I was at the airport yesterday and had reason to visit the ablution facilities.

While I was there doing my thing, I happened to look down (as ya do) & noticed the brand name on the porcelain - American Standard. Now this in itself wasn't particularly significant until I remembered my time working in Russia, where one of the more prominent brands of vodka was...............yep, you guessed it - Russian Standard.

What does it all mean?


Yeah, OK, I was bored.

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I tried a few different camera settings during a lovely sunset last night at Barry Beach, Victoria, Oz

Woke up this morning to find an unusual visitor on the back deck


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Apparently we have his seal of approval

NICKNAMES:
• If Laura, Kate & Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate & Sarah.
• If Mike, Dave & John go out for lunch, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Dickhead and Shit for Brains.
EATING OUT
• When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave & John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
• When the girls get the bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY
• A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs
• A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need because it’s on sale.
BATHROOMS
• A man has 6 items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap and a towel.
• The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
• A woman has the last word in any argument.
• Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
FUTURE
• A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
• A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
SUCCESS
• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
• A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
MARRIAGE
• A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.
• A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
• A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book and get the mail.
• A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
• Men wake up as good looking as when they went to bed.
• Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
• Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
• A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget all his faults, mistakes and other shortcomings. There is no point in two people remembering the same thing.

Sunset & Storm Clouds in Bass Strait.

Just another balmy day at West Tuna platform in Bass Strait, Oz





Only another week or so to go and I'll be back home.

"Dragged" is the past tense of the verb to drag.

"Drug" is, broadly speaking, any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function.

The two words are NOT interchangeable.


This has been a Community Service Announcement

Bugger!!

The 2nd Mate on here has just been diagnosed with Glandular Fever.

Now I've gotta find a chopper to get him off the boat and into a hospital first thing tomorrow!!

...so I thought I'd post a few updated pics of my front garden











Happy Holidays and a VERY prosperous 2011 to everybody!