The one thing you don’t want to do is mis-time your toilet breaks. A couple of drinks and a chat with a fellow geek from New Zealand in the pub last night. We get up to leave. Ahh, that was a nice drink. Nothing much going on just at the moment, says the bladder. We ... [More]
Category: Health
Saturday’s trip to the National Gallery wasn’t just a learning experience in art. We went along with X. X has cerebral palsy, meaning she is physically disabled. She’s either confined to a wheelchair, or can use crutches, but at a snail’s pace. Okay I’ve wheeled around kids in my time, so I have some of ... [More]
It had plenty of warnings about content, but I pity anybody channel flicked onto My Foetus last night. My sister encouraged me to watch it in part because a friend of hers was involved in it. Initially I thought I wouldn’t watch it, but eventually relented, with the proviso that I’d turn it off if ... [More]
I didn’t watch the life expectancy survey thing on Channel 7 last Sunday, though I see a minute or two while channel-flicking. It was showing reams of statistics, read out by an unseen host whose voice I thought I recognised, but who didn’t appear on-screen so I could work out if I was right or ... [More]
Crisis on Friday night when a certain girlfriend lost her handbag. It hasn’t shown up yet either. Perhaps the taxi driver liked the look of the two books contained within. And the glasses. Finally watched Bowling For Columbine. I can’t think of much to say about it than probably hasn’t been said before. I’ll just ... [More]
Tonight I’ll spend an hour being a guinea-pig. The Sunday Herald-Sun have enlisted my help in researching the effects of passive smoking. My task is to sit on a station platform for an hour (better take a good book), not cringing away from smokers quite as much as I usually do, and then go and ... [More]
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Under the weather
Not feeling well. Stomach pain. Something disagreed with me. Whether or not it was the root cause, I’m betting I shouldn’t have eaten so much chocolate yesterday. Not much sleep overnight. Unsavoury lavatorial activities instead. Called in sick today. Took kids to school, then stopped past supermarket and got my standard sick food: Sprite and ... [More]
Bloody, Movie, Buffy, Drivey, Greenie, Footy.
Footy tips not too good. Only 3 out of 8. Bah. I don’t like this anymore. On my way out to the west on Friday night, suddenly realised apart from my shoes and socks, I was entirely dressed in blue. Spent a substantial amount of Saturday daytime lazing. And a substantial amount of Saturday nighttime ... [More]
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Gleaming white shiny teeth
D-Day again yesterday. The twice-annual visit to the dentist. Amazingly he gave my teeth a clean bill of health. Said they looked fine, and obviously I was doing okay with my brushing and flossing. I didn’t feel inclined to tell him I’m only flossing when I remember to do so — which is pretty much ... [More]
Footy tipping… 7 out of 8. Not too shabby for the first round. Would have been a perfect 8 out of 8, but I was foolish enough to be loyal to my own team and tip Geelong. The other week I went and saw the doctor about the headaches I’d been getting. Turned out to ... [More]
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An update about my colleague who lost his laptop computer on Friday the 13th last month. A couple of weeks later he was playing with his kids in the front yard when a male youth walked past on the footpath. With a laptop under his arm. Colleague recognised the laptop, ran after him and rugby ... [More]