I don’t know if anyone saw Rove last night, but Michael, recent BB evictee, was on, and made the point that Gretel is a hack. Well, he did it a bit nicer than that, but not much.

I agree, frankly. Gretel, the mutton in lamb’s clothing, needs to either take a walk, or be given one.
Here’s a transcript of her disasterously unprofessional interview with Michael:
http://www.behindbigbrother.com/showarticle.php?articleID=849

and then, Big Brother altered the “kiss” footage on their website. The footage has been extended by a few seconds and an additional camera angle has been added. The footage shown at the end of the nominations show in an attempt to disprove Michael’s claims of editing was not the same footage initially released to the public.

I had to laugh, I can’t wait to see a transcript of the Rove interview. It went something like this:
Michael: What do you think of Gretel?
Rove: I think she’s fine.
Michael: I’m sure she’s lovely, but I think hosting the show could be done better by Mike Goldman or [unclear] …

Anyway, poker tonight at M&D’s, 7pm for 7:30pm. See you there.

It seems a shame to relegate Woo’s recent blog entry to second place, but I’ve got issues that need discussing here. Specifically, those issues are: 1. Poker; 2. Weekend just gone; and 3. Three Wishes.

So, number 1. Poker. Poker this week will be at my M&D’s place, and we’re going to try a “cash game” format, where players may leave at any time they feel like, and cash in their chips. Blinds don’t go up, which is also good. 7pm for 7:30 … At the moment, Berny, Steve and myself are in, and I imagine Blacky is also in. Unknowns are Glenn and Leyts. Brenden may also be coming. (That’s an incentive for Glenn to come …. :p)

The weekend just gone was pretty cool - and busy. Friday night was a chilling night, where I played some pretty good online poker. Saturday morning, hit the markets early with Rob and Nadia and crew, and bought some beautiful fish and sausages. Saturday afternoon, Blacky and I had a road trip down the coast, and then came back for dinner with Brek at Jaz, Toowong. Blacky went out clubbing down the coast after dinner, and I stayed home and got rest. Sunday I had a Perf bbq for lunch, which was ok, and then Glara came over for tea at M&D’s. Charlotte was cute as balls with the dogs, which was entertaining. James was quite well behaved, and slept for quite a bit of the time. Foo was delicious and cheap. Ahh, good times.

I’ve often thought about the best “3 wishes” scenario would be, in case I ever met a genie who offered me same. Now, I know everyone’s immediately going to say “I wish for more wishes” but I read somewhere that this makes you turn into the genie, and sets the genie free, so I’m ruling that out.

The first wish that I think I’d go with is “I wish I was the healthiest person of my age in the world”. This way, you’re not cursed with the whole living forever thing, but at the same time, you’re immune from broken bones and other inconveniences. You’d avoid colds, anything. That’s a good wish.

The second wish has to have something to do with money, I think. It’s an essential ingredient for the party-hard lifestyle I crave. You know those ads for the packet of Tim Tams that never run out? If you had that, you could start a chocolate biscuit factory *very* cheap by inverting the packet of tim tams so that a constant stream of them landed on the packing machine, but I’d be scared of losing the packet, or more likely, having it stolen. Same deal with a wallet that always had the correct amount of money in it … great, but what happens when you get mugged and lose your wallet? Suddenly you’re broke for ever.
No, I think it has to be something generic, that can’t be stolen. “I wish everytime I opened a cupboard, it had whatever I was looking for.” This could include the cash purchase price of a new Porsche, a cup of tea that was already made and hot … and it would transfer with you, so if you bought a new house, or were visiting at someone else’s house, you would still have the benifits of your wish close to hand.

