Archive for August, 2004

Townsville manners

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

People in Townsville are friendly (as tourists seem to say of all Australians) and somewhat selfish (not the people I ‘know’, more the ‘other’ people if you know what I mean - this has been dealt with before) !
I come to this conclusion, not as a mere throw-away line, but through several months of thought [...]

That wasn’t much of a haggle!

Monday, August 30th, 2004

Zoe, dressed in her best short, haggling shorts drove home a bargain from the local tip on Saturday.
This sweet bike for only $6.20!!!

I just spent 20 mins fixing up the brakes and the gear shifters and she’s as good as new. Now all she has to do is buy a helmet for 45 cents!

Two feet and a heartbeat

Friday, August 27th, 2004

Yes, I am powered by two feet and a heartbeat. (At least for today anyway; usually I’m powered by toast and a 2.4L engine).
That’s right, today, as part of my effort towards getting behind the travelsmart initiative, I rode to uni. Now I’m very tired and smelly and late and questioning how smart it actually [...]

We was robed!

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

I’m a little tired today as I was up in the middle of the fucking night, watching the baseballers lose their gold medal match against Cuba (6-2).
What was the deal with that catch! How was that allowed???? We was robed i tells ya!

I couldn’t find any more decent pictures of Jodie Henry, so here’s [...]

Olympic parlance

Monday, August 23rd, 2004

To adopt the parlance in use by Olympic commentators, the mighty JCU baseball team “bowed out of the competition after an impressive display…” We went down fighting 8-5 against the competition’s 2nd place holder the Feds.

Australia also lost it’s last game against Canada but was able to “secure a berth in the semifinals” against Japan [...]