who is bjd?

updated 5th January 2006

What does bjd stand for? on that note what does b stand for?

they are my initials - Brendan John Daly - my great friend matt fletcher [not a blogger] called me b and although I never really wanted it to, it become common use.

Now, I actually like it when in the real world people call me b, feels very special and friendly, I use it online for a bit more anonymity and it is easier to type than brendan. Plus there was a Brendon at Boys' Brigade who I dubbed B2 when he first joined and so I guess I am B1 or just B.

I have always wanted and thought it was cool when people had nicknames - it makes me feel like I am a part of the group and so I like to give people nicknames when I can to make them feel like they fit in and have a bond with me - except for the soccer commentary names which are just for fun and to describe the type of player or just to get a laugh.

how long u've been blogging?

this was my first post on blogger - I quickly out grew blogger - back then it was a monster, slow, unreliable, not very mac friendly and not even a shadow of the blogger you guys use today. I made my own blogg using my mad coder skillz in html, php and mysql.

My first proper post on this new blogg was Dec 27th 2002. I have had a web page since about 1995.[more about my net history]

how old are you?

what do you do for a living?

I am a teacher at Westfields Sports High School. I was maths trained with a bit of computing thrown in but my own interest in computers and the fact that I could talk more to the students about what they [and i] believed I quickly moved to computing teaching.

I have been teaching since 1993 - I did 6 months at Ingleburn High before having a bit of a breakdown and running away to the country for a week before coming back to have 6 months off and sort myself out a bit - God was so gracious in that time - I grew heaps and for the first time learnt about who I was and began to actually try and understand myself better.

In 1994 I started at Westfields Sports and have been there ever since. Next week and for 2005 I will not be face to face at all but managing all the computing stuff in the school and I will be taking a day a week off on Part Time Leave without Pay to work down at the church I attend, Toongabbie Baptist, doing admin type stuff to free the pastors up to do more pastory things. I am very excited by this.

In other ministries, I took over the running Boys Brigade No2 Section - an all male uniformed youth group for high school guys - in 1992 at toongabbie baptist church having become a christian in July 1991. I was there until July 2002 when I left rather suddenly to try and sort out a few issues which I had left unresolved and basically suffering from burn out - and because God told me it was time to go but I hadn’t heard him so he gave me a push.

In 2003 I took on the evening music ministry which I called the evening ministry team [emt - I am in computing, everything is shortened to three letters] and has been great fun and once again a place to see God use me, and see God work.

I have preached a few times - the next time is this sunday morning at the 9am service. And during my time in Boys Brigade became [even if I do say so myself] the master of the 10 minute talk [story + scripture + application + gospel = 10 minutes].

where do you live?

I live in toongabbie - in the western suburbs of sydney - about half way between parramatta [go the eels!!] and blacktown. I have been living in Toongabbie since about 1994ish when I moved to Toongabbie Baptist - to help be closer to the church and the guys in the Boy’s Brigade company while I was captain.

I share a house with Steve and Thommo who also go to Toongabbie Baptist.

I was born in brisbane lived in Bondi until I was 9 when we moved to Greystanes then moved to Wentworthville in around 1993, before moving into various houses in Toongabbie since 1994 or so.

how did you become a christian?

read my testimony from when I got baptised in 1995 and a testimony update from August 2004 and of course my ongoing blogg, feel free to ask questions via email or in my comments.

when were you born?

7 December 1970
Born Again: 10 July 1991

do you have any siblings?

Sister - Erica.

what is your taste in music?

christian music [Switchfooot, Rookie, Reliant K, Kutlass, Supertones, Slick Shoes, DC Talk, Audio Adrenalin, Jars Of Clay], Ska [The English Beat, The Specials, The Porkers, Strange Tenants, The Allsorts, Mighty Mighty Bostones, Area 7, Reel Big Fish], Cat Empire, The Clouds, Offspring, The Whitlams, Jebadiah, The Beatles, Techno [Good german hardcore], REM.

what things do you like?

squash, reading [Sci-Fi], computers, telling people about God, learning about my Father in heaven, body surfing, Monty Python, Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, singing in the church, leading the services at church, having friends drop around to say "HI". Splashe Cola.

what things don't you like?

pets or smoking.

which schools/unis did you go to?

Bondi Beach Public School, Beresford Road Public School, Hurlstone Agricultural High School, Sydney University.

what do you dream of doing?

working full time doing IT at Westfields Sports [doing it in 2005/6!!]; going to china, russia, Scotland; being in a band; working out what it is that God wants me to be doing next [that will keep me busy for a while ;)]; meeting a life partner to share all these goods times that God is blessing me with - but with all these dreams and with all my life, He is the one who knows when the right timing is, it is He who is in control.

will you reply to mail?

eventually