On Tuesday, I was working at home. My workmate Stanley needed to get some CDs off me. So I gave him instructions for getting to my local station, and said I’d meet him there. Good plan? Nothing simpler, right? Stanley had never been on a train before. Never. Trams yes, but not trains. Oh what ... [More]
This morning a good Samaritan leapt out of her car at an intersection to tell me I had no brake lights. Well, at least that they weren’t working. This put me into something of a panic, as of all the lights on a car, the brake lights are some of the most important. Screw keeping ... [More]
Even though I got a good eight hours of sleep last night, I’m still tired. Maybe I’m still playing catch-up for Saturday night (5.5 hours). I was in Geelong for dinner on Saturday night, and ended up driving back home late. I’ve been humming Area 7‘s Bogan song all weekend, so it was pretty funny ... [More]
Last night I went for a walk. Tonight there was little chance of that. After a hot muggy day came the cloud, then the thunder, then the lightning, then the rain, then more rain, then the hail, then more rain, and more lightning… You get the general picture.
11:30am. Telemarketer: Hello is that Mr or Mrs Bowen? Me: What are you selling? Telemarketer: Oh, I’m not selling nothing. Great. She followed on with some spiel about how my house was only one of five in the suburb to be chosen for a free offer… does anybody fall for this crap any more? 3:15pm. ... [More]
We’ve started a mini-DVD swapping scheme at work, so this weekend I watched two movies I missed in the cinemas… Gladiator – great movie. Best bit was seeing "Clavdivs" – Derek Jacobi in it! That and looking at Russ in the Colosseum and thinking… Hey, I’ve been there! Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – yeah, pretty ... [More]
Properties… No, Disable… Arrghh! At work. Need to check the configuration on the server… okay here we go! Click, click, open Terminal Services, log on, click, start, Settings, Network, Local Area Connection.. Okay! Now to look at the Properties… click… Whoops. Got the other button. Disable. Disable network connection. When I’m logged on remotely. No ... [More]
At the Australian Open tennis (Pic: Danielle) Pulling silly faces at Arthur’s Seat (Pic: Danielle) I was awake around 5:15 on Friday morning to get into the city to meet Danielle on the 7am XPT from Sydney. By about 6am it was apparent from an SMS that it wouldn’t be the 7am XPT – it ... [More]
I’ve been watching the Australian Open tennis with rather more interest than usual, because I’ve got tickets to go tomorrow night. All the Aussie blokes have already bombed out of the men’s singles, but hopefully the matches on will be of interest anyway. I’m off to bed early tonight to meet up with my friend ... [More]
Roos in the wilderness near Seymour I put on my political activist’s hat over the weekend, up at Seymour for a junket/love-in/planning weekend. Actually, it can’t have been a junket because we paid for most of the costs. Anyway we were up at this groovy place in the wilderness somewhere outside Seymour (far enough from ... [More]
I’ve done it. I’ve actually done it. I can hardly believe it. I never thought I’d see the day. I never thought it would come to this. I did the "when I was a boy I used to walk…", speech to my kids. It’s times like this when I realise that generation after generation is ... [More]
I’ve been pretty busy this week, in a kind of lazy kind of a way. On Monday I took the kids to the zoo. Heaps of fun. Heaps of animals. I couldn’t help but notice one curious family, some of whom were dressed rather oddly for the zoo on a summer’s day, I thought. To ... [More]
Saturday 12:00. Put a bunch of whites in the washing machine. Put soap liquid in. Close machine. Turn dial, ready to start. 14:00. Open machine. Pull washing out into a basket. Notice it seems remarkably dry. Must be because it’s a hot day. Don’t have time to hang up yet, so leave in basket. 14:45. ... [More]
The new Melway. Not just a street directory, more a way of life. On Friday afternoon I headed over to Chadstone to buy the presents I didn’t get given for Christmas. You see, in our family we freely admit that we’re crap at choosing presents for each other (at least most of us are – ... [More]
Well Christmas Day was cold and wet. Certainly very un-Christmas-like. But we all piled over to my mum’s place to unwrap presents, stuff ourselves full of food, and generally had a good time. Which we did. Especially on Isaac’s new pogo stick.
Getting into the Christmas spirit. Since it’s Christmas Eve, I wore a Christmas hat for much of the day… out at lunch, on the train home, that kind of thing. I discovered last week that wearing a silly hat can make some of my workmates laugh, and it seemed like a small price to pay ... [More]