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Hangin' with the Beautiful PeopleA $10,000 dayThursday, 31 January 2002Scroll right to the bottom of the page and click on the link to Uncle Bob's site. Then, check out the army. I am in it. I am so frickin' cool. I have joined the land of the shiny beautiful people. I am in Uncle Bob's Army. Yes I am. Oh. My. God. I am soooooooooo cool. Why is that so cool? Well, check out Uncle Bob's Diary O' Chuckles and you'll understand. OK? While we're on it, also check out Earthbound Disco Ball. It is a very excellent diary and I must read more of it. There are many archives for me to read through there. [sigh] So much work to do. So little time. By the way, my holidays were short-lived. I'm back at work now. I've got a temp contract to take me up until week 3 of semester. D'oh. Oh well, I'll juggle them somehow.
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T-Bones and HipstersA 5 for $2.00 dayWednesday, 30 January 2002My mother has berated the latest hipster trend on a number of occasions. She says not everyone has hips they can afford to show off. Point taken. I have no hips and a classic diabetic pot belly. Hipsters do me less fashion favours than a track suit. That said, I've been secretly harbouring a desire to look good in hipsters. That would require the loss of some 20 to 30 kilos and the establishment of some hips. Dream on. Yesterday, I was in a meeting and Ms Hipster was sitting to my right. She says she owns nothing but hipster skirts. She must have the most transient wardrobe in the office. (I bet there's a track suit hiding in there somewhere.) As with all crap meetings I'm required to sit through at work, I take it upon myself to be first out the door at the end. With the first hint of "Well, I think that about wraps it up," I jump up and lunge for the door. Ms Hipster is leaning forward in her chair, full of animated conversation. The cost of hipsters is that everyone knows what colour knickers you're wearing. What I wasn't prepared for was to see the top half of her purple t-bones and associated butt cheeks. It's cured me of something. I just can't tell if it's wanting to wear hipsters, or wanting to leave a meeting at the first hint of closure. |
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A message to Carlton United Breweries:-A $2.50 a pot dayMonday, 28 January 2002Why do you keep your
delicious Carlton Draught to the southern states? How can you be such
selfish beer thieves? You scoundrels! Don't we have as much right to
decent beers as the rest of the world? Listen to our plight and bring
Carlton Draught, the beverage of choice, back into Brisbane's bars. Carlton United Breweries,
how you mock me. Perhaps I'll rename my guestbook the
"Bring back Carlton Draught Petition". Hmmmm,.... that'd sure
increase the signatures on my guestbook, wouldn't it? Kill two birds with
one stone,... bring Carlton Draught back AND look popular to all my
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Happy Australia DayA $7 a pint DaySaturday, 26 January 2002Well, for those international folk who frequent Destination Digest,... and Webstat tells me you're there,... today is Australia's national day. France has Bastille Day, America has 4 July, and we have "Australia Day". Now, I bet you're going to ask me for a history lesson about it. You want to know why Australia Day is Australia Day? Well,... I dunno. Perhaps some public servant in the Prime Minister's office selected January 26 because it was smack bang in the middle of summer. Gee, that'd be a good day for a holiday. Force us out of our comfortable air-conditioned offices and into Australia's 40+ degree heat. Give us a day off work to contemplate the bushfires, or Heaven forbid, watch the cricket. Cricket,... is there anything more boring to watch? Anyway, over the past couple of years in Melbourne, we made an effort to develop our own Australia Day tradition. Radio JJJ has joined us in this effort by broadcasting their hottest 100 each year on Australia Day. Australia Day usually then becomes an excuse to have all your friends over for an all-day long barbie. Everyone hangs around from 10:00am until 6:00pm when number one, which is no surprise to anyone and usually pisses us all off, is played to signal the end of the biggest music marathon of the year. [sigh] I think our tradition was better. We'd catch up with our friend Jan every Australia Day. That was rule number one. Subsequent rules usually involved playing mini-golf at one of Melbourne or Victoria's premier mini-golf courses, and having a decent feed. Usually it's the decent feed that's the challenge. In all the years the tradition's been running, I don't think we've yet been able to secure a decent feed. All the good restaurants are closed and those left open are usually well versed in the art of soggy chips, toasted sandwiches and bad coffee. This year, we're apart. We can't catch up with our friend Jan. We tried a new tradition which involved:
An aside,... Both Mr D. and "The Guys" were appalled by The Virginian. It had a very student pub atmosphere. (Or as the late great Disco the Kid [Why did I only discover him after it was all over?] would say, very student pub-esque.) I dunno,... maybe it's because I'm a student now, but I thought it looked cool. I wanted to go in and play all the video games and watch the big screen and stuff. [sigh] Why am I so uncool, Lord? Why am I so uncool? |
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The Pop-up has to goA $14.95 including GST DayFriday, 25 January 2002The annoying pop-up has got to go. I apologise to all of you that have endured it.The Jesus Answers pop-up was really cool for a while there. It was a little java script that put a new scripture up each time you visit here. But lately it's been doing weird stuff and putting a pop-up window up for a few seconds while the page loads. Very annoying. I decided, it's time for the fancy Jesus Answers gismo to go. I can type in my own scriptures. OK? Onto other news, Mr D. and I sold our house within four days of listing it. We have also made an offer to buy a house. It's a pretty cool place and I found it on Realestate.com.au. Now that the home is under contract, I'm not sure how long this link will work, but if you follow it you'll be able to see some pictures and a blurb about the house. Looks good, huh?
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ShortlistingAn offers over $149,000 DayWednesday, 23 January 2002Well, the offers have been coming in so I thought I'd start scouring the web for my own little piece of land. These are links to the shortlisted ones so I can go back and check 'em out easily. You'll probably find it rather boring. Sorry. NB: Most of these links will only work for a week or two.
