Sunday night, feeling the strain ... out to Mother's last night to have Salmon and vegies with Sis (12.8/33'22"/24.03/51.5 out, 12.62/31'56"/24.29/50.8 back) ... because the River Festival was on, LOTS of stop/start from the top of SouthBank ... so made up for it by pedalling furiously (hence the high speed) down Vulture Street, scaring the cars ... was really, really good cruising the streets, lights on wheels ... turned out later was the dead moon night! Then went down to Melbourne to meet DJ + his mate/wife ... had a glass of Pilsner, discussed Google Earth, and use of geostat imaging sats, then headed off home ... but they all got a bit miffed (mortified?) that I did not climb into the car with them ... even though it is something like 2 blocks home ...
Then today was taken up with Brekkie at DJs, going to the new house to fix up + take photos (which I promise to put some up ASAP), then back to Coles to get bleach, etc. Back to DJs for lunch with family ... finally crawled home, looked at computer, thought 'Maybe a quick little ride first?', so jumped on and went up and over Mt. Cootha (on the RHS) ... never done before ... afterwards could see why-very long drag, with quite a few pinches, esp the one just past Ch 10!!! Then, of course, came over the top, and had a ball free falling all the way to the bottom ... even found a way to access/leave that missed some of the traffic hazards! Came back into Toowong, turned right and went through UQ (where there seemed to be some massive sports day on), and back over the friendship bridge to home ... 34.7/1h34'/22.34/73.7 ...
Got home, showered, went down to Sling for cocktail + tapas ... they have like a 50 page menu book of possibilities for cocktails, drinks, etc. which DJ + Bianca came along and had some fun sifting through the options with me ... also has a rather detailled conversation about 'customer service' with Bianca ... odd girl ... ended up having a Bitter root + lemon pepper calamari/fried avocado/sweet potato spring rolls ... not cheap ...
So tomorrow we begin afresh ... apparently ...
Current thought on Rachael, etc. is 'So, what are you going to do?' ...
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Today is another day
But, gone out and actively pursued employment with Medibank and Telstra (albeit via an agency) ... then promptly came home and 'celebrated' with pizza (had 1/2 veg + 1/2 chicken - $17, tasty, but SO thin ... almost ethereal) and beer (got a 6 pack of Grolsch Premium on card) ... which also, coincidently, used up the last of my money, including the 'emergency' monies ... and, yes, that includes the 2nd degree 'emergency' monies ... EKK!!!
Bloody parents/sister still have not given me any money back for the Lotto draw on the w/end - tried a System 10 entry, everyone got to choose 2 numbers, but $110.00. So I paid for ticket, but they have not been too keen to get the money back to me ... excuse being they did not realise that I needed the money? HA! Unthoughtful so and sos ... ;)
Also walked home, and what a beautiful experience that was! Totally enjoyed the sensation of meandering along at the end of the day peak hour, dodging bored office workers ... soon to be one of those?
Put a little pressure onto the pedals this morning, and averaged 27+ ... improvement follows effort, hey?
Spent a bit of time yesterday getting the first Word of power in NWN, an impressive performance, if I may say so myself ...
This whole thing with RSVP does not, it would seem, favour the backward, so really must make some effort to get a move on and 'kiss' some of the candidates that I have come across in my travelling/searching ... especially as some of them sound SO particularly interesting ... lol
As for all of my old friends, acquaintances, etc. not a sound, peep, hiccup ... ... so guess I must let 'sleeping dogs lie' as it were ... :(
Friends, who needs them, hey? ;)
Have some rather interesting photos, but they are on the Mac, and I forgot to copy them over via Memories, so promise to upload soonest ... have also being trying to get some sort of practice/introduction to the CS3 suite ... hence the icon ... but also doing a PhotoShop montage, as there is a rather interesting/odd spray mural around the corner ... which needs a bit of reworking?
Oh yeah, that irrascible brother dragged me off kicking and screaming ("No, not tonight" "Fine, what time will I pick you up?") to see Broncos down the Titans by 4 points in extra time ... pretty bloody exciting, I tell you! Especially as was see-sawing all throughout 2nd half, and was drawn at full time ... all THOSE people ...
BTW ... apparently I have a typing speed of 45wpm + 90% competency in MS Word ...
