Category: General

2:24am. Yeah it’s late, and I’m still up. I’m not even sure why. Time seems to stand still when I’m sitting at this keyboard, going through my mails, nosing around web pages, looking through the handful of Usenet groups I subscribe to. But while time seems like it’s standing still, it’s actually bloody racing by.  ... [More]

Very useful, this SMS thing Last week I finally got my mobile phone fiddled with sufficiently to be able to send SMS messages. Actually, that would be better written as SMSs, since "SMS message" would stand for "short message service message", which while syntactically correct, does sound rather cumbersome. While it’s possible that any naff  ... [More]

There aren’t really many dangerous spiders in Melbourne. The most common dangerous one is called a whitetail, and if you get a nip from one, you end up getting welty sore type things. Contrast this to the stuff they get up in Sydney like redbacks and funnelwebs, and the whitetail seems pretty tame in comparison.  ... [More]

I had a bit of a clear out today. Admittedly I didn’t get very far towards my long-term goal of tidying up the house completely, but remember the longest journey begins with a single call to your travel agent. What is amazing is the little bits of memorabilia you can find when sorting through old  ... [More]

The completed shower The shower got finished on Wednesday, which is good, because I was getting a bit tired of baths. Certainly they’re nice as a change, but not so good when you’re in a hurry. Speaking of baths, something half amusing, half embarrassing happened on Tuesday morning. I was getting out of the bath  ... [More]

The two surviving goldfish Bad news. Last night I noticed that one of the goldfish was… umm… sleeping with the fishes. I wasn’t sure if it was Tim, Bill or Graeme who had passed on to that great fishbowl in the sky, but in the morning Isaac let me know that it had been Tim.  ... [More]

Ah, a nice relaxing bath. Can’t read the paper in the shower… Well, you kinda can, but it gets pretty wet. I just had my second bath of the year. That might not sound like many baths, but it’s more baths than I had in the whole of last year. Oh, don’t worry, I do  ... [More]

The traditional airport goodbye photo Alas, Iris went home to Israel today. *sniffle*

On Friday Iris and I set out for one last drive in the country before she departs, alas, for another country. We set off over the Westgate, and some time after Werribee, got off the freeway and started exploring. After rumbling along various obscure roads (some sealed and some unsealed, reminding me why it’s not  ... [More]

On Monday I got a new mobile phone, a very cute Nokia 6210. It’s titchy. The old one wasn’t huge, but this is much smaller. I dread the day they make mobiles much smaller than this. People will start to lose them in pockets and body cavities. It’s taken me a few days of R-ing  ... [More]

Well, I finally did it. After several days of fiddling with my mobile phone antenna because it was playing up giving me a weak signal… well, today I actually snapped it off completely. D’oh! The weak signal turned into a non-existent signal. Time to go phone shopping I think. Last night we rolled up to  ... [More]

To my utter surprise, the plumber guy came. Turned out it was the non-cut-price guy my landlady talked to last year at one stage, then rejected because he sounded (to her) too expensive. Will she heed his advice to replace the shower? We’ll see. This morning I got my new drivers licence. The woman at  ... [More]