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!
ok so, after writing and re-reading the previous post, i thought; stuff it. i’m not gonna apologise for anything, i’m going to write in this blog, whatever i feel like, whenever i feel like it.
i made the mistake of quickly checking out problogger the other day… ugh. the title bar pretty much sums up why i hate that site so.
sell out, with me me oh yeah,
sell out with me tonight,
record company gonna give me lots of money,
and everythings gonna be alright. etc
ugh, “here’s my blog about helping you make money blogging, all the while, help me make money blogging and you don’t get anywhere”. the site itself is not only disorganised and really difficult to read but gives me the feeling of those real estate entrepreneurial seminar types.
and no, i’m going to link to his site, you’ll have to find it yourself.
back to the point, i tried re-writing the “about” page at the top in the hope it would focus this blog… but couldn’t, i had to write my own mid-year performance evaluation at work this week and that was bad enough.
in reality, i’m an extremely fortunate guy living in melbourne with an unbelievably great family, and truly excellent friends… i work in IT, i like tech, gadgets, music, movies, football, motorcycling, etc.
this is my blog about stuff, if you came here from google or facebook or twitter or tumblr or whatever, you’re going to have to deal with my content, because that’s the point…
there’s no money to be made, no pop-ups, no adwords, no click throughs…
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!
i was listening to BOL-816 the other day, it contains some interesting discussion about online profiles, facebook and i guess narcissism… i was reminded of the ever-so-snarky merlin mann’s twitter feed (when he was using it) and of this gem;
If you’re really worried about your “branding,” try to stop thinking about life as a press release and just focus on _making something_ (twitter)
…just last week i decided i was tired of the majority of people from the tech news industry that i follow, and for the most part, unfollowed them, and honestly, cannot understand why people would ever follow problogger let alone the all the other wannabes. i got to thinking, what value are they actually adding? twitter is for (officially) “what are you doing right now?”, and the last thing i want to hear or read about is barely famous people doing ad-hoc press releases for their barely famous acquaintances… for me to follow someone now, they almost have to live in melbourne, not annoy me, and limit the swearing…
“…researchers caution that those who are overly fond of themselves tend to cultivate a wide-but-shallow social network…”
so yeah, i think in the grand scheme of narcissism, i’m ok… i recently pared my facebook “friends” down to a reasonable number, revisited my “info” page and made sure there isn’t too much there… and i’m considering removing the “about” tab from the top of this site, hmm, would that make a difference?
so the melbourne zoo on sunday was amazing, around every corner were animals that left me dumb struck… i find it’s a place place of mixed emotions really, i ran out of superlatives for everything i saw, the gorillas, elephants, meer cats, mountain lions, bears… etc…
but i felt sad they were in cages, not out free… but then, if that type of animal is doing ok, not endangered, protected and the rest… having them in zoos as well is probably doing good, giving people and appreciation of their majesty and even some education about the impact people have on natural habitats…
or maybe that’s just me rationalising.
-anyway- liam was great, pointing is his new thing… he’s learning more and more every day… i feel like i should list the tricks he can do now, but there’s already too many! for one thing, he has definitely tried to say ‘elmo’ crazy huh…
what a week! our little boy is more than one year old now, and yeah, he is amazing…
the “butterflys and bumblebees” party kim and emma organised was excellent, too bad the weather was typically melbourne…
ah well, we’ve gotta show these queenslanders what the word cold actually means.
my work is still super crazy, i’ll be working most nights and weekends till mid-october it looks like, but hopefully some decent sized changes wil be coming by the end of this project… and i guess me not sleeping very well is related to that… apparently last night i leaned over kim trying to reach the floor and yelled “why did you pour the black sauce on his face?” …so yeah, sleeptalking much?
it’s not really new for me, apparently, i do crazy talk/walk stuff in my sleep all the time!
anyways, i’ve added a bunch of photos, talk to you later…
normally it’s kim and i that notice we’re wearing exactly the same colours as we’re leaving the house, today, it was me and liam… great huh… in fairness, kim was the one who put him in that jumper… ahh little peanuts… what a champ!
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.
