My left (sprained) ankle is pretty much back to normal. I'm missing a few centimeters of flexibility compared with my good right ankle but apart from that it's all good - no pain, only a small amount of swelling. And today was my last trip to the physio. I've still got some exercises to do over the next few weeks but I should be back in the mosh ( Read more... )

Halloween Monster Mash at the Metro - Saturday October 30 - Dappled Cities, SPOD, Last Dinosaurs, The Laurels, Guineafowl + more.

How good is Halloween? Fake blood, zombies, scaring the crap out of little kids… And bands!


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Last Friday I slipped down the stairs at Central station and sprained my ankle. Of course I didn't know that at the time, in fact it didn't even really hurt. [Yes I'd had some post work drinkies, stop judging me!]. On Saturday I woke up, and with the alcohol worn off, I realised I had done some serious damage to my ankle and I was in pain.

Off I ( Read more... )

In the last few weeks I've attended quite a few 30th birthday parties. Not really surprising considering I will be 30 in less than 5 months. What did surprise me was how much of a big deal people make for their 30ths. Hiring out pubs in the city, getting dressed up in formal attire, sit down dinners with name tags. The invitations resemble wedding ( Read more... )

So many levels of awesome...


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The other day I got this spam email on my work email address. It's from a Russian woman and was written in Spanish, because she thinks I am a Spanish man. Pretty funny. Scroll to bottom for English translation.

Original textHola! Soy una mujer de Rusia. Mi nombre es Svetlana. Tengo 26 anos de edad. Yo cumplio 26 anos recientemente, el 5 de ( Read more... )

Yesterday was "get shit done" day. I had the day off and the aim was to get as many things off my to do list as possible.

9am - appointment with accountant to sort out my tax returnAll bad news unfortunately. Unless I can get my group certificate re-issued not showing my allowances for the year I will owe the tax man $5000. Best case scenario I ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I've updated. #statingtheobvious ( Read more... )

• The (un)official website which I am using for all my election updates says Australia ALMOST has a government.
• Today I tried to use the oven for the first time in this house (I think I've been here for over a year now) and it turns out that despite being able to run a Reverse Osmosis system I can't operate an oven.
• It's pretty wet in Victoria right ( Read more... )

As previously mentioned my last week in Gippsland was suppose to be last week. WRONG ( Read more... )