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So I’ve had a pretty great weekend, thanks for asking.
Actually, friday was a bad start. I got home from work full of energy and excitement for the weekend, but then I made a few tactical mistakes. I had yet another large half Carnivorean, half Aussie pizza from Golden Pizza and sat down in front of the tv “for a bit”. Almost instantly, I felt huge and bloated and the whole going out vibe had been sucked out of me. Nicky was restless and I felt guilty about being lethargic so I decided to go have a disappointing pint or two with her at the Retreat. I don’t know what it is with that pub but every time I go there I have either a shit night or a great one, there’s no happy medium.
Saturday however, was much better from the start. I went for coffee at the Brunswick East Project while getting a bit of work done on my father’s website and found it much better than A Minor Place (both places are pretty much across the road from my house). They only serve muffins and little cakes as food so I had a savoury muffin and a bloody excellent coffee – they roast the beans on premises. I enjoyed it so much in fact that I had another espresso after a fairly cute dutch (I think?) girl started clumsily hitting on me. I gave her my email but haven’t heard back from her yet. Later on we went to Liam’s house down the road and shortly after to a warehouse party further down the road.
Warehouse parties are my new favorite kind of parties. You get every good aspect from every kind of party jumbled into one. The people attending are mostly nice, attractive, young, and artsy. They usually have good music playing and some kind of a visual art thing. They usually have an illegal bar. I don’t really remember what I did but I had a bottle of Canadian Club on me as my only drink of the night and that must have made me look badass cause I hooked up with a girl and lost my wallet.
I got out of bed on sunday at 3pm. A couple hours later I walked back to the warehouse in question (which happened to be a warehouse flat) and spoke with one of the hosts; he did have my wallet. This is the third time that I lost the wallet and find it again. Monday was fairly uneventful except that I woke up late because of a confusion with the daylight saving hours. Turns out Victoria decided to change the day to next week because of the Melbourne Grand Prix. Nutso.
A friend of Nicky’s is staying at our house for a couple days, some french dude. When I meet french people abroad they either jump around and get it all out or they pretend like they don’t speak a word of it, like this guy, despite his terrible accent and occasional cringing frenglish. He spoke french once, when everybody else had left the room, I thought it was kinda funny.
I made myself a new playlist for my ipod and I’m trying to get a proper export of it so you can see what’s on it if you’re curious. To my surprise, I had trouble getting 12g on it, I usually have to cut down from about 20g to make it fit. Anyway I was groggy on the train and I put on an album of Arab Strap that I had forgotten was my favorite. I then spent all morning googling arab strap and found that one of the members, Aidan Moffat, has kept on making music and writing for Vice, which is another one of my daily obsessions. The man even has a sex letter column.
“Last time it happened to me, she was shagging someone else, which is guaranteed to fuck up your week.”
I went shopping around my area today, and right when I went to take out more money at my bank, I thought the ATM machine looked a bit weird. I pulled on the slot for the card and a piece of plastic came off.
Hidden within it was a few little batteries and a little computer chip, it was obviously one of those scanner things. Brought it to the cops on the way home. Gnarly.
Well shitballs.
I tried to upgrade the wordpress version and the whole thing crapped down on me.
After days of troubleshooting and trying to figure out what was wrong with the thing, I finally figured out that it is (must be?) the MySQL version.
BUT!
I might be able to post from my shiny workphone. That is all good for my loyal viewers (thanks, dad!).
I will work on either redesigning or trying to get my old design back from my crappy backups. I actually really liked the old design, but I may just take this opportunity to have another go at it.
Even though I have like 5 website projects at the moment and no time to do anything.
