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When my uncle Geoff called me from Sydney at about 8 last night, he probably thought I was drunk - which I wasn’t - and with good reasons:

a) when I answered the phone I spilt half my beer on the bed;
b) there was some raucus behaviour taking place in the background - about 6 people were blowing up these rocket balloons that mum had sent me in the mail and letting them go (thanks mum…) - which to Geoff sounded like, “half of Townsville…” getting giggy-with-it; and
c) I put a hot little mini-quiche in my mouth and couldn’t talk properly.

Now, if he’d called at 12am I wouldn’t have needed these excuses; by then I was drunk.

As you can imagine, I’m feeling chipper today. “That’s lucky”, as Clare Williams would say**, because tonight is the semi-final of the indoor cricket comp. Being the minor premiers that we are, the Manta Rays have a lot live up to. We play at 5:45, which for those of you living south of the Tropic of Capricorn, means that it’s going to be hot - damn hot. So hot, in fact, that I’ll be able to cook things in my shorts - a bit of crutch-pot cooking. Anyway… without getting further carried away it should be fun if we win - if we loose we have to back-up and play again at 8:30, which would suck (although it might not be too hot).

Speaking of hot, there’s a bit of a situation in the north with Tilapia, an introduced fish native to Africa. It’s an algivore that competes vigorously for habitat and appears to love conditions associated with degraded landscapes; there’s a few of these in NQ, degraded landscapes that is. We’re heading out tomorrow at the sparrows fart to collect some for the ABC cameras. They’re doing a piece on them. It’ll probably say how they hunt in packs, eating small children and baby dingoes; never mangoes, they don’t like them…. we’ll see how it goes…

Speaking of mangoes, this is an interesting post from a churchie*** girl who lives in Wahroonga. Aside from her derrogatory comments about mangoes (people have been shot for smaller faus paxs****), this paragraph raises an interesting idea in itself:

i wonder how much more exciting or interesting or chaotic the world would be if every single idea that every single person has ever had actually was given the chance to become reality. but not terrible ideas involving violence and hate and revenge or any of that…just the creative or innovative or plain weird ideas that you get from time to time…the ideas that show a tease of potential but not quite enough for you to beleive in them.

I tend to think that every idea does get a chance to ‘become reality’ - although this ‘reality’ remains undefined… What’s interesting are the ideas that people have in science about this, that or the other. Frankly, I don’t know how people come up with some of them. Bill Bryson talks about this in Short History of Nearly Everything, but in the context of humans. His idea is that the atoms which consitute you have arrived in the present, in your human form despite all the stuff they had to go through. Your ancestors were lucky enough to be attractive enough to copulate, not get hit by fallen trees etc… etc… You should feel lucky, is his take home message. I think that anyone actually having ideas should feel “lucky”.

Also, did you know that Einstein wrote his Theory of Relativity when he was in his early 20s, 23 I think. Tony and I were thinking about this the other day and saying that we have a lot of catching up to do…

Tee hee, rocket balloons, what’ll they think of next?

*The turn of phrase “about which more presently”, I have nearly-blatantly plagiarised from Bill Bryson. “Chars, mate”.

**Clare also used to say, “How about a freebie, it’s my birthday”, but I didn’t think of that until just then, so I couldn’t work it in to the post in an artful, creative and pun-ish way.

***What is the deal with people crapping on about God in their interet Blogs? “Does God love me?”, “God must really love me.” etc… etc… Want proof? A quick search of this Blog, revealed these posts to do with God. Whereas a quick search of tomandzoe.com reveals three posts; this one, another where He is mentioned briefly and another where his name is used in vain. To all those who post repeatedly about God - you’re right, God loves you, but not enough to put up with really badly written internet prose to that effect. Get a grip.

****As an aside don’t you think that www.mangoanger.com would be a sweeet url? Yes, Yes?

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