"It's like looking in a mirror, only...not" - John Travolta, Face Off

Slightly nicer day. Temperature wise, I mean. Certainly better than yesterday, but that ain't saying much.

Went down to Mogli's dad's place. Had some morning tea. But just the usual hot blah.

Prepared for meeting, then had meeting with some client who does stuff. Turned out that he's like a carbon credits research guy. And also designed a really long golf course design - with holes like 200km apart or something. I meant to ask my dad about that, cos him and his brother and his brother's wife are all like golf fanatics. In ascending order, I think.

Thus had lunch an hour late. Refreshing.

Sent off some more loan stuff. I was supposed to do it in the morning, but the internet sucked.

Played some weird excel games after. Fun.

Drove o home. Again.

Watched Friends.

Got Maccas. It was quite fatty. Wow - shocking!

Then there was cell. Dewy showed up. Deja vu all over again.

"It's the end of the world as we know it" - REM

Mum joins Facebook!!!!! Yes. Nuff said.

Filled out most of the First Home Owners Grant and $2000 settlement fee rebate applications.

Since I needed one for the FHOG, and my parents only have an extract, sent off a request for birth certificate copy. Costing $42. And taking about 5 days.

Eventually settled on Commonwealth Bank for my home loan, so sent off a whole bunch of stuff for the application.

Watched Ellen.
Then went and got ice coffee from Rocketfuel. Um...again.

Watched Friends, the Biggest Loser, and most of SVU.

Was forced to iron my white polo in this horrible weather - cos its polo day tomorrow.

Had frothy coffee! Tastes so great with full-cream milk. Amazing. Well....almost.

Started watching Babel. Pretty slooow.

Homer: "Me lose brain? Uh oh!"

Very, very, very, very, very bad sleep. Too hot, really.

Canceled my old car insurance with Vero. Surprisingly unpainful - they're even gonna refund me some money. But that's only cos I haven't yet paid the premium for this month - so I'm gonna pay that and then they're gonna give me back about half of it.

Had half a snickers. Cos there were no picnics. Dang.

Checked home loans, basically deciding between Commonwealth Bank and Bankwest. Really, they're almost exactly the same. Its possible CBA has less fees - but I need to confirm that.

Went to Subi after lunch and got petrol. So I used my Woolworths voucher - yay! But then I had to pay credit card surcharge - boo!
Then went and go iced coffee from Rocketfuel. I checked the Caltex for a machine, but it looked cheap. Anyway, Mogli just sat in the car.

Work. Great.

From work, went straight to the KFC in Riverton and got a popcorn chicken melt combo - cos it was obviously new cos I had no idea what it was. Yummo!

Watched most of Friends. As is the trend.

Went for class. Another thrilling adventure.

During the break, which was about 20 minutes late, had to wait for tea cos the urn wasn't filled and so it had to boil and of course that took ages.

Watched a bit of Cashmere Mafia. Nyeh. Lucy Lui seemed great as always (in more ways than one), but the story ain't one that appeals to manly men such as myself.

Used the air-con with tube pointing out the door. Kinda worked, I guess - cos it was pointing into the bathroom which was an open window. Made the floor awfully hot tho.

Homer: "They gave me these rollerblades so I can glide to the front door"

Was having an OK average run in the morning - up to the merging lanes on the freeway just before the Hay street exit...what the? I mean, its never been the slightest bit slow there before....I just don't understand traffic.

Had training - boredom city. But what do you expect, really.

Completed some conveyance documents. But I couldn't finalise it, cos they need to know who your financier is, and, well, I don't know that yet.

Arranged housing/contents and possibly car insurance. I say 'possibly' - I did arrange it, but it will depend on what my current insurer says as to whether I take it up now or later.

Tried to get finance info from 13's guy at the Commonwealth bank - no reply.

Watched cricket at lunch. Exciting, or wat?
Went to Rocketfuel. Mogli said he was going to get iced coffee, but didn't - liar!

Finally did some work in the afternoon.... Oh, yay.

Got stuck behind some accident on the way home. Its bad enough around there now cos of all the Curtin uni students....and this stuff don't help.

Watched part of Friends. Hooray.

Went for class. Interesting.
Leo said he'd seen my name on the schedule, so on the way there I was imagining what I'd talk about if I was on devotionals - and I was! But, of course, it was a completely different passage. So I just read it and that was it, really.

Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot house.

"I'm not here. This isn't happening" - Radiohead, How to Disappear Completely

My new answering machine message. If I had one. Cos I heard that song on the way to work. I guess?

Another 0& chargeable day.

Watched Ellen.
Did shopping. At Woolworths again. Yay!
Got coffee from Cafe Cafe. Yes. It was OK....Mogli really, really loved it, for some reason.

