Hey all - sorry for the delay in posting, but you know how it is when you are first busy and then tired for a few days - well, everybody is busy and then tired at some stage or another I am guessing - if you don't know what it feels like, all I can say is that you are damned lucky LOL. Oh, and also most of my computer time the last few days has been playing computer games rather than online.
For the first time in MONTHS I am not going to the movies on Sunday. Thought I would break up my routine/rut, and on the spur of the moment went and saw War of the Worlds after work on Thursday. Good disaster movie, wasn't as scary or as mind blowing as I hoped - and yet another disaster movie that is so Amero-centric grrr. At least Independence Day had some British and Israeli fighter pilots looking over American plans LOL. Though I did like it heaps, and to hear American troops say we have to keep fighting to give the refugees a chance, hmm, that was one of the best lines of the movie, when it all looked hopeless - the plot stuck pretty close to the book from memory, substituting Bush America for Victorian England of course. My fave alien invasion movie though is still Mars Attacks :)
Work this last week gone has been OK - very busy but. LDU is almost two weeks given up smoking, and is to the stage where she is mentioning it only three times a day rather than once every twenty minutes LOL. SGR is still as pretty as ever, but familiarity breeds, well not contempt, but am more interested in just talking to her for the time being - wow, a boy interested in talking lol, what other deviant non standard stuff can we dig up here - but to clarify, if I were actually looking for a girlfriend, if she wasn't a workmate, and single, I would have a go LOL - just to clarify.
Now to burnish my typical guy credentials, let's talk sport for a couple of paragraphs LOL. Went down to the pub at Chermside, Gilhooleys I think it is called, to watch the rugby last night - just to compare the inner city versus suburb atmosphere. Also helped last night that there was a test match in Brisbane itself, Australia v the French. Whereas the pub I found myself in last week was like a tomb all the rugby excitement it generated, actually being around a lot of people who knew the game (the Aussies catching the first half before heading off to Suncorp Stadium) was great. And a huge flatscreen TV :) Bliss, as I start thinking of that song LOL - twinge of homesickness there...
Bliss, by Th' Dudes first line is - 'drink yourself more bliss, forget about the last one get yourself another' - google that line and I am sure you will find the whole lyrics, or even maybe the song if you are so interested - classic NZ tune, good drinking song, from the 70s I think...
Now last week the Lions seemed to play up to All Black standard for ten minutes of the game, this week they played well enough to beat us for about fifty minutes - now it was the other half hour where they leaked thirty points LOL. It was good to actually see a contest for the first half, and bits of the second - we were only up 21 to 13 at half time, after conceding the first try in about three minutes. We monstered the second half though, and ran out 48-18 winners - again, for about the final twenty minutes I was willing the Lions to make more of a contest of it - is that unpatriotic of me? The most important endeavour New Zealand does on an annual basis, rugby, and I want it to be closer hmm.
But at least that is one down on the three goal checklist I am sure most Kiwi rugby supporters have this year - Lions tour, check, Tri Nations and Grand Slam to go. Came home, after having a quick bite to eat - the food court at Chermside was still open, so had KFC (like you really needed to know that) - and watched the Aussie France match. Kept my attention a helluva lot more than any State of Origin match, yeah, I have returned to the rugby fold LOL. Well, kept my attention as long as it was close - the Wallabies ran away with it a bit and I switched to the tennis and/or the Tour de France and/or the AFL game (even though I'm not really a fan, was good to see Brisbane win so convincingly again), but the French closed it up quite well at the end, Aussie only won 37 to 31.
And then after the rugby, Channel 7 flicked over to the cricket from Lords. Aussie was all out for 196, and by the time I admitted defeat and headed to bed, England were 33 for 5 - and then I hear this morning that the match was a tie, OMG go the English :) And with Bangladesh being 75 for 5 and then getting 250 the other night, it seems other nations are FINALLY starting to get the Aussie idea of after a collapse being able to put together a credible partnership further down the line - for the last ten years Australia have been in all sorts of bother with early wickets lost and then a sixth or seventh wicket partnership has always put them right it seems.