The third wish is tricky. It should be something benevolent. I’ve also read that setting the genie free makes you the genie, so I’m ruling that out. World peace or something like that would be cool, but the well-documented-in-movies downside is what happens when aliens attack, and we’re all too peaceful to fight back and defend earth? It would need some kind of arbitration as to which battles were over and which were not. Would I want that responsibility? No, but I also don’t think I could trust anyone else with it. I obviously wouldn’t want to arbitrate on every little mugging/gang ritual kiilling, so I’d set some limits on it too.
“I wish for the ability to change the minds of people as I see fit.”

How would other people use their wishes? Has anyone thought about this as much as I have?

Well, what can be said about origin? The first half was pretty craptacular, and the second half, Queensland played better, but like idiots, kicked on the 3rd tackle in the last minutes of the game, and there goes the win of the last game right there. I can imagine that there’s been significant ball-skills drills in the interim of these games too.

I’ve had an interesting weekend. I’ve been keeping myself occupied the last week, going to people’s houses and stuff. Monday was Candice’s birthday, and she’d been having celebratory activities throughout the week. Friday night was bowling at Strike in town, followed by karaoke. I was trying to perfect my spin-bowling, and consequently got a lot of gutterballs. And by that stage I was falling behind so I started doing dumb stuff to entertain myself and others.

Then Saturday night was further celebrations in the city, this time a club-crawl. We started at the casino and went around a fair bit. The Embassy, Union Jacks, The Port Office, The Vic, The Exchange and we went back to a few places a couple of times. I haven’t been out that late in a while, and I spent a lot of it making sure drunk girls weren’t being abducted by the random fellas they’d hooked up with. Good times. The guy Candice hooked up with was scared of me though, and I didn’t even do anything :teehee: He wouldn’t kiss her in front of me, lols.

We crashed at Candice’s place that night and I got a lift to Dean’s place Sunday morning. Deano dropped me home so I could have a nap and make sure the house was tidy for a visit from Glara. Charlotte enjoyed meeting and playing with the dogs after only ever seeing pictures. Both her and the dogs were very cute.

I’ve been thinking about my phone a bit lately, and about changing to a capped plan. I dunno if it’d be cost effective though - with my pre-paid plan I don’t have an accurate track of how much money I’m spending on it.

Dean and I have been invited to Berny and Karen’s tonight for dinner. They’ve had pretty massive earthworks done so it should be interesting to see the progress.

Oh and today I bought some new thongs - double pluggers no less.

Hey everyone. Ross Noble on Monday night was good … sorry that some missed it. Leyts, Blacky, Brett and I had a good night.

Origin tonight is at my place … I tried to get the projector, but couldn’t. I’ve got chips, chicken wings and a cake, so if anyone requires more nutritious food than that, BYO. And byo drinks too, thanks.

Here’s a picture of James, for those who’ve yet to visit Glara. Glara are also now on broadband, so if you want their MSN, email me.

Ok, tonight Blacky, Brett, Leyts and I are off to Ross Noble at QPAC. 8pm tonight, ladies.

It was a pretty sweet weekend, Danielle and her flatmate Ange, Blacky and I met up for drinks with some of Danielle’s Canberra friends at the Brekky Creek Hotel. Was a good afternoon, I had to go to M&Ds afterwards to wish them a bon voyage.

Well well well, where has the time gone? Since my last update a fair bit’s happened. I started prac as planned on the 8th of May at my placement and enjoyed my first day. Things took a bit of a turn for the worse though as I started feeling miserable on Wednesday. I took Thursday off feeling unwell, and went and saw the doc.

On the weekend I picked up my mate Sam and we went and collected my awesome gorgeous new desk. It was at Absoe at West End, and is a bit second hand, but you really can’t tell when it’s in my room. We spent a fair bit of the day setting things up before I dropped Sam in town for soccer in the botanical gardens.

Sunday was of course Mother’s Day, which was a lovely day. Deano came around with maccas breakfast as is the tradition so nobody has to clean or prepare stuff, and then Mum opened pressies. We were joined shortly after by Berny and Karen and the kids for a nice day all round.

