Well today it was the auction of my favourite house, and in fact the only house that was a real prospect for buying before I have to move out of my current place. After doing some scheming with a couple of accomplices, we went along. I had given the impression to the agents that I ... [More]
Month: May 2003
My award-winning photo. This was a very well contested competition and difficult to judge. The winning pic (No. 6) is very well done with great exposure and colour and perfect movement to suit the comp theme exactly. Whilst I think it could have been cropped a little tighter on the top (to remove the screen ... [More]
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Stuff probably only I find funny
1. It’s hard not to smirk when you hear a colleague talking on the phone, telling someone else to send a copy of a screen by saying "yes, go onto that screen and take a dump…" 2. Forgot to mention something from the school re-union last week. The school was known for its high academic ... [More]
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WTF?
What the hell is going on? Is there something in the air? How is it that in the past week or so, no less than four friends have had their relationships end? FOUR?!? Lucky they don’t all know each other, they’d start wondering if it was a curse to know me.
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15 years on, when afar and asunder
It was my school reunion last night. 15 years. I’m getting old. It was good to see people again. I went to the one 5 years ago – less people turned up this time, but still a crowd of about 60. As last time, we were all a little fatter, balder and/or greyer, apart from ... [More]
Nostalgia is big business. And nostalgia and DVD make a great combination. Recent nostalgic DVDs to enter my house include the brand spanking newGoodies 2 disc set. Ah, 8 classic episodes, beautifully restored and with all the rude adult bits previously excised by the ABC for family viewing time intact. It just enforces my opinion ... [More]
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Ketchup time
I seem to have been frantically busy the last few days. Alas, a good deal of the weekend was tied up with work. The nature of the work beast is that anything substantial has to be done outside of operating hours, so in summary, that’s how I spent a joyous Saturday night. And Sunday morning. ... [More]
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Winter arrives
Winter has definitely arrived, and a few weeks early, too. A shroud of fog was over the city this morning – one of those ones where when I got up to work on the 28th floor, nothing could be seen out of the window except white. By lunchtime it was still hanging around, and dead ... [More]
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Puddles and mud
Oh what a traumatic trip into the city today. I was standing – as I often do when there are few seats available on the train. Given that I sit in an office most of the day, if it’s a choice between sitting between two burly (or dare I say it – fat) businessmen or ... [More]
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House hunting and supermarkets and stuff
Not a bad weekend. Lazed on Saturday morning. Then went to look at a house at midday – one that has an auction time which actually clashes with the house I really like. Josh and Cathy came along and looked too, but the conclusion I had come to was that the location isn’t really what ... [More]
My lesson from Thursday night: when wearing a nice woven silk tie, don’t lean across a table with a rough edge for a protracted period of time. This course of action may well result in the little threads becoming broken, loose, or otherwise completely stuffed up. Actually maybe not completely. It just looks a bit… ... [More]
Excerpt from DANIEL’S GUIDE TO HOUSE HUNTING (June 1994) Check out the house carefully. Hire someone to check all the structural bits and make sure it’s not going to implode or sink into that river next to it, the one that makes it look so picturesque. Make sure you get it in writing that the ... [More]