Now if only New Zealand could learn that lol - our latest cricket travails are whether or not to go to Zimbabwe - don't we have this question every time we go touring there? Zimbabwe are supposed to be doing a return tour over the summer, and the politicians back home are saying don't be too sure you will get visas for NZ. Hmmph. Politics and sport, thinking New Zealand wise of the Springbok tours in 1976 and 1981, on a more wider scale, the Olympic boycotts of the eighties, the Munich Olympics, the black US competitors in Mexico, and the Berlin Olympics of 36. I am sure there was politics in sport before Hitler, but can't think of a specific example off the top of my head.
In the North American market hmm, is the NHL ever going to be defrosted? Ah well, another couple of months before they have to start thinking of cancelling next season. The problem is, as was stated earlier in the dispute, it is millionaire players versus billionaire owners, it will be a while before they start running out of the money - hmm, what is it that is Paris 2012's Olympic motto - amor de jeux or something? For the love of the game? We need a bit of that in pro hockey at the moment...
In baseball, the Mets are having as frustrating a season as ever - we are hanging around the 0.500 mark, but the National League is that weak at the moment that there are only seven teams above 0.500 at the moment, so by having a mediocre year we could get into the playoffs. We don't seem to be able to have any winning streaks beyond two or three - splitting the series we are having without any whitewashes. And that's about the extent of my commentary from this side of the globe, seeing the Mets and MLB websites, I can't comment on who is having good or bad games or seasons, LOL I haven't got the patience to analyse stats when there are more interesting things to do with my time online.
Now that I have got all my manly sports knowledge prowess out of the way - add that to the movie topic lol, I can go onto something less masculine like politics. Well, power politics as it is practised is of course masculine, but for us plebs out in plebsville, we aren't supposed to show an interest in it I think. Anyways, besides what is Live 8 going to do in the long term, Sandra Day O'Connor resigning from the Supreme Court geez, that's a biggie. All the arguments that have gone before since basically Clinton fluffed healthcare (including Monicagate, Bush winning the 2000 election 5-4 in the Supreme Court, gay marriage, abortion arguments in the last ten years, Iraq, the 2004 election) - all of those are small fry compared to the culture war arguments that are going to take place with this Supreme Court nomination. And the other judge that everyone was expecting to bail earlier, Renquist, still isn't looking too healthy either.
Will probably do another post during the day - but that is a quick update for the moment :)
Pauly
For the first time in MONTHS I am not going to the movies on Sunday. Thought I would break up my routine/rut, and on the spur of the moment went and saw War of the Worlds after work on Thursday. Good disaster movie, wasn't as scary or as mind blowing as I hoped - and yet another disaster movie that is so Amero-centric grrr. At least Independence Day had some British and Israeli fighter pilots looking over American plans LOL. Though I did like it heaps, and to hear American troops say we have to keep fighting to give the refugees a chance, hmm, that was one of the best lines of the movie, when it all looked hopeless - the plot stuck pretty close to the book from memory, substituting Bush America for Victorian England of course. My fave alien invasion movie though is still Mars Attacks :)
Work this last week gone has been OK - very busy but. LDU is almost two weeks given up smoking, and is to the stage where she is mentioning it only three times a day rather than once every twenty minutes LOL. SGR is still as pretty as ever, but familiarity breeds, well not contempt, but am more interested in just talking to her for the time being - wow, a boy interested in talking lol, what other deviant non standard stuff can we dig up here - but to clarify, if I were actually looking for a girlfriend, if she wasn't a workmate, and single, I would have a go LOL - just to clarify.
Now to burnish my typical guy credentials, let's talk sport for a couple of paragraphs LOL. Went down to the pub at Chermside, Gilhooleys I think it is called, to watch the rugby last night - just to compare the inner city versus suburb atmosphere. Also helped last night that there was a test match in Brisbane itself, Australia v the French. Whereas the pub I found myself in last week was like a tomb all the rugby excitement it generated, actually being around a lot of people who knew the game (the Aussies catching the first half before heading off to Suncorp Stadium) was great. And a huge flatscreen TV :) Bliss, as I start thinking of that song LOL - twinge of homesickness there...
Bliss, by Th' Dudes first line is - 'drink yourself more bliss, forget about the last one get yourself another' - google that line and I am sure you will find the whole lyrics, or even maybe the song if you are so interested - classic NZ tune, good drinking song, from the 70s I think...
