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Archive for September, 2006

nature is a bitch

The smell of fresh fertiliser wafting in my bedroom window wrecked my peanut butter and honey on toast for breakfast this morning. Yes, that means I had crumbs accompanying me in bed. Once I closed my window, it was only crumbs and me, instead of crumbs and manure and me.
Halfway home on one of my [...]

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the weekend comes

Boy have I been looking forward to this weekend. This weekend begins a two-week holiday, timed perfectly with gorgeous Brisbane spring weather which only encourages me to wind down my windows and play Powderfinger on the stereo and wistfully think about going camping for a few days at Byron.
My weekend ritual usually beings with the [...]

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songs to make the ears sing

Having recently purchased an iPod with a ridiculous capacity (60gig), I have found myself trolling through the depths of musical catalogues everywhere to fill it. After transferring my entire CD collection plus the years of catalogued mp3s, I am yet to fill 20gig. And of course there are some tracks that obsessive old me seems [...]

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sexy hardware

I have a small dilemma being a self-confessed left-wing pacifist. I really like military hardware. Military planes are sexy. They are sleek and black and pinpoint accurate and cost billions of dollars. I am unlikely to see the inside of one in a million years. Perhaps its this untouchable quality combined with sensual precision maneuvering [...]

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