High up in the bathroom is this: a towel rack. The lettering? NSWR. I’m guessing it’s a recycled luggage rack from a train up north. Cool looking, and functional too.
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Pluto aka Asteroid 134340
The grade 5 kids at the school were busy earlier this term building models of the solar system. Like many, Isaac’s was based on a spare hoola hoop, with planets of various sizes and colours hanging off it by fishing-wire. Most of the models came home a few weeks ago, but the best were called ... [More]
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No connection
Well there we go. A US senate report says there was no connection between Iraq and Al Queda prior to the war starting. I can’t say I’m surprised. I haven’t changed my view: Saddam is a evil git, but there is no ongoing campaign to oust evil gits, so why was he special? There are ... [More]
It hasn’t been a spectacular year for me in the footy tipping. Although I was thankfully nowhere near the come bottom of the competition, after leading for a short period during the year I ended up fifth at the end of the season, three points off the lead. That formidable trophy won’t be coming to ... [More]
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Rosa
Rosa Lee Long, Queensland’s only sitting One Nation MP, was returned in her seat of Tablelands in the Queensland state election on Saturday. I only mention this because she’s actually a distant (non-blood) relative of mine. On the Chinese side of my family there are a mass of Lee Long family members, and I understand ... [More]
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Blue skies, open road
On the road driving up to Euroa on Saturday.
I was on the tram. A man in a nearby seat looked rather familiar. Was he someone I knew, or an undercover ticket inspector noticing I hadn’t bothered to re-validate my already several-hundred-times-re-validated Yearly ticket, so the tram company beancounters would get their flawed and meaningless statistics for the month? He got up. “Daniel, how ... [More]
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Sign of the times
A few notable signs on my recent travels… Seems like a reasonable request. I don’t want to know what might have prompted this one. Quick! What does it say? Every time I pass this one my eye catches a word that isn’t there. (By the way it’s next to the Indian/Italian place.) Oh, speaking of ... [More]
I’m no fan of Connex’s obtuse “Don’t Hold Others Back” campaign. Some of the TV ads make no sense when seen in isolation: you have to go to the web site to find out what it’s about. Of those that have ready web access, how many people would bother? Some advertising people will probably win ... [More]
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A few random thoughts
Given the risks some highway charity collectors seem to take dodging cars, I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever see them collecting for injured highway charity collectors. Has anybody published a book listing 1001 “1001 things” books you must read before you must die? I just got asked if my History of the World is accurate ... [More]
In each generation, most kids show boundless enthusiasm for creative pursuits. Whether it be drawing, building things, play-acting, whatever. When I was a kid, there was a lot of Lego building going on. My sister and I constructed whole cities. Sometimes we’d stick to the official designs of the sets, sometimes we’d go out on ... [More]
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Fathers Day
I seemed to spend most of Fathers Day doing dadly things. Like putting oil in the car. And cleaning the windscreen. And painting (well okay, it was just street numbers on the bins). And climbing ladders (just to move the John Brack a few inches downwards). And pulling the computer apart to put a new ... [More]
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So tired of waking up tired
I just know I’m going to be tired later today. Last night I got to bed about 11:30pm or so… but couldn’t sleep. Maybe a combination of the… well, not exactly heat, but certainly an unexpected lack of cold, and the ideas swimming in my head (which I’ll tell you about another time). I got ... [More]
You may have heard of it, well here it is in the flesh. Spotted and snapped “in the wild” last week on my handy-dandy mobile phone camera… The official Neighbours tour bus, roving the city looking for English tourists to whisk out to Vermont South where they film the show.
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Drycleaning
In my neck of the woods, drycleaners seem to have a permanent “three for the price of two” deal going on. It’ll cost you about $7 to get one item cleaned, but about double that for two or three. It means when I have an item that is in dire need of cleaning, I’ll pontificate ... [More]
I got home this afternoon, and walked into the livingroom only to spot a mouse in the fireplace. Apparently disturbed from its rodent activities it scurried away. It peeked out a little while later and had a good look at me. As soon as I moved it did another runner. As anybody would, I found ... [More]