Bloody parents/sister still have not given me any money back for the Lotto draw on the w/end - tried a System 10 entry, everyone got to choose 2 numbers, but $110.00. So I paid for ticket, but they have not been too keen to get the money back to me ... excuse being they did not realise that I needed the money? HA! Unthoughtful so and sos ... ;)
Also walked home, and what a beautiful experience that was! Totally enjoyed the sensation of meandering along at the end of the day peak hour, dodging bored office workers ... soon to be one of those?
Put a little pressure onto the pedals this morning, and averaged 27+ ... improvement follows effort, hey?
Spent a bit of time yesterday getting the first Word of power in NWN, an impressive performance, if I may say so myself ...
This whole thing with RSVP does not, it would seem, favour the backward, so really must make some effort to get a move on and 'kiss' some of the candidates that I have come across in my travelling/searching ... especially as some of them sound SO particularly interesting ... lol
As for all of my old friends, acquaintances, etc. not a sound, peep, hiccup ...
Friends, who needs them, hey? ;)
Have some rather interesting photos, but they are on the Mac, and I forgot to copy them over via Memories, so promise to upload soonest ... have also being trying to get some sort of practice/introduction to the CS3 suite ... hence the icon ... but also doing a PhotoShop montage, as there is a rather interesting/odd spray mural around the corner ... which needs a bit of reworking?
Oh yeah, that irrascible brother dragged me off kicking and screaming ("No, not tonight" "Fine, what time will I pick you up?") to see Broncos down the Titans by 4 points in extra time ... pretty bloody exciting, I tell you! Especially as was see-sawing all throughout 2nd half, and was drawn at full time ... all THOSE people ...
BTW ... apparently I have a typing speed of 45wpm + 90% competency in MS Word ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Better late than not at all?
Ooopps ... time so easily slips away! Well, have tried my luck at RSVP (go have a look at JonEC), already got 1 kiss ... but still working out how to respond/reply to any or all of it, so another experiment in the making, hey?
Still no job, very little motivation at best of time *sigh* hard to replicate the success of Geelong - talk Bottleshop owner into letting me run the place, have someone ring me up (out of the blue) and ask me to come in for an interview - so must try other strategies?
Having said that, just had a call from a girl from Telstra Business, who logs the Questus complaints, just ring back to say that they do not recruit directly there, but she was happy to pass resume on to employment agency, and they are looking for people at the moment ...
Will explain background later - gtg as coffee burning ...
Still no job, very little motivation at best of time *sigh* hard to replicate the success of Geelong - talk Bottleshop owner into letting me run the place, have someone ring me up (out of the blue) and ask me to come in for an interview - so must try other strategies?
Having said that, just had a call from a girl from Telstra Business, who logs the Questus complaints, just ring back to say that they do not recruit directly there, but she was happy to pass resume on to employment agency, and they are looking for people at the moment ...
Will explain background later - gtg as coffee burning ...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
to start
sorry, this comes before the previous post ...
There was a need for a friend. Someone to listen, gently prod, to encourage the mixedness to be exposed to the air, to be examined and unkinked. But alas, this was not to be. All had their own reasons or reasonings, but were the obvious interpretations shared by each active viewer? Someone to listen to the angst and turmoil, to offer opinion as to courses of action. But that was not to be ... so lost we remain, uncertain. But from uncertainty comes ignorance. Everyone who does respond says to ignore, forget, leave well alone, move on/away. Even her. Such self loathing, hatred, lack of value ... but who am I to say otherwise, apparently ...
Have discovered my little circuit - down Vulture, along river, over to city, along river path through Toowong to UQ, over bridge, then climb up Hardgrave Road, before dropping down along back down to the river, then along spinning to Jane Street, before coming back up around the school and home. This morning was (loosely) 48 mins :) but will actually sit down with computer instructions to see if can get more precise info for comparative purposes for future reference ... Then down to UG for espresso as treat ... So the day begins!
Interestingly, a call came out of the ether, saying what are you up to today? Nothing, you? Nothing. So to meet for tea we go. Except that it is not acceptable, so off to a Japanese restaurant we go. Where I end up paying for lunch ($60) :O without consultation ... *sigh*
Long and the short is that she is shitty at me, wants to be firmly in control, and feels is the sinned against, rather than a complicent sinner ... Interesting how am accused of not listening, yet what am told is quite contradictory - 'Want nothing to do with you, but this (having luch together) is nice' ... wonder if that means that I got value for money here? Did get to play with Cam for 90-odd minutes ... After having spent the afternoon 'together', was dropped off near home, where I realised that there was so many other things that had been left undone, such as getting kero to clean bike, so grabbed remaining cash, and headed off to Coles. Where I ran into them again in the queue. Interestingly, Ray had all these MREs to put it politely ... and was suitably embarrassed. Although whether by what was in the basket, or being seen in public together, remains to be seen ...
