Category: Miscellaneous

Epiphany

January 6, 2010

Todays 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!

January 5, 2010

First 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.

Like A Hurricane

January 5, 2010

We stormed into our parent’s lives yesterday like a hurricane. Or rather, I did, and Bernard calmly followed. My ludicrous abundance of energy was mostly due to a sugary-food binge that hasn’t been seen in the southern hemisphere since January 2008 that occured the night before. I ate, like, 62 kg of candy and chips and downed Lift like frogs down flies!

My parents you ask? They’re both happy and well! We have a lot planned for the next ten days or so…

Bernard is sporting his new hat & sunnies in the above pic. Here’s a better shot, which brings to mind a certain movie poster…

If you look closely you can see me in the above shot as well!

I’m eating, eating, eating. My shorts are tight today (they were fine yesterday). I’m drinking Lift faster than I can keep track of it as well, so consider the tally at the end of the day a low estimate from this point on.

Two food shots – yesterday’s lunch (Salt & Lemon) and todays lunch (guess what):

And here’s a shot taken at a seafood shop:

And one other taken in the grocery store, as proof to doubting Americans!

Last night we played Yahtzee! Bernard won both games, despite me using some of my special dice-shake and/or throw maneuvers such as ‘the tornado’ and ‘the slide’. I even unveiled a new move – ‘the shark’ – but allegations of cheating arose when it gave me a Yahtzee 🙁