So. My girlfriend told me tonight that because I have so far refused to marry her (it's been nearly 5 years) she reckons I should have an affair so I can work out if I actually love her or not. And she seems to be serious - not in a malicious kind of way, more in a 'logical' kind of way. Interesting.


Edit (5 Jan):
She realised this morning that perhaps me having an affair probably wouldn't, in fact, be the best thing for our relationship. Gee ya think?

However I do now have a new motive: she has found my weakness and promised me a threesome if I marry her before the end of this year. Also very very interesting.

Apparently everyone I know has been watching the show on ABC the last few weeks called "My Favourite Album". Seems like they've been showcasing the top 100 albums as voted by, erm, some kind of ABC audience. No idea where it was advertised, although JJJ would have to be a given. Did they advertise on all the talkback radio stations and ABC Classic as well? And what about the ABC Kids TV station?

Anyway I think they show 10 albums each week and this week they showed 10-1. I saw 5-1. As soon as I worked out what the show was about I started screaming for Pink Floyd. Floyd came in at NUMBER ONE. Damn they're good.

Although Jeff Buckley came in at number two. Which about sums up how I feel about him. Mates at school always used to boast about how awesome he was and misunderstood, and when he croaked they cried about how the world never treated him right. But I could never get into that. I thought he was a wanker. I hated the pretentious voice (forget this "angelic" falsetto shit, it just sounded annoying) and the piss weak music.

Radiohead came in at number 3 or 4, and although I never quite got into them I always kinda wished I did, and respected what I heard of theirs.

Then I checked out the full list on the net at work yesterday (see http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritealbum/top100.htm if you're interested), and saw Anthony Callea at number 36 or so. ANTHONY FUCKING CALLEA. For those of you who don't know who he is, I pine for your blissful ignorance. He is one of our most pathetic 'musical' exports; even Kylie's version of The Locomotion blows anything he sang out of the water. Actually I don't want to rant about him or the Popstars crap, so I might just go listen to Smoke on the Water instead.

Yay. I got the bandaging and stitches removed from my leg today, so I got to see the first glimpse of the results of the knee reconstruction (11 days ago).



Not nearly as bad as I thought it would look. Almost disappointing, really. The band aid is right at the bottom of the knee cap, so you can see that the knee itself is still quite swollen.

I have a couple of interesting bruise lines below my ankle, too, and my foot is half green/yellow on top. I guess that's from the swelling as well, which, until maybe yesterday, has been persistent over my entire lower leg and foot.





At least I've been able to walk without crutches for about a week, but it gets more comfortable every day. Just can't bend my leg much (I'd guess about 60 degrees), which makes sleeping in particular really difficult. I think I keep trying to bend my legs in my sleep and each time I do I wake up cos it's pretty uncomfortable. Which means I've been waking up every 10-20 mins or so for the first few hours then by about 3am I'm getting really tired so I'm able to stay asleep until about 5 or 6am, and then i can doze again for another hour or two after that.

Physio starts tomorrow morning so hopefully I can get the swelling right down and get some motion back in my knee. Ahh, wouldn't it be lo-ver-ly.

Tune in next time, same channel, for more Mundane Medical Stories!

Had my first flying lesson yesterday, in a Cessna 152. It was windy and there was a bit of rain as we headed towards the city but that just made it all the more interesting. I think that's secured in my mind my desire to get a pilot's licence. Now just gotta wait til I recover from knee surgery (happens in just under two weeks), and get together that all important aspect of flight training - money. Might have to cut down on the beer to save some.








Pfft yeah ok, like that's ever gonna happen

Enough about mp3 recording scheduling programs. My latest obsession is with Ross Noble. It's only come about in the last day or two, but for some reason I've just recalled seeing him live earlier this year (which in itself compounded my love for him with regards to tv and radio - especially guest hosting the afternoon shift on triple j while i was on holiday), and suddenly looked him up on myspace and youtube. I've spent a good number of minutes watching videos now on youtube and I firmly believe someone's going to have to get a thread and needle out very soon to mend my sides.

Does anyone know a good program that can record direct from the line-in on your computer to mp3, with multiple scheduling capabilities?

TripleJ have a heap of live gigs playing all weekend this weekend (all hours of the day and night) and I want to schedule a heap of them in for recording and not have to be there the whole time to press start and stop. I've found a few programs so far but they can only schedule one session at a time, or at best a certain timeslot each day, week or month. I want to be able to schedule, for example, 2-3pm saturday, then 5-7pm saturday, 3-4am sunday, and so on.

Don't you love it when you have too much to drink and get the shits with pretty much every aspect of your life?

Significant Other decided I'd spent too long putting various things off so she spent a good portion of today (gotta be at least 10 minutes!) organising some shit for me. Nothing serious, just some stuff I hadn't gotten around to yet.

Booked in flight lesson (gift from her last year) - due to expire in November.

Booked in hot air balloon ride for us both in Canberra (gift from me to her this year) - due to expire in about November as well.

Booked in appointment for me with knee specialist... found out October last year I've needed a knee reconstruction since I fucked it up in 1997 (and the physio then kept trying to tell me it was just a muscular injury).

How long do doctor referrals to these specialists last anyway? 6 months? A year? Forever?

Saw Clerks 2 tonight.

Bill's quick capsule review: Piece Of Shit.

I mean I knew it was supposed to be sub-par, but this was just awful. At least we were warned to stay away from Jersey Girl (putting J Lo in it was warning enough), but when the "Clerks" name was put on this one I certainly didn't expect a love story. Much less multiple love stories, including the touching story of how two friends go on a journey of feelings and come to realise just how much they mean to each other.

Two things were missing from this movie: Hugh Grant and Meg Ryan. And maybe Tom Hanks. Any or all of the above would have finished it off perfectly.

I guess he wanted to make Disney happy this time and make up for his 'blasphemous' Dogma.

I'll admit, the dialogue and humour were still very good, and very faithful to the style of the original. But the love story aspects of it were far too central, too frequent and, frankly, too 'love story-ish' for my liking.

Well, I cut my hair and ditched the beard. Feels a bit odd at times, like I don't know who I am. But overall I think change is a good thing sometimes, and I needed a change.

Erm... when I say I cut my hair, I mean after growing it for 5 years. Not like I just did the monthly haircut thing.