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
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!
so while kim and liam were in brisbane for our nephew and niece’s christianing, i had to work through the weekend, big surprise eh, i should be used to it by now… i think i’ve finally reached the acceptance stage and weekends are no longer something i have, to look forward to.
to relax on sunday night i watched ‘children of men‘… i knew it wouldn’t really be relaxing, but i needed something a bit epic to take me away from what was truly a craptacular weekend (well, except for friday night)… so the movie. amazing, challenging, thought provoking.
what a concept; a whole generation missed through infertility, all of humanity are united and divided because of it. then monday night, i watched v for vendetta, i had no idea how similar the movies are!
unbeknownst to me until today, it’s anti-poverty week in australia! then, i saw this post and it got me thinking…
so in these movie studio created, post apocalyptic worlds, survival is key. but for us, in our world of inconvenient truths, battery hens and flat-out blind consumerism it doesn’t seem like we’ll ever reach the point where drastic changes will actually happen.
we spend time trying to prove whether or not we’re actually in danger of wrecking the earth, when… i dunno… maybe the government should step in… get serious about it.
i doubt that sighmon is completely right though, “vegetarians use 100 times less water” sounds like that statistic was made up on the spot. i wouldn’t mind going vege if it meant saving the world, hmm, can we exclude seafood and eggs?
so i’m not hardcore. but i’m not an idiot. and i do feel challenged.
you can file this under need-to-know but, you know why i don’t really drink water during the day?
the constant bathroom breaks.
everyone hates interruptions, and i think it’s worse when your own body won’t let you get on with some work… apparently the more water you drink, the more accustomed your body becomes the bathroom breaks become fewer, but still… for fear of damaging my bladder because i refuse to leave my desk, drinking water is not really a happening.
if common sense is to be believed, i would probably work more efficently and harder if my hydration didn’t consist of the 150ml milk that comes with a cafe latte, but whatever…
speaking of, i’ve had some peeps in melbourne say to me;
“if you asked me for a latte, i’d give you warm milk”
“ok?”
“you need to say cafe latte, it’s italian”
“…umm…. right”
insert smooth segue here, cafe 53 is still my favorite coffee place in the city, but now gattaca is coming a close 2nd for best overall. we haven’t been there for breakfast but generally it seems busy AND they have an old-school table top arcade system running a couple of classics like 1942 over mame!
the weekend gone was pretty good, i didn’t have to work for a start, woohoo!
umm, we watched the golden compass on friday night, i really enjoyed it but am surprised at what passes for a kids movie these days; it was pretty scary and dark in parts…
on saturday liam was back at swimming lessons, it’s weird, he just won’t lie still, he always wants to be on his tummy thrashing around and dunking his face in… one of the other onlooking mums told kim he is going to be a great swimmer, hopefully not seriously, i don’t want to be dropping him off at a pool at 4am for the rest of my life…
saturday night kim made some sort of asian bbq chicken dish for dinner… i LOVE the sweet soy sauce we got from the chinese grocer the other week.. and sunday we caught up with some friends in yarraville for brunch… liam behaved really well, we just stretched his out lunch for an hour and he didn’t get too restless… he even did a few of his tricks for the applauding masses!
ok well, this week should be interesting, i’ll be doing classroom training this week instead of going into work… and hopefully there’ll be an exam at the end of it… we’ll have to wait and see… talk to you later.
you know you haven’t posted for a while, when you start considering writing about how hard it is to write… or you start revisiting the well worn road of discussing what’s really relevant…
but i know what’s relevant, things like; family, melbourne, football, music, tech, twitter, food… so i don’t need to go there do i… i just need to write more… easy.
