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.
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Is the rock getting lighter or am I about to drop it again? It has been over three years since I posted about money. There is a reason for that. Like many of us I have an uncomfortable relationship with the stuff. I did a series of posts...
I try to avoid posting about my work here except in very general terms. I obviously cannot write about my patients or colleagues. I have to self-censor what I write which often makes expressing myself difficult. So, here I go... In...
I lost my phone in what is known by the Dharawal people as Kamay. Most of us know it as Botany Bay home of Sydney airport. I'm sure the original inhabitants would think we had made a right hash of it if they could see it today. I took a...
I am nearing the end of a brief trip in which I revisited the Mid-North Coast. Here are a bunch of snaps I took when driving through my old home. I sent them to my pal MJD to share in my bitter-sweet memories and cynicism. This is a...
Yesterday I was feeling sorry for myself. I was knackered after a week at work and had no energy left. I dragged myself out for my first actual run in forever. I found myself fatly sinking into the couch with a Guinness; some salted...
I barely slept last night. I just lay in bed, bored - for what seemed like hours. Trying not to roll around or moan and groan too much to avoid waking Re. Eventually I got up and tip-toed around the house. A drink of water, a pee, a warm...
An old Broken Hill Steam Tram - view a larger image This photo is interesting to me. I am writing this post in a house that is in the the picture. It is at the bottom of Billy Goat Hill, the junction of Garnet and Argent Streets. The...
In my ongoing quest to collect the pointless lint of my life here is another layer of words like dust. I gave this post the title of Demarc and initially tagged it with #Stravages My oldest son sent this picture of some young soldiers...
Some colleagues at work are downsizing their household cat population and kindly offered us one. Re and Harly were both overly keen to expand our little family... so, I adopted a cat. His name I was told is James Bartholomew. When I took...
As part of my usual life displacement activity I am again tinkering with the configuration of this blog. I tag all these posts #meta as a way to help avoid/find them later. My intention has been to use the HTML attribute srcset to serve...
This is sort of what my attempt at making the <dfn> title appear on mobile looks like In a previous post (pictured above) I wrote how I would like to enable mobile users to read the 'title' text in the <dfn> tags and also with the <abbr>...
I just took Winnie for a run down 9 mile single track. It is actually only about 8km but leads to 9 mile road. Winnie managed 6.47km before collapsing (I hung my Garmin off her collar). I put her in the ute and took her home for a dunk...
HG Wells wrote The Time Machine - predicting the future degeneracy of the Murdochs Morlocks. This illustration may be a tad degenerate itself... I just posted this on the echo chamber that is FB, Hey Australia, at the very least read the...
Like pretty much all the posts on this blog this one represents another unfinished thought. I am prompted to write this because I re-read my previous post, Showies . In it I began with my usual nostalgic claptrap before wending my way...
We have lived in Broken Hill for over three years and this evening we finally went to the Silver City Show . Silver City Pastoral and Agricultural Association keeping a great show on the go As a kid I used to go to the Spring Festival...