Clearly there is a lot of pain and resentment, which is utilised in preparing rationales for actions, but am unsure of how quite to soothe such having told her that am sick of fighting with her and/or seeing her as 'problem' needing resolution ... *sigh*
Am I to seek forgiveness? What is the final outcome desired here? Having someone to play with would be good, someone to hold and cherish, someone to share more adventures ... so guess I had better get on the path to adventures then ... And so another day begins afresh ...
There was a need for a friend. Someone to listen, gently prod, to encourage the mixedness to be exposed to the air, to be examined and unkinked. But alas, this was not to be. All had their own reasons or reasonings, but were the obvious interpretations shared by each active viewer? Someone to listen to the angst and turmoil, to offer opinion as to courses of action. But that was not to be ... so lost we remain, uncertain. But from uncertainty comes ignorance. Everyone who does respond says to ignore, forget, leave well alone, move on/away. Even her. Such self loathing, hatred, lack of value ... but who am I to say otherwise, apparently ...
Have discovered my little circuit - down Vulture, along river, over to city, along river path through Toowong to UQ, over bridge, then climb up Hardgrave Road, before dropping down along back down to the river, then along spinning to Jane Street, before coming back up around the school and home. This morning was (loosely) 48 mins :) but will actually sit down with computer instructions to see if can get more precise info for comparative purposes for future reference ... Then down to UG for espresso as treat ... So the day begins!
Interestingly, a call came out of the ether, saying what are you up to today? Nothing, you? Nothing. So to meet for tea we go. Except that it is not acceptable, so off to a Japanese restaurant we go. Where I end up paying for lunch ($60) :O without consultation ... *sigh*
Long and the short is that she is shitty at me, wants to be firmly in control, and feels is the sinned against, rather than a complicent sinner ... Interesting how am accused of not listening, yet what am told is quite contradictory - 'Want nothing to do with you, but this (having luch together) is nice' ... wonder if that means that I got value for money here? Did get to play with Cam for 90-odd minutes ... After having spent the afternoon 'together', was dropped off near home, where I realised that there was so many other things that had been left undone, such as getting kero to clean bike, so grabbed remaining cash, and headed off to Coles. Where I ran into them again in the queue. Interestingly, Ray had all these MREs to put it politely ... and was suitably embarrassed. Although whether by what was in the basket, or being seen in public together, remains to be seen ...
Clearly there is a lot of pain and resentment, which is utilised in preparing rationales for actions, but am unsure of how quite to soothe such having told her that am sick of fighting with her and/or seeing her as 'problem' needing resolution ... *sigh*
Am I to seek forgiveness? What is the final outcome desired here? Having someone to play with would be good, someone to hold and cherish, someone to share more adventures ... so guess I had better get on the path to adventures then ... And so another day begins afresh ...
negotiations with neighbours
To start afresh, in a new land, in a new way, requires that negotiation be the paramount preferred skill utilised ... so on that basis, and without reference to any of the other failed communications that are going on, I have failed dismally already.
Rob, from next door, stuck is sticky little nose through the fence to say that:
a) no communicating with Ky without supervision; and
b) he was rescinding my 'privilige' to pass through his garden to access mine.
WTF!!!???
Seems that:
a) he had been approached at the local library, and been asked to prove that he actually had a child, so as to be allowed in the childrens' section. Clearly this caused his repressed memories of when his father used to interfere with him to resurface, and giving him the excuse to refocus his angst/anger at some sort of nebulous bogey? More interestingly was when I agreed, but asked his reasoning why, to which he initially tried to stick to the line of 'You know, I do not have to explain myself'. So I replied along the lines of "For someone who says so much, you do not actually say much" ... and,
b) seems he took exception to me cutting down the Chinese Elm out the back, and then pouring the waste kero on it from when I had cleaned the bike chain earlier ... tried to use the 'Weeds have their place in the world too' psuedo-hippy-love crap, but he was the only one referring to weeds. So he tried the initial approach of 'My house, you no pass through', followed by 'Your rent does not include a back yard'. Unfortunately, it is screened off from 'his' yard, and has a lot of waste bamboo in it ... wonder what the reaction would (will?) be if I was to return the waste to where it sprung?
