Extreme Disappointment And The Berwick Market

My footy team suffered only its second loss for the season yesterday and unfortunately, it was the Grand Final. Trish is happy because it was her team that were the underdogs but got up to win. My team squandered many opportunities to kick goals while Hawthorn seemed to score a goal every time they went forward. They were very accurate in front of goal too.

I caught up with three of my nephews, Marcus, Paul and Beau at the footy too. They had arrived at the ground at 4 am to get good seats on a walk up basis. My pre booked seat was just great!

This morning it was to the local market for a look around. It filled in an hour or so and got us out into the fresh air. It was quite busy down there. Tomorrow (Monday) I am catching up with my brother and Kate, Arj and the kids are coming to see him too. I am looking forward to seeing him again. I then plan to spend Monday night at Kim's and she will drop me off at Tullamarine airport for my flight back to the Sunshine Coast first thing Tuesday morning.

My next post will be from the Sunshine Coast!

AFL Grand Final Day and a Good Laugh!

At last the 2008 Grand Final has come and I am just about ready to head into the M.C.G. along with about 100,000 others. My team Geelong plays Trish's team Hawthorn.

The week has been spent catching up with others, and enjoying a couple of 'family' based activities. It was great to eventually get to our favorite Malaysian Restaurant along with our two daughters Kate and Kim and grandaughter Charli. She really loves her rice does Charli and had three bowls of the stuff.

We also caught up with Eddie and Patsy too. Eddie is recovering from the loss of a kidney and is well on the road to recovery.

I fly home on Tuesday while Trish follows a couple of weeks later.

I have edited the joke below to make it more child friendly. I think you will still get a good laugh out of it!

THE 6 BEST SMART ANSWERS OF 2007

SMART ANSWER 6

It was mealtime during a flight on a British Airways plane: "Would you like dinner?" the flight attendant asked the man seated in the front row.
"What are my choices?" the man asked.
"Yes or no," she replied.


SMART ANSWER 5


A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without blinking an eyelid she said, "Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub."


SMART ANSWER 4


A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at a branch of Sainsbury's store but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a passing assistant, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?"
The assistant replied, "I'm afraid not, they're dead."


SMART ANSWER 3


The policeman got out of his car and the boy racer he stopped for speeding, rolled down his window.
"I've been waiting for you all day," the bobby said.
The kid replied, "Yes, well I got here as fast as I could."
When the policeman finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.


SMART ANSWER 2

A lorry driver was driving along on a country road. A sign came up that read "Low Bridge Ahead." Before he realised it, the bridge was directly ahead and he got stuck under it. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up.
The policeman got out of his car and walked to the lorry's cab and said to the driver "Got stuck, he?" The lorry driver said, "No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of petrol!"


SMART ANSWER OF THE YEAR 2007

A teacher at a polytechnic college reminded her pupils of tomorrow's final exam.
Now listen to me, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!"
A smart-a….. guy at the back of the room raised his hand and asked, "What would happen if I came in tomorrow suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?"
The entire class was reduced to laughter and sniggering. When silence was restored, the teacher smiled knowingly at the student, shook her head and sweetly said, "Well, I suppose you'd have to write the exam with your other hand."

Peanuts Anyone?

A tour bus driver is driving with a bus load of seniors down a highway when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady.

She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up.

After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of peanuts.

She repeats this gesture about five more times.

When she is about to hand him another batch again he asks the little old lady, 'Why don't you eat the peanuts yourself?'.

'We can't chew them because we've no teeth', she replied.

The puzzled driver asks, 'Why do you buy them then?'

The old lady replied, 'We just love the chocolate around them.'

Both of these drawings are meant to be 'animated .gifs'. That means they should move. The little old man on the computer to the right is also an 'animated .gif' and I know he moves when you view this page in Firefox. The man doesn't seem to move when you look at this page using Internet Explorer. These are just some of the vagaries of the internet and using different web browsers.

Internet Experts tell us that Firefox is a much safer internet browser to use than Internet Explorer, though they do concede Internet Explorer is getting better each time they release an update. Internet Explorer seems to add features that Firefox users have been enjoying for quite some time each time there is a product update!

(Edit: I wrote this bit about 1 hour later) I have redone both animated.gifs and uploaded them to a separate internet site. I then set 'links' so my blog page links to the pictures from the other website. On my computer both pictures now should 'move' whether you are using Firefox or Internet Explorer (IE)! So if you click on the animated gif for a larger view, you are taken to the site where I have uploaded the original picture.

I still can't get the old man at the computer to move in IE though!

Footy, Vietnamese, and Down To Drouin

The headline summarises exactly what has happened since my last post. Both my footy team and Trish's team will fight out this year's AFL Premiership. My team, Geelong, had a dogged 29 point win over a determined Western Bulldogs while Trish's team had a straight forward 54 point win over St Kilda. Geelong and Hawthorn have been the two strongest teams in 2008 and it is fitting they should fight out the Grand Final next Saturday. I will be there along with about 100,000 others to witness the match.

On Saturday we had a great Vietnamese lunch with our daughter Kim. Kim is over the worst of a very nasty cold and this was the first time we had seen her on this visit to Melbourne. I also caught up with Keith and Jeff at Saturday night's footy match. We enjoyed a couple of quiet beers together like we have done numerous times before while attending regular Saturday AFL matches over about 20 years or so.

On Saturday afternoon, Kate, Arj and the two grand children headed aff to birthday party. Charli went in her fairy costume and she thought she was just the most perfect thing ever. She seems very pleased with herself in this photo.

We were invited down to Drouin on Sunday by friends Barry and Rainy from when they had popped in at Kate's home earlier in the week. Though not a hot day, we enjoyed a great meal, some great hospitality and few drinks outdoors. Other friends Wayne and Launa were there too, they had recently returned from a week in Hawaii (which they just loved!)

Barry and Rainy have been living at Drouin (about 100k's south of Melbourne) for over 5 years now. It is an acre block and they have done a great job rejuvenating what had once been a 'tired' block of land. Barry loves to encourage birds to visit their yard and they have cockatoos, galahs, lorikeets and other birds feeding from trays they have set up with seed near their back door. These two King Parrots are probably the most beautiful of their visitors.

Trish Much Improved

Friday started lovely and sunny but right now just after lunchtime the clouds have rolled in and there is a threat of rain. The weather forecasters say we will hardly get anything but it sure looks pretty dark and threatening outside. I am off to the footy later for tonight's match and I don't want to get caught out in the rain!

Trish is quite a deal better today. We grabbed a little time yesterday to get out of the house and down to the local shopping centre for a look around. Other times have been spent keeping an eye on the two grandchildren. Arj and Kate are both at work today so Trish and I are keeping an eye on James and Charli. James is enjoying an early afternoon nap right now, while Charli is busy finishing off the chocolate cake. James enjoyed being pushed around in his 'car' this morning.

School holidays get underway tomorrow so we will have both Kate and Arj at home.

I have spent a bit of time trying to get Office 2007 to install on Chris' laptop. It came with a 25 startup trial on it and we tried to install another version over the top of it. This was a mistake! Despite installing over the top of the trial version, we still get the warning, 25 more startups to go! Office 2007 needs to be totally uninstalled now and this is harder to do than it looks! then it needs to be reinstalled onto a 'clean' hard drive.