Work footy tipping prize? $390. I rule! Six Feet Under returns to TV next Monday night. Woo hoo! Taped John Safran vs God, just watched it. Bloody funny. Media Watch. Click on it and turn the volume up nice and loud. What a classic. (If you’re at work or within earshot of the kids, check ... [More]
Month: August 2004
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Eight out of eight, baby
Well the last weekend of footy tips has just gone, and there was a great article in Saturday’s Age about the whole phenomenon, well worth reading. I’ve had a good year in the footy tipping. So when at the start of the weekend, I was equal first in the work competition, and leading by 1 ... [More]
I’m not much of a gunzel really. The world of gunzelism is something that can range from mild interest in things railed through to knowing everything but everything there is to know about every tramway and rail carriage and engine ever in service (and quite a few that never were). In conversation some months ago, ... [More]
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Here are my bins
Welcome back to the next installment in my celebration of the mundane. Here are my bins, all three of them, posed together. (They normally only sit together on the kerb on garbage day, which is Friday morning in my neck-of-the-woods.) As usual, hold your mouse over stuff in the picture to read about them. (Firefox ... [More]
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The haul
Was having a chat with my sister earlier in the week about birthday presents. She said she was sending quality, not quantity. And you know, this is a philosophy I agree with. I’m at the point where I have a well-paid job and if there’s something I want, I can just go and buy it ... [More]
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Last straw
Right, that’s it. I’ve had it with this government. It was one thing lying about Children Overboard and going to war despite being told it would increase the threat from terrorism, telling us it would decrease the risk. (See here for the ALP’s list of Howard’s lies, and here for the Liberals’ reaction.) But this: ... [More]
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Turning 34
Happy birthday to me. Damn. I still have to go to work. (The last few birthdays)
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I really must do something
…about this pot. It’s been sitting next to the sink since Sunday, with this burny mark in it. I don’t want to use steel wool ‘cos it’ll stuff-up the enamel surface. Yeah it’s one of those Le Cruisset (or however you spell them) French pots. I’m not much of a cook, but I love it. ... [More]
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Blast from the past
Phone rang yesterday. I guy I used to work for. Nice bloke, who has the unfortunate tendency to let his business associates run rings around him. After I left his employ, they ran one too many rings around him, and sent his company into administration and my former colleagues unemployed. Shame. Anyway he said he ... [More]
She just called from Bratislava, Slovakia. She got there today. On Friday she called from Budapest. They’d arrived to find it was St Stephen’s Day and everything was shut. Both times the line was clearer than when talking to her on her old cordless phone in Footscray. I’m glad she’s having a good time.
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The weekend
After watching last Monday’s final episode of The Sopranos, I started re-watching them from the beginning on DVD. Man they all look so young. Not just the kids. Still, it’s just as good seeing them the second time around. Did a few things off my To Do list this weekend, but the best one was ... [More]
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Here is my shed
Well it’s really a garage, but it’s all the way at the end of the driveway and looks like a tight squeeze, so I’ve never actually used it for the car. Pah, it hasn’t rusted yet. Well, that I know of. As usual, hold your mouse over stuff in the picture to read about them. ... [More]