Monday it was back to the hard slog of school and more misery. I drove on as best I could though and attempted to make the best of it. Saw the doc again on Tuesday briefly with Dad before returning to school, and on Wednesday with more misery, that night I made the decision not to finish the prac and withdraw from the unit on medical grounds, especially with M&D (my main support folk) going away. I finished on Thursday with the school cross country and a water activity using boats they made out of paper. Dad had warned me about water activities and he couldn’t have been more right. It’s no wonder the teacher delegated that part of the activity to me. So that was the end of prac for this semester.

Thursday night we had a Cebs dinner at Gino’s Italian Restaurant at Hamilton. I picked up Daniel and we had a bit of an adventure getting there :p Was a good night though, with the whole meal being paid for by Cebs, which made it all worthwhile.

Friday morning Dad and I went and saw the uni counsellors to have a chat and add some weight to the withdrawal process - if you use all of the avenues provided by the uni etc and still withdraw, it adds credibility. I can’t speak highly enough of their counselling, but the service itself is not terribly easy to get into. Dad and I had a rather uncomfortable meeting with the field placement staff which was through their own stupid fault. These particular women were rude from the word go. Dad and I walked in and Dad went to say something and he was cut off when she said, “we have to speak to the student”. So that set a bad tone from the start, but that’s uni.

That night was the Cebs Games Night with a Bush Rally theme. We had 20 or so kids from North Pine and another 5 or 6 from Toowoomba, so it was a helluva night with really fun activities. We had 4 rotational activities followed by two direct competition events. My favourite rotation game was “The Gimmick”, in which billies were tied to a rope that went through a garden area. A water carrier had to fill the first billy which would move along the rope to the next person and they would swap water and fill a vessel at the end of the course. The team with the most water at the end won. So after all that, we went on to “Burn the String” in which the teams had to set a fire underneath a wet string, and funnily enough, they had to burn through it, and then a stretcher race around the grounds. It was a really fun night and I think everyone enjoyed themselves immensely.

And so that bring us to today with lunch with the whole gang at Berny and Karen’s which was really nice, and M&D frantically packing before they depart early tomorrow morning. Bon Voyage for the next 40 days! I’m sure they’ll have a great time. Lucky sods :p

Don’t want to steal Glenn’s thunder, but what has he done for me lately? :p Got this SMS yesterday:
“James Anthony Miller arrived at 1:15 this afternoon weighing 6lb 11- just over 3kg - he and Lara are both doing well.”

What a week it’s been - I’ve been inundated with late night phone calls from the US, which is good and bad … good in the sense that I’ll be making money soon, bad in the sense that I got practically no sleep all week. I had a lot of difficulty on these occassions getting back to sleep, so that explains my rampant tiredness. But the weekend is soon upon us.

Monday night is what I’m thinking of for Ross Noble, yeah? That suit the people who are likely to be going?

Tickets for Speldour in the Grass are “apparently” on sale today … http://splendour.oztix.com.au/
22-23 July … who’s coming?
$168 for event tickets.

Their site is being hammered though, Blacky and I have been trying to book tickets all morning.

Poker tonight … might as well be at my place again, 7pm for 7:30pm. The more the merrier.

Hey guys, and thanks to Brett for pointing out to me that my comments were broken. They’re now fixed. Brett also said that he was in for Ross Noble. That makes him and me so far. :p Surely, Leyton and Blacky are in at a minimum?

I’m off to Nancy Cartwright tonight. Hopefully it’ll be awesome.

Had a Perf meeting this morning, which was as bland as ever, and hopefully John L is coming over for lunch today. It’ll be good to catch up with the J man and see what’s up with him.

I have a Dr’s appointment tomorrow, he’s checking out my wound, and Brenden is also here tomorrow. I’m going to cut him a key, so that I can not be here and he can still fix our books.

So, yeah. Comment away now that it’s fixed. And let me know if you’re interested in a Ross Noble outing.