Look at me in a tree! I hang out just outside Alma’s place eating seeds! I’m a cute cockatoo!
Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
I’m In A Tree!
Friday, January 8th, 2010Nostalgia Is A Powerful Thing
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Met with Sue and Juliet today and sat for many hours in a restaurant by the harbour just chatting. It was wonderful; just great. Lots and lots of old memories resurfaced. I wish I could do stuff like this more often…
Then Sue and I drove over to my ‘first university’. Here’s the building in which I spent so much time almost twenty years ago:
Note to AW: I went into a computer room just down the hall from our infamous haunt. Whilst the computers were (of course) updated… the room smelled exactly the same!
Here’s a shot of an orb weaver spider spotted just outside mum and dad’s place early this morning. It’s bulbous body had a radius of about 2cm. I could actually see his mandibles working to consume the unlucky insect he had coccooned.
And here’s something for Adam!
They’re not as good as I recall. I think they have been changed 🙁
3 cans of Lift today, and 2 glasses at the restaurant. At this point, I doubt there is much point in continuing the tally :V
Plucky
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Epiphany
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Todays was Bernards birthday. We went and had a fancy and dignified lunch to celebrate.
Ok, ok. I admit some of these were taken at dinner, not lunch. But you get the idea. The lunch was chinese, at a very nice restaurant inside a local pub. Some of the best chinese I have had in a long time actually (the ‘special fried rice’ contained chicken, pork, beef and prawns). After eating we wandered into the poker machine room, and dad ended up winning about $15! Good for him I say!
Although I still don’t approve of gambling :<
It was blisteringly hot today as well, which meant lots of this sort of thing:
In the afternoon I went for a walk into the city and back which took a couple of hours and damn nearly killed me. I also didn’t take any photos, but since I’ll certainly go back (to see the beaches) you can expect some next week. I visited a few used booksellers and found 5 gamebooks, including 2 from a series (Virtual Reality Adventures) I had never heard of, so that was a small thrill!
And, lest you feared I abandoned it – the Lift tally returns! During the last three days I have drunk:
– 9 375 mL cans
– 2 600 mL bottles
– 1 400 mL bottle
Bringing the trip total so far to 17.95 L.
Hrm… maybe I should think about cutting back…
The Blood Blister!
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010First of all, here’s a video I promised days ago of us at the races! Watch to the end for Adam’s sage comment!
Secondly… I received new shoes before Christmas, and had basically no time to ‘break them in’ before the trip. They are amazing shoes – supremely comfortable – but due to their newness I developed blisters. One of these was a large blood blister – quite nasty – and as I was walking through garden city mall today it burst!
My thong (flip-flop) was full of blood, and enough ran down the back that I left a half-bloody footprint in my wake. It was revolting, but I bought some antiseptic and cleaned everything up when I got home and now it’s fine. I took a photo to blog but it’s too awful to post!
Here’s Hamilton racecourse, on a very sunny day.
