My life in 59 years.

Since nobody really knows me, perhaps it's appropriate that I compile as much as I know about my heritage and life - so my children and successors have some idea of the walking disaster I was!

21 June 1956. The San' hospital in Wahroonga NSW

Family lived in Beaconsfield Pde, E Lindfield...

Donald Hill ---- & June Lorraine (née Smith)

Virginia June (June 1946) and Jennifer Jill (July 1947)

Moved to 12 Welesley Rd, Pymble - approx 1958?

Mrs Buick's kindergarten on Mona Vale Rd, Pymble

East Gordon Public school for a year, then overseas on the Canberra - via Honolulu, to San Francisco and a couple of years living and travelling in the US and Canada.

18 Willingdon Blvd, Etobicoke (Toronto)... Marl Oak Drive in Highland Park (Chicago)...

Eventually departed from NY on Queen Mary to Southampton... then after a week, boarded the Oriana. Travelling via Cherbourg, Naples, the Suez, Port Said and Colombo -- we made it back to Fremantle, Melbourne and finally Sydney. 

Rented in Ada Ave, Wahroonga for a year, Returned to Warrawee Public School for 3rd grade, then shifted to Barker College in Waitara.

During this time, my parents moved into, and restored as a beautiful Australian homestead at 30 Hope St, Pymble.

First year of secondary, I was boarding, as the family purchased, moved and operated the Civic Hotel in Lismore NSW.  The Hope St house was spoiled by further renovations the later owners -sigh.

Upon returning from Lismore, they bought another house at 12 Cherry St, Turramurra as another renovation project.  We stayed there until my mother passed away, and moved about 18 months later when my dad remarried to Joan Hurst a few doors up the street at 2 Laurel Ave, Turramurra.

Started working...

(separate history!)

2 Jan 1982 married Lisa Mary Gleeson (b.17/2/57)

Stayed in Lisa's parents garage! to save money

18 Apr 1983 Kathleen Felicity xxxx

Purchased 51 Warrina St, Berowra Heights.

11 July 1984 Shannon June xxxx

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July? 1987 - travelled to Malaysia to work

Rented in Highland Towers apartments...

Created Asia-Pacific Videolab

Married Fatimah Mat Aruf (b. 3/4/58) Malaysia

Purchased an apartment in Kuala Lumpur 

21 Nov 1993 Mat Alin xxxx

12 March 1997 Ariel Eshah xxxx

Freelanced, then joined MEASAT/Astro

Nov 1998 - returned to Melbourne.

Joined Philips - Telstra DVN and Seven Docklands

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Diagnosed with Diabetes in 2000 (Monash Medical Centre)

Created mediaproxy, split / shared with Dragan @ xenon to support my ideas.

Various successes and failures through to 2007/8

Finances up & down as I kept reinvesting in myself when I should have been saving...

Left completely broke after MP was stolen by xenon partner (Dragan).

Health and opportunities collapsed after that...

2010 Tried sales from Techtel in Sydney, my heart not in it...

2012 Bumped over to Dataflex, but company was already imploding...

2013 return to Melbourne defeated.

neuropathy, isolation, unemployed...

... and here I am today.

2013 started my diary blog for anyone that wants to avoid 'being like me'.

People that I engage with

Dated 31 July 2015

• Wife, about three minutes every couple of days..
• Children, around the same.
• U3A group, two hours of volunteering, one to three days a week.
• Cafe servers, similar - two by three.
• Personal friends, around ten minutes a week - usually online.
• Doctors, pharmacy and other, ten minutes a week - averaged,

Something like ten minutes a day total human interaction averaged over each week.

That's it!  All the remaining time is alone, usually in the bedroom.

About an hour a week is in the car -- going to the shop or doctor.

Total for the time being...

Why is it like this?

My health is a significant concern, but primarily because I don't have any income or assets/savings left, it seems no-one wants me, and consequently I'm now too poor to reach out and survive at the same time.

There is a purgatory, and I live there... every hour of every day of every week...

(To be honest, I think ten minutes is way optimistic... my personal reality guess would be less than five.

The U3A time distorts it a lot).

I m not looking for virtual friends, or people to 'like' me... I want real friends that 'like' me, can laugh, share stories, opportunities and interests. Friends that I can see and touch, that are in the same city.

Email Signatures

Just to show that I have a sense of humour...
These appear on most of my (informal) outgoing messages

• Not always right, but never wrong.
•  The relentless optimist - or too dumb to be a pessimist.
•  Don't ask a question if you aren't willing to listen to the answer.
•  What’s next?
•  Irrationally Stubborn
• My epitaph:"I haven't done what I came for..."
• Making things work the way they should.
• To save ime later, let’s just assume I know everything.
•  I don’t think like everyone else. Use it.
•  I know nothing about anything, and have an opinion on everything.
•  Ignore me.
• What's next?
•  A wise person said -
  – “If you can’t say something nice about a person – then at least enjoy letting ‘em know!”

*Rubber boots, tinfoil hat, and one hand in my pocket!
-- Insulated, isolated, but no longer frustrated.