought my stomach contents up. But I couldn’t remember my last meal.
One thing I did remember however, was a vague sense of shame, and I knew it wasn’t because I was naked in a public place. Not that I was hanging out on a pole [...]

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The Jarvis Nebulae Files – Part Four

© Duncan Wheeler 1997-2007
The Cave Dwellers Society of Tasmania is a highly respected underground organisation that reaches into the upper echelons of the business world. In fact it leaves virtually no occupation untouched, with members in every field from Engineering to Art, Commerce to Psychology, Politics to Music. It was a bright winter Sunday outside, [...]

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The Jarvis Nebulae Files – Part Three

© Duncan Wheeler 1997-2007Have you ever wondered where possums sleep during the day? I mean, this is a country with really thin trees with really small leaves and somehow there are thousands of fat furry brown things the size of petrol cans supposedly hanging off these supermodel- proportioned trees during broad daylight, which by the [...]

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The Jarvis Nebulae Files – Part One

(other parts to follow)
© Duncan Wheeler 1997-2007
I was on my way back from a solo camping trip in the middle Highlands. I had been on the overland track for three days and somehow I kept passing the same bunch of Americans in their campsite on the shores of a lake. They must have been three [...]

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The Jarvis Nebulae Files – Part Two

(other parts to follow)
© Duncan Wheeler 1997-2007
Here’s a poem I wrote to commemorate a special event that happened to me last Sunday night:
The stars, the stars, the cars and the bars,
Twitching under my itchy palms
On the roof while looking afar
I made a fire that blew afar
It went into the highest stars
And made my heart begin [...]

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