The brilliant birthday card depicting my life, given to me by my mum and her partner Peter. So now I’m thirty. I don’t feel much older than I was when I was twenty-nine. My hair hasn’t spontaneously fallen out or all gone grey. I don’t feel like I need a walking frame yet. Nope, it’s ... [More]
Month: August 2000
Map showing my local Safeway store several hundred metres closer to my house than it really is. Bringing food to life?!? Why do they need two slogans, anyway? A leaflet in the mail today revealed the opening of a new Safeway "We’re Muscling Into The Petrol Station Market" Plus in the neighbourhood. I found two ... [More]
On the phone to Ozemail Customer Accounts. After the recorded advertising guff, the hold music starts "I can’t take it anymore". Uh huh. It’s a fair cop… Yesterday in the mail I got my first driving ticket. (I’ve had one ticket before, but that was a parking ticket). I… err.. well, I seem to have ... [More]
Thanks to online banking and BPay, I can pay all of my bills via the Internet. Except one. My ISP bill.
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Ripped off!
The Olympic Games have ripped me off. No, I don’t mean the $50 each I paid for Soccer tickets. For a game that occurs two days before the opening ceremony… hmmm how does that work then? Strictly speaking, shouldn’t the opening ceremony be before everything else? On the other hand, I used to work at ... [More]
In this day and age, you shouldn’t be embarrassed about buying condoms, should you? I’m not sure – it can still be tricky. In my local supermarket, a lot of the staff know me. If you live in one area for five or more years, and you have kids, you can expect most of the ... [More]
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Bourke Street 1am
Josh and Catherine, with silly hats numbers 1 and 2. Iris and I, with Josh’s silly hat number 3. Bourke Street, 1am – for our small change, we got a personalised song To celebrate the tenth birthday of the Toxic Custard mailing list, on Friday night there was a bit of a get together organised ... [More]