Late Shift

Hi all - late shift at work today, 11 ayem until 7 pm, so a bit of time to be home earlier in the day rather than later - won't get home until about quarter past eight, eek, so wolf down tea (microwaved up LOL) and see who got kicked out of Australian Idol (it better freaking be Casey), and then watch The 4400 - mini series about missing people returning home - American, so it's been on the airwaves over there a while ago I guess. Wasn't going to watch it, but had it on mute while I was talking to V and gradually got more and more distracted :)



Greg Murphy and Ric Kelly won Bathurst yesterday, some real good thrills and spills - one car launched over the back of another, one car hitting a KANGAROO (yes it does happen) and wrecking half the engine - poor old kanga though, and hmm there seems to have been a reluctance to show the roo flying off the bonnet, as if to say that animals don't get hit by cars blah blah, or that the war in Iraq is fair game for TV coverage (not thinking battle scenes so much, but those shots of Abu Gharib) but the poor little animals LOL, can't show damage to them.



And another very Australian moment, as well as the kangaroo and Bathurst and all, there is Lindy Chamberlain on the morning TV show, she apparently has a website (I wasn't going to put links in today, in a hurry, but a Lindy Chamberlain website is just too surreal LOL), and if you don't know who Lindy is, you are either a young un or have NO idea of Australia at all - although sometimes I wonder if I do, what with Howard getting a fourth term LOL.



Michael Schuhmacher won his thirteenth race of the season in Japan, and Wellington are top of the table in the NPC back home (yay us). Haven't checked the Arsenal score thus far this weekend, but no doubt they won lol - oh, of course, Premiership was on hold, what with the internationals at the moment - England 2 nil over Wales. Yanks up over the Twins, and will play the Red Sox in the AL finals... OMG, Portugal drew 2 ALL with Liechenstein!!!! That's like umm the Faroe Islands (get your atlases out) coming within three points of the US basketball team, yes you/they had a bad Olympics but OMG surely you can still imagine? After the atlas visit of course LOL.



Hmm, sometimes I wonder about my faltering readership LOL - especially when I see some of the popular blogs, maybe I should use the words sex blog more often (although I should be more crude if I REALLY wanna see a spike LOL). Food for thought for later methinks...



More bombs in Iraq, surprise surprise - Australia is SO lucky not to have lost any lives over there thus far. US election and Bush not admitting ANY mistakes bleah. And almost off the front pages of the international papers already is the Sinai bombings, so sad that there is enough terrorism and arguing about terrorism (US and UK politics I'm thinking of here) that there is such a quick turnaround of each tragedy.



Off to work, longgggggggg day ahead, and oh yay, the wonder of the upgrade to look forward to :)

Pauly