the.dude's blog post - the weeks that weren't

hi everybody

so much nothing to report this time. life's been quiet. i've been a bit down the last week but nothing too bad. i've really done little that's memorable but go to work.

last saturday i caught up with the old housemate from perth and his daughter and her girlfriend. when i last saw her she was maybe 7? (i lived with the family when she was 5/6?) and she's now 25 and a punk-rock princess?. turns out she modeled at some point. she has both her parents height, and her mums skinniness, and her dad's sense of humour and tattoos. it was a bit of a reminder i'm a lot older now. her and her gf were sickeningly cute. they cop a lot of flak on fb because of their cuteness. they're still in the "honeymoon" stage one of them called it when i commented on it. they both seem pretty happy which is good. i think i commented previously that the gf of the daughter had been bashed randomly in brunswick because she was a lesbian and not interested in the loud group of guys from a society that often seems to think women are there for male pleasures. my friend described her at one stage during breakfast as looking like a scared little possum and it was quite apt. she's all eyes and small faced and really looks harmless. it's a pity there's still idiots out there in male land.

we all had breakfast on smith street (eggs benedict and eggs florentine from memory) and then wanted down smith st while my friend tried to convince us all that his ecofriendly peoplefriendly freetrade friendly sustainable environmentally $2 tshirts with rats on them were the exact same quality and standard as the stores that we (the daughter+gf and myself) wanted to go to. we agreed to disagree and i found some cheap j2011s on the back wall at the nike warehouse and the girls found tshirts at street machine. from there we went to some store that sold shirts with collars and trousers and the only good thing i found for me was a $5 scarf that is bright yellow and says "crime scene do not cross" which i thought was entirely apt and appropriate for me. i'll probably still wear my black scarf once it gets cold though. yellow's still a bit bright. i've branched out into wearing red and blue which are my first attempts at wearing 'colour that isn't black or related to black' in a long time. i'm sure i've mentioned that already. well yellow isn't quite either of those colours so it'll probably hang on the hook for a while yet.

after there we all split up and i came home and had a quiet night pottering around the house and tried to get some sleep. oh i installed windows 8 onto one hard drive and it seems ok so far. some little bits to work out and i'll probably swap over completely because i'm stupid like that - what could possibly go wrong with running a prebeta software as my main operating system right?

sunday was more quietness, followed by some mojitos and pizza at my lawyer friends house before home again at a reasonable hour for more sleep.

monday was quiet again. sleep. pottering around the house. an early night to try and feel better at work the next day because i'd started to feel ordinary.

tuesday was work and an early night because i was still feeling ordinary.

wednesday was different actually. i woke feeling ordinary, but i had scored a free pass to an ultra violent movie called "the raid". it's about a police assault on a gangsters high rise tower in jakarta and of course things go wrong and its all kungfu and other various martial arts and weapons and violence to the rescue. they certainly chose the right target market because there was much clapping and laughing and enjoyment from the cinema crowd. it's basically a martial arts showcase but boy i hope the stuntmen weren't doing the jackie chan style of ‘just getting hurt when doing stunts' because if so there's some guys walking around jakarta with some very hurt backs.

thursday and friday i spent in bed waiting for the cold to get better or worse or something because i was sick of feeling half unwell. i don't think it worked exactly because my nose is still blocked and i still don't feel awesome. thursday i saw the ex, and her dad is dying rapidly. i had to lend her some money which i think is kinda odd, but its because she's too proud to ask her dad for it (despite her not working because she's looking after him) and with the current bf they're not getting along too well and she said it was easier to ask me because i wont give her the third degree i'll just lend it to her. its kinda enforced savings for me anyway - i get paid monthly so at least this means i'll have some money i cant have spent already when she pays me back in a week.

today i went to a raffle early this morning for the chance to buy some overhyped sneakers cheaply but my name wasn't drawn so i hung out with some friends for a while, then picked up another pair of j14s before heading home. once home i sorted out some photos and move files around and did some washing and bought in the washing and played with notzoro for a while and went to safeway and got dinner and wrote all this which somehow has turned into two pages despite doing nothing for two weeks.

sunday I'm planning to take easy and do little.


have a good week everybody.