Spent the early part after lunch reading the Oscars blog. Pretty much all the predicted people won - Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) - I don't think he deserved it, French chick (French movie) and Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) - which was well deserved. And No Country for Old Men won best director(s) and best film. I think There Will Be Blood should've won - and that's the only two contenders I've seen!

Watched Friends, the Biggest Loser, and Red Dwarf

Then watched the first hour of the Oscars coverage. The first half hour was red carpet crap. But then I got to see a lot of John Stewart's monologues. I thought he was really good - despite the stupid Oscars blog above who are obviously idiots.

But I interrupted that (I mean - I knew all the winners already) to watch the first of a four part documentary on the Mafia on...shudder....the ABC. It was, of course, over sensationalised with sound effects and dramatisations. But still fairly informative and interesting.

"It's 11:15 on Sunday morning, and I wish I was on a corner in Mephis" - Todd Agnew

Church - great. I mean, really, really great.
This 8:30 stuff...its too early.

Watched The Godfather. Cos of all this Las Vegas, I wanted to go back and see the young James Caan.

Tried to clean the air intake hole of my coffee machine's milk frother thing so it would froth more - cos that's what the troubleshooting page said to do. Donno if it worked.

Played cricket with Leo. Then went and drank some dodgy water. Well; that's Wilson for ya.

Watched most of The Biggest Loser and part of So You Think You Can Dance?

Finished watching Notes on a Scandal. Could've been better; nothing really happened in the end. I mean, I guess they weren't trying to be sensationalist, but....

Watched the start of Collateral, while doing a bit of ironing. But I don't like it how the good guy wins. And besides, it wouldn't finish till like midnight or something.

"I am a false prophet, and God is a superstition" - Eli Sunday, There Will Be Blood

Got woken up at 9 by phone.

Saw the new Ikea store. Didn't look that big to me. Except for the carpark, I guess. And it looks like there's no real possibility of getting any furniture from there for 6 months or so. The overflow carpark was more than overflowing.

Went for There Will Be Blood at 11 at Innaloo with parents. Another great film - my pic for best picture, I think. Actually, I'd probably vote for American Gangster, but I doubt its up for nomination. V was saying that the ending confused him - but that final 'act' in 1927 was my favourite part; cos that's when Daniel Plainview's facade finally couldn't hold up any longer and his true (albeit quite insane) self was revealed. Unlike No Country for Old Men - I think that ending was, if not confusing, then unfulfilling.
And apparently the guy that wrote the score was Johnny Greenwood - who's the guitarist from Radiohead. Strange that V didn't mention that.
Had Coke at the start of the film, so had to leave halfway through due to bodily needs.

Went for lunch at the highly reputable and refined Innaloo foodcourt. I had a kebab - it was too small. So had coffee and a white choc/macadamia biscuit from the Coffee Club. Despite us sitting just outside, had to get takeaway. But the coffee was great and so was the cookie.

Wandered around a bit after that. Went and looked at phones and toilet brushes. But the low demographicness was really getting to me.

Did washing. Finally!

Watched more Notes on a Scandal. Damn, the tension is unbearable.

Watched Monster's Inc. Great. Well, its something to do, y'know?

Watched most of 50 First Dates. Strange thing was, I tried watching it on 9HD and, for some reason, there was only background noise - like soundtrack and stuff. No talking (but the ads were fine). So I had to watch on normal 9. Then at the final scene I switched back and it seemed fine. Donno WHAT was going on there.

Slept fairly early. Cos of the early waking up tomorrow. I doubt it will help.

Nandos - The Flavour Explosion

I don't think they use that as their slogan - but there was a story a few weeks ago about how some Nandos in Sydney was robbed and then later about 1AM that night it exploded due to gas, or something.
Anyway, turns out V lives in the apartment building across the street. So he's almost famous, then.

Did more driveby postal grabs. Only 1 parcel this time. And still one to go....

Had morning tea. The cake was fruitcake, but there were sausage rolls and stuff. But I wasn't feeling great, so didn't eat much.

Didn't eat lunch.
Went to Epic with Mogli and WAB? Yay.

Spoke to V for 40 minutes. So missed drinks!

Gave o a lift home. Horrible traffic - of course.

Went for dinner with parents to some coffee shop in Mt Lawley. Had coke x 2, beef tortellini, honey crepe with almonds and ricotta, and a latte. It seemed dessert filled me considerably more than the main. But the quality was there, I guess. The place looked dodgy though - we only picked it cos we couldn't be too casual with time.

Watched No Country for Old Men at the Luna in Leederville. Good film - pretty tense for most of it. But towards the ending it kinda slowed down.
I wouldn't want to spoil it for anybody, but it seemed to me at the end that the sheriff and the bad guy were like split personalities of the same person. But nothing I have read supports that conclusion. And I think the book makes it pretty much impossible. Its mainly cos the bad guy's name is Anton and the sheriff's name is Ed Tom - they sound similar when spoken in that southern drawl.

