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Glowing in the dark

My usual dentist sent me off to another dentist last week – a supplementary dentist, if you like. This guy’s a gum specialist, and vaguely resembles Uncle Arthur, though his actual name is Don, and he wasn’t annoying at all. Apparently my gums aren’t quite up to scratch. Various microscopic organisms are digging around in  ... [More]

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Stupid customer service e-mail of the month

My dramas with my credit card took two interesting turns today. The more significant, but slightly less interesting turn was that I called the bank about the continued slurping of my account. They had a look and found that the company in Utah reckoned it was going to claim US$49.95 a month out of it.  ... [More]

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Retrospectives

Reunion

Yesterday there was rather an odd occasion: my old kindergarten’s birthday. I can’t remember if it was seventy years or eighty years or ninety years old, but it was definitely a bunch of years. And they were having a kind of reunion/birthday thingy. I can’t say I recall much about my kindergarten days. Actually, to  ... [More]

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My day in brief

(I was going to expand this out into more detail. But I can’t be bothered.) 1. Get into work, lots to do. 5 mins later, fire alarm, entire 40-ish storey building evacuated. 90 mins wasted 2. Production problem, entire system grinds to a halt. Run around like a maniac finding a fix and dodging red  ... [More]

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Stuff

A few little snippets of news… The bank came back to say that the first wacky weird amount of money that got slurped out of my Visa card, the $57.94 that went to Utah, well, they’re unslurping it. They did say they’d have to reconsider if the merchant in question comes up with a signed  ... [More]

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One more time /divorce

Okay, just one last clipping: Meanwhile, it turns out that last week when nobody turned up to my divorce hearing because of sickness, well, they just went ahead and did it anyway. So I’m officially divorced. I’ll get the bits of paper confirming it in July. Yay! I should organise celebratory drinks or something.

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FAB Virgil!

I know I’ve put more than the average amount of newspaper stuff in the diary this month, but I can’t not mention this one, clipped from tonight’s freebie paper, MX: I think the guys at MX may be confusing real life with television. IT’S NOT TRUE! The Thunderbirds are just fictional characters! Granted, seeing them  ... [More]

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Daniel the letter-writer

Just a little note to the paper (one of three published today) regarding this stupidity in yesterday’s.

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The MacGowan Avenue Slasher

I just saw the oddest thing in MacGowan Avenue. A bloke drove up, got out of his car, had a slash against a tree, then went into the house. Why would you do this? If it’s your house, you should be able to use your own toilet. If it’s not your house, is anybody really  ... [More]

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Minor crap

Compensation for it all… The League Of Gentlemen A few minorly crap things happened during the week. Someone sent spam with my address forged as the sender. Wonderful stuff, something I’d like to personally thank the sender for – perhaps with a cricket bat. The spam itself was a pretty heavily encoded ad for a  ... [More]

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Bowling

I just went ten pin bowling for the first time, down at theAMF thingy in Moorabbin. First Nat and I coughed up our dosh and got the funny shoes on, then we went and found our lane. She gave me a quick introduction and demonstration, then I tried it. The first couple of times I  ... [More]

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RIP Zebra

Cover from MX – 4/6/2001 Tonight on the way home I picked up a copy of MX at the station. I glanced at the headline, and thought to myself "Zebra dead? – oh dear, that’s bad news for the zoo". Then I read it again: "Zorba dead" – Anthony Quinn died today. I wonder if  ... [More]