A wise flatmate once brought to my attention the fact that my magical mind-projection rays aren't working and if I want people to know what I'm planning to get up it to will be necessary to actually tell them. So ( Read more... )

Anyone potentially up for this on Sunday June 17? http://www.theageruntotheg.com.au/

The 10 k walk looks good to me, but it would be nice to do it with company!

The good bit about working on the 21st floor is the view.

The not-so-good bit is the evacuation drill does get a bit hard on the knees after about fifteen floors.

Have just returned from Safeway, having purchased a disturbingly high number of single-serve breakfast and lunch products. Even the porridge counts against me, as it was a single box filled with individually apportioned sachets. A basket like that clearly says something about me ( Read more... )

There was a big red bus on Sydney Road this morning. Took me a while to work out what was wrong with it, then I realised it was a Skybus. The Skybus' natural range is the freeway between Southern Cross/Spencer Street and the airport. They aren't supposed to be on Sydney Road ( Read more... )

So, the Melbourne Theatre Company is currently performing David Williamson's Don's Party. Apparently it's very good, as someone who went to opening night tells me. It seems it is also possible to get half price tickets (around $35), if you're willing to buy them on the day ( Read more... )

Saturday is supposed to be 37 C. Who's up for the beach? (late afternoon/evening)

Ah, Melbourne Cup Day. What a brilliant idea, finally giving me what I always need but never get, namely a weekend to recover from my weekend. Last weekend my parents flew over to Melbourne to visit. Saturday they got the Brunswick Experience, dragging them out to CERES to see the solar cells and the chickens and eat some yummy organic food. Not ( Read more... )

Have discovered where everyone goes today. They're either at the TAB or in Bunnings ( Read more... )

Creepy middle-aged man at the train station tonight, sat down too close to me on the bench. Asked me what I was reading. I was reading a Regency Romance novel by Julia Quinn, with appropriate gold lettering on the cover and all. But I'm not friendly to creepy people, so told him: "a book". He asked which one, so I showed him. He snorted, and ( Read more... )