Sunday night!


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After work drinks

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Random stuff

This weekend I helped my good friend Ed take some stuff to the TIP (dump), buy some material for a retaining wall in his garden (yard), and general man stuff. The dump in Brisbane is awesome. You drive up to a weigh station, they weigh you going in, you drive into the big building in the pics, throw your trash into the pit Mad Max style, a giant bulldozer crushes things in front of your eyes and pushes it around all transformer like, then you drive out, they weigh you, and you pay per the kg you unloaded. It's like an orchestrated ritual of testosterone and human waste all mixed in together into one harmonious right of passage for all Australian males.

Exhibit A, Ed:

Exhibit B thru Z:

In another demonstration of Australian bureaucracy and feaux regulation here is a Brisbane pedestrian with a license plate:

dark & stormy night

It's been a little stormy around here lately... here's a video I took of the third storm in five days from my apartment...

My thoughts are with Becc (regular commentor here) who's house and pool and garden and shed have been hit by the hardest of the storms here. Look on YouTube for more crazy video, here's one that's quite amazing. The Gap is a suburb in Brisbane where Becc lives...

Howzatt

Here are morecricket photos... I won $53 on $20 for my team winning. I feel too far away from Vegas.









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On course

Today for work I went to a session held at the company's Brisbane head office in an area called South Bank. They've moved into a brand new building that is modern and ergonomic and all that good stuff. Best part was I got to take the very to and fro as well as walk thru the gardens at SB.



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Gabba

I've got $20 on the all-stars, it'll pay $53 if Gilly hits for a half a ton.



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Lest we forget

Skipped out at lunch to attend Remembrance Day services in Brisbane and was able to wear a poppy pin I've had ever since a trip to the Canadian War Cemetery in Holden, Netherlands.

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I went to a party last night.


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New Hockey Stick

I bought a new hockey stick today (big game tomorrow). It's a Bauer OnePro, Stall curve, stick'um grip, 102 pro flex. Here's a pic, I had to lean it on the car I picked up last Wednesday...


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Rainbow beach

The first trip to the beach for surf and ycamping is in the bag. A great weekend with Steve, janine, moochy, and a few more of their friends!

On the way to our camp site:


The spot:








The crew:


My new tent:


My photgenic self:


Rob and moochie:











The ute on the beach, good times:


There's even camels in Australia!!



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First drive

Brissie at night from mount coot-tha. Not sure if u can see anything or not.


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The local chippy

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Breakfast on the window sill

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Hail to the chief

I thought I agreed to come to Australia to get away from bad weather... On Saturday I was driving around looking at cars and surfboard when I had to pull over under a tree to avoid my borrowed car being pelted by hail. When the hail started getting too big and coming through the tree I had to back the car onto the sidewalk and park under the overhang of a liquor/beer store. The owner of the store had moved his car there too and helpfully guided me in. I thanked him by buying 2 bottles of wine and a case of beer.

My friend Kate's car, safe and sound:

Saturday night was relatively quiet, went to a show and was in bed by midnight. Sad I know, but I had to golf at bloody 6:30am Sunday morning. The show I went to was "Choke", based on a Chuck Palahniuk novel that I had read a few years ago. Interesting show, I'd give it an 8. The tee box on one of the holes at Ashgrove, I wasn't alone:

Sunday afternoon Jeremy, who I visited in Vietnam Xmas'06, spent the day in Brisbane after coming here from Perth for a wedding. He had to drop some keys off at Ed & Kate's because he stayed there Friday night... that's when we discovered one of the patio doors had been smashed. By what we don't know, it wasn't a break and enter, there was no dead bird on the patio, and the weather wasn't crazy in their suburb... we're not sure. We spent a couple hours knocking the glass out of the door, cutting a piece of wood to put over it, and skillfully taping it into place.

Jeremy and I had had aspirations of heading to the beach for a few hours before he had to fly back to Perth but the glass incident cut into the day... so instead we drove inland toward Ipswich. I'd liken it to Longview... we went a little further on a "tourist" route and stopped in another small town, Rosewood, for a pot of Gold (that's Australian for glass of beer) and quick bite at the fish & chip shop, which every town has at least one.

On the homefront... I still don't have furniture, I think it's set to be delivered this week. But by a stroke of golf enthusiast luck and next day shipping my golf driving mat and practice net showed up last week! Right now it's in the spare room, but I'll move it to the den once I get something to put under the mat (and over the hardwood). The ceilings are tall in my place and the lack of female influence allows me to turn a room into an indoor driving range. So far no complaints from the neigbours or holes in the wall. You have concentrate pretty hard not to toe a shot into the wall of a rented flat!

Furniture schmurniture:

End week

weekend has come and gone... Friday did the usual drinks and dinner with coworkers, Saturday I had to hang around home for my tv and chair delivery, then went for a game of squash. Saturday night I laid low because of a 6am tee time on Sunday. Played the Pacific Golf Club in Carindale, shot shit. And when u tee off at bloody 6 am u have the whole day ahead of u so I did the natural Sunday afternoon thing by going to loiter in Ikea. The new Ikea him Brisbane is the largest indoor single retail shop in the world, or something like that... All that matters is that Bumerangs were $8 for 8, boo ya. Played game one of the summer (ice) hockey league Sunday night, a 4-3 victory.
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I got outside!

This is my building as seen from the river, in fancy iPhone 1974 effects... Behind the parkade, stupid place for a parkade. "Winchombe Carson ltd", used to be a wool warehouse in 1911.



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30 yr old teenager

My second piece of "furniture".I had to move my ironing board.

Hat

I hope u can zoom in on this hat, it reeks of Queensland...



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Bare bones

My only pieces of furniture:





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