Rubens Blog
Rubens Blog
Ruben Hillier
Hi I am Ruben Hillier. My handle, since back in the day, is tregeagle. My pronouns are he/him.
Latest Posts
I have recently begun a coffee lent, which means I start the day with a headache. It took a bit of effort to motivate myself to go for a bicycle ride yesterday. The extreme heat of summer has eased off which means I can go outside...
I saw a comment online somewhere. Someone was complaining how anyone will share any activity on Strava these days. They said they had seen somebody sharing their Housework activity. I did not read anymore. It annoyed me for some reason....
My apologies, the site looks a bit of a mess at the moment. I am rewriting the html template and making use of simple.css which I quite like. I want the underlying HTML to also be simple. I made a start but simply ran out of time. I'll...
I visited a doctor about my susceptibility to surfers ear. I had been idly wondering if grommets would improve them and perhaps the GP or an ear specialist would be able to offer some suggestions. The GP had nothing to say on the matter...
When I'm out and about and find I want to remember something I used to write it on a scrap of paper. I would later discover these obtuse numbers, words or mind-maps scrawled on torn scraps of paper or cardboard. Or, worse, soft pellets...
Obviously I'm getting older and shamefully lazier. I have been cycling less and less, I barely run anymore. Since starting nursing in 2015 I have put on 12kg. I am angry and frustrated at myself because I know better. I know muscles...
My Mum sent me this postcard after she had walked across Spain. It is an illustration from a Russian Fairy story, "Feather Of Finist Falcon" by Ivan Bilibin. Feather Of Finist Falcon by Ivan Bilibin I am reading Robert MacFarlane 's,...
By Crikey, it is a warm day here in Broken Hill today. We have the evaporative cooler ducting it's breeze through the house but it's still pretty warm. Outside the ground is too hot to walk on and the corrugated iron that encases...
Last month my laptop became unstable. I had been trying to do something which I began to regret. Losing patience I reinstalled the operating system. Unfortunately on my previous installation I had negligently chosen to set up my...
In the endless cycle of tinkering with this website I have once again changed things around. I had a go at modifying a bash script ( BLASH ) to parse my markdown files into the html files you're now looking at. Very quickly the loops and...
Precious time off work. Ev out for a ride with me Working at SCU back in 2007-8 was a quiet gig. I had plenty of time to mull over things. I would cycle to work in the morning and have my day's work mostly done by smoko. In the beginning...
In a recent conversation with a non-Australian it struck me that people don't know what a Ute is. It is a small utility truck. Basically a car with the back end replaced by a tray. They are incredibly useful and much loved in Outback...
This will be my last stash report for a while. I will be returning to Uni to studying postgraduate from mid July onwards so I expect to be busy. This series of posts has been useful for me to focus on our finances whilst we both made the...
It all happened didn't it? This could have been an absolute clusterfuck but luckily for us moving to a new home and job in the outback during a pandemic was okay. Thanks to the awesome team at LiteMoves the move was hassle free. Our...
Last Tuesday we emptied our little house into the back of a removal truck. After a quick tidy and a last tearful visit to family we set off on the trail to Broken Hill. Z&JB had to wait on some repairs to their car. They followed on at a...