Archive for July, 2003

break-in

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003

I think Zoe and I might get some contents insurance; the next door neighbours were just broken into for the fourth time in five weeks!!! Maybe it was the cat???

Bball, Maggie and sleep

Monday, July 28th, 2003

Saturday saw a big match up between the top-of-the-table Marlins and JCU Manta Rays. We lost by 3 runs. Not too shabby, but not really as good as we could play.
Sunday, we went over to maggie. Did a short bushwalk and went for a swim. I grovelled for some 1/2 ft body bashing waves. Zoe [...]

Stupid off-beat bastards!

Thursday, July 24th, 2003

Katie Noonan, of George fame, sux!
Zoe and I were joined by a couple of friends of ours for this show on tuesday night at the Civic Theatre. They sucked.
Firstlly, they were all out of time, which is a pain in the ass.
Secondly, they were all trying to out-do each other.
Thirdly, the sound tech. really [...]

Get rich quick?

Monday, July 21st, 2003

Zoe and I had a pretty sweet weekend. We headed out to the civic theatre on Friday night to catch TaikOz (sample - turn it up loud), an Australian outfit specialising in the Japanese drumming style of Taiko. It was pretty sweet, very loud and thumping!
On saturday and sunday we dropped in at ReefHQ, in [...]

dusty hole in the ground

Friday, July 18th, 2003

Townsville is a real hole sometimes!
It hasn’t rained for several months and the dust is everywhere, it just blows in off the desert and gets on everything. The sand at the beach is dusty. The water is brown and my car needs washing every week.
What a hole! Mind you, it is pretty warm at the [...]