7. I've got the band back together man! This has been quite fun and (mostly) productive. We have one good song and heaven knows we should, I've known most of these guys since high school so we've had 10 odd years to practice it. We get together rarely, as our rhythm guitarist and song writer lives in Canberra, consequently the sharing of musical ideas has led to excuse #8.
8. I've become addicted to the making of mixed CDs of my own compilation. Yeah, I know iTunes etc has been around for ages but I've only just discovered it. And what a world of wonders it is. It started as research; a way of sharing our musical ideas, so and so would include a CD of songs they really liked with the CD of our rehearsal et voila a unique excuse for time wasting was born. Everyone was inspired to create their own and subject others to all their favourite songs.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Cocktail of the Minute...
Gastrobitch thinks I'm mad but I do like my martini's with twist of lime pickle. Try it, it's sensational...
Sunday, September 18, 2005
10 (poor) excuses as to why I have not updated my blog in 6 weeks or more
1. I was a bit scared off by Pim (but I'm over that now)
2. I broke the computer at home. This happened a while ago and was the result of an incident involving a Siamese cat, a glass of red wine and a keyboard. The outcome was not good for any of the aforementioned. Try as we might we could not fix the keyboard, so that was that. Big Al has since invested in a schmitzy new iMac, so I can't use that excuse anymore. I posted a few things at work then excuse #3 happened.
3. I've been really busy at work. I know that is the lamest excuse in the universe, but it is true. Except for the last two weeks where I've done bugger all and been really bored.
4. I've been in a really bad mood.
5. We've had two Taiwanese exchange students staying with us. Referred to prior to their arrival as "the Taiwanese invasion" Peter and Ariel (she christened herself that after the little mermaid cartoon character so you can imagine the inherent cuteness of these two) turned out to be super fun. Big Al and I spend the whole of their 6 week stay with us feeding them Australian cheeses and teaching them about wine. We all had a ball!
6. I'm kind of over cooking. This one came at me a bit out of the blue, but part of the deal with hosting the students involved feeding them dinner and breakfast. Breakfast wasn't really an issue but providing meals for four every night for 6 weeks is tiring. I did something bizarre that was very unme (ignoring the broken glass and prawns incident of course) I burned the crap out of my good saucepan. I might just point out here that it wasn't just a little bit burned, it pretty much caught on fire. It was very dramatic and set off all the newly installed smoke alarms. All that was left of my orange and spice syrup was the charred remains of several star anise and a cinnamon stick set solid in a centimetre of what I imagine lava looks like when it cools. An orange and spice lava at any rate. Serve me right for falling asleep while it was on the stove. Anyway, because it was my favourite pot (it was a nice Robinox one and all, that I may have flogged from a former employer) I couldn't bring myself to chuck it, so it sat in this sorry state next to the sink with water in it for about a week and a half. This was a vain attempt to dissolve the black set-like-concrete stuff at the bottom. Eventually, Big Al could stand it no longer and attacked the thing with a screwdriver. The pot is now back in use but I'm sad to say it will never be the same. More cracking and legit. excuses coming soon to IWF...
2. I broke the computer at home. This happened a while ago and was the result of an incident involving a Siamese cat, a glass of red wine and a keyboard. The outcome was not good for any of the aforementioned. Try as we might we could not fix the keyboard, so that was that. Big Al has since invested in a schmitzy new iMac, so I can't use that excuse anymore. I posted a few things at work then excuse #3 happened.
3. I've been really busy at work. I know that is the lamest excuse in the universe, but it is true. Except for the last two weeks where I've done bugger all and been really bored.
4. I've been in a really bad mood.
5. We've had two Taiwanese exchange students staying with us. Referred to prior to their arrival as "the Taiwanese invasion" Peter and Ariel (she christened herself that after the little mermaid cartoon character so you can imagine the inherent cuteness of these two) turned out to be super fun. Big Al and I spend the whole of their 6 week stay with us feeding them Australian cheeses and teaching them about wine. We all had a ball!
6. I'm kind of over cooking. This one came at me a bit out of the blue, but part of the deal with hosting the students involved feeding them dinner and breakfast. Breakfast wasn't really an issue but providing meals for four every night for 6 weeks is tiring. I did something bizarre that was very unme (ignoring the broken glass and prawns incident of course) I burned the crap out of my good saucepan. I might just point out here that it wasn't just a little bit burned, it pretty much caught on fire. It was very dramatic and set off all the newly installed smoke alarms. All that was left of my orange and spice syrup was the charred remains of several star anise and a cinnamon stick set solid in a centimetre of what I imagine lava looks like when it cools. An orange and spice lava at any rate. Serve me right for falling asleep while it was on the stove. Anyway, because it was my favourite pot (it was a nice Robinox one and all, that I may have flogged from a former employer) I couldn't bring myself to chuck it, so it sat in this sorry state next to the sink with water in it for about a week and a half. This was a vain attempt to dissolve the black set-like-concrete stuff at the bottom. Eventually, Big Al could stand it no longer and attacked the thing with a screwdriver. The pot is now back in use but I'm sad to say it will never be the same. More cracking and legit. excuses coming soon to IWF...
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