Life between coffees.
I may not be Daniel Bowen when it comes to media exposure but I’ve made my start.
Samela Harris of Adelaide’s The Advertiser mentioned my blog in an article on Aussie bloggers. Thanks Samela, and hi to anyone who may still be visiting from Adelaide.
Sort of ironic that this happened on the weekend I really hated that city. No hard feelings now though. Right?
We did it! We got Deb.
We hit our target early this morning. Thanks to everyone who has placed an order, forwarded our emails and linked to the entry, you’ve made a dream come true,
For those who have ordered we’ll be sending out information soon on paying, collecting, the date we are going to ask for and anything else that needs to be arranged.
We can’t believe we’ve done it, thanks again everyone. This is going to be great.
Of course if you want to order a CD you still can – it’s signed, it will be earlier than you can get it in the shops and if you’re in Melbourne there’s the chance to see Deb live in our lounge. Just drop us a line using that contact link over there. On the left. You can see it, now click it.
It’s true. I’m addicted to the most shameful thing, but there’s nothing I can do about it. I’ve tried but I’m just not strong enough.
I can’t help but tune in to My Restaurant Rules and, and I’m not proud to say this, I actually voted.
I need help. I’ve been suckered in and there’s no way I can give it up. I guess now it’s out there and if admitting it is half the problem I’m half way to the cure although I suspect nothing will help me except for the final episode next Sunday.
This weeks misdirected SMS, and it came from England.
Jen put articles thru door at lionmede. Hope thats okw
We’ve spent all today sitting down. We picked up Phee from drama and raced up the Hume to see my sister in Annie.
After a two and a quarter hour drive we arrived with ten minutes to spare and straight in to our seats. It was then the flash backs began. You see my little sister, who teaches singing for a living, always wanted to sing; she even tried to make her first scream melodious. She must have been about eight or so when she first discovered Annie and for the next seven years, until I left for Melbourne, that’s pretty much all she sang. Every day. Every hour of every day. Every minute of every hour of every day. The tape must have been worn thin spooling through her little Sanyo tape deck over and over without stopping.
And today it all came flooding back. I swear if one of the performers had have been struck by a bolt of lightning on stage I could have leapt up and taken their place without skipping one word.
Helen played Miss Hannigan, the role she was born for. She belted out the big numbers, hammed up the comedy and danced up a storm with her husband, with whom she shared the stage and applause. Their poor child doesn’t stand a chance. Write this name down now – Tom Janke. You’ll be seeing it up in lights before very long, and he’s not yet two.
Well done Helly, I’m very proud of you but now, how about we give Annie the rest she deserves?
Continue reading “We Love You Miss Hannigan”
That’s we called it way back when, mental arithmetic. I have no idea what the new PC label for the ability to perform calculations in your head is, probably Non Keying Calculation Processing Via Individual Synapse Manipulation, or some such. It’s so disappointing that Phee runs straight for her calculator to do even the simplest of numeric calculations and I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t be up to us to show how to perform ‘minuses’ using pen and paper.
Any teachers out there – is this normal? Do kids learn NKCPVISM these days or am I being an old fogey (again)?
That’s it. It’s a must see already – go and check out the first five minutes of Shrek 2 and tell me you don’t want to see it RIGHT NOW!
Unfortunately we in Australia have to wait until June 17th, a whole month after the US gets to see it. Stupid bloody school holidays.
Grumble mumble grumble.
(And thanks to Daniel you can ‘right click and save as‘ to download the 50meg high res Quictktime version)
Two stations I love listening to come from overseas. 6 Music from the BBC comes from England and CKNW sends me the hockey from Vancouver. Only problem is that if I want to listen to them I have to be at my computer, and that’s a drag on a warm summers day when you could be out cleaning the car as the hockey is playing.
To overcome this bugbear I gave in to my gadget fetish and purchased a stereo fm transmitter that plugs in to my computer. This great little USB plug’n’play box sends out a signal I can pick up on any FM radio throughtout the house and outside. Given the ridiculously high download limits from my ISP I could leave it going overnight and wake up to the evening show from London. Gotta love this internet thing.
Mena from Six Apart has, in the light of the response to MT’s new licensing scheme, asked how we use Movable Type. As I track-backed the original post I should respond.
I initially used MT exclusively for my own blog. My partner then became interested in blogging so I added her to my domain and over a year or so have added three other friends who wanted a simple yet powerful way to publish on-line.
Without my offering hosting on my server and the use of MT none of these four would have become involved in blogging. The new structure is simply too expensive for my situation so I will look elsewhere for a tool that allows me to continue to offer blogging to my friends and family for free.
Thanks Mena for taking the time to listen to your customers and users, I continue to wish Movable Type and Six Apart well.
Rob and I need your help.
It will cost you $30 but you’ll end up with a signed CD a month before its release date, beer, pizza and a twenty minute live set in our lounge room.
Let me explain.
Deborah Conway is releasing a new album and as a special offer if you purchase 25 albums from her site in one hit they (she and her husband Willy) will personally deliver them, sign them and perform a 20 minute live set.
This is pretty much our idea of heaven.
Now Rob and I could just buy 25 CD’s between us, $750 is pretty cheap to have Deb singing for you, but then we’d be left with 11 and a half CD’s each to get rid of. So drop us a line or leave a comment and let us know you want a CD – buy a new Deb Conway CD, get an invite. I’ve even added a ‘Deb Count’ to the front page.
Even if you can’t make the performance you will get a pre-release CD, signed and all. And if you don’t like Deb, give it away as a present!
Go on, you know you want to.
Okay, so it’s more we want you to. We’ll be your best friends….
UPDATE 18/5
Wow! 13 so far and, believe it or not, an email from Deb herself! 12 more to go people otherwise my family are all getting the CD for Christmas.
ANOTHER UPDATE 19/5
21 – thanks everyone who has ordered so far, we’re that (insert mental picture of Tony holding two fingers very close to each other) close. If you’re out of Melbourne, no matter how far, we’ll send you the CD’s so that’s no excuse.
Four more to go, four more…
Also there are some more up to date entries on the ‘Diary‘ page. Once we hit our mark the front page will be updated again.