Thank goodness The Batchelor 3 has finished. Now that was a show that I found seriously boring. I had to sit through it waiting for the Sopranos or Six Feet Under to start. And I don’t actually watch those shows when they’re on – no, I tape them and watch them later in the week. ... [More]
Yesterday another step on the long road to domesticity. Brace yourself for a shock. My friends will think it’s trick photography: me mowing the grass. Are you sufficiently braced? Okay. I did gardening. After a few subtle hints of the "Hey Daniel, did you mow the lawn yet?" type recently from various people, I finally ... [More]
The big men fly in the Grand Final. (Pic: ABC News online/Getty Images) I thought a lot about which team to support in theGrand Final. Eventually I concluded I must by default go for the Brisbane Lions, because I could not support Collingwood for the following reasons: firstly and foremost, they are Collingwood. You either ... [More]
Last night I trudged home from the station in the darkness about 7pm. As I passed a house, I heard a strange sound from the garden. Without slowing down I glanced around, and if I didn’t know better, I’d swear I made out the shape of a man was standing next to the fence, and ... [More]
Yesterday an unexpected diversion at work: a fire drill. This theoretically consists of an initial "alert tone" alarm, whereupon John, our cheerful floor warden, dons his yellow hard hat and stands by the emergency intercom and awaits instructions, followed by an evacuation tone, whereupon we calmly walk to the designated fire exit, walk down the ... [More]
07:08. Mobile phone +61 4 ## ### ### turned on. Phone provider: Telstra. Owner: DANIEL BOWEN. Location: Carnegie. 07:10. Computer active from IP address 203.113.###.###. ISP: Netspace ADSL. User: DANIEL BOWEN. E-mail, web traffic. 08:27. Mobile phone detected moving: Carnegie, Ormond, Bentleigh, Moorabbin, Hampton, Brighton. Stopped for 6 minutes in Moorabbin. 08:58. Train ticket validated, ... [More]
Ate fish’n’chips / Walked to Chadstone / Tidied up / Pondered if EVIL BASTARD NEWSPAPER THIEVES are more likely to strike when one’s car is not in the driveway and one fails to go looking for the newspaper until after midday / Discovered how great drying washing on a sunny day is / Went for ... [More]
It’s something I’d have never expected. A miracle. If I were a Catholic, I’d be shouting for someone involved to be beatified. My car is in for repair. And it’s not going to cost me a cent. It’s been making a nunga-nunga-nunga sound for a while now. I finally waited until my credit card was ... [More]
The other night just as I was going to bed, I heard a kind of yowling, screeching sound outside. Cats. Cats fighting. In my generously appointed backyard, it sounded like. I put on a dressing gown (because a thick cotton gown is ample protection against the howling wind and cold of a Melbourne night in ... [More]
7am. Argh. Until a couple of minutes ago, I thought it was 8am. My alarm clock is an hour fast. No wonder I found it so hard to get out of bed this morning at smegging 6 o’clock in the morning, an hour before I normally get up. If I wasn’t so awake, I’d go ... [More]
The second Melbourne Flash Mob in action (pic by Troy Boulton). What was interesting was that just before the earthquake signal, a woman asked why we were all waiting. Following Flashmob etiquette, we said we didn’t know. When it started, she joined in anyway. Picture this: You’re a young woman, perhaps about 20. It’s Saturday ... [More]
From time to time there comes a point in every online diary when one writes amedia release about oneself. I helped write one the other day, not purely about myself, but I certainly rated a mention. The difference is it actually went out to the media, though I’m not sure it was newsworthy. Still, in ... [More]