Anyway guys, this is my short list after my first efforts scouring the web. I checked out a lot of sites but there are still more to be scoured. Frankly, I've had enough for the day. This short list will do for now. It's not really that short, is it? Oh well, this time tomorrow, I guarantee you, it will be a lot shorter. Cheers, |
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Rrrroooar.A $10 DayTuesday, 22 January 2002The guilt I'm feeling at not writing for a while is far outweighed by the coolness of the tablecloth I've just made. Yeah. I'm officially on holidays now and I've been on a sewing frenzy. But, let me tell you folks, we've only just begun. I've only made two things so far. I've got enough fabric and patterns to continue on ad infinitum. cool. "So," I hear you ask, "what is this cool tablecloth that you're raving on about?" It's a fusion of calico fabric and decorator contact. It creates a much more attractive and serviceable tablecloth. I can wipe it down with a damp cloth instead of having to stick it into the washing machine. Not only is it inherently practical, but it is leopard print. Oh yeah. Very faux, but very (I can not emphasise it enough) very sexy. In fact, stay tuned for the photos. The tablecloth is covering our computer desk. Our computer sits in the corner of the loungeroom on a dodgy old desk that we got for free from someone who was chucking it out. It's functional, but not at all attractive. That is, until I covered it with the very sexy leopard print table cloth. Roar. On to other important issues. I hope that you've all given some consideration to your logie nominations. They're due very soon and I really think that Peter Cundall deserves the gold logie. I'll post my votes here very soon. But for now, rush out and buy the latest TV week magazine, or vote on-line. It's really important. Dammit. PS: I can feel a rant coming up soon about Snow Pea sprouts. Grrr. |
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Fffwwwoooar.A $100,000 DayWednesday, 16 January 2002
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Gone paintingA $115 DayTuesday, 15 January 2002Yeah, I know. It's been a week since I last wrote. But do you know what I've been doing since we last spoke? Working my butt off. Yes. We've been repainting our house, and unfortunately it has taken a lot longer than it should have. I still am not on holidays yet. Hopefully by the end of this week I'll be able to stop beavering so feverishly. If I don't stop soon, I'll collapse. I'm so weary. I just need a week off. [sigh] I've had more doctor's visits in the past two days. Yeah, we're going to try Clomid again. We're just waiting on the results of some blood tests and if they're clear then I'll be on the drugs again. Wahoo. I'm cynical and jaded. I pointed out to my doctor today that I know three other women with PCOS. Two of them are pregnant. Argh. I know that God has a perfect time for me. Until that knowledge moves from my brain to my heart, I will struggle on in emotional anguish. I've been studying some Christian teaching about healing. It combines healing of the body, soul and spirit. It has taught me a lot, but I can't explain it all to you tonight. I'm too tired to even approach anything complex. Late tomorrow night I will be aware which Uni I will be attending this year. That reminds me, I've gotta dig out all my stuff for recognition of prior learning (aka RPL's). Apologies for the lack of witty repartee. Perhaps tomorrow. Uncle Bob's journal is pretty excellent today. If you're in search of amusement, I suggest you check it out. Pay particular attention to the links regarding President Bush and the shampoo bottle. Tee Hee. |
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Lessons LearnedA $32.50 DayTuesday, 8 January 2002I’ve been learning all these spiritual lessons lately and it occurred to me that I should be writing them down. Lessons are easily forgotten and all the pain I go through to learn things is worth making an effort to remember. I’ve been mulling over Isaiah 49 and there was something that stood out in it the other day. It was God saying in His time he will [insert promise here],... I got a case of déjà vu. I spent half of my high school years grasping tightly to that kind of scripture. It’s as if I can do nothing but hold on as tightly as I can to God’s promises. Where’s the growth? Where’s the spiritual maturity? Why am I still drinking milk? I’m disappointed that I haven’t been able to move on from this place. Even in my writing, I’m in exactly the same place as I was at the end of high school. Do you get the impression that I’ve gone once around the mountain and I'm still wandering in the wilderness? Maybe God is trying to tell me something. Maybe the whole Melbourne thing was a journey to heal me of something,... something that was God’s good plan for me to experience. Hmmm. Something to think about. |
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Happy New Year and all that jazz,...A $50.00 DayMonday, 7 January 2002My holidays started today. I slept in until lunch time. Thanks for asking. (: I hope your festive season went well. Personally, I spent the entire time re-painting our house. The painting only took two days, the other 12 or so were spent chiselling, sanding, bogging, sanding, washing and preparing for the painting. It's a huge job and I don't recommend painting the entire inside of your home in one hit. One room at a time is a much more sensible way of doing it. I'd like to publicly thank all the legendary people who assisted us (in no particular order, althought the first three dudes gave us numerous days of assistance, so special thanks to you guys):
Onto other topics, there are a few changes to the site for the new year. As you may have noticed, I snuck in a little font change late in December. I'm only going with the boring Arial because it's a very standard font. I was looking at my site on someone elses computer recently and the font was nothing like the one I created it in. The shock was almost too much. It’s interesting, to me at least, that Australian Pole Vaulter, Dmitri Markov made history last year on 11 August. But no-one will remember that,… all they’ll remember is 11 September. Dmitri Markov put his heart and soul into his world championship attempt at pole vaulting, and for what? To be mentioned in a few news reports that day? I’m sure a few pole vaulters will remember Dmitri, a few industry types will recall the wonderful effort he made. So what did he do it for? You'll see from my 11 August 2001 entry that Dmitri's effort had an impact on me. As a tribute to all his hard work, I've decided to make him my Vault page poster boy. Go pole vaulting with Dmitri and I'm sure you'll hit the heights. (-: Oh well, at least you'll know when you're going through old entries.
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