Category: General

This morning I got into the car with the kids, turned the ignition key and… the car groaned, then I groaned. Yep, flat battery. Dammit. The lights weren’t left on, honest. So I rang the RACV. The bloke on the phone was cheerful, probably because it wasn’t his car that had broken down. 20-40 minutes,  ... [More]

Well, it finally happened. Something I’ve been waiting three years for. I got breathalysed. On my way down North Road I saw them setting up on the opposite side, and when I came back, sure enough, there they were, Vic Police‘s finest, signalling people into lanes, getting them to blow into the bag, checking the  ... [More]

Make it so! Trying out the Captain’s chair on the HMAS Vampire. Danielle on the HMAS Vampire,  pondering doing a Cher impression The ship engine speed indicator thingy. (Hergé – The Red Sea Sharks) (Weekend in Sydney continued) Danielle and I set off for central Sydney, stopping on the way to borrow a street directory  ... [More]

After an energy-packed cooked breakfast, Danielle and I got in her van and headed up to the Blue Mountains. The old Starwagon complained a bit about the hills, but eventually we made it through Katoomba to a place called Echo Point. Upon my initial view of the mountains proper from the van, I think I  ... [More]

I trudged into work in the city with a big bag of stuff for my Sydney weekend, hanging over my shoulder. I realised after I left the house, that in a shirt and tie, and carrying a sportsy-type back of stuff, that I looked like one of those young door-to-door blokes who sells shirts and  ... [More]

Well I’m happy to say the stuff I’m working on seems to work. I slaved away most of the weekend getting it all running though. I’d tell you more about it, but I think it would probably send the average person to sleep. I know I could do with some. At least next weekend should  ... [More]

A couple of months ago my boss (I work for what could be described as a consulting company; though most of us spit on the term "consultant") drops by, and says "how would we go about solving [problem X]?" Then he gets a phone call, and while he’s jabbering into his mobile, I have a  ... [More]

Telemarketers are starting to piss me off. They seem to be masters of ringing at precisely the wrong moment, though when I think about it, there is no right moment to be interrupted from what you’re doing to answer the phone because someone you don’t know wants to sell you something. Some of them, of  ... [More]

I was going to write a lengthy diary entry tonight. Something deep from the heart. Something that would break the mould of all previous diary entries. Something thought provoking, stimulating, earth-shattering. A wake-up call to people everywhere. Something that could rock the foundations of western society. Something that could properly mark the beginning of the  ... [More]

Well honestly, Ron Walker is such amoney-hungry callous insensitive plonker. Why doesn’t my spell checker know the word plonker?

7:55am. I don’t know how the hell I did this, but last night in a moment of extreme unco-ordination, I bashed my right foot into a door frame. I hopped to bed shouting "fuck fuck fuck!" The worrying thing is that almost 8 hours later it still hurts. Sharp pain when I move two of  ... [More]

I’ve just killed a spider. It think it was the big four-legged one I spotted a couple of days ago on the livingroom ceiling. At the time, it crawled off to a spot in the curtains, and I decided to let it stay, as long as it kept out of the way. But tonight it  ... [More]