Month: June 2007

I went in for an eye exam recently and came away having paid for new glasses. It’s been a while so was happy when I just got a call from my optometrist. Well, I was happy for a few seconds until they told me that I’d be waiting another few weeks for my new specs. Apparently as they were grinding the lenses one shattered and now they have to order another set from Japan. Sigh, guess I’ll just have to stay off the roads at night for a bit longer.

Ah, the joys of working from home.

You get to see the council truck come along and water the tree they recently planted on our nature strip. Sod the fact it’s been pouring all week and the ground is sodden – it’s (no doubt) on the computer, so it has be done.

You also get to see the very rare cat plant bloom.

Okay, let’s check.

• Glasses
• Sci Fi fascination
• Works with computers

It seems that the list is now complete and I am, officially too nerdy for my own good.

It looks like I’ve started collecting comics. Mehmet, a great guy for a Collingwood supporter, has tracked down the first four issues of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 and I can’t wait to get more. I’m so lucky Rae didn’t realise just how geeky I am before she said “I do”.

I fill up my car every Tuesday evening on the way home from work and every week I stop and have a chat with the friendliest servo attendant in the world, Dawood at Newport Caltex.

Dawood always comments how nice it is to see me, how he’s pleased I took his advice to fill up every Tuesday and I always walk away smiling. Not something you would normally associate with the chore of filling up with petrol.

Tonight, however, he may have just earned Caltex a customer for life.

“Ah, my friend, it is always good to see you. And have you lost some weight lately?”

I was supposed to spend today chained to this computer catching up on work but I seem to have spent most of the day in assembly mode. I’ve put together a new whipper snipper and an office chair for Rae, although it looks cooler than mine so I may have to invoke the ‘I built it, I claim it’ clause that I had put in our pre-nup. (Heh, the thought of having a pre-nup, that’s funny).

It’s four o’clock now and the sun is setting. Time to get the washing in and to get stuck in to to some work that doesn’t involve an allen key, clothes pegs or cutting grass.

 After half a season and eleven games we finally won last night and the best part, I got to do the scarf thing.

Solstice has passed, from here on out it’s more light, warmer weather and bring on summer. Okay, I may be getting a little bit ahead of myself there as we’ve still got most of winter to come but I’m glad to see our longest night has gone.

It’s an odd winter this year. Normally by this time I’m hating each day, moaning about getting up in the dark and getting home in the dark but for some reason it hasn’t hit me as hard this year. The winter blues seem to have been kept at bay for now. Maybe it’s all the nervous energy being spent on waiting for the twins to arrive that’s kept me distracted, or maybe it’s because I’m frantically busy with work that I haven’t noticed how glum the day outside is. Whatever the reason, it’s a pleasant change.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks – the very poor man’s Mary Poppins. Discuss.

And we’re thirsty.

A broken water main somewhere near by means we’re without water, I think this makes it three times in three years we’ve woken up to no water. We’ve got a litre or so in the fridge, some in a little bottle and Bert’s bottle was filled last night so that will hopefully do us for the next couple of hours until City West Water can wake somebody to fix it.

Of course last night we didn’t do the dishes straight after dinner, and decided that Bert could just have a shower with one of this morning instead of a bath and Rae had organised brunch with a girl friend at the Famous Blue Raincoat who will also have no water.