So slept around 1.

Homer: "Marge, please; I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew"

Damn, now I'm probably gonna have to wait another 3 months or so before I can carry coffee and an umbrella at the same time. As it is, I have a shoulder bag for nothing ATM.

Went down to city client. Pretty much stock standard stuff going on there.

Ate Birdman's sausage rolls. Um.... Only cos his mum made too many, and he eats like a, well...
Then, finally, went to Epic - yay! And from my experience over summer, the sit-down stuff tastes way better than takeaway. But now its $3.80.

Today driving home I was behind some cultic cleaning car; it said they'd make your car happy, or something, and there was some bad English quote about mind and soul. And it was called Four Seasons...like Four Square? Seemed weird, anyway. And although apparently they offer a holistic car service, it seemed that the car pulling the trailer's right rear tyre was flat. Heheh.

Went to Cash & Carry with Leo. Um, it was shut. Again... Apparently, late night shopping for that place is tomorrow.
Instead, went to Woolworths at Riverton Forum, where he bought chips. Great.
I'd think at a Forum there'd be all these Greek scholars mingling around the entrance. Disappointing, really.

Watched the Biggest Loser, then the 2nd last episode of season 3 of Las Vegas. I realised SVU was on, but only when it was halfway through, so skipped it.
OH WELL!

Finished The Power of One. Yes, it was quite bad.

Started watching Notes on a Scandal. Really good so far - except that in the scene where Judi Dench first goes to Cate Blanchett's house for lunch, she really, really, reminds me of my mother. Despite the face that she's pretty much crazy and, well, evil.

"Tuesday doesn't have a feel; Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel, Wednesday has a feel...." - Neuman

Had to re-initial contract. Apparently there was two copies of it floating around, or something? Who knows?

Watched Ellen.
Then went and got Rocketfuel, cos Mogli decided it was too windy to walk to Epic. Righteo, then.

On the way home, drove behind (and then in front) of some car, whereby the driver seemed to be drunk, hence driving all over the road and over-correcting on turns and not braking too well.

Watched part of Friends.

Went for class - Old Testament Survey, this time. Its a first year pretty much compulsory unit (for all those other suckers - hah), so it was really quite crowded. Great.
Pretty much decided after that first lesson that I should've just done the other one - cos its too much hassle two nights in a row, and I doubt I'm gonna learn that much - since I've done another before at Harvest West.

Watched more of the Power of One, thus slept past 10:30. But who cares, really?

Homer: "Dad, you gave me life, now you're giving me a house. I'd be honoured if you came to live with us!"

Bart: "Grandpa living with us, eh? How long before you shipped him off to the old folks home?"
Homer: "About 2 weeks."
(Everyone laughs)

Made counter offer on house at about 8:20.

Had training. It was a video, but I missed quite a bit of it, cos I was day-dreaming about the house. Had coffee, though - yay!

Got another counter offer for house. It was pretty much what I was expecting to pay anyway, but I didn't respond. For no real reason....
Accepted at about 2.

Didn't really do anything at lunch. Except watch Ellen and stuff. Fun.

Initialed the final contract and faxed back at 2:30.

Had ICAA training. Boring, but probably not their fault. Went at least 10 minutes overtime, which was.

Thus, absolutely 0% chargeout today. Goodo.

Got home just before 6. Ate dinner and watched a bit of Friends. Left at 6:20.

Had class - History of the World Christian Movement. Total classmates = 5.
Super. Finished about 9:15.

Slept about 10.

"Under the bridge downtown, I gave my life away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Had absolutely no petrol this morning (I think...) so went to the Shell on Manning.

Went to Mogli's dad's work place almost straight away. Had muffins. Which was nice.

Went to KFC for lunch with Mogli and CosaNostra. It was crowded and slow.
Then did shopping - at Woolies! Yay!

After work, went and looked at the house from yesterday. The Indian family from yesterday (at the other bad house) was there as well... So we had to get the agent to go to War's house to sign an offer. Which was done....

Had dinner with the Lim household and 13 and o and Nam. Watched a bit of the Dance elimination show.

Got a counter offer for the house at 9. Didn't respond, for now.

Announcer: "But of course there is no news at this hour cos everyone's still asleep in their comfy beds. Goodnight everybody!"

Got up too early for the too early service. As in, not too early for the service, just too early in general.

Afterwards, watched more Bulworth.

Went for lunch with Leo to Taurus BBQ. Cos Taurus and Asian Cuisine were full. Had 3 meat rice. Again. Even though last time I vowed not to.

Waited back at church for about 45 minutes. Passed some of the time by throwing a tennis ball at a wall. I suspected the people inside could hear.

Went to Cash & Carry in Canning Vale. It was... shut. On the way, saw Universal Seafoods. Leo didn't get the joke.

