Humour

It's so good to hear that people are concerned about my testicular health.

Here's Uncle Vince's contribution:



(See "Ouch!" here if you don't get it.)
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Afterthought

Immediately after writing the post below, I went out the back and jumped into my pool.

I realised that there are not many things better in life than living in a place where you can sit in your pool, at midnight, under a full moon, surrounded by 60+ palm trees, under a cloudless sky, with a water temperature of 30C (90F).

I am feeling lucky at the moment (despite the centipedes!)

OUCH!!

I just got bitten on my balls by a f@#$ing centipede!

They sting.

In other news...today I drove 250kms (155 Miles for all you infidels) to Kakadu, spent 2 hours installing stuff there, then drove back home again.

Yesterday I got up at 6am, flew to Gove in Arnhem land, then took a charter flight in a single-engine Cessna to Groote Eylandt, worked for 2 hours, then came home. Was actually quite cool; the pilot let me fly for about 5 minutes. Oh yeah and thanks to Dave from Gove, who showed me around town and the local boatyard where he is rebuilding a 65 year old boat.

I am off to disinfect, and to pick up my clothes off the floor...at least this incident will make me a bit tidier.

Dave

The Mega Sydney Mission

Thursday:

Finished work at 16:15, had been hoping to get away earlier, but was cornered with lots of last-minute stuff. Spent far too long packing, which is pretty normal. Didn't manage to grab a power-nap as I had planned...don't usually sleep on planes.

Friday:

1:55 Got flight in good time, just before leaving I ran into someone I knew in the smoking (and drinking!) lounge. So I downed a couple of MBs; this may have contributed to me actually getting some (2-3 hours) sleep on the flight, which was a shock.

6:30 Arrived at Sydney. Raining, cold, miserable. Bummed around for an hour or so, then got a taxi to see Des. I used to work with Des when I was a tech-support nerd back in '98-'99. His wife runs a costume-hire place, so I had organised to get a safari-suit top from him. (Those things are IMPOSSIBLE to find in op-shops, at least in Darwin anyway.)

10:00 After talking a bit of shit with Des, Tham and the boys, I headed into town to catch up with Woody. Jen and Woody are expecting in about a week or so. (Seems like about half of my friends are suddenly pregnant, due in the next 3-4 months..Must be some seasonal thing.)
By this stage I was seriously tired, but we went out and had coffee and breakfast anyway. I think Woods is still in denial re his impending fatherhood.

12:00 Bailed to the other side of the bridge (Milson's Point) to see Arlie. He's an ex-roomie from the beast that was 56 Albany Road, circa 1998. Hung out and tried drinking a beer, didn't work and I seriously started to contemplate going and crashing in a park somewhere. Arls to the rescue with an offer of a crash-out at his place.

14:00 Back onto the train for yet another cross-town trip...go to Summer Hill, flaked it until:

18:00 Arlie and Sophie arrive home, we get takeaway Thai and begin demolishing a bottle of red. I decide that I haven't seen quite enough people for one day, so I grabbed a train into town. On the way I talked to random stranger #1; Shane-the-21y/o-kiwi-barman-who-was-once-dating-a-stripper-ten-years-older-than-him. Interesting guy.

21:00 Met up with Treek, the first of the Forestville 93 crew that I was to see on this trip. We talked about job satisfaction and why he should move to Darwin. (At least that was _my_ agenda!) Planned to meet up the following night, amongst our many other planned engagements.

23:00 Back to Arlie's crashed after nearly knocking Muzza out when he got in the way of the loungeroom door.

Saturday:

7:00 Arose, walked to station, train to city, train to airport (expensive). Met Ben and Anna right on time. As predicted, Ben-La required us to go to the hotel to drop our bags off; this added an interesting time-critical element to the morning.

9:30 Train to city, train to King's Cross. Walk to Formule 1 el cheapo hotel. narrowly avoid altercation when front counter byatch tells Ben-Fiend that our room is not ready and we can't check in until 14:00. Eventually got a room, stashed everything.

10:15 The mad rush begins. Walked for 10 minutes looking for taxi, found one & got to Circular Quay with 5 minutes to spare. Made the last possible ferry that would get us to Mosman Bay in time for the 11:45 start.



(To be continued...just got back from a 14 hour day, and I have to go to Jabiru tomorrow...300 km drive each way. See ya!)

Update

Hmmm, seem to have lost a post somewhere in the last few weeks...
But you get that on the big jobs.

Ok, so what has been happening?

I have been getting fairly hammered with work...not good.

For fun, have been working on lots more nerd stuff, a repeater site for Darwin Wireless, to be precise.

Oh yeah, and that filthy dirty stinking lying RODENT John Howard got back into office. As Derryn Hinch would say; "Shame Australia, Shame"

I can't believe you morons voted for him...(Yes I mean you...some of you must have, but are too gutless to own up to it. I have not yet met someone who has admitted to voting for the Lib/Nats Coalition...but they got in with an increased majority, so you scumbags are out there somewhere)

For the non-Australian readers: John Howard is the leader of the so-called "Liberal" party, which is a crack-up in itself, as they are the most conservative, reactionary, backwards thinking bunch of pricks ever to exist.

Now that they are back in power, they will; Demolish Medicare, trash unfair dismissal laws, sell off more public assets and utilities, suck up the arse of the U.S. even more, commit us to still more illegal pre-emptive invasions, rape the environment...and that's just the first few that popped into my head.

The ONLY reason they got back in is because the Australian voting public is either insanely greedy, or completely mindless.

They ran a scare campaign basically telling people that interest rates would go up under a Labor government....and little Freddy homeowner shat his pants and voted for the status quo...even though everyone knows Howard is an out-and-out prick...Better the devil you know, or some similarly well thought-out arguments.

Oh yeah, and what was the first announcement from the Reserve Bank, a few days after the election? Rates are set to go up....duh..if anyone is stupid enough to think you can change that by voting conservative, they deserve to lose their house.

I'm kinda down on Australia as a whole at the moment, can anyone suggest something positive that's happening here right now?

It feels like we are back in the Fifties.

Anyway...

Work is OK, everything else is just super!

Going to Sydney tomorrow...to Tom-the-cunting-Liberal-voter's wedding.

Should be good, if he relaxes his sphincter enough for a good night out on Saturday.

Ben and I will be trying to outdo each other in the "I can wear a more fucked-up outfit to a wedding than you" department...and I have a secret weapon...

All I can say is "Safari Suit"!

Be excellent to one another...

Dave