it's going to be a weary day

I am already starting on the wrong foot having had only five hours' sleep. I was working on today's lecture last night while watching Jacob's Ladder (which I saw when it came out) with the other eye. The lecture is a comparison of indigenous people's experience of settler societies in Canada, NZ and Australia. Luckily I found an essay I wrote as an undergraduate ten years ago where I cover a lot of these topics very well. Me at 30 is my own research assistant. The essay was one of the few that got an HD.

enormous article on jim betts in today's age

Apparently, he comes from Reading originally.

a very judy weekend

Judy came to stay this weekend when Jane and other Judy went to Canberra. She is blind, deaf but has not let this stop her intransigence in most things. Charlie would not stop barking at her on Friday night. Last night, aside from a moment at about 1:30 when all three dogs started growling spontaneously, there was relative peace. I think one of the things that incites Charlie is Judy's white, blank eyes - she doesn't know what she's looking at so she probably comes across quite provocative. Not that Charlie needs that much incentive to work up a lather. Picture shows Charlie very 'on' in the awareness that Judy is just behind her ready to strike any moment.

went for a walk

Around what I call in my mind, but would never confess to anyone, anyone, the 'loop' because it involves walking along Yuroke Creek to the reserve with the pylons and ending up in roughly the same place after walking roughly in a loop. I saw no-one. Well, I saw two people on bicycles, numerous times because they were just meandering around, and I saw some kids playing with a surely illegal motorised vehicle. Otherwise, no-one. I suppose I would be pissed off if the park was full of people, as it is I am pissed off that they are presumably sitting around in their houses enjoying home entertainment centres and plasma screens, whatever they are.

jumpers and sunbury

I was boasting to Mia the other day that while she was away I had washed ALL THE JUMPERS. This morning as she was getting ready to go to work (and I was getting ready to sleep another hour) she challenged me to show her where they were. There were none. I had washed ALL THE JUMPERS then apparently worn ALL THE JUMPERS and they were back in the bathroom basket. Cue canned laughter or more appropriately 'wah-woh' trumpet.

This afternoon I took my mother and Judy Hogg to the airport and afterwards saw a sign that said, Sunbury. Sunbury is the other real conurbation in the City of Hume and I don't remember ever going there. It is only 18 km away. So I drove there just at 2 o'clock, and just on 3 o'clock I was driving back, thinking, well, I could have done a lot of things in that hour, but at least now I know. Admittedly while in Sunbury I did achieve the major goal of the day (other than taking Jane and Judy to the airport) which was to buy a pumpkin.

Whew! Achievement. Feels so fine.

surprisingly...

the building is, I think, actually still there. But the dome part is gone.

mia is back in 6 hours 15 mins

Of course that's when she touches down, no doubt there will be hours spent while she goes through customs etc. I don't mind, I'll just drop into the Astroject space centre for a while. I hope it's open that time of the morning. And DON'T tell me it closed in 1972. I go there all the time dude. I've got a special key.