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Well, it's househunting time again.After being screwed around by Telstra for almost two months, they sent an engineer from Ipswich to tell me what I should have been told much earlier than now: it's impractical to wire a digital Internet cable into my apartment. Well, I'm sorry but I need broadband Internet, and I live in the middle of a big city ( Read more... )

...life is motion, move on... (poker-related)

Here's the latest news from scorching muggy Melbin.

Back to the drawing boards, and back to Bris on Sunday!

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year, may we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbor is a friend..." ("Happy New Year", ABBA, 1979)

Just got back to Bris from the Sunshine Coast. Just a brief stop though: Melbin tomorrow, Aussie Millions here I come!

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It's... Christmas Day already! Merry Christmas everybody. May God be watching over us all this holy day, and may we be grateful for our good fortune. (Australians, of course, should be especially grateful, being the luckiest people on earth ( Read more... )

First off, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Happy birthday to b_and_m_81 too! :)

Mum's just had a little operation so I hope it went well for her. I've been feeling for and thinking about her a lot lately. Love you Mum!

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...before the Soviet régime gets its teeth into Norwegian oil, gas and fish reserves, the way they are blackmailing their Swiss neighbours. Big Soviet-style monstrosities are never content reserving their bullying to the domestic arena, as history aptly demonstrates ( Read more... )

Not a poker hand per se, but not infinitely removed. Let's just say that I'm chuffed. Exactly why is not really the issue here.

Plucking strings does work...

Now it's off to post some important papers to the Yardie embassy.

(The subject is "thanks for the aces", not "thanks for the straight flush", so it's not quite what you might be thinking. ( Read more... )

The sun it brightly shineth. Mum's enduring worse weather in the Soviet Union (though of course that's the least of their problems over there). I know this because I called her up on Saturday night ( Read more... )