so i got an email out of the blue friday lunch time offering me a ticket to the bloc party concert that night, it’s funny, i purposely hadn’t bought a ticket because the new album didn’t move me to… but, with the offer in the air i couldn’t help myself (and after clearing it with the boss) i was going!
i had to make an airport run to drop wendy off and then back into town to meet up with friends before the show, with the rain it seemed like she was going to miss the flight but ended up fine…
ok so, a quick pint and we wandered off to festival hall, we got in half way through their first song, sounded great… we had floor tickets, and being late in were stuck against the back wall… i bought a t-shirt and thought;
“this sucks, i think i’ll push forward a bit”
so yeah, two songs later, i was literally three people from the front fence in the middle, and stayed there all show.
on a side note, i’m still really annoyed by kids (esp. girls) acting as though their entitled to a good view or even personal space whilst in a mosh pit, incredible.
it’s really funny, the first half of the show was mostly new stuff, and seeing as it’s so mellow comparatively, the “mosh pit” was very tame, which isn’t such a bad thing seeing as i’m so old and decrepit… the second half was better… but still, kele’s half smile while singing; “i’ll pay for you… anytime” sort of said to me he was either embarrassed of bored of the lyric or song… interesting.
…and well, it may have been the same last time around but none of the other three looked like they were enjoying themselves, but again, that’s “cool” isn’t it? to act bored?
so yeah, i’m not a fan of the new album, and last night didn’t change my mind, judging by crowd reaction, i’m not in the minority…
but the band doesn’t owe me anything, the show was great.
no matter what anyone thinks, they should do whatever they want.
personally, i got the impression they don’t have much more in the tank, and see a haitus for bloc party in the near future… that… or a full-on mainstream breakthrough ‘kings of leon’ style, and (maybe sadly?) the same goes for both.
so after last weeks computer dramas, my hard disk ended up failing completely, and had to be sent back for warranty replacement, i got an email yesterday saying the new one had been posted so i can expect it sometime this coming week i guess…
not much other news to report really (apart from the next post), kim and liam have a cold, the weather here has been insane, yeah yeah, welcome to melbourne, but c’mon, it’s the end of november and it hailed three times today! …and not the tropical hail, it’s been about 11 degrees all day…
i just went to drop a dvd back and grab a couple of things from the supermarket, took $20 from kims purse and off i went… a 2l bottle of A2 milk, a garlic bread, and some pink lady apples… the girl rung it up to somewhere around $20.50…
“uhh, crap, i only have a $20″
“it’s ok, we’ll just take a couple of apples off”
“great, thanks!”
…she took 2 out, leaving me with 3…
“ok, that’s $13.05″
“um ok, that doesn’t really make sense”
being in my stupid alpha state, i gave her the money, got the change and walked away, but i looked up as i turned and saw the 5 apple weight on the display as 1.7kg, but now, looking at my receipt, the 3 apple weight is 0.597kg.
so what then?
was she resting on the scales as they were weighed? are they faulty?
should i pay closer attention everytime we go to coles?
i am seriously suspicious of them…
if anyone wants to know, the receipt says:
Coles Balaclava
15-Nov-08
17:29
Register 12
Served by Lynda
hey blog, how are you doing? feeling neglected? yeah yeah, suck it up.
i’m ok… been having some tech dramas lately.
that draft post is still sitting in the queue, i was supposed to blog all about how quickly and easily i jailbroke my ipod touch after upgrading to v2 firmware and successfully installed cydia… but no. instead i managed to brick it.pretty much beyond repair. i’ll go to an apple store **eww** tomorrow to see if they will help me out, i say “will” because i know they “can”, but probably won’t want to. omission and feigning ignorance will be my defence. we’ll have to see how it goes.
did i mention how much i hate closed platforms? so so much.
also, mate and i bought an eeepc901 each last thursday (i think it was thursday?)
it’s awesome, i mucked around with a couple of things and him being the SOE guru he is, gave me a dual booting image of XP-SP3 and gOS sah-weet.
my hands are adjusting to the keyboard ok, i didn’t realise how much i use the right ctrl key until now! …you know what they say “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone you lose it”… um ok… i may or may not have just quoted phil collins… ahhh! and then i googled the correct lyric and corrected it, i need help!
also in my attempts to free my ipod touch of itunes, a lot of software was installed on my pc and i became increasingly frustrated and ended up rebuilding it… and then got a bit excited and installed windows7 and gOS on it, along the way creating four primary partitions and accidentally making the boot up process kind of complicated as far as choosing an OS goes… so, looks like i’ll have to rebuild it AGAIN. terrific huh.
ok well, hopefully next time i’ll have some better news…
you know sometimes i start typing just to hear the tapping on the keys? it almost triggers something in my brain that says; “hey, i’m busy, and this is important”… yeah right.
i just feel like life is good at the moment. not quite so stressed as i was, but still, some hard decisions coming. the weekend just gone was pretty cool, although work went to crap late friday afternoon and i did get to sound like big man on the phone to a 3rd party in front of the CIO, but i would’ve preferred to leave 45 minutes earlier… oh well, i met up with some local friends, and a mate from brisbane who was down visiting… usual sort of friday night in town i guess (it’s been a while for me); beer at some place on swanston st., steamed dumpling hunt (that resulted in settling for some excellent thai instead), wine over dinner, hairy canary for vodka martini’s (we should’ve got mojitos dammit!) and madame brussels for singapore slings…
probably needless to say i fell asleep on the train on the way home. good thing they were doing line work and someone woke me at sth yarra station to catch a bus for the rest of the trip!
saturday we went to a bbq at yarraville and the weather was lovely, then watched dark knight again that night…
oh hey, who do you think is cooler? batman or james bond?
we were chatting about this, bond gets the ladies, equal gadgets, but people know who he is…
today i had to do some work, ugh, it was interesting enough and not work you’d want to do everyday… turns out full IT enterprise migrations are kinda tricky, hehehe…
liam is growing and learning every day, which, i guess is to be expected, but still, wow.
this week he learned he could step on things, and took great pleasure in walking around, aiming his feet. then tonight in the bath, he lay on his tummy and blew bubbles, completely unprompted, first time ever. amazing!