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Day 30, last day of NaBloPoMo

So this is the last day of NaBloPoMo! It's definitely been an interesting experience, i'm not totally sure if i'd do it again next year, but who knows.

I think i've done quite well over the month, i'm pretty sure there were only a few entries which I made just for the sake of it.

To life-blogging: Meteorologically, today was very weird. We woke up to literally a dark orange sky. At first I thought it was only the sunrise being a bit funny, but that spooky dark orange sky lasted until after midday. … Read more →

Day 29 of NaBloPoMo

I didn't do that much today, just really went to work, came home, and after dinner at the in-laws, i'm here. I really haven't got that much to blog.

Because there is only one more day of NaBloPoMo to go, I thought it would be interesting to see the result of this month in terms of activity on this website.

This website has statistics software running which records the amount of hits, visitors, where they came from, what browser they are using, which pages were viewed, etc etc.

Below is the screenshot showing this year's monthly … Read more →

Day 28 of NaBloPoMo

I know i've said it many, many times before, but I hate summer. I loathe it, I despise it, I abhor it, I [insert other thesaurus entry for the word 'hate'] it.

As you can probably tell, it's been pretty hot here in the past few days. Please please, winter come back!

After going to the parents for dinner and getting really annoyed at my siblings recounting and spoiling the Borat movie (which I want to but haven't seen yet), the snap decision was made to go and see it tonight.

We decided to … Read more →

Day 27 of NaBloPoMo

Another busy Monday survived.

Speaking of survival, all men should watch and learn from this:

Good luck!… Read more →

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 →