How to vote card. The placement of the picture of the sticker leaves the mildly amusing "Oral division of Aston" wording… Well I’m certainly feeling a lot better, though I wouldn’t say I was back at 100% yet. The main feature of the flu that’s still hanging on is the cough, something which when I ... [More]
That clueless dweeb at PowerQuest got back to me over the weekend with a more intelligent response than last time. Dear Daniel, Due to the high amount of e-mails received we are sorry for the delay in responding. In order for us to check the charges made onto your credit card, we will need for ... [More]
Next Saturday will be an interesting day. It’s the day of the Aston by-election, which is interesting to me in two ways. Firstly, with my member-of-the-Public-Transport-Users’-Association hat on, I’ve been a little bit involved with the campaign. The PTUA’s campaigning against the Scoresby freeway, which they argue won’t solve congestion problems, and is three times ... [More]
I still feel pretty fordinary. Yesterday I thought I was getting much better, and I went out a couple of times. But by last night I felt worse again. I wonder if it’s how drug addicts feel when they need a fix. I was shivering, almost unable to stand or walk. I lay in front ... [More]
I woke up feeling like crap. Fortunately the kids seemed okay, despite having some of the same symptoms – like the ear-shattering cough, for instance. After I got them off to child care, I called in sick then went back to bed and slept for four hours. I woke up and tried to nibble on ... [More]
The gentrification of my little suburb is continuing. The sea-themed paintings are on most of the telephone poles, al fresco dining is spreading, and today the ultimate: the railway station has gained a coffee shop. This is one helluva good idea. After all, since the replacement of the ticket-selling human with machines, the booking office ... [More]
WarGames – a bit of nostalgia from the 80s Occasionally, just occasionally, it seems that you can get an insight into what makes you tick. What has made you into the person you are. Some event, some experience that changed your way of thinking forever. Or at least, I can. Today, keen to have a ... [More]
My usual dentist sent me off to another dentist last week – a supplementary dentist, if you like. This guy’s a gum specialist, and vaguely resembles Uncle Arthur, though his actual name is Don, and he wasn’t annoying at all. Apparently my gums aren’t quite up to scratch. Various microscopic organisms are digging around in ... [More]
My dramas with my credit card took two interesting turns today. The more significant, but slightly less interesting turn was that I called the bank about the continued slurping of my account. They had a look and found that the company in Utah reckoned it was going to claim US$49.95 a month out of it. ... [More]
Yesterday there was rather an odd occasion: my old kindergarten’s birthday. I can’t remember if it was seventy years or eighty years or ninety years old, but it was definitely a bunch of years. And they were having a kind of reunion/birthday thingy. I can’t say I recall much about my kindergarten days. Actually, to ... [More]
(I was going to expand this out into more detail. But I can’t be bothered.) 1. Get into work, lots to do. 5 mins later, fire alarm, entire 40-ish storey building evacuated. 90 mins wasted 2. Production problem, entire system grinds to a halt. Run around like a maniac finding a fix and dodging red ... [More]
A few little snippets of news… The bank came back to say that the first wacky weird amount of money that got slurped out of my Visa card, the $57.94 that went to Utah, well, they’re unslurping it. They did say they’d have to reconsider if the merchant in question comes up with a signed ... [More]
Okay, just one last clipping: Meanwhile, it turns out that last week when nobody turned up to my divorce hearing because of sickness, well, they just went ahead and did it anyway. So I’m officially divorced. I’ll get the bits of paper confirming it in July. Yay! I should organise celebratory drinks or something.
I know I’ve put more than the average amount of newspaper stuff in the diary this month, but I can’t not mention this one, clipped from tonight’s freebie paper, MX: I think the guys at MX may be confusing real life with television. IT’S NOT TRUE! The Thunderbirds are just fictional characters! Granted, seeing them ... [More]
Just a little note to the paper (one of three published today) regarding this stupidity in yesterday’s.
I just saw the oddest thing in MacGowan Avenue. A bloke drove up, got out of his car, had a slash against a tree, then went into the house. Why would you do this? If it’s your house, you should be able to use your own toilet. If it’s not your house, is anybody really ... [More]