Went back home after that, and Leo went off to play a 'proper' cricket match. Watched the rest of Bulworth. Yeah, I suppose its good just cos its before all the other ones. I guess.

Went to 13 & o's house. Watched some weird show where the hero wasn't really very nice.

Went and looked at house. Mogli and his dad showed up, too. Decided it was crap.

Then went with 13 to look at some other houses. Most were way too expensive. But I can dream...

Stayed hanging around that kinda area till 6.

Watched part of The Simpsons, then most of The Biggest Loser and So You Think You Can Dance? while doing ironing. Only cos of the ironing, really.

Then I was too worn out, so watched another episode of Las Vegas.

Started watching The Power of One. The stupid kid with his cute kiddy lisp is really annoying.

Homer: "There it is, Homer; the smartest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it!"

Got up about 10:30. Most satisfying....

Went and looked at a house at 11:20. It was a bit out of my price range though, and although its fairly sizable, the condition is not nice.

Then went to 13 & o's house. Had 'breakfast' for lunch. The bacon and eggs was really good, although the bacon went a bit hard. Sausages were a bit much.

Watched X-Men 3 on Foxtel, which is great, then Night at the Museum from 13's collection. It was OK, I guess. A bit too much aimed at kiddies though.

Swam for quite a while. Quite a violent time. Reminded me of the days when I was a young boy and my brothers were slightly older boys....

Had steamboat. Surprisingly, didn't eat much....

Went home and watched more Bulworth. Getting to be not as good.

Homer: "The mail! The mail is here!"

Polo day. White polo day. Well, not exclusively, but...

Didn't do a lot of work. Except for like an hour long telephone conversation, though it was in two parts.

Watched some bad TV. There was no Ellen.
Went and took mail from my old house. Got a whole stack.
Got coffee from Rocketfuel.

Slow and dull afternoon.

Gave Mogli back his Wii. How sad....

Watched Friends, then The Biggest Loser.

Watched the fourth last episode of Las Vegas.

Watched a bit of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightly as Leo informed me. It seemed quite watchable, but A Murder of Crows was on the other channel (although it started an hour later) so I watched that instead. A wise idea? Maybe.... it was alright. And its been on so many times before I thought I should get it over with.

"I hate everything I have; I really hate it" - Elaine

I hate people. People suck. For an explanation, please see alternative blog at the side. 'Alternative' is right.... Its very non-mainstream.

Long time getting to work. There was an accident for the second major delay, but the first seemed to be caused by nothing. Crud.

Mogli back!
He got me some presents, cos it was my birthday while he was away; a shoulder bag (so bye-bye briefcase), a Heroes comic book, a glass cube containing the Singapore merlion, and some plastic man what walks down windows - acrobatically.

Watched Ellen.
Got coffee from Rocketfuel. Mogli came of course, and CosaNostra, too. Which was strange, cos he was saying that since Mogli was away he like couldn't go and get coffee by himself. Right...

Did very little work. But more than the previous two days combined.

I thought the traffic last week was so bad cos of the rain, but it was just as slow today. So it must be a Thursday thing? I don't understand people.

Watched Friends. Then part of The Biggest Loser, while ironing my polo shirt for tomorrow.

Packed up the Wii. Cos Mogli wants it back tomorrow.

Watched SVU. OK lor, but fairly predictable.

Kept watching Bulworth. Still not at all bad.

Protestors: "2, 4, 6, 8, Homer's crime was very great. Great meaning large or immense, we use it in the pejorative sense!"

Last work day with no Mogli.

Did very little work. Mainly reading blog. Ah, days when there were housemates who I got along with. Living was almost enjoyable, then.

Watched Ellen.
Got coffee from Rocketfuel.

On the way home through traffic that wasn't THAT bad, saw a lady driving with her dress caught in the car door. I really thought that only happened on TV....

Leo came over. Cos he was 'working' at church and had nothing better to do. Or something.

Watched Friends. Then Leo left. Another exciting episode. Of our lives.

Watched Rules of Engagement and then Back to You. Hard to say which was better.
The former was great when David Spade or the Puddy guy from Seinfeld was on, but the main character was the other guy, who sucked.
And the latter was mostly good when Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammar had time together. But will they be able to keep that up? And I see too many similarities between it and Just Shoot Me, which surely it will not be able to get close to so should stop trying.

Finished The French Connection. Another classic. Strange, strange ending though.

Then started Bulworth. Its kinda like Ali G Indahouse or Head of State (the Eddie Murphy film) but....better. Cos its actually funny? But it could easily peter out into shite.

"Something 'wicked' this way comes" - Roy Bradbury

Unlike the author of that book, I'm using it in the unpejorative sense. See tomorrow's post.....
It's in reference to the new addition at the side there. Explained at the bottom here.
Its all a rich tapestry.....

