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Let’s see if I can blog this by email before my computer restarts automatically. After you install some Windows Updates, Windows earnestly insists that you have to restart your computer as a matter of urgency. Apparently urgently enough to popup a dialog box that takes the focus from any other windows you may have open [...]
As a grammar nazi I notice trivial minutiae like this. Lately I’ve started using GMail to store and archive all my mail so that I can always get to my email no matter what computer I’m on. Maybe I’m lazy, or maybe I’m obsessive. Anyway, since GMail started a couple of years ago, the main [...]
Tonight I called a local Indian restaurant named Dawat to see if they have any tight-arse Tuesday specials. I will paraphrase the conversation: Her: Good evening, Dawat. Me: Oh yeah hi, I’m just wondering if you have any specials tonight. Her: I’m sorry? Me: Do you guys have any specials on Tuesday nights? Her: Um, [...]
Certain elements of this blog’s readership have commented that Chloe doesn’t appear to be obese as I claim. To better demonstrate her tubularity I give you this photo. You be the judge!
On Saturday we went to Moore Park just north of Bundaberg, where there was a shindig with the sandology.com guy building this sand dragon, and tons of kites like this dinosaur…and Subaru-engined gyrocopters. This dog is called Chloe, her obesity amuses me.
Tonight i drove to Bundaberg, stopping at Ray and Tracy’s in Gympie to light a big-ass fire
Man. The Ekka race day at Eagle Farm is crazy…it takes 40 minutes to line up for a drink and 20 minutes to get a hot dog, but it’s still fun
This is what a muscle car looked like in Australia in 1967, with its 289ci V8 and skinny chrome steel wheels. This car was the beginning of an era of overpowered beasts with crap brakes and bouncy, lurching suspension, ending with Holden putting huge V8s into little Toranas until the oil scare.