Nov 26 2009
Major Delays – Hurstbridge line: both directions, after an earlier equipment fault at Macleod. Delays over 25 minutes.. Connex, Keeping you updated. Yeah, been waiting over an hour now. Random thought time. Anklets might make you feel ‘alternative’, but when they’re under a pair of cheap stockings and you’re wearing a business suit, you just [...]
Nov 06 2009
One of the issues with living at the pointy end of the International Date Line is that you get reminded of anniversaries, etc too late, and celebrate birthdays too early. So, to wake up and be told to remember the 5th of November on the morning of the 6th is too late. And to be [...]
Oct 25 2009
(note before I start- in this post I am not talking about my newly- betrothed. I’m talking about someone who I barely know. So there.) I feel sorry for men sometimes. Because they have to deal with women. It is true- women are manipulative at times. The ‘is my butt big in this’ question- it’s a [...]
Sep 18 2009
About a year ago, I started a page on this site, which covered the basics of my getting married. I did this because the wedding became something that would undoubtedly take over everything, so I had to recognise its existence, but at the same time I actually didn’t want to talk about it- frankly, it [...]
Jul 17 2009
001:20:10 Collins (onboard): …I’ve lost a Hasselblad. Has anybody seen a Hasselblad floating by? It couldn’t have gone very far, big son of a gun like that. About 40 years ago, three guys took a giant leap. And in a month, I will be taking my own. When I got engaged, I did not have [...]
May 27 2009
When I was 14 I discovered that my name wasn’t actually my name. In fact, it was a yuppified version, due to a typo. Luckily for me, I wasn’t some emotional teenager so I laughed it off, made sure my signature was gender neutral, and moved on. Then the Internet got big, and I discovered [...]
Jan 06 2009
Happy New Year. My mobile seems to think the default word when I’m texting 9-6-8 is ‘yot’. Note: I do not love yot. I did not wish yot a happy new year above. Yottube isn’t a popular video site. Yot was not the ‘Time’ Person of the Year in 2006. It’s giving me the irrits. Seeing [...]
Sep 14 2008
… actually, me wanting to leave was a slight exaggeration. Slight. I went to dinner with some old friends. And the topics of conversation were: babies, pregnancy, babies, cravings, babies, schools, babies, milk, babies, obstetricians, babies, birth weight, and babies. Uncomfortable wasn’t the word- this wasn’t a case where I could fake it; I had [...]
Aug 19 2008
I let go of my little bitty AM/FM radio yesterday morning… and if fell straight down a stormwater drain. Ain’t no way of getting it back- the drain is just around the corner of the road, so even if I could reach it chances are I’ll get run over in the process. So it’s another radio for me. [...]
Aug 04 2008
Train cancelled. Ranty tourettes woman (with bad cough) on platform telling me to shut my balls up. It’s going to be a good birthday.
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