Now last week the Lions seemed to play up to All Black standard for ten minutes of the game, this week they played well enough to beat us for about fifty minutes - now it was the other half hour where they leaked thirty points LOL. It was good to actually see a contest for the first half, and bits of the second - we were only up 21 to 13 at half time, after conceding the first try in about three minutes. We monstered the second half though, and ran out 48-18 winners - again, for about the final twenty minutes I was willing the Lions to make more of a contest of it - is that unpatriotic of me? The most important endeavour New Zealand does on an annual basis, rugby, and I want it to be closer hmm.
But at least that is one down on the three goal checklist I am sure most Kiwi rugby supporters have this year - Lions tour, check, Tri Nations and Grand Slam to go. Came home, after having a quick bite to eat - the food court at Chermside was still open, so had KFC (like you really needed to know that) - and watched the Aussie France match. Kept my attention a helluva lot more than any State of Origin match, yeah, I have returned to the rugby fold LOL. Well, kept my attention as long as it was close - the Wallabies ran away with it a bit and I switched to the tennis and/or the Tour de France and/or the AFL game (even though I'm not really a fan, was good to see Brisbane win so convincingly again), but the French closed it up quite well at the end, Aussie only won 37 to 31.
And then after the rugby, Channel 7 flicked over to the cricket from Lords. Aussie was all out for 196, and by the time I admitted defeat and headed to bed, England were 33 for 5 - and then I hear this morning that the match was a tie, OMG go the English :) And with Bangladesh being 75 for 5 and then getting 250 the other night, it seems other nations are FINALLY starting to get the Aussie idea of after a collapse being able to put together a credible partnership further down the line - for the last ten years Australia have been in all sorts of bother with early wickets lost and then a sixth or seventh wicket partnership has always put them right it seems.
Now if only New Zealand could learn that lol - our latest cricket travails are whether or not to go to Zimbabwe - don't we have this question every time we go touring there? Zimbabwe are supposed to be doing a return tour over the summer, and the politicians back home are saying don't be too sure you will get visas for NZ. Hmmph. Politics and sport, thinking New Zealand wise of the Springbok tours in 1976 and 1981, on a more wider scale, the Olympic boycotts of the eighties, the Munich Olympics, the black US competitors in Mexico, and the Berlin Olympics of 36. I am sure there was politics in sport before Hitler, but can't think of a specific example off the top of my head.
In the North American market hmm, is the NHL ever going to be defrosted? Ah well, another couple of months before they have to start thinking of cancelling next season. The problem is, as was stated earlier in the dispute, it is millionaire players versus billionaire owners, it will be a while before they start running out of the money - hmm, what is it that is Paris 2012's Olympic motto - amor de jeux or something? For the love of the game? We need a bit of that in pro hockey at the moment...
In baseball, the Mets are having as frustrating a season as ever - we are hanging around the 0.500 mark, but the National League is that weak at the moment that there are only seven teams above 0.500 at the moment, so by having a mediocre year we could get into the playoffs. We don't seem to be able to have any winning streaks beyond two or three - splitting the series we are having without any whitewashes. And that's about the extent of my commentary from this side of the globe, seeing the Mets and MLB websites, I can't comment on who is having good or bad games or seasons, LOL I haven't got the patience to analyse stats when there are more interesting things to do with my time online.
Now that I have got all my manly sports knowledge prowess out of the way - add that to the movie topic lol, I can go onto something less masculine like politics. Well, power politics as it is practised is of course masculine, but for us plebs out in plebsville, we aren't supposed to show an interest in it I think. Anyways, besides what is Live 8 going to do in the long term, Sandra Day O'Connor resigning from the Supreme Court geez, that's a biggie. All the arguments that have gone before since basically Clinton fluffed healthcare (including Monicagate, Bush winning the 2000 election 5-4 in the Supreme Court, gay marriage, abortion arguments in the last ten years, Iraq, the 2004 election) - all of those are small fry compared to the culture war arguments that are going to take place with this Supreme Court nomination. And the other judge that everyone was expecting to bail earlier, Renquist, still isn't looking too healthy either.
Will probably do another post during the day - but that is a quick update for the moment :)
Pauly
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