Most unpleasant sleep. I really, really, really, REALLY hate this weather.

Stupid traffic on the way in. Took my about half an hour.

Then there was training. It was most noneducational. Mainly just about chocolate related activities. And more origami.

Then there was two morning teas. Cos first someone just brought around muffins, for no real reason. And then it was the Peoples' Partner's birthday.

Saw that Roy Scheider died today. Which is kinda coincidental, cos he's Gene Hackman's partner in The French Connection. Which I'm still watching, of course. Otherwise I probably would've just passed over the story. Cos he had a fairly major role in Jaws, too - but I only really remember Richard Dreyfuss from that show.

Watched cricket at lunch. Great...
Got coffee from Rocketfuel. For a change, y'know?

Did very little work. Read more of my blog. Am I really so dull now compared to then? Though, of cos, work is to blame.

Watched Friends. Did a little more ironing.

Watched another episode of Las Vegas. Reached the end of disc 4 now.

Watched more of The French Connection. Most of it was a great sniper scene (cos it was such a surprise - like the gun fight in Pulp Fiction in the street, except the first shot just rings out in the middle of people talking in a park type thing) and then the ensuing car-train chase. As in, car chasing a train.

Played late night online snooker with Leo - till 11:30! Now late and hot. A super combination...

Notice: I have a(NOTHER) new blog, the link at the side there. Its fairly, um, religious. So blame Leo for that, yes? Good.
Although when I say 'its fairly religious', that relates to the general theme, only. The plot is rather nonreligious. Unless, as they say, religion is everything. But then, whats the word 'everything' for? Huh?
Yeah....

Hmm.....twice I've tried to use the prefix 'un' to negate a word, and my spell checker has told me to use 'non' instead. And neither of them look right with 'non'.
*sigh*

"Everyone who wants me to keep playing let me hear you say 'AMEN'!" - Ray (Charles)

Some rapper guy (I believe it was Ludakris) at the Grammys introduced the performance for Best Gospel Album (by Bebe Winans and Aretha Franklin) using a phrase that was probably infringing the copyright of the above. So...there you go.

Did a little work.

Got a roast beef roll for lunch. Only for something to eat, y'know. So expensive now and so little beef. Ah.....
Watched Ellen. Goody.
Then went and did shopping. Bought quite a bit of stuff. Well, it felt like that, anyway. To my wallet, at least.

Did very little work in the afternoon.

Watched Friends and did a bit of ironing. Very warmy.

Then went to 13 & o's house. Swam for an hour.

Watched the end of Aeon Flux - didn't look good.

Watched part of the Grammys. Nothing wonderful. Didn't see the White Stripes.

Went back to very hot house.

Slept about 10:30.

"All the world's a stage and we are merely players" - Shakespeare

Got up at 8:30. Played some Wii Olympics then watched Video Hits. Saw a track by The Panics called Don't Fight It which seemed nice so I might try and listen to some of their other stuff. But I wouldn't be surprised if its like their only half-decent song.

Went for service. Decided to go to the early one from now on. But there's only gonna be 4 or so more, anyway.

Went and looked at a house straight after, cos it was open from 1 and it was passed 1 already. But I just drove past the outside, cos the location was bad anyway.

Went home for lunch and ate leftovers from yesterday. Watched Las Vegas, then played more Wii Olympics.

Leo came around about 3:45.

Watched a bit more Las Vegas.

Then went and looked at another house. It was very similar to the first one I saw a couple of weeks ago, but the other one is calling me more. Cos of the three airconditioners, mainly. But also it seems more private. And, although more cramped, the layout may be better. Maybe. I still need another look.

Went back after buying drinks. I had a Masters coffee chill, for a change.
Watched music videos and stuff.

Watched The Simpsons.

Then went and played cricket, at like 6:45 (cos it was too hot earlier) - at an oval near Rostrata this time. Not bad... Except still no shade. And its in a weird location in respect to the rest of the oval.

Had KFC for dinner. It took AGES.

Leo left just after 8:30. A very warm night.

Watched a bit more of The French Connection. At least its making a little sense now.

Homer: "I love these lazy Saturdays..."

Got up just before 10. It felt much later.

The weather was kinda OK. So that was unexpected.

Played quite a bit of Wii Olympics; mainly dream table tennis, but I was also trying to complete the missions for the characters. I managed to completely finish Knuckles, but that was all. The last mission seems to be usually really almost impossible.

Watched a bit of Las Vegas. About halfway through disc 4 now.

Played AOEII.

Finally remembered to look for more properties online. Found two with inspections tomorrow (at 1 and 3:30).

Watched part of Ghostbusters, which I thought I'd seen before but I didn't remember the marshmallow man, so maybe I stopped it early. I've definitely seen number 2, though.
Then watched most of Bad Boys, but skipped most of the boring stuff in the middle.

