1. What was the last song you heard?
Don't remember, it would have been on the radio on the way home. But for some reason I have "Heaven help my heart" going around in my head. Which is strange because I'm sure I haven't heard it recently

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns. The first one especially has the most glorious cinematography. Got em cheap at kmart the other day.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
The groceries, some meat, and probably those dvds, along with some coat hangers.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Four? You expect me to limit my todo list to four ???

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
If you count email and icq as talking.. Striker, James, me little brother, the manager at the local franklins, the checkout chicks at the local franklins

Above is a macro photo taken on a Sony F828. Took a bunch of pics at a couple of camera stores in town to test the quality/features of the camera.

A link that was on JC's site to lots of crappy old games..

Angels laid another bunch of eggs.

I bought a pair of hiking boots.

Any further elaboration before I've eaten dinner would take entirely too much effort.

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appended post before I put up my Theme Thursday entry .. just saw this week's ER.. it's certainly turned very political this season. Tonight's stories included the ridiculous cost of health care, and Kovac trying to get the other doctors to just practice medicine rather than ordering tests to cover their asses. That, and a whole spiel on organ donation and its benefits for other people. Two weeks to go before they write out Romano :(:(:(

Last night, around 4am, I was rudely awaken from a dream (about lego funnily enough) by a rather intense pain in my calf muscle. Haven been awoken from a dream I was in a rather altered mental state and couldn't quite comprehend what was going on. It was really only after I woke up properly later on, and my leg was still sore, that I realised what had happened. I'd had an involuntory cramp. I did a quick search on this and found they're more common in middle aged people. So there you are. I'm getting old. Quite a depressing thought really.

Watched The Good, The Bad and the Ugly tonight. It was all right, but I don't think deserving of the #22 in IMDB's top 250 movies of all time. Then 24. Definitely the best of the three seasons so far.

For quite a while I was number one in google for "kambrook timer". At the moment I'm number three. This should push up to number one again. I have three automatic timers for my fish tanks. Two of them are kambrook timers. The third is a dodgy-brothers noname version from Go Lo. Funnily enough it's the go lo one that works properly. One of my kambrook timers simply won't turn on for a morning session. The other has been losing time and is now an hour behind.

Silly really.

UPDATE: I've just deleted 27 comments saying "please send me the manual" - as there are now links to various manuals. This page has been indexed as a place to come for people looking for manuals, mostly for KET99, KD86, KD36 timers. Please read the links below before asking for a manual to be sent to you. This is a personal blog, I have no interest in Kambrook (as in my experience their products tend to be inferior to cheaper brands).

UPDATE 12.12.20: Some kind soul has emailed me the manual for the KD86 - kd86Book.pdf.

..for this weekend is to tidy this place up once and for all. The situation is getting desperate. Maybe I should have just taken a photo of the place for yesterday's theme thursday..

Friday Five time (yay it's back this week!)

What was...

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?
Well "first grade" was Miss Rees. Kindergarton was Mrs O'Hare. I think. I could be wrong. It's been 25 years.

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?
I always loved the Bugs Bunny cartoons

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?
Donna Bonnefin.
hrm.
Dave was just commenting on people's presence (or lack thereof) on the internet. I just did a Google search on Donna Bonnefin and the second entry was a previous entry in my blog.
/me stares in blank amazement at the screen.

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?
Was or is? I used to only have corn flakes and rice bubbles, but since I've been able to buy my own cereal I buy something with more substance that I won't be hungry again after an hour.

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?
I honestly have no idea how I existed before I got a computer. I didn't spend much time with friends. I think I watched a reasonable amount of tv, but not ridiculous amounts. I think I mostly just wasted time.

Last night was Chris' birthday party at @Newtown. Had a thoroughly fantastic night. There was a great turnout of people, and I even knew a few of them :) Actually I even managed to drag along a few people that barely even know Chris. :)

He was utterly blown away by the present a bunch of us got him. His first reaction was "I can't accept this - I know how much it's worth". He couldn't quite grasp that so many people care so much for him. I didn't know how to say that, so all I said was "we all love you chris", which I probably wouldn't have even said if I'd thought about it.. it kind of just popped out :)

Had to crash out on the couch for a couple of hours before coming home. I only have five drinks the whole night, but you don't want to risk these things when driving.

So another weekend gone, with absolutely nothing achieved. Oh well :)

This is my Saturday Five, taken from blogideas.com

An ode to your couch
Oh little couch. Small but comfortable. You fold out into a comfortable bed. It's a pity that you tend to fold out when just sitting on you.

If you could.. Who would you kill?
Stupid people

What should we do with stupid people?
Kill them :)

Who do you blame for your mood today?
Most probably Jim. Was mostly his fault I left work completely grumpy yesterday.

What is something scientists need to invent?
Teleporters

I have no other inspiration for this entry, I was counting on the Friday Five for something to post. damned flipping. The only alternative is to whinge about crap like people pissing me off and being home alone on a Friday night. sigh.

Just finished watching Good Will Hunting. ok movie. Switched over to Armageddon. Utterly ridiculous movie. Yet somehow I find myself watching it every time it's on. hrm. And two Ben Affleck movies in a row.

