Cheap Therapy

In Austria and a Fiat dealership in a small town in Brazil.

via PhotoshopDisasters

It seems I haven’t posted a redux-ion in some time. Since last:

• Went postal (voting, that is).
• Greeted the new arrival
• Fathers’ Day
• Discovered a rust spot under the weather seal on the door of the new car. Missed by the RAC. Not mentioned by the dealer (if they noticed it). Bugger.
• Visited a few car shops to get anti-rust stuff.
• Therapeutic shopping at NetPlus (need more storage), OfficeWorks (noticed they now have magnetic print-yourself car signage) and Zytech.
• Want one of the new iPod Touches with a speaker!
• Was not destroyed by Large Hadron Collider. Nor was world. At least not that I could tell.
• Made a lot of some assortment of toast, boiled eggs, baked beans and Weet-Bix every morning.
• Many stories were read.
• Drove the battlewagon some more.
• Attended surprise birthday for MikeyOb.
• Showed Puggle how to solder. Badly. But at least good enough to fix the cordless phones. Discovered you can answer the landline while the voip line is still ringing. Then pick up the voip line and get a dialtone even though the landline is in use
• …darling, names, names names…
• Walked to the shops with the kids. Had coffee. Waitron brought water with plastic cups for the kids unbidden, and my cappuccino plus two ‘cups of froth’ for the kids totalled $3.65 (cheaper than I pay for just a coffee many places). Hats off to Bada Bing.
• Discovered the evil credit card company (ANZ) will ring you to tell you you’re overlimit, but not before they’ve charged you $35 for the privilege. It also seems easier to cancel and apply for a new card than to get a limit increase (even if it’s to a lower limit than you were on before!). Getting a decrease is much easier. They did at least have a callback number when I didn’t believe they were the bank and resisted my social engineering attempt when I hadn’t identified myself.
• Helped the kids make vege kebabs with pesto. Yummy!
• Took the opportunity to indulge in pate, soft, hard and (soon) blue cheeses.
• Roasted a chook.

Puggle (to man walking dogs): What are their names?
Man: Mulder and Sculley
Me: Ah
My Mum: Who are they, people from Star Wars?
Me: No, The X-Files
Puggle: What’s that?
Me: A TV show.
Man: I’m glad someone knows that, most people go “Who are they?”
My Mum: My son knows.

… Massachusetts was renamed to Aquinnah in 1998, no doubt due to people repeatedly getting arrested when asking for directions.
On an almost totally unrelated note, Aquinnah is the name Michael J. Fox gave to his daughter.

Can you guess it’s baby name season again?

Apparently guys who can cook well enough to impress women are now termed ‘Gastrosexuals’
Not to be confused with people who have a sexual preference for snails.
Unless they’re sauteed in butter and garlic and used to entice partners perhaps.

It’s in Nebraska apparently.

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Check out The World Beard and Mustache Championships, via A Word A Day

on the Muzak channel “Teenagers scare the living sh*t out of me” (from My Chemical Romance’s song “Teenagers”). Not sure if anyone else noticed it as a weird choice for inclusion in the Super IGA playlist.

As I’ve recently fallen in with the rest of you lot and started playing Scrabulous on Facebook (no doubt sealing its doom at the hands of Mattel, and thence Facebook’s), I thought I’d share some amusing Scrabble videos, namely Triple Word War and the much more risque Scrabble Rousers (love the Louis Armstrong provided soundtrack, “Skokiaan”).