Lionel Hutz: "I don't use the word 'hero' very often; but you are the greatest hero in American history!"

Casual dress day!

Once again, had very little work on. So amused myself trying to spell desicion. I mean, decision!

Then noticed that one of the partners had sent around an email before which talked about being 'in the home strait'. So I didn't think that was right, so I looked it up - and it should be straight. As in, round the 'bend' into the 'straight'. 'Strait' primarily means 'narrow' (and is used almost exclusively for water).

Used the 'new' bathroom. Partly cos I had to, y'know, but mainly to see it. There was paint everywhere, but apart from that it don't look much different.

Walked down to sign some paper at Mogli's dad's place. Then walked back straight away. Not too hot...

Did a little work. Yay!

Watched some Ellen.
Then since it wasn't too hot, walked down to Epic - cos its mocha Friday. So I got a, um, mocha.

Did very little work in the afternoon. Read my blog instead, the rest of October 2005. Fascinating reading, really. My life was so much more interesting then. Cos I wasn't working, see. And I was getting so much done, too. Which I didn't really think I was, I think, at the time.

Had drinks. For the most part, it was just me. But everyone else came eventually. At about 4:45, or something.
Left at 5.

Drove down to Koorong, which took about half an hour. Maybe a little less.
Listened to Sharecropper's Seed by Nicole C Mullen, and Better Questions by Todd Agnew, but only bought the latter. My listening time was cut short, really, cos the store was, like, closing, or something.

Went to the Tabor enrollment thing - luckily it was right next door. Stood around talking to Leo for about 1.5 hours. Eventually got some paper and paid course fees.

Went to Makan². Had some two meat briyani thing - pretty tasty. Reminisced about Sydney, and what a vastly different experience it was; from anything I'd done previously and from what I expected. That's life, I guess.

Got home about 10. Slept about an hour later.

"At last.....my love has come along" - Roberta Flack

I'm rarely happy to be woken up less than an hour before my alarm is due to go off. But today, I sprang out of bed at 5:45 to gaze in wonder at the winter weather encroaching on my house. Beautiful!
The moment was slightly spoiled when, looking out my front door, I heard someone nearby yelling swear words into a phone. Yes.....

Got a coffee from the coffee guy. His prices have gone up, again, to $4. And its still pretty crap.
I did find however, since I needed to drink it in a hurry since I couldn't carry a briefcase, an umbrella and drink coffee at the same time, that it tasted much better in gulps. Cos you usually can't gulp, cos its too hot.

So went down to the city client. Stayed there till just before 2 - cos Mogli isn't around so I take my time. Plus I have like no other work to do back at the office. And there was a lot to do.
Took the opportunity to use the bathroom there. Ha! I win!

So went back and did very little for the last two hours.
The boy's bathroom is now done, but now they are working on the women's one and I am still averse to shared facilities.

Journey home took ages. As you'd expect.
I thus missed an ebay auction which closed at about 5:25 and lost by $1, of course. I should've planned ahead and increased my bid, at least a little. I knew I wouldn't win with like a $2 buffer.

Watched Friends, then the final two episodes of Dilbert. Cos it was a two-parter.
Played a little Wii. The temperature is right....but only just. I still don't have the stamina for boxing.
Did a little ironing. Good temperature for that.

Started watching The French Connection. So far I've had to rewind about 10 minutes cos I think I missed quite a bit of the plot. The sound is too inconsistent.

Played some AOEII.

"Dare you enter...The Scary Door" - Futurama

Yes, I have crossed over to the other side...using the women's bathroom. I notice that the toilet bowl is a lot lower than I am used to. There is thus more room for....error. Anyway....
Eventually the women's one will be painted too, I'm sure, so the shoe will be on the other foot, so to speak. That's better, though, cos the boy's one has a lock on the main door. I think the rumour is that there used to be only one, so that's why.

Read a bit of my book.

Did very little work.

Watched Ellen.
Walked to West Perth with WAB?. It was probably still a bit too hot. But once we started out we could not turn back.
Got coffee from Epic. I heard a rumour that Starbucks is coming in 6 months or so. Of course, it will probably be in some horribly inconvenient location, anyway, but still. That would be good.

Did very little work.

Watched Friends, then yet another episode of Dilbert. Up to about 28 now.
Played some Wii. My skill is over 2000 in tennis now. Hoodiray.

Played AOEII.

Watched Bridget Jones for a bit.

Then watched The Joshua Tree Classic Album show. Unfortunately they kinda skipped over some tracks - like Red Hill Mining Town, which is one of my favourites.

Watched the rest of Bridget Jones. Thus slept way too late, again.

Where oh where is the damn rain? Lots of wind around tonight, but no rainy smell and not that many clouds about.
They say showers and 27 tomorrow - you'll forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical.