now that that is out of the way, you know what’s been annoying me lately? a couple of people have been trying to finish my sentences for me, in an effort to prove they understand what i’m talking about… even when either of them ask me the question… it just proves they don’t, and most of the time it doubles the length of the conversation… **sigh**
ok, in other news, liam took his first real steps yesterday, i was absolutely gobsmacked… he’s becoming a real person! i’ve uploaded some news pics to prove it, hehehe…
hey! why don’t i make this an uber-post and try to cover ALL the categories above… hmm…
melbourne is cold atm, it’s winter and getting out of bed in the morning is extremely difficult. i still love it though. in the evenings we have the heater on in our living room and often, because i’ve done the wii-fit thing, i stay in t-shirt and shorts until we go to bed, AND THEN, i wonder why i’m so cold…
football? well, apparently duff scored a hat-trick in nufc’s win against hartlepool(?), i guess that’s good news (better than losing, duh) but you know, i honestly didn’t expect us to keep m.owen into next season, but seeing as liverpool just bought robbie keane, i think he might be safe! this also is the time of the year when i decide whether to join or start a tipping competition… hmm, i think i might skip the telegraph one this year, i get the impression guys do that one as a full-time job!
music. hmm, i’ve discovered a new blog broken record that is really interesting, and my latest tumblr post is pretty depressing if you’re into it…
the laptop i’ve been aiming for isn’t going to be released in australia! damn, against kim’s advice i think i’ll settle and if i feel like it later, i’ll buy a solid state disk for it separately.
twitter is still there, and probably generally unheathy for my writing in this thing. my random thoughts that would used to have been full posts get reduced down to 140 characters or less… otherwise meh.
and food. what can i say, i’m definitely eating less than i used to and am trying to shun the evil food i love… that said, we had fish and chips with emma and scott last night, and it was awesome but strangely unfulfilling… like the awesomeness didn’t make up for how kinda unwell i felt afterwards?
ok well, that seemed to work pretty well, amazing how much crap i can come out with.
having the tv pack it in really halted my wii fit progress, it still isn’t fixed… so i setup our projector again and now everything we watch is MASSIVE.
we went up to visit some family this weekend at kyabram, which was really great, until we got home on sunday night when i started to feel a bit sick… so went to bed at 1830, and then spent the rest of the night getting up to throw up… till about 0130… nasty.
apart from that, not much is happening… liam is growing like a machine, my work is super busy… umm, i finally went to the dentist for the first time in 2 and a half years, and guess what?! no work needed, just another check up in 6 months! that never happens. awesome.
ok, i’ve gotta try to give this thing more attention… he says signing off.
yes, i realise listening to someone talk fitness and diet is about as interesting as letting a
9 month-old feel around inside your eye sockets… but…
…umm wow, so after learning my wii fit age was 47 i’ve been working out (or doing what it says to do) for at least half an hour a day; and not only have i lost 1.5kg, but i feel great and i seem to have lost a stack of fat off my belly, not that it was bad, but now there’s actual definition in my abs! i so didn’ t expect that hey… and kimmy says even my face looks slimmer…
so now my wii fit age is 33; a week to knock 14 years off seems ok, although i don’t really have anything to compare it against… not to worry… the motivation to “eat less” (and better) hasn’t gone away… i’ve just gotta keep ticking other things off the list…
seeing as the weather was pretty good yesterday we went to the gardens for a picnic with wendy, shane, sarah and jude… great to get some fresh air and sunshine, i even got told off for kicking a football around (no fun allowed apparently)…
the sarlins have headed off home via canberra now, it’s been cool to have wendy stay… and unbelievably it’s only about 5 weeks till we head north to queensland again!
umm, the last couple of days have been pretty crazy… last thursday afternoon i went to my first MTUB meetup which was pretty cool, even though i had to leave early to head off to go to a work dinner at a greek place in collingwood… my first greek restaurant experience would you believe? but hang on, i’m getting side-tracked…
ok, MTUB, um, i managed to meet and have a quick chat with Lucas, LisaMaree, Warwraith, mspecht, duncanriley, and even said a quick hello to the veritable twitter superstar that is andrewsayer… i was disappointed to leave early, it seemed the people to alcohol consumed ratio was just getting good… oh well next time i guess…
anyways onto the work do, the food was excellent, all served tapas style… but they probably have their own word for it hey… those vine leaf rice thingys were the best i’ve ever tasted, plus some sort of fried cheese and all the rest, excellent! …at some stage, waiters started putting bottles of ouzo on all the tables (our group was probably 120 people)… i’d never had it before; much like sambuca i guess… with all the food, beer and ouzo going around, our party (and my table in particular) got pretty loud… so by the end of the night, one of the guys at my table had thrown up on himself… and after being dropped back to his building by a cab, was found sleeping in the foyer of said building by a another tenant (and co-worker luckily enough)!