Hmm, certainly seems good to have something else to take my mind off the other dramas going on around here ... ;)
He sure does whinge and whine a lot, it has to be said ... However, what is most ludicrous is that he sprouts forth all this nonsense about respecting boundaries, being good neighbours, and then tells me to 'piss off' when I point out that he is to start using his front door more, as he encroaches upon my quiet enjoyment of my property when he so noisely uses my access to go through his back door ... oh how easily the thin veneer of respectability fades when the bully is confronted ... Certainly Ky looked most confused and concerned, poor bugger ...
Rob, from next door, stuck is sticky little nose through the fence to say that:
a) no communicating with Ky without supervision; and
b) he was rescinding my 'privilige' to pass through his garden to access mine.
WTF!!!???
Seems that:
a) he had been approached at the local library, and been asked to prove that he actually had a child, so as to be allowed in the childrens' section. Clearly this caused his repressed memories of when his father used to interfere with him to resurface, and giving him the excuse to refocus his angst/anger at some sort of nebulous bogey? More interestingly was when I agreed, but asked his reasoning why, to which he initially tried to stick to the line of 'You know, I do not have to explain myself'. So I replied along the lines of "For someone who says so much, you do not actually say much" ... and,
b) seems he took exception to me cutting down the Chinese Elm out the back, and then pouring the waste kero on it from when I had cleaned the bike chain earlier ... tried to use the 'Weeds have their place in the world too' psuedo-hippy-love crap, but he was the only one referring to weeds. So he tried the initial approach of 'My house, you no pass through', followed by 'Your rent does not include a back yard'. Unfortunately, it is screened off from 'his' yard, and has a lot of waste bamboo in it ... wonder what the reaction would (will?) be if I was to return the waste to where it sprung?
Hmm, certainly seems good to have something else to take my mind off the other dramas going on around here ... ;)
He sure does whinge and whine a lot, it has to be said ... However, what is most ludicrous is that he sprouts forth all this nonsense about respecting boundaries, being good neighbours, and then tells me to 'piss off' when I point out that he is to start using his front door more, as he encroaches upon my quiet enjoyment of my property when he so noisely uses my access to go through his back door ... oh how easily the thin veneer of respectability fades when the bully is confronted ... Certainly Ky looked most confused and concerned, poor bugger ...
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Chez Carleton is open for business
Starting from the front, we have the view looking into the abode. As you can see, there is a large single room leading back to ...
the kitchen, on the right, ...
or the bathroom, through the door straight ahead.
Although not much, and incredibly inaccessible, there is also my little relaxation piece of garden. Do not think at any stage there will be anything resembling a garden for vegies, etc. but as a contemplative/peaceful place, it would seem to be most suitable. Although not clear from this picture, I have taken the liberty of hanging some reflective mirrored mobiles, as well as a rather large crystal to refract calming and clearing light, to chase away the evilness ...
Just in passing, Rachael is being a bitch of the worst possible sort :(
Other complaint is that my back rotor on the Yukon is rubbing at odd times, make grinding sounds as I tootle along, and I am unsure why!!! Of course, probably would not hurt if I was to clean the bike properly, especially as the chain is particularly disgustying ;)
But, am settling in, slowly, surely, finding the rythmn of the place, slipping back into sync with the ebbs and flows ...
Very little contact with the old crew, however especially LewE is being quite amiable in staying in touch, letting me know what is happening down in ye ol Geelong ...
Anyway, enjoy, stay in touch?
You know you can post comments to this page as well?
the kitchen, on the right, ...
or the bathroom, through the door straight ahead.
Although not much, and incredibly inaccessible, there is also my little relaxation piece of garden. Do not think at any stage there will be anything resembling a garden for vegies, etc. but as a contemplative/peaceful place, it would seem to be most suitable. Although not clear from this picture, I have taken the liberty of hanging some reflective mirrored mobiles, as well as a rather large crystal to refract calming and clearing light, to chase away the evilness ...
Just in passing, Rachael is being a bitch of the worst possible sort :(Other complaint is that my back rotor on the Yukon is rubbing at odd times, make grinding sounds as I tootle along, and I am unsure why!!! Of course, probably would not hurt if I was to clean the bike properly, especially as the chain is particularly disgustying ;)
But, am settling in, slowly, surely, finding the rythmn of the place, slipping back into sync with the ebbs and flows ...
Very little contact with the old crew, however especially LewE is being quite amiable in staying in touch, letting me know what is happening down in ye ol Geelong ...
Anyway, enjoy, stay in touch?
You know you can post comments to this page as well?
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