"Yeah; in your bra!" - Jim Carrey, Liar Liar

My response to the weather bureau.
Well, from last night they changed the weather. Just standard 'thunderstorm risk' again, and its 34. And tomorrow is the same - 34. Thursday is now the cool day with showers. Whatever they reckon...

Read some more book.

And today one of the toilets - the boys one - was being painted. And there was no way I was gonna use the women's facilities (I wouldn't even know what they look like or how they work) so needless to say the afternoon was rather....uncomfortable. I mean, more than usual. Coffee doing its business, etc.

Mogli's dad came wandering through the office, apparently for like the first time ever. I was considering mentioning it to the remaining back staff, as I'm sure they would've had NO idea who he was (except that it was ANOTHER client being given the tour). But I figured Mogli likes to keep some of the mystery about him intact. And I just had the feeling that if he knew he'd beat me up. Or have a hissy fit. Donno which is worse.

No Ellen cos the boardroom was kinda being used. Or kinda not. I didn't know, which was the point.
Got coffee from Rocketfuel. ALMOST tried to walk down to Epic, but could not.
"You beat me, weather!", etc.

Its been bugging me for a while, so I finally went and checked my blog - which doesn't prove anything, but it makes a pretty strong case. Cos, well, I wrote it.
July 17, 2007. At Bondi beach. Was feeling hungry and quote, "V saw a Hungry Jacks, so we went and had lunch first". HUNGRY JACKS. Not Burger King. And I would not make a Freudian Slip on that, cos its one of my life long dreams to go to a Burger King. One of my other life long dreams was to have coffee at Starbucks, and I did it on July 1, remember? And again a few more times.
Anyway, so I don't know what's going on there....Maybe that's the only one in Sydney? Cos they want to impress all the tourists that go to Bondi with weird foreign (ie, WAn) food?
Interestingly, I also found some miscellaneous spelling and grammatical errors, so I fixed those too.
Damn, that was a great 3 weeks. Such an experience.....
Sigh....
I seriously have to go back again this year. Or, at least, somewhere else.

Bought milk from the local deli on the way home. Eureka!

Watched Friends, and then ANOTHER episode of Dilbert. Then played some more Wii. I think the exciting possibility of rain within the next 3 years stimulated my want of exercise.

There was a seriously overpowering smell of rain around early evening. But I concluded it was a tease, cos the only water I saw is like that which leaks out from an air-conditioner. Which leads me to suspect there's one lurking in the roof somewhere....

Watched Raising Helen, starring Claire Bennett. Sort of. She was one of the children, anyway.
It was pretty much what you'd expect. If what you'd expect is a pretty run-of-the-mill kinda thingy. Which more or less was a complete waste of time where nothing really happened.

Atmos - The chicken WITH atmosphere

Saw that on a truck I was following this morning.
Doesn't it sound delightful?
Maybe they're ready for the colonisation of Mars, or something?

Read quite a bit more book. And, ironically, got some stupid reminder from Facebook asking me if I was still reading it. Bah!
Almost at page 100......out of a few thousand, it seems.

Watched Ellen.
Went shopping. Forgot to get milk. Grrrr!
Got coffee from Rocketfuel. Cos I'm not going back to that stupid Vero place. Double grrr!

Watched Friends, which is now on in place of The Simpsons, and then another episode of Dilbert. Played a little Wii. Don't know how I managed that in this weather.

Watched Duck Soup, the first Marx brothers film I've seen. Not bad.... Very much Chaplinesque. Except Groucho does a lot more talking with his one-liners.

Lots of clouds....but no rain. That's three days of 'thunderstorm risk' with nothing to show for it but mugginess. And hotness.
But tomorrow showers are like a given, and on top of that there's a thunderstorm risk. And that should continue till Thursday at this stage.
And Wednesday is now a freezing 26!!!

Homer: "Its the TV execs Marge; just one quality show after another. If only they let you have half an hour to yourself. But they won't!"

World's Worst Sleep award goes to.... me!

Eventually got up with my alarm at 6:30, cos I was too lazy to change it from normal weekdays. And, really, there didn't seem any point making it like, 7:15 or something instead. Besides, I had to bring my washing in.
Still, I overestimated, as always, and was ready by like 7:40. Which turned out to be a good thing, cos Leo showed up at 7:50, when I was still....eating breakfast!

So we got to church only 25 minutes early. Had a hard time finding a seat. No, really....there was too much choice!
And then Ali ended up sitting next to me on the other side with her sister, so the entire sermon (about favor, not favour) was just reading silly little comments from Leo and then passing them to them and then passing it back. Ah, that takes me back to the 5th grade.
Um, cos that's what they did on the shows I watched back then.
Well, not really. But it sounds plausible, right?