Was quite amazed at the response to my first Theme Thursday entry.. I haven't had that many unique posts in ages.. if ever! Thanks everyone.

While I'm on it.. check out the Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics page for Armageddon. Very cool site.

ok, so maybe not quite that intense, but certainly the same feeling of loss like you'll never be with that person again. I so wish I'd discovered Bowie by 1987 so I could have gone and seen the Glass Spider concert. He was certainly at the peak of his good looks in the mid-eighties (see my drawings of his beautiful face on another post), and the show was nothing short of spectacular. My video is still holding up ok, but if they ever release a PAL DVD version I'll buy it.

I found this on davidbowie.com regarding his concert on Friday:

David Bowie has just come off stage after the first of two shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in NSW. He played a similar set to the Brisbane show, except that he dropped Be My Wife and Always Crashing In The Same Car in favour of the very welcome return of 5:15 The Angels Have Gone, Fantastic Voyage and I've Been Waiting For You.

Our BowieNetter reporter in Oz, the very professional Charly, tells me that DB was again "very chatty", and she's currently on her way to an internet cafe to get her account of the evening down for your reading pleasure. Pop back a little later on to see what she has to say.

Meanwhile, here follows that 26-song set list courtesy of Charly:

Sydney February 20th 2004

01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Reality
04 Fame
05 Cactus
06 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
07 All The Young Dudes
08 China Girl
09 A New Career In A New Town
10 The Loneliest Guy
11 The Man Who Sold The World
12 Hallo Spaceboy
13 Sunday
14 Under Pressure
15 Life On Mars?
16 Looking For Water
17 Fantastic Voyage
18 Days
19 White Light, White Heat
20 Ashes To Ashes
21 I'm Afraid Of Americans
22 "Heroes"

(Encore)
23 I've Been Waiting For You
24 Five Years
25 Suffragette City
26 Ziggy Stardust

UPDATE: Here's more from Charly via the magic of electronic mail...

Crutches and Hairdryers. By Charly.

So, it was cool being at Sydney Entertainment Centre to start with. Just one of those places I'd always wanted to be. David started again tonight with Rebel Rebel and New Killer Star as is fairly normal these days. A fairly enthusiastic response was echoed around Sydney Entertainment Centre. I was quite over-awed by it all, seeing Bowie live in Sydney - WOW! It's an amazing city. After he'd finished with Reality, Fame and Cactus he brought in 5.15 The Angels Have Gone which was a welcome return to the set. Been a while since I'd heard that one live.

He then did All The Young Dudes which concluded with many arms waving in the air. David started talking about sticks, saying "let's see the stick". A little way behind me, someone was waving a crutch in the air and Bowie thought this was amusing enough to banter a little - "It's a wonderful summer's evening and the crutches are waving in the air. What an extraordinary country. I've got a bunch of crutches outside my window, and they're all brown." Nutter.

China Girl followed with rapturous applause echoing around the room. Bowie sang "Oh baby, just you shut your mouth - she says just shut the fuck up" Then, after the song he said, "it's that time of the evening you've all been waiting for - yes, it's the instrumental. This lead into my favourite track from Low, A New Career In A New Town.

He followed this by suggesting that "it was always a good idea to follow an instrumental with a song so slow you forget to breathe" - The Loneliest Guy! Afterwards the crowd cheered loudly and he said "go and get a copy, it's really good. If you can't get a copy I'll come round your house and sing it again!" Hmmm...... like that's gonna happen!

MWSTW, Hallo Spaceboy and Sunday brought the show on a little further where David decided to introduce the band by saying "People ask, you know, who are these guys that work with you on stage, and I say, you know why don't you mind your own business." Ha ha. The band intro ensued with David telling us all the different things Kat played, including the 'hairdryer'!!!!

Under Pressure and Life On Mars caused great pleasure amongst the throng and Looking For Water was great to hear again, as was Fantastic Voyage. I love that one live. Excellent. He continued with Days and White Light White Heat, saying "I had to get that off my chest" after the latter. Ashes through to Heroes ended the show on a great high. So far so good....

The first encore was Waiting For You, not heard that one in a while. The final three songs were the usual show enders, but I still never tire of any of them. All Ziggy material and all bloody excellent. Bring it on for tomorrow.

Aside from my cousin's wedding (actually their second wedding, this time in a Greek Orthodox church as opposed to a celebrant wedding) and a games night at James and George's which was a lot of fun, all I've done this weekend is read other peoples' blogs (eg Rick Macherat and Dave) and links off them (eg Despair). Although I did pull apart most of my Harry Potter lego.. I don't want it getting sun-damaged. I'll put it all together again when (if) I get the remaining sets I'm missing. I left out the Hogwarts Castle, Dumbledore's Office and the Hogwarts Express, as these are the best sets in the series.

I'm feeling incredibly unmotivated at the moment. Possibly because it's taken so long to tidy up the study that I'm getting demoralised with it. Possibly because of the heat, although today has been somewhat more comfortable that previous weeks.

I really should go shopping. I've run out of toilet paper and have been using tissues. It's just such a pain to have to go out.. would much rather leave it til I'm out anyway, like on the way home from work. Maybe I can borrow a roll from the neighbours. Or just keep using tissues. hrmm