Let me preface all of this by saying this is about me, my perceptions, the way that I feel about things that happen to me, around me. So if you are mentioned, if you are not mentioned, tough shit. Not so long ago, I was very confident in saying that this was the absolutely worst year in living memory, but thanks to Jen + Ray (although, after being rung up tonight and abused, I am flabbergasted at the implications of 'You are not sticking to the rules' - what rules? if we are playing some sort of game, could someone tell me what the rules are? Welcome to reality), the year ended on a rather interesting 'hi' ...
[But after effect of that shock is that I have not linked as much as I should have with these notes]
42, and these things happened ...
- Daddy died
- Fell off bike
- Fractured clavicle
- Brother fractured ribs and eye socket
- Moved five (5) times
- Had sex with three (3) girls, and no guys or dogs
- Worked at Centrelink, ATO, Go Via (Qld Motorways)
- Went to Sunset Sounds
- Did research project on RFID for brother
- Paid off credit card(s)
- Bought a road bike
- Black Opium - an 'interesting' art show of interaction between Aboriginals and opium, way back then. Nothing new, nothing gob smacking, but appreciate the effort
- Bought two (2) Sigma 1606 cycle computers - kept losing the head units
- Had a fling with narcotics (pills, powders) but to no avail
- Bought an Irigaray book 'Sharing the world' but for Mere
- Went to see Riptides at the UQ 100th b/day with Michelle, and there was Cam :)
- Made some very nice rissottoes
- Drank some rather decent alcohol-'01 Bin 128, Grey Goose vodka, Barcardi 151
- Emailed some corporations to express pleasure and gratitude for their products
- Read a very interesting book 'An edge in the kitchen' that changed my life, and the way that I perceive the world
- Reconnected with old friends (Jenny, Chrissi, Rachael, Emmy), met some new people (Moira, Trent)
- Bought this comp - 'Siver Rocket'
- Got my sister a lotto ticket for her b/day, got 4 numbers :)
- Wrote review of Crumpler 'Salary sacrifice'
- Saw a performance of Coogee at Jubilee Hotel, one languid Sunday
- Came second in the overall Trivia competition
- Sold most of shares
- Phone died very suddenly, so I lost a tremendous amount of contacts and references :(
- Saw a band at Boundary 'Black pudding' that was very encouraging
- Saw a performance of Peter Hook ((+ friends) doing 'Unknown pleasures'
- Went to UCI World Cup
- A lot and lot of training at ATO
- Saw Lost Domain gig with friends
- Rode to Gold Coast
- Great get togethers with work mates, shared time with some great people
- Got a new phone - HTC 'Wildfire' + new Nano
2 comments:
very interesting year indeed John, leaves me two questions, the bike you fell off high in the list, was it the bike you bought lower in the list? and should l get that book an edge in the kitchen? keeping in mind l don't like cooking shows or cooking in general!
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