Yesterday morning I was car-less, and to make carrying stuff while taking the kids to school on the bus easier, I packed a few things into my day pack. Sits on my back, easy. It was only later when walking to the station to go to work that I realised that with the day pack ... [More]
My old place post-renovation. I’ll have to have a nose around when I get the chance. I was told that yesterday my car was in bits all over some engine shop’s floor. Well, actually what the guy said (with baited breath) was that they had to go into the cylinder to adjust the flange sprocket ... [More]
There’s always the odd one(s) out. At 9:30 this morning on the train into the city, it was the couple with the baby. Something about them was different. If you were to have categorised everybody else in the carriage, they would have fallen into: professionals going to work – many of the blokes in ties, ... [More]
The car has been making its funny noise again. So I took it back into the service place on Thursday to get them to look at it. The service dude rang me that afternoon, saying that one of the flange-gespacho defribulators seemed to be loose, thatlast time round the engine guys who had done the ... [More]
Note: these fluffy toys are stunt doubles At work, the electronic lock to open the door from the lift lobby is at about waist height, and operated by a card key. Some people have the key dangling around their neck, and bend down to get the key to touch the lock. Fair enough. But some ... [More]
My mobile phone has rung so much in the last few days that I’m starting to imagine I’m hearing it. Not particularly helped by the following: As I stepped into the toilet this morning, I must have been momentarily distracted, and as I turned around to close the door, my forehead and the high shelf ... [More]
A long time school friend’s mum died of cancer on Thursday. Such a horrible thing for their family, all I can do is pass on condolences from my family. Film crew blocking off Hardware Street on Saturday, making me more late for lunch than I had previously been. Crowd control consisted of a woman in ... [More]
Yeah, smash the state! Victory for hax0rs! Let’s vandalise Daniel’s diary on a Sunday morning! Turned out to be an ISP-wide problem. Full credit to them though, they’re making amends by offering an upgrade to people’s accounts. So there you go. Thanks to Tony, who notified me first (and the others who let me know ... [More]
With many thanks to friends who couldn’t use the tickets, the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit. Some familiar faces (oh look, the Spanish Enfanta as the medium…), some intriguing special effects (how did they make that stuff fly around the room?), great dialogue and acting. A lot of fun.
Is this a world record? The first Christmas card for this year arrived on Monday, from one of my English uncles. I know they’ve had a postal strike recently there – maybe he was greatly concerned that if he didn’t get it into the post now, they’d call a snap strike and he wouldn’t be ... [More]
It has come to my attention that there is someone I know, someone who is a Gen-Xer like myself, who… and I’m not sure there’s any easy way to say this,does not have a mobile phone. There. I’ve blurted it out. Now I’m not going to reveal who this person is, because they have made ... [More]
Things I discovered when giving blood on Thursday: weight 70kg, which is down a couple of kilos, though I don’t feel any thinner. I may use it as an excuse to eat more chocolate haemoglobin count is 16.5 (dunno what it’s measured in, but whatever it is, there’s 16.5 of them, hooray for all of ... [More]