Not an iPhone

I got a new toy today. One of these.

Woo hoo - I’m not a bogan (officially)!!!

Your result for The Bogan Test…

Paddington Poofter

You are 24% Bogan!

Take The Bogan Test at HelloQuizzy

Found this test via rah.

I am just so organised …..???

I was supposed to be flying to Sydney in the morning, nothing unusual, do it regularly.

Got a phone call Thursday. Change of plans. Can I change it to Thursday instead of Monday? Sure, no problems. Suits me better in fact.

So Friday morning, I go looking for the booking number so I can get onto the travel agent and change my flights. Slight problem ….I hadn’t actually booked. I’d only thought about it a couple of weeks back, and saved the trip in draft in our travel reservations tool.

I’m so glad my plans got changed. Otherwise I most likely would have shown up at Canberra airport at 7 am this morning …. without a ticket.

I am just so organised at the moment. Not to mention dumb, dumb, dumb!

I’m a victim of crime

Yep, this weekend.

Some prick stole my letterbox last night. God knows why? Whoever it was actually went to the trouble of sawing through the metal pole that held it up, its sawed off at ground level. And its a bit of a crime wave …. others in our street were stolen or at least vandalised, and this sort of thing happened in the next couple of streets too. Someone had some fun at some time during the night.

The weird thing is its not just been broken off and chucked on the ground. Its completely disappeared. I have visions of someone’s house with a stash of mail boxes in the shed. Why, I ask?

Anyway, hopefully the bogan lowlife juvenile delinquents who did it, next time they steal a car, manage to wrap it round a tree and wipe themselves out. Die you mongrel pricks!!!!

The winners are …

Now its time to add that special bonus to Easter for some lucky readers. My Pay It Forward contest winners are:

First prize - 1,500 Entrecard credits plus plus …….drum roll ……. Site Hoppers.

Second prize …. 250 credits …… Sly.

Third prize ….250 credits, also ……. Kai.

Congratulations! I’ll be in contact with you about your prizes.

Now for the special bonus for the comment that appealed to me most. The winner is Jayne, for her comment on our improverished politicians.

Paying it Forward

I won 500 Entrecard credits on the Paying It Forward contest at Dipping into the Blogpond this last week. Thanks, Meg!

Now I have to be nice to someone else, as per the Paying It Forward tradition. Hmmmm, I pondered this for ages and came up with this.

What you have to do?

Simply leave a comment on this post.

You also need to be willing to participate in the Paying It Forward initiative and run your own Paying It Forward contest if you win (or you’ve already done one on your blog).

When do you have to do it?

I will award the prizes next Sunday, Easter Sunday. Think of them as another present from the Easter Bunny. Thus, comments need to be made by midnight AEST on 22 March.

What are the prizes?

First prize:

• 1,500 Entrecard credits; plus
• a free ad on my site, 125 x 125 size, right below the Entrecard in my sidebar - for one week.

But wait, there’s more ….a free set of steak knives, maybe, do I hear you ask? Not quite, but I’m going to pick up a nice little trinket on my trip to China next month, maybe some sort of fun USB toy, maybe something else, and it will be all yours if you’re the winner.

Consolation Prizes:

250 Entrecard credits each to 2nd and 3rd place.

Bonus Prize:

250 Entrecard credits for the wittiest or most interesting comment on my blog during the next week, and this is not limited to just this post. Any comment on any post is eligible. I will award this bonus prize based solely on my opinion of the interestingness or wittiness of the comments.

Baby photos

My daughter was looking through my albums of old photos tonight, for some pictures of some of the places in Australia we’ve been.  In the course of that mission, she found this photo of our baby.

We looked at this and other puppy photos, and its no wonder we just had to buy him when we saw him.  He was just irresistable.

5 and a half years later, and he’s still cute as ever, just taller and longer.  Sometimes I have to question his cuteness though, like when he’s trying to hump a pillow, or my foot.  Thats not cute.

70’s disco music

Is not my special subject. In fact it was an era of music that I tried to ignore when I was growing up.

However, that did me no good tonight. We went to a trivia quiz night at my wife’s church, and the quizmaster was obviously a fan of it ….one of the competitions was to name the songs from a few seconds snippet of each one, and that tragic era was over-represented (in my humble opinion). Our team did ok at this, about 50% in total … but the winning team scored about 75%. Most scored less than us.

We came 3rd … about 3 points off the winners. Pretty decent, but should have studied more. A couple of questions that could have made all the difference:

• who wrote “Gone with the Wind”? (the question was more obscure than that but we knew the book) …. also knew the author was Margaret something - Mitchell is the bit we could  not remember
• who was the first female state premier in Australia? Carmen Lawrence … we said Joan Kirner

But we did have some good gets:

• knowing all the leaders of the USSR/Russia since 1917 - you had to match names and dates with their photos
• who was the Australian test cricketer who announced his retirement on 9 December 2006? Damien Martyn
• knowing the order of release of these James Bond movies: “From Russia With Love”, “The Spy Who Loved Me”, “Moonraker” and “Tomorrow Never Dies”

A couple of funny things:

• what is the term for a castrated rooster? A capon is the correct answer …. we said KFC
• what is the 2nd most popular activity in the American Catholic Church after mass? No, the answer is not paedophilia …. its bingo.

You know Canberra is the porn capital of Australia when …

…. you start seeing things like “Mould a Willy” kits in a gift shop in the middle of Westfield Belconnen Mall.  Not exactly hidden away either, it was on display in the front of the store, so no, I did not have to go purposefully looking for it down the back of the store.  And it wasn’t the first thing that attracted my attention as I walked past the shop.  Not really the sort of things I’d expect to see outside the porn emporiums of Fyshwick.

NSFW warning

To see what a “Mould a Willy” kit entails, go here.

Australia Day - a special place

Today is Australia Day, the anniversary of the day the first white settlers from England landed in Sydney in 1788.

Inspired by this post in Aussie Bloggers  …. here is a photo of what I think is one of the most amazing places in Australia, Purnululu National Park in the Kimberly region of Western Australia.  Also known as the Bungle Bungles, this area was only really discovered by non-indigenous Australians around 30 or so years ago.

I was there in 2000.  Eight years ago.  I mean to go again some time.  It is truly an amazingly beautiful and spectacular place.

Had I not been so slack in scanning some of my pre digital camera photos, I would have got my act together and submitted something like this to the Aussie Bloggers post.