Category: domestic life

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

How time flies in one year.

Highlights include
– stranger than fiction
– record results
– Lots of shows
– a fair bit of travel (I’m even a Qantas Club member now!)
– several rounds of dating
– finally finding someone who is sane and loves me back
– more dramas with the boy at school

and much much more.

Oh, and last time I weighed myself I clocked in at 76kgs. This time last year I would have been approx 102kg.

Interesting year. Oddly enough, while I usually get depressed on this day, this time I’m mildly positive. Sure, I still hate getting older, but if a change is as good as a holiday, I’ve spent most of the last year flying to Mars and back.

12 months later and I’m simply a different person. Perhaps the person I was 10 or 12 years ago. And I can’t say I’m not loving it, the occasional crazy day aside 🙂

Upcoming shows I have tickets to

July 31: Stephen Fry
August 8: Kevin Smith
August 27: Joss Whedon

Also, money permitting, I’ve got press credentials for BlogWorldExpo in Vegas in October, so that will be my first big trip this year.

I’ve been flying a lot more lately, to the point where I’ve joined Qantas Club to try and make the airport part less annoying. But there’s one thing I can’t avoid.

THE GOD DAMN CRAPPY ALWAYS OVER FULL LONGTERM PARKING BUS AT MELBOURNE AIRPORT.

Yes, writing in caps is like swearing.

Every coupe of years there appears to be a debate here about extending the train network out to the airport, but no one ever talks about an internal transport network for getting around the airport, like the monorail at Newark or SFO.

And it’s not as if the parking is affordable either: $69 for two and a bit days AND the car is in the open. If you want the multi-level is $99. I use to leave the car at Perth Airport for 10 days and I’d only end up paying a bit more than that. Often you end up paying more for the car parking than the flight.

And then you have to wait for the stupid bus, which is always overfull.

Not good enough.

I finally sat down and watched Firefly, then Serenity after getting through the 14 episodes.

It is quite possibly the best show ever created for television.

Yes, and I now have River Tam wallpaper 🙂

Mens clothing sizes.

How the hell can I be a S in Zanerobe and FCUK, M in Superdry and L in Ben Sherman (although Ben Sherman is completely screwed up when it comes to sizing…I swear they make clothes for midgets.)

How is it that a pair of 32 pants I bought on eBay in an obscure brand not fit (too small), and yet every other make they fit with room..or in the case of the FCUK pants, they nearly need the belt now to keep them up.

I mean: they don’t have this problem with shoes, do they?

Imagine leaving your long term marriage to be with the husband of the woman you tried to donate your eggs to.

Would make for an interesting Mills and Boon story.

So I joined an online dating site, specifically Fairfax’s RSVP. Yeah, yeah, online dating etc…

But there’s a catch. Well, there’s not that sort of catch yet, its been less than 24 hours 🙂

The filtering sucks.

I received an email of potential matches: none of them matched.

The problem is that while you can say what your preferences are, it’s difficult to filter other peoples preferences.

For example: I don’t care if the other person is single, divorced, separated etc. But I can only search based on that criteria for them, vs what they want in a partner.

Example: women who only want someone who is single or doesn’t have kids. I can search if they do or don’t have kids, but I can’t filter out those who want someone who doesn’t have children (obviously there I have a son.)

And it can’t be that hard. I think I could write the SQL query to do it based on my one semester of SQL in 98 🙂

My iPhone 3GS combined with a 7 year old boy = this. Declan did it without prompting either…the only thing I had to do was combine 3 clips and add a small overlay intro.