posted by darryn filed under personal
[These are just my notes, (I might flesh it out in the future]
7/3
- I saw someone get busted by sniffer dogs for possession of 3.8g of weed
- Played croquet with Rek and J-Dogg – Rek won, J-Dogg lost
- Played ping pong against J-Dogg, I won 21-18. This is an achievement as he works in a prison and therefore, I assume, plays it all the time.
- So happy, I felt like I was on drugs (whilst sober). Must be Holiday Mode. Resolved to abandon current life and live in a tent forever.
- The only other person that Rek knew was coming, unknowingly pitched their tent next to ours.
- Got some chili and cinnamon chocolate coated coffee beans, which Rek dubbed Guatemalan Jumping Beans. They were tops.
- At night there was a huge storm and it bucketed down for a few hours. When we returned to our tents we learned that our prime spot was, in fact, on low-lying land. The ground was squishy and there were 2-3 inches of water standing, above the top of the grass. My tent stayed dry (thank God) and it was kinda floating on the water. I slept on a comfortable waterbed.
- A girl collapsed due to drink/drugs/? and was helped out by the omnipresent cops. 10 minutes later she was back on the dancefloor with her hands down the front of J-Dogg’s pants. Slores.
- Dexter was the highlight of the night, especially the latin stuff. The Drum N Bass stuff was difficult for me, I kept losing the beat (trying to follow too many beats)
- There was an Iced-Up Bogan (IUB) taunting two uniformed police officers who were near me, he was standing right in front of them and making challenging faces.
- Cops were everywhere, all day and night.
- All drink cans were $0.50 deposit. J-Dogg proceeded to fill a garbage bag with Hobo Cans. He bonded with a girl who had her own bag and was competing for the pickings.
8/3
- Woke up to a still-flooded area. We are the only waterlogged area on a field that is as big as 4 footy fields.
- We unpegged our tents and carried them, still assembled, to a new location. This one is tops because it is dry and there are bikini girls.
- I went for a swim in the pool as a substitute for a morning shower. Very refreshing.
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posted by darryn filed under personal
I am very happy, because Lydia has decided to stay in Australia to be with me. I know it is true because:
- She didn’t go home
- She has signed a 2-year lease on a studio
- She has an agent
Anyway, this is why I haven’t blogged for ages, because I spend every available second with her. I love her.
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posted by darryn filed under personal
At any time of the day or night I can log into facebook and, at a minimum, be greeted with pokes from Lydia and Amelia. I keep very strange hours, yet they always manage to return a poke instantly. This reassures me because I know, from their behaviour, that there are people out there with a far worse facebook addiction than mine.
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posted by darryn filed under personal
I am so excited. In less than 2 days I will be seeing Lydia again after almost 3 months. We met at Marks & Tracy’s wedding in late July and only got to spend a week together before she had to go back home to London. We had a great time during that week and since then there have been only 2 days in which we weren’t in touch. My phone bill is astronomical, but it is the lack of sleep from trans-timezone chatting that took the biggest toll.
Lydia will be here for 6 WEEKS! In that time we are going to a wedding together, she is coming to Harbourlife with the Party Posse, and there have been soft plans made for journeys to Dubbo, Melbourne and the Hunter Valley.
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posted by darryn filed under personal
Tonight, at the Shanghai Palace in Chatswood, I attended a Datacom/Microsoft Tech Support reunion dinner for those of us who suffered in the late 90’s in the days of Windows 98 and NT 4.0. I had worked closely with three of the guys there and, like any reunion, it was a mixture of slight awkwardness, reminiscing, and hearing about people’s lives. The food was the whitest possible without going as far as Sweet & Sour Pork, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. This, however, is not the subject of this post.
I arrived in Chatswood a full 40 minutes early (!) and, as it was late-night shopping, went for a walk up Victoria Ave in search of things to look at. The air was humid, smelling of Chinese spices, naphthalene, and a little bit of air conditioning mould. It was almost like being in KL.
The lure of Chatswood Westfields drew me in, and I remembered a background mission that I have been pursuing for some time: to get some new Volleys. I have looked in a Big W and 2 Kmarts but the selection has been poor in all cases. They never have any size 10’s (weird that I am size 11½ for every other shoe). Chatswood Target, however, is a Dunlop Volley shopper’s delight: they have every size of every colour. White with blue, white with green & gold, black, and white with green & gold, extra green trim, green laces and SKULLS inside! Guess which ones I bought? $30 = BARGAIN!
Aren’t they lovely? I think that I will wear them to see M.A.N.D.Y. on Saturday night. The green is the exact same as my new lamb shirt. I know that Lydia is reading this and groaning at my poor taste. I like them.
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posted by darryn filed under personal
Miss Slaunders says (1:21 AM):
i’m doing my will – how depressing
- tiger [lamb] says (1:21 AM):
leave it all to me
Miss Slaunders says (1:22 AM):
yeah right
Miss Slaunders says (1:22 AM):
ud sell it all and buy a dinosaur
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posted by darryn filed under Uncategorized
For the first year ever I actually remembered to write this post. Today my blog is 8 years old. The blog has been through at least 6 versions, and when I started the word "blog" had yet to be coined, so I was writing "updates". I have some of the old versions online:
- Version 1 (1999 – Jan 2000)
- Version 2 (2000)
- Version 3 (2001-2002) (broken at the moment) [update 22/11/2007: moved to a new server and online]
- Version 4 (2002-2003) (broken)
- Version 5 (2003-2004) (broken)
- Version 6 (2004-2007) (this red one) [update 22/11/2007: not this one anymore]
- Version 7 (coming Real Soon Now) [update 22/11/2007: this one now]
If I get home in time tonight I will fix up some of the broken ones, so check back later. [update 22/11/2007: fixed black, brown, red and grey]
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posted by darryn filed under personal
Chriso was meant to post this to the Party Posse website but, since he has not done so, I will post it here.
There are three signs that someone is a werewolf:
- They turn into a werewolf
- They wake up naked with blood around their mouth
- They sneeze when exposed to bright light
Be warned. Werewolves walk among us.
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