Saturday, the eventful highlight of the weekend was a bit rushed but highly enjoyable. Complex social machinations had us on the road immediately after The Mikado let us out of its very-modernised pop-Savoy experience, for windwalkr's pre-birthday party up north. Out of this, I can now recommend King Ludwig's for its excellent desserts and highly respectful ( Read more... )

I'm glad it's a slow, wet day, because my response time is very poor. It's been a half-week of huge meals, one after the other, mostly due to birthdays, mostly due to mine. The Ice Bar has a kilogram steak meal, which is inexplicably eligible for their grill deal on Thursdays. I managed only 850g of it but shrugged off just enough to have a family ( Read more... )

It's a terrible sob story: I've been exhausted lately and short on time, stressed in the weekdays and uninspired in the weeknights, cry me a river, my ocean is clay. Yawning in the face of it would only make this autobiographical turpitude that much more disgusting ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, jelashke, love. Two years ago we were at Southbank on a Sunday morning, and I was nervously carrying you a bunch of birthday presents that I knew your friends were going to dissect for cooties. Every year we make up for being a bit older by having such a wonderful time of it all :)

jelashke gets scones for work, under the decree that employees ( Read more... )

I've not slept much lately. Some of that is the hypnotic effect of the new 20" LCD screen that was bundled with yuuko, which displaces ordinary sleep like a gorilla occupying cinema seats. Around the time that started, I'd been trying to practice scanning line art and applying ink and colour in Photoshop. This took hold for a week, then transformed ( Read more... )

In diffidens credemus!

As the birthdays of macross and leo inched closer, iainrobertson and jelashke had organised a trip to the Ashmore Rd steakhouse. This place is infamous in our small circle of starving third-world initiates as serving portions beyond the appetite of mortal men and most immortal women. There was a roadhouse opening to the teamster episode of The Simpsons that hides more ( Read more... )

It's been a year, but I finally caught up with misatokitty. Happy birthday, mate! I'm glad you finally met jelashkeWe all took turns exchanging tazers for dinners at the Elephant and the Wheelbarrow, a pub in the Valley opposite Chinatown. Now, unfortunately, I'm reminded of how much I like garlic mash. I guess I'll have to find some way to get at it again ( Read more... )

After the surprise party of surprisedness¹ on Saturday, the Advanced Driver Training course took most of the Sunday, so we barely had time after to wish the diesel off of the cars afterwards and get the smell of burning rubber out of the cars. We brought both the little red car and the Nissan Patrol along so that I could practice both ways. I ( Read more... )

My fantastic voyage into the perilous Cage last night drove me to waking late, but that was only the effect of the true cause. The first caffeine in almost a week was a latté last night - I always feel most like it late at night, and I always forget how late night coffee eats away my desire for sleep ( Read more... )