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bengy
Bengy
Musician with a Science background, I write about many things, causing collateral damage to a wide variety of topics!
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December 13, 2017
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bengy
GEMS
3y
Writing Portfolio (last updated 28th September 2021)
A post to collect some of my writings, I will periodically update and add in new stuff!
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LeoFinance
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Taxes done as a Freelancer Musician!
Unsplash Thank goodness... the relief when the tax return is completed and lodged! It was (again...) right down to the wire, with a day left before the submission deadline.... well, not quite a hard deadline,
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Music
2d
Progamming a Solo Concert
I've been pretty heads down in preparing our tax return over the last few weeks, and my wife is slowly melting down under the stress of doing too many university student recitals (hopefully a lesson that
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LeoFinance
4d
Cleaning up DeFi Bridges
Unsplash Ahhhh... a weekend away, and a few moments to tidy up some little amounts that I had put on various Ethereum mainnet to L2 bridges.... and gas fees are pretty damn low at the moment, at around
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HiveGarden
5d
A Potter around the Garden
In keeping with my soon-to-be old man vibe... I do have the occasional potter around the garden to see what needs to be done, and just to poke around and mutter to myself. With the fast growing season
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Music
5d
Woohoo, two small education grants won!
Unsplash YAY, YAY, YAY! Our ensemble has always has a grant application or two in for various funding and philanthropic bodies throughout the year. Mostly, we treat them as accelerators for what we are
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HiveGarden
7d
New Gardening Tools!
Okay, I've probably hit old age now... where I get super excited about new garden tools! During the recent Amazon Prime sales, I was hunting around for some presents for nieces and nephews and to do the
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LeoFinance
7d
CoinTracking: Fixing Glitches in Imports and APIs
Ahhh... the joys of preparing tax returns in a Capital Gains regime when you hold even the smallest amount of crypto. Honestly, there will need to be an updating of tax reporting for these things, as they
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Music
9d
Chatting about instruments
Not so long ago, I had hit a little snag in my instrument allocation for various concerts... now, I'm primarily an Early Music specialist, and that means that I have multiple violins (and violas/d'amore)
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HiveGarden
10d
The First Culling!
A nice batch of rain followed by a healthy dose of sun has meant that our fledgling veggie garden has taken off quickly even though we were away for a week! I was a bit worried that the the heat of the
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LeoFinance
12d
More Bank Fails!
Haha... at this point, it is becoming more and more clear that banks and their legacy infrastructure belongs in the pen and paper era. Sure, they have "updated" to have digital front facing user
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Music
15d
Swamped with Music
As a freelance musician, when it gets busy... it gets stupidly busy... as a pair of freelance musicians with two young kids... well, when BOTH of us get busy, it goes completely nuts. My wife and I have
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Music
17d
Ooops, not practicing yet!
Bah... nothing is more annoying that opening up the case, hoping to fit in a quick half hour of practice before a student arrives in an otherwise packed day/week/month to see that one of the strings of
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Silver Gold Stackers
17d
Venezuealan Silver Coins (aka: am I going crazy???)
The period before moving back to Australia was a bit of a chaotic period... lots of things to be prepared for the move, plus the house sale, plus just keeping regular life goinguntil the very last week...
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Music
18d
Ran out of Violins!
Well.. not quite, but ran out of decent violins to use this week! Sure, I probably could have gotten away with using a crappy factory violin for the symphony orchestra, but it is pretty unprofessional,
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Silver Bloggers
20d
Getting Older...
Unsplash Bah... the thing that I hate about getting older is the body sort of having these aches and pains that weren't there a decade or two ago. In my mind, I'm still feeling younger... but as I get
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Silver Bloggers
20d
Citizen's Duty Complete
In Australia, we are one of the few countries in the world where voting is compulsory... or you get a small fine. Well, voting isn't really compulsory (more on that later..), with the paper ballots you
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Foodies Bee Hive
21d
My Cafe: Manuka, AUSTRALIA
Manuka is a pretty popular cae and restaurant area in Canberra. Near to the public service areas and Parliament House,
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Foodies Bee Hive
23d
Fratelli Fresh: Darling Harbour, AUSTRALIA
This is an Italian themed restaurant in the very popular Darling Harbour area. My daughter had been here on a previous
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TravelFeed
24d
Scenic World: Katoomba, AUSTRALIA
The Blue Mountains is an area to the west of Sydney that is has some really amazing views.... and Scenic World caters
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Foodies Bee Hive
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Moonflower: Perth, AUSTRALIA
When I'm with my mother, she always seems to know the best places to have Yum Cha. And for those of you who don't know
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