Ah, 36 degree days. Who was the idiot that invented clothing, seriously....

Waited around half an hour afterwards cos Leo had, surprisingly, cos its like NEVER happened before, a meeting. Foolishly (mainly to pass the time - and it turned out to take less than 5 minutes) had coffee. Foolishly

1. because it was too hot. But I think I would've been happy with tea, if I could've found it because the main problem was
2. it was horrible instant stuff. With 1.5 of sugar I couldn't even taste it was so incredibly bitter and ew....

I did manage to have some conversation with some person. Riveting.

Went for lunch to....TAURUS! Yay! Cos we got there before 11 and it was only like 3/4 full. Had beef kway teow (dur...). But the Taurus curse remains - it took ages to come out. Oh well.

Went back and watched the whole of Dilbert disc 3 almost all the way through. I eventually moved my portable air-con into the lounge room, cos it was so damn hot. And, of course, there was no way I could do my ironing. Leo went for some 4 hour meeting at 2:30. I just kept watching that Dilbert.

He came back at about 6:30 and we went to Bullcreek Hawker for dinner. Had, of course (I'm getting as predictable as V...) 3 meat rice.
Then went and did shopping at IGA. Took way too long to buy like 4 things.

Went back and Leo had to use my laptop - cos it has a disk drive. Heh heh!
Watched the first part of Bruce Almighty. Leo left about 9:15 or so.

Then watched the rest of Billy Elliot. Cos the dad is such a great character. Yay.....

Thus slept way too late, again. Grr.....

Homer: "Mmmm, recirculated air!"

Got up about 2, officially. I did get up a few times earlier to answer the pressing urges of my stupid Motorolla phone, which likes to incessantly beep. But then I went straight back to bed, so that doesn't really count. It didn't feel like like 11 hours sleep, though.

Insanely hot. Again. One day, it won't be. One day.....

Watched Dilbert to the end of disc 2. Man, its such a struggle....So many DVDs.
I keep thinking about going to rent some, and then I remember I've got these ones here that I need to watch. Dilbert and Las Vegas, what are borrowed. And then there's Sopranos season 6, which I saw on TV but not on DVD (both part I and II). And then there's my Charlie Chaplin box set which I've only seen about 1 of 30. And I haven't even finished the WWII documentary. Plus I have about 4 movies on my computer as well.
Crazy.....

Played AOEII.

Did washing.

Watched The Simpsons. Then more Simpsons.

Then went to 13 & o's house to swim again. Cos it was really very not cold.

Had pizza and Nandos for dinner. Then played more Mario Olympics. But left at 11:30, this time. Cos of the whole 'Jesus has to come first' thingy.

Thinking about that 'one day' when it will be cold made me think of something I wrote a long time ago (during my first accounting job), to the tune of The Rose by Bette Midler. For some reason.
Anyway, so I thought I'd put it in below.

The Rose, by Bette Midler

Some say tax, it is a burden
That takes a lot of days
Some say tax, it is very boring
And causes you to stargaze
Some say tax, it is confusing
Like an illogical maze
I say tax, its my occupation
But maybe its just a phase

It’s the individual afraid of spending that never gets a big tax break
It’s the company that does law bending who’ll often large refunds take
It’s the trust that tries profit mending who aggravates your headache
And the superfund averse to investing that never any income makes

When the night has been too lonely and the day has been too long
That you think write-ons are only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter when air-conditioners aren’t turned on
Lies a crowd that, since its tax time, will ensure all write-ons are gone

"You speak of signs and wonders but I need something other" - U2, Crumbs From Your Table

Did I mention that I love the drums in that song?

Polo day. Eh, good enough.

On one of my really early posts, when I was doing my countdown to a resigning, I did one blog post where I recorded specifically what I was doing at certain times during the day. Not that its easy to do - that's probably why I've only done it once. But I'm so tempted to do it again....
Or write one post backwards.
Or in loony alphabet.
But its enough struggle just to do it normally once per day. Not enough exciting stuff is happening in my life.
Weird..... as in, that's its not so.

Went down to Mogli's dad's place. Didn't stay there anywhere near as long as I thought that I would. Yes.

Watched Ellen. Not quite her 50th birthday, but she acted like it was anyway. Saw a birthday message from Billy 'Hey, I [was] a pretty lousy president' Clinton. Great.

Got petrol, and then coffee from Rocketfuel.

Somehow managed 80% today, even though I had a hour+ long meeting. I don't understand timesheets....

Went to 13 & os house around 6 and swam for about 1.5 hours.

Had steak for dinner, but it was cheating steak, cos it was a roast that was roasted and then cut into six pieces and polished off with char grilling. Still, it works well like that.

Played Wii. Cos I took over an extra two controllers and the olympic games one. Yeah, that's pretty tiring.

Slept almost at 3.