Saturday, January 22, 2005
Jack of Clubs
(corrected)
This is not the most comfortable place I've ever blogged from (standing up at a terminal in Adelaide airport), and all the keys are horrible and in the wrong place, so I'm not going to worry about spelling or typos - sue me. I'll be in Melbourne in less than 3 hours!
All sorts of little bits and pieces that I wanted to record here
Being mistaken for an Italian to the extent of the tour guide giving me a leaflet in Italian, and asking me (in Italian!) where in Italy I came from.
Being correctly spotted as a Scouser by Mark, the Aussie coach driver, within 30 seconds of getting on the bus. Now what's your excuse for continually getting it wrong, Lint?!
The much-harder-than-it-should-be search for a copy of The Confusion - they have Quicksilver, System of the World, Cryptonomicon, etc., but no Confusion!
The equally hard search for a postcard with an image of Sir Donald Bradman on it, to satisfy one of only two specific postcard requests I had. Time will tell whether I succeeded on that one...
Our parent company sponsoring the Australian Open ballboys and girls, and forcing them to wear a delightful turquoise and orange uniform, complete with silly floppy-eared hat.
Flies. Lots of flies. And they seem to like me. A lot.
Pam Ayers. Oh how I wish I hadn't had to sit through that!
Going to the shark museum in Glenelg, and taking lots of photos for my shark-mad brother.
Two unexpectedly-located rainbows - one of them photographed, one of them not.
A great thunderstorm.
Juice. Lots of juice. The flies like that, too...
And finally some quotes that have lightened up my week.
"We will not be overruling the machine."
"You can have just this beautiful experience."
"You're very good at tennis, Tim." (shouted out in between the first and second services of a double fault!)
This is not the most comfortable place I've ever blogged from (standing up at a terminal in Adelaide airport), and all the keys are horrible and in the wrong place, so I'm not going to worry about spelling or typos - sue me. I'll be in Melbourne in less than 3 hours!
All sorts of little bits and pieces that I wanted to record here
And finally some quotes that have lightened up my week.
posted by Chip : 23:27
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Comments:
No. But Dymock's in Melbourne did, and also a copy of "The Fifth Sacred Thing" which I've been looking for for years!
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