so yeah, big night. crazy.
friday night, me and some friends went to see henry rollins, such a great speaker, really funny, poignant, and maybe endearingly a little insecure… he spoke for three and a half hours and in that time, took two sips of water. I didn’t get bored at all, just uncomfortable in the chair, and my brain needed a break to absorb and try to go again…
saturday kim went to a friends wedding in the afternoon and i looked after liam, great to spend some time at home with him after the previous couple of days, he’s become quite aware of smaller sounds, and he’s learning that he can actually shake and bang things to make noise… this is particularly great come bath time and water is going everywhere!
sunday i went to a mates bbq and played some poker, lost on some silly bets… who chases a 3? damn. 20-20 hindsight as they say…
did you know all pure white cats are deaf? i didn’t until sunday arv. sometimes i’d love it if bebe was deaf, damn… although she is becoming more affectionate (because of the cold, i think)…
ok so, i’m gonna go without proofing this post too thoroughly… enjoy
(correcting me).
wow, so unbeknownst be me, liam has been rolling himself over for “a while now”…
i put him down the other night and he promptly rolled over!… i yelled out to kim, and got a “yeah, so” response… hmm… so now, he’ll play on the rug in the living room rolling back and forth… amazing!
the weekend just gone was great in parts, (not bad in others)… we watched stardust friday night; funny, warm, smart, an excellent film… saturday we met marc and helena, and went for brekky in fitzroy, we got a table in the corner with a bench seat so liam sat between us for a while and then sat on my lap while we ate… at one stage, quick as anything, he reached out and grabbed the double smoked bacon right off my plate! luckily kim grabbed it before he was able to shove it in his mouth but wow, what a little champ! shortly after he fell asleep in kims arms and we were able to have another coffee and just chat and relax…
after me feeling bad for not returning a missed call all week, it turned out schalk was still in town, so we met up, and hung out for the rest of the day… nice! …and later watched blood diamond… what an amazing film, the thing is, it may as well be a true story, uhh, challenging, harrowing in parts, and overall well worth watching…
then… pulled an all-nighter at work, but at least i wasn’t alone, and everything went really smoothly, so yeah, not great, but happily uneventful, phew!
so after climbing into bed to see the clock tick 0430, woke at 0506 to hear some (drunk) guy from my building, outside my window yelling into his mobile, trying to explain to his girlfriend that the ATM ate his card, and the cabbie waiting out the front was going call the police because he couldn’t pay… that went on for about half an hour and i guess the taxi drove off and left him alone out of sheer boredom.
it wasn’t bad, afterwards i got a solid 3 hours sleep, showered, then watched go with kim and liam… it’s still pretty funny after all this time, i wanted to see it again, after seeing jumper in gold class the other night, apparently the same guy directed both… hmm, thinking about it, there isn’t really a comparison, “go” is far away a much better film.
ok ok, i have to wrap this up, sunday arv was poker at a mates place, and i finally won another game! it’s been SO long… so $80 richer… very happy with that.
in case you hadn’t noticed we’ve been up to brisbane for christmas; catching up on writing is always hard, i never know where to start, or what to catch you up on…
anyway, our families and friends are all well and it was great to catch up and celebrate christmas with them… the holidays in a nutshell; food, excellent and an over-abundance there-of… weather, strangely cool and wet most days…
interestingly, a couple of us went to a motorcycle museum out past ipswich on christmas eve, the owner had many interesting stories to tell and i was blown away to discover he had a 500v-due, sb8r, and mh900 to name just a few of the rarities sitting in a fairly nondescript shed in a fairly nondescript location…
finally, FYI, there are a bunch of photos from christmas here, and i have to say, it’s good to be back home in melbourne, and “writing” again… it sucks having things pop in and out of your head, and thinking; “i must remember to blog about that when i get back…”
