Our kid

Our kid can now say the following words and even phrases.

Monkey
Dude
Talk, talk, talk (with appropriate kermit the frog style hand signals in repsonse to mums nagging)
Let's go (when mum is taking too long to get ready)
And he gets his sandals and hat whenever we talk about going out.

He's a dude. Also we're having another one, but the missus won't let us find out whether it's boy or girl flavour.

Vista

Vista means view in Spanish you know. Or maybe it's in Italian or maybe it doesn't mean view but something similar.

Anyhow, I used to say that Windows Vista was good, excellent or ok. Now I say it's crap. Amusingly I was writing this and I looked up when it was launched and I discovered it was over a year ago and immediately my browser crashed. It said Windows is looking for a solution to this problem and then rather than report back it simply slunk away and disappeared. You failed you bitch-shit software. I paid $300 for you on your launch day... and you reply with a "I tried but I couldn't be bothered".

Back?

I've not touched my blog for some 8 months now. In the meantime our government changed cos John didn't care about Kyoto, 999 US troops died in Iraq and Tibet is back on the hip activists hotlist.

In the meantime I was literally inundated with 4 comments that I left unmoderated, sorry for that.

Anyhows my puter crashes all the time lately. This makes playing games futile as i have to replay the same old territory time and time again after a crash. Funny but slaughtering "bad guys" in their thousands across Europe, the world or a future universe isn't nearly as enjoyable the 2nd or 3rd time so I thought I'd blog.

Weekend purchases

The little man who runs around our house is to be 1 soon. With this in mind he's throwing a party. Of course we have a tiny house, too big for all his friends so I ran out to Bunnings to get a Brazier and a Gazebo at the weekend to extend the cake and jelly-eating outside.

Aren't brazier and gazebo just the coolest of peculiar words to have on your shopping list.

Shopping list

1. Brazier
2. Gazebo

Aussie sports news

Australia bombed out of the Asian Soccer Championships this weekend, they also lost the Bledisloe Cup to NZ in Rugby. I'm reporting this cos the Australian media aren't. Losers!

Predictable

Much of life is predictable. But nothing more so than this from Kylie's ex. "I made a mistake"

No longer unemployed

Start a new job tomorrow. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole being made redundant thing, and highly recommend it. As I got 4 weeks pay and was only off work for 3 I'll be getting two salaries next week which'll be just grand.

63 weeks

A "leading expert" has now predicted what I predicted some time ago. Melbourne is screwed, La Nina isna comin, Adelaide is even more screwed. The navy will be collecting us for evacuation at the docks Christmas next year.

Useless waste of space

Well fuck me, I'm redundant.

Found out yesterday that our company is closing after 12 years, it's me last day today!

Childhood classics

As Ben just said, "I struck upon gold" when I found this Flumps video.

Also Jamie and the Magic Torch and Mr Benn. Classics, betcha can't watch 'em without smiling.

NZ Newz

Top story today, ghost haunts pub. Tomorrow, "Cat in tree". It really seems like we are to move to the village of Postman Pat or my favourite, "Trumpton".

The missus vs the cockroach

We don't often get insecty things in our house. Lucky for them.

I got a couple of texts from the missus today describing how she'd ended ones life with her shoe after it crawled over the Satchmo. Normally peace-loving, her text ended "god damn mother fucker cockroaches - I HATE them."

Hounded out for being ginger

Gotta love Britains' Mirror for publishing a story with the title Hounded out for being Ginger.

Lesson for life

In the early 80's at Sutton Leisure Centre I learnt a lesson that has stuck with me to this day.

I was waiting to pay for a sporting activity that now eludes my memory and a guy rushed from the toilet cubicle and pushed in with a look of desperation on his face. He asked the assistant, "do you have any toilet paper" and as she handed it over said "always look before you leap".

As I say, it stuck with me to this day. Shame really as I'd have prefered it to have stuck with me past this day so that I didn't end up in a sticky toilet cubicle situation at work this afternoon.

A little bozo rage

"Bozo rage" is simply when you meet a bozo and they drive you to rage.

Today I stumbled across a website called Goodexperience.com and as it's a subject kinda related to my job I thought I'd subscribe to their newsletter.

I typed in my email address and clicked a button and was told there'd be a validation step by email. If anyone doesn't understand these validation steps they're put there to
a) make sure you are who you say you are if there's something important to protect like privacy or money
or b) make sure you have the cognitive and motor ability to type your email address correct on the basic assumption that you are a monkey.

This followed:

-----Original Message-----
From: Good Experience newsletter [mailto:confirmation@campaignmonitor.com]
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:58 AM
To: [Me]
Subject: Not yet on Good Experience - reply needed


You are *not yet* subscribed to the Good Experience newsletter.

- To join, please click on the following link:

http://goodexperiencenewsletter.confirmsubscription.com/[full link removed so that you can't subscribe for me]

- If you don't want to join, do nothing. If you don't click on the link above, you won't be added to the list.

Again, to confirm that you do want to join Good Experience, click:

http://goodexperiencenewsletter.confirmsubscription.com/[full link removed]

Thanks.

Reply
From [Me]
Sent: Whilst in a little mini-rage
To [The bozo]
Subject: Re: Not yet on Good Experience - reply needed

You think I'm stupid? Change this email and I might fully subscribe (if I ever forget this bad experience).

1. The text "reply needed" in the header suggests an email reply.
2. Why do I need to confirm? Is this necessary for a good experience? Do you not trust that I can get my email correct?
3. Why tell me twice about clicking your link?

However the title "Not yet on Good Experience" is unquestionably accurate.

NZ Newz

The missus and I discussed our move to NZ last night. We conceded that some things would not be as good as we've got it here but in the end it would be worth it to get away from AFL highlights on the telly.

Here is todays' top story from the New Zealand Herald.