Day 26 of NaBloPoMo

Last night was good: went to Church, farewelled a person going to Africa for a few weeks, and then it transpired that via picking up fish'n'chips, a few people came over our place to watch a few How I Met Your Mother episodes.

This morning I got up around 9am, and after arguing with myself, eventually convinced me to have a go at shaving in the crapful morning heat. I use an electric shaver, and using that whilst your skin and moist with sweat is not a pleasant experience: no, weirdly it doesn't make the skin … Read more →

Day 25 of NaBloPoMo

Unfortunately I don't have any back injuries this week, so that means that I must partake in cleaning the unit today.

Anyway, i thought I might do an entry about the things that I do when i first get on the net.

The very first thing i do is open a browser... (*palm in the air* high five! ...anyone? ...don't leave me hangin?! Yeah, i know, that was a really crap nerdy joke).

But seriously, after I open Firefox, I open about four new tabs. The first one is my homepage (this blog), and the very … Read more →

Day 24 of NaBloPoMo

Really nothing that much that i can blog today. The working week has come and gone again, and we face another weekend that, as always, will come and go all too quickly. It sucks because I'm starting to get disheartened about the weekend ending at the beginning of the weekend!

Not really in the mood for blogging, so I guess I'll leave it at that.

Edit: to cheer up people, watch the recently released The Simpsons Movie trailer here.… Read more →

Day 23 of NaBloPoMo

The big news in town of late is the first Ashes Test beginning in Brisbane today. I normally can't stand watching cricket, but i'll admit to at least following the scores for the Ashes series.

It sucks though, because my commute to work and back passes right next to the Gabba (stadium where the cricket is being played at the moment). This afternoon I had to dodge the area which extended my run home.

I've just gotten back home from playing mixed indoor tonight. It was a really strange and high-scoring game, which is amazing considering … Read more →

Day 22 of NaBloPoMo

After putting them up at the start of this month, Today I decided to remove the crappy Google ads from this blog.

The amount of revenue raised in the twenty-something days i've had them has been pretty paltry: all of 3 clicks totalling USD$0.48. Wow, I could almost buy a Chupa-Chup.

But the main reason why i'm taking them down is that they've started to annoy me: the make the blog look crap (well, more crap than it usually looks), and I don't really want people advertising total garbage like this on my site.

Other than … Read more →

Day 21 of NaBloPoMo

This afternoon I had to leave work a bit early to attend the AGM for the body corporate for our building. As expected, there was a very low turnout: only me and one other person showed, which was enough for a quorum. Got through that and then went over my parents house for dinner.

After a lovely Taco/Burrito dinner (that's twice in two nights for me and Despina), I unfortunately had to sit through watching Dancing With the Stars. It's funny how a show just screams: "This is for all the elderly people out there". … Read more →

Day 20 of NaBloPoMo

Continuing on from the last entry: I went to the game of indoor last night, and after a prolonged warm-up not feeling any back problems, and seeing that we had only four other players (five are needed for a full team), I decided to play.

I, and the team in general, had a pretty good game. We won a tight contest, eventually edging the other team out 6-4 after it was locked at 4-4 going into the final few minutes. They were a very rough team, the problem being that all of their players were committing … Read more →

Day 19 of NaBloPoMo

I just finished watching the end of the Red Bull Air Race World Series event that was being held in Australia (Perth, to be exact) today. I'm a big fan of the Air Race, I always try to catch it whenever they show an event on TV. It was good to see the extremely likeable Hungarian pilot, Peter Besenyei, take out the Perth event.

However i've got to say how crap the Perth track was in the race today. It was way too simple, and especially compared to the tracks from some of the … Read more →

Day 18 of NaBloPoMo

WARNING: Washing and cleaning can be dangerous!

Well, at least it was for me today. The washing machine stuffed up on our first load (the towels): it didn't spin them because the load became unbalanced and left some very soaked and very heavy towels.

In trying to wring the water out of the towels, I managed to tweak something in my back, which after a few minutes, promptly started to cramp. Very painful, and Dr Mum came over with some Deep Heat.

That was the end of the cleaning for me, which also meant that I … Read more →

Day 17 of NaBloPoMo

I mean really tgif. This week was one of the toughest weeks at work that i've had for a long time. Next week should be a lot better once my partner-in-crime returns from leave.

Today I went into the city and bought Family Guy Season 5 on DVD, i should be watching the hilarity that it is over the next few days.

Freaky: right now whilst typing out this entry, i have my entire iTunes library on shuffle, and The Weekend by Michael Gray just came on. How appropriate. That's live blogging for you!

Speaking of … Read more →