Category: Diary

Finally got my copy of Revenge (off Ebay), and it’s just as great as I rembered. Made me realise though that kids these days don’t get to have a favourite side. Side B (it was a tape) was always my favourite, even though all the singles were on Side A.

To take me back a little I paused between 5 & 6. I’m old and sad, but have good music.

It’s cyclic, must be.

Flash back to 1984. My school up until then, St Colman’s, had amalgamated with the girls school across the road, Sacred Heart, to form a new co-ed secondary school, Notre Dame College (what a shocker of a site NDC!). Toward the end of the year we held some sort of sports carnival and I, along with a couple of mates (I think it was Joe and Simon, willing to stand corrected by those with a better memory). decided creating a time capsule would be a good idea to get of going to the sports day.

So the day rolls around and we’ve done bugger all about it. After the rest of the school left we raided classrooms and managed to find enough utter rubbish to fill two tubes. (we’d asked for a 30cm wide tube – the store didn’t have any so we got 2 15cm tubes instead. Nice logic there.) God only knows what’s going to be in there, we didn’t keep a list. The terrible thing is that there is, apparently, a plaque where we buried the damn thing and I’m told it has our names on it. I can’t remember when the opening date is, my only hope is that the there will be a highly localised earthquake that swallows exactly the one metre of earth and the plaque that covers it. Save that I may have to change my name in case they track me down and ask me to come to the digging up.

Flash forward 19 years and I was reminded of this today when the Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron called to ask for a copy of their web site (www.bys-aus.com) on CD. It’s going in to a time capsule for twenty five years this coming Sunday. I’m going to have include technical information so some computer historian can attempt to recreate it in 2038. I’ll only be 58 when it’s dug up, maybe I should put my mobile number and email address in with it. Should be good for a laugh come its time.

My ‘new look’. Yes, I managed to grow some hair on my face over my holidays so I’m keeping it for a while.

Is there any more depressing time than 5.30 on a Sunday evening the night before you go back to work after two weeks off?

They’re coming!

Star Wars – The Original Trilogy on DVD! So September 2004 is shaping up big, what with a Tiger premiership and Star Wars on DVD…

Car now washed and here’s the proof.

Things I learnt washing the car this morning :

Sun is your enemy.
Dirt can be stubborn.
We need more buckets.
Enjo car cleaning gloves rock.
I miss being able to use a hose.
Car washing is easier with 2 people.
You should eat breakfast before cleaning a car.
Red shows up dirt way too easy. My next car will be ‘Mud’ or ‘Dust’ in colour.

Okay, last day of my two weeks off, let’s see how I’ve gone.

Billable work – all done.
Number of pages of 1500 page book I wanted to finish that I’ve managed to read : 10
Number of DVDs watched : 0
Number of blog re-designs completed : 0 out of 2
Number of offices cleaned up : .5
Number of times car has been cleaned : 0
Number of times house has had a top-to-bottom clean : 0
Number of lunches in cool locations : 1

Amount (in %) I have enjoyed myself regardless : 100%

I’ve been searching locally for some old Eurythmics CD’s so today we headed off to JB Hi-Fi to have a look. I was incredibly dissapointed, none to be found and I have my heart set on ‘Revenge’ (Buy at Amazon). Dissapointed, that is, until I turned around and saw them in the ‘Retro – 70’s and 80’s’ section. At least they had ‘Be Yourself Tonight’ (Buy at Amazon) for this old man.

The mighty Jack Dyer.

The Great Ocean Road is long, and very bendy and when you have a new car that hugs the road and you pretend that you and the idiot behind you are in a race and that when the sign says this hairpin bend should be taken at 25 and you take it at 50 ’cause you safely can and this goes on for a 100 kilometres it can be a lot of fun. Trust me.

And when you are wearing a Canucks jersey and run in to a Canadian wearing a Canucks cap at the 12 Apostles and you end up having a good chat about the team’s fortunes you realise the world is a very small place.

And when you finish the day in Footscray with good Vietnamese after lunching in Apollo Bay and coffeeing in Port Campbell you realise that life is pretty good.

(And we couldn’t get a good price for Phee so she’s still with us.)