reflections of my life week

As I was off to bed last night offspring no 2 (hmm! she's not doing much blogging is she?) asked me whether I was getting up for the game. I said I'd be up in time for the last ten minutes, that being the total time necessary, and indeed, as I came down the stairs this morning I heard an unbridled yell of joy from the lounge, which was offpsring no 2 celebrating Harry Kewell's equaliser. On the way to work the streets were flecked with green and gold (and, I suspect, a bit of amber as well). Anyway, all in all a good thing and now Australia is on the world stage in the round ball game. Might even have to learn a bit about it so as to be knowledgeable opinionated on Mondays.

In hindsight I realise that I broke an earlier vow about posting in a Howard hating vein a few times this week. I certainly broke it at home: during one extended rant during the news I got an unambiguous message from Mrs v v b that any further behaviour of this type would result in dramatically revised living arrangements. I think I've got the message now. I will try to restrict myself to obviously egregious examples in this blog from now on...but then, all examples are egregious to me. Hammer, nail, etc. On the other hand, there are a few signs of wheels falling off the government at the moment so those of us of wishy-washy leftish disposition can start to have some hope. Except for the quality of the opposition front bench, which does not inspire much confidence.

The weekly schedule of catching up with various people for coffee went pretty much as expected, with the exception that I only had to pay once (out of about 7 or 8 meetings). I really must figure out how I managed that so I can keep it going. What did we do before coffee chats? Anyway, as those readers who know me personally will attest, I do love catching up and am trying to be a more attentive listener.

There's been some car stuff during the week, mainly trying to get rid of a superfluous one just like this. It has been a beaut car when it was running right, but it didn't do that for a sufficient proportion of the time. I reckon it must have been a Friday build, or perhaps you can put it down to the evils of socialism.

No news yet on the talk I am supposed to give, but occasionally supplementing my inital research into optimism has revealed some pretty amazing stuff and I know I've barely scratched the surface. I am hoping that should this event ever actually occur, we get some good discussion going.

Anyway, getting close to Friday night football time so, as the Tubes said, talk to ya later.