Archive for July, 2004

It’s raining

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

Well, it’s finally raining in townsville, if you can believe it. Andy and Bob are here, maybe they bought the cold snap with them from Sydney. I’m updating on a dial-up connection (props to mum for the hook up) on Andy’s $5k laptop. Sweet.
Last night we had a big barra curry, morrocan style and checked [...]

Sometimes you lose

Monday, July 19th, 2004

In Bull Durham, Kevin Kostner remarks, “Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes, it rains!”. Well, here at JCU we lose - all the time - and it never rains (well almost never)!. This season the JCU Manta Rays Baseball club hasn’t won a game.
This is actually surprising because we have quite a few good [...]

The evolution continues…

Friday, July 16th, 2004

The girl is doing it for herself.

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

Zoe has represented her first semester as a uni student, pulling out two HDs and two Ds.
Nice one! She says that without a laptop her ability to maintain such academic prowess will begin to decline.

Dunk-man does NQ II

Wednesday, July 14th, 2004

I collected dunk from the airport a week ago, and promptly got in an altercation with another driver in the carpark. The guy in the large 4WD heading straight at us had disobeyed the very clear signage, but was particularly stubborn. I had to reverse and let him past, not that I was annoyed at [...]