Random citings
Yesterday’s weather was lovely. Not too hot, if a little windy. I ate my sandwich at the park across the road from work. I’m glad I remembered my sunnies!
Then I went for a walk afterwards. 3 Things that struck me:
1. Lots of pretty people in the CBD and I hope my next job is still in the city. So convenient.
2. Man chroming (sp?) in the middle of the day at possibly the busiest street in the CBD. Nobody batted an eyelid.
3. I must scream of customer service. I went to Kmart and 3 different people thought I worked there! Kmart staff don’t even wear blue shirt. Grrr
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Elections
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Pan’s Labyrinth
Scrabble
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Doh!
You know when you sometimes leave a tissue in a pocket of you pants or something and then you put it in the washing machine? If you’re lucky it stays in the pocket and the load is not affected. But if it comes out then you get those annoying bits of tissue stuck on some of the clothes…
Well…
I’ve just gone to hang a load of washing and discovered an entire (half) roll of toilet paper has somehow gotten mixed in there!!!!!!
THERE IS TOILET PAPER EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I’ve spent the last half an hour shaken bits off all the clothes and it looks like its been snowing on my balcony. And most of it is still stuck on the clothes. Will wait til its dry and see if I can get it off with a clothes brush.
Otherwise I might wash it all again.
Box of Pooki? Get Pooked!
Got my “Box of Pooki” in the mail today. Well I went to pick it up from the post office. That’s now three things I’ve bought from Catch Of The Day website. I think that’s two items too many!! The first thing I bought was the Bady Mega Box, as posted here. All the items from that one are still in sitting in the box because 1. I don’t have a baby 2. Most of the items are not worthy of giving to my friends who have babies. Then I got the USB HD-TV Tuner was a bargain for $40 odd. But I just spent $50 on an amplified antenna just so I can pick up all the channels properly.\
Then One day I saw the ad for Catch Of The Day’s Birthday celebrations. “Bag of Pooki”, it said. It also said:
* Pooki is our adopted word for C**P.
* You order a bag and we give you a bag, or a box. Oh the suspense!
* We collect any 15 Pooki from the warehouse, and put them in the bag or box.
* We don’t know what Pooki are going in the bag or box. We always deliver ridiculous value for money. It might contain past products from CatchOfTheDay, goodies from daily deals or new things we haven’t sold yet.
* The result? You might jump with indescribable joy, break out into song and dance or just get a warm fuzzy feeling and shout out “I LOVE CATCH OF THE DAY” or not.
I thought I’d give it a go. What a crazy concept. This is what I ended up getting:
A golf caddie drink holder, an Ansley Harriott cooking DVD, a Swiss Army Knife (but no brand), a USB fan, a Freddo Frog, 3 pairs of lady’s socks, a Large T-Shirt, 4 misc items of Jay Jay girls accessories, a The Age photo book “150 years of reflections”, a photo album box, a Denise Austin back support waist band, a “Chef Genius” multi-purpose kitchen tool and my personal favourite, a “Just Add Water” expanding singlet!!!
Needless to say, pretty much all useless products. Most bizarre $30 I’ve ever spent. Never again…
Nice Mordi ride this morning
Wore my Ground Effect Doctor Smock light weight wind breaker to give it a real test run this morning. Started a bit later than usual. Left around 8.30am. Had tail wind on the way down to Mordi and was nice and toasty (a bit too toasty) with my poly-pro singlet, summer jersey and arm warmers. Oh and I also had bib knicks leg warmers and booties on. And my headtube and beanie. Had to unzip the Doc Smock and jersey half way down because I got quite warm.
Took the sleeves/yoke of for return trip. After my banana and sit down at Mordi Pier I headed back. Man was the headwind strong!!! And was I glad I had the wind breaker, otherwise without one the wind would have gone straight through me. Really happy I bought this (even though it wasn’t without drama). It took a while but I have it now. Another member from the BV forums bought one as well but didn’t fit well at all, especially without sleeves/yoke. I must have the right body shape for that particular top.
Joined a small group at the beginning for the first 5km or so, went ahead of them for a while, and they passed me again with around 10km to go so gladly sucked wheel for rest of journey home.
Max sp: 43.1km/h
Avg sp: 27.2km/h
Distance: 50.62km
Time: 1hr 51min
Just read in the The Age that 3 riders were taken to hospital (thankfully with only minor injuries) this morning when they crashed in Mt Eliza. If I had woken up early enough I was going to go to Frankston and possibly Mt Eliza. Hope they’re OK.
