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My Tweets For The Week

  • New security door now in place, wish it was warm enough to have the front door open. #
  • I moved to the USA for two minutes today. My book was delivered with no problems. #
  • Bugger, another year until we get a new series of The Apprentice UK. #
  • It's arrived! Thanks @pressoaustralia http://t.co/kxWSl9D #
  • Tax taken care of for another year. Mr Swan my have a heart attack when it's reported how promptly my return was submitted. #
  • Today has been an absolutely horrid day. That is all. #
  • Sleeping in by 45 minutes does not make for a calm start to the day. #
  • Taking a chance that blue sky is going to remain blue. #
  • Gardening neighbour from last week just dropped off some cord for our whipper snipper. #
  • Tonight at CInema Malloy – 70s horror, The Omen. #
  • Rae seems to spend weekend nights watching English auction shows. All of the houses seem so small. #

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My Tweets For The Week

  • New security door now in place, wish it was warm enough to have the front door open. #
  • I moved to the USA for two minutes today. My book was delivered with no problems. #
  • Bugger, another year until we get a new series of The Apprentice UK. #
  • It's arrived! Thanks @pressoaustralia http://t.co/kxWSl9D #
  • Tax taken care of for another year. Mr Swan my have a heart attack when it's reported how promptly my return was submitted. #
  • Today has been an absolutely horrid day. That is all. #
  • Sleeping in by 45 minutes does not make for a calm start to the day. #
  • Taking a chance that blue sky is going to remain blue. #
  • Gardening neighbour from last week just dropped off some cord for our whipper snipper. #
  • Tonight at CInema Malloy – 70s horror, The Omen. #
  • Rae seems to spend weekend nights watching English auction shows. All of the houses seem so small. #

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More Power To Us. Maybe.

With electricity prices on the rise (some one really should tell Today Tonight, they might be interested in doing a story on it) we’ve been thinking about our power bills. We’re pretty good; most nights there’ll just be the two lights on in the house, we don’t have a drier and follow energy saving suggestions fairly assiduously. Our quarterly bills are low in comparison to the few we’ve had discussions with too, which surprises us. We know there are things we could do to save a bit more on electricity bur seriously, who can be bothered turning off the television at the wall every night?

One thing we’ve been contemplating is solar panels for our electrickery but I’m not sure if they represent that much value. Before launching off in to our own research (which we’re going to have do regardless) has any one done any investigation and is able to give us a rough ‘yeah you should’ or ‘no, don’t even bother’?

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A Thing Of Great Importance – Oddfellows Mints Are Disappearing

Screw the Carbon Tax, this is important.

Oddfellows peppermints are disappearing.

Over the past couple of months The Best Peppermints In The World have become harder and harder to find and when my sure thing of finding them in the local IGA failed this week I feared the worse; that Allens had discontinued my all time favourite lolly.

Things became so desperate I rang Allens today and spoke to a lovely lady in their customer service department. She had obviously had a few calls because as soon as I said ‘Oddfellows’ she interrupted me to let me know that they are still being made. Coles stopped stocking them years ago but Woolworths has only just removed them from their shelves and now they are only available in independents or petrol stations. I asked if there was some form of factory outlet (with the aim of buying a lifetime’s supply) but there isn’t one.

So now I’m going to have to spend one day a week cruising milk bars, small supermarkets and petrol stations so I can get my fix. Another day of the week I’m going to have to devote to my ‘Save The Oddfellows’ campaign. Tonight I’m writing to Woolworths voicing my displeasure.

So, if you see any packets hanging around please let me know, I don’t want to have to resort to ordering them from New Zealand.

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Update On Moving

I moved to the US for a couple of minutes today, to the New York Times building (as suggested by Tim) to be precise. The move went well, the book was delivered in about 30 seconds and I’m back in Australia.

I now have Last Call in paperback and on my Kindle. Most importantly, now that it’s on my Kindle I’ll actually get around to finishing it.

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Send off quote, update WordPress, fix Cinderella Barbie's head…all in a days work. #
  • Haven't moved from this desk all day, time for a little walk outside to get some of this thing called 'air'. #
  • Such a grey day, hard to lift your spirits above 'getting by' on a day like today. #
  • After a chat this morning neighbour from two doors up just knocked on the door and loaned me his sheers to trim back bushes in front yard #
  • Ooops, that should have been 'shears', not 'sheers'. There was no exchange of stockings. #
  • And thanks to Miss Marita for pointing out the missing 'k'. Kan yu tel mi minde isnt reely fohcussed todai? #
  • So 'Burnt by sigar' is actually 'Burnt by it's anger'. Who would have guessed. #
  • I mean, seriously @Richmond_FC, the Gold Coast? Right back where we started from and then some. #
  • Thinking about adding a 3rd monitor but the CFO is giving me nasty looks when I mention it. #
  • Odd – The SBS site is giving me malware warnings in Chrome. #
  • Dinner on, not sure if the kids will like the chicken pasta thingy I'm trying, pizza place is on stand by. #
  • Lemon soy chicken rigatoni surprisingly tasty and popular. #

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Lunch

My home made prawn and pork rice paper rolls were demolished in record time.

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Trimming

This morning Rae, who has the day off, took the family off for a drive to the country. As she left there was a bit of a problem with traffic in the street and a soil delivery truck was blocking her way. The neighbour who was accepting the delivery strolled up to apologise and we got chatting about gardens. Turns out he is retired gardener and he commented that our bushes needed a bit of a trim. I agreed and said we were going to buy some garden sheers to neaten things up.

Half an hour later there’s a knock on the door and there he is again, with two sets of shears in his hand. “You borrow them for month, trim them good.” and then he gave me a quick lesson on how to tackle the job.

It’s these sort of moments that make working from home even better.

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My Tweets For The Week

  • When an artist recommends a cover of one of his own songs you know it has to be good. http://t.co/xRWTpgf #
  • Love it when a client calls you just to say thank you for making them look good. #
  • Tried to be organised this year and it's paid off. Tax infro all prepared in one hour, including last quarters BAS report. #
  • Rolled the dice on some washing but by the looks of the sky I'm gonna lose. #
  • Bert just used an apostrophe correctly when he wrote "Henry's". he did spell mine "myn" though. Still, I'd count the apostrophe as a win. #
  • Why is that when an @optus rep says 'trust me' I have the exact opposite reaction? #
  • Ripped off, no earth tremor here. #
  • Now that's an old school electrician, he called his apprentice 'The Boy'. Happy to recommend to any one needing a sparky in the west. #
  • Long day ahead. Woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't get a breath. Not a nice feeling. Settled eventually but little sleep. #
  • Hey @metrotrains – why aren't we on Google Maps transit directions? http://t.co/aT0wKdJ #
  • Say hello to my little duck! #repalceawordinafamousquotewithduck #
  • Two hours later…looks like we'll have a roof over the deck before too long. Very happy Tony and Rae. #
  • Just watched the first quarter, great to see us play with passion. #
  • Really enjoyed the first two eps of Falling Skies. #
  • Looking forward to finally getting to see some @TheMelbourneIce hockey this afternoon, it's been way too long. #
  • I just are held a tub of lemon sorbet. Would gave eaten more but that's all there was. #

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Delivery

Normally it’s a hunt around the drive to find the paper but our delivery guy must have been bored this morning and wanted to add a little extra challenge to my morning read.

Newspaper buried in a bush.