Have some of our Ne Zilland rellies visiting at the moment, my grandmother on the paternal side of the family tree, and four of the aunts and uncles (two couples) from that side as well. They have come over for a cousin's wedding up North, and are stopping in Bris for four days, to visit us - yippy skip. I haven't seen that side of the family at all in about five years, but have been in no great rush really.
Anyways, we were talking before dinner - the aunts and uncles are staying at a motel somewhere around, is only the grandmother staying at the chateau here - we were talking before dinner, and one of the aunts was talking as if the highlight of her trip was playing the pokies at the yacht club across the road from one of the motels they have stayed at up to now. Pokies. Fun. And going on about how big the meals are over here - they actually brought half of a meal down to Brisbane just to show us how big the meal had been - with a plate full of chips extra as well.
The phrase 'does not compute' bouncing around my head with the excitement level of pokie machines and large meals. Oh, and that's another thing - one of my second cousins is gay, and the same aunt said about one of the meals - 'What was it that he had that is gay food? Oh, that's right, butter chicken.' Because Rogan Josh is so heterosexual LOL, and anyways, I like butter chicken - I must be in denial LOL.
Have Morgan Spurlock, Mr Supersize Me, on the TV in the background, with a new show called 30 Days. Tonight's episode he and the girlfriend are doing a month living on the minimum wage - I'm not sure about the whole throw yourself in in the deep end and whinge about it style of documentary making Spurlock seems to do, but boy is his girlfriend hot LOL. And she likes the handlebar moustache thing obviously.
And trying to summon up the righteous indignation over this story - apparently because the US Administration has mandated all Katrina evacuees be out of shelters by mid-October, they are putting about 600,000 people into hotels and motels across 49 states (Hawaii being the exception). At a cost of $11 million a day. Fuck me sideways is my incredulous reaction to that - the accommodation industry, at least at the Super 8 level, won't be needing to do much advertising over the next however many months, all footed by the federal government under FEMA. Have Bush's quote in my head - 'whatever it takes' to rebuild the Gulf Coast.
Trying to get up the indignation, but somehow failing. Has been a tiring day of doing nothing LOL.
Later peeps
Paul
Anyways, we were talking before dinner - the aunts and uncles are staying at a motel somewhere around, is only the grandmother staying at the chateau here - we were talking before dinner, and one of the aunts was talking as if the highlight of her trip was playing the pokies at the yacht club across the road from one of the motels they have stayed at up to now. Pokies. Fun. And going on about how big the meals are over here - they actually brought half of a meal down to Brisbane just to show us how big the meal had been - with a plate full of chips extra as well.
The phrase 'does not compute' bouncing around my head with the excitement level of pokie machines and large meals. Oh, and that's another thing - one of my second cousins is gay, and the same aunt said about one of the meals - 'What was it that he had that is gay food? Oh, that's right, butter chicken.' Because Rogan Josh is so heterosexual LOL, and anyways, I like butter chicken - I must be in denial LOL.
Have Morgan Spurlock, Mr Supersize Me, on the TV in the background, with a new show called 30 Days. Tonight's episode he and the girlfriend are doing a month living on the minimum wage - I'm not sure about the whole throw yourself in in the deep end and whinge about it style of documentary making Spurlock seems to do, but boy is his girlfriend hot LOL. And she likes the handlebar moustache thing obviously.
And trying to summon up the righteous indignation over this story - apparently because the US Administration has mandated all Katrina evacuees be out of shelters by mid-October, they are putting about 600,000 people into hotels and motels across 49 states (Hawaii being the exception). At a cost of $11 million a day. Fuck me sideways is my incredulous reaction to that - the accommodation industry, at least at the Super 8 level, won't be needing to do much advertising over the next however many months, all footed by the federal government under FEMA. Have Bush's quote in my head - 'whatever it takes' to rebuild the Gulf Coast.
Trying to get up the indignation, but somehow failing. Has been a tiring day of doing nothing LOL.
Later peeps
Paul
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