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Monday, July 25, 2005

I have a lot less wisdom

So I took off Friday and had all 4 of my wisdom teeth yanked out. At least I didn’t wake up to find the Dentist zipping up his trousers I guess.

Poor old Pie got to nursemaid me looking like a sedated mental patient for most of the day, either sleeping or drooling…actually sounds a lot like my dogs really. I also got a view of being old aged having her help me around and being forced to eat mushy food.

I pretty much spent the whole weekend being useless. We went for a walk around the mall and I was practically comatose at the end of it. I took the day off work today, though I’m doing a few things from home. I just couldn’t face 9hrs of it.

Just found out an old school chum of mine is moving Australia. I think Bill Bryson put it best when he described it as a whole country with a “No fat chicks” sticker on it,

By the way I’d love to know who Kellycat is : - )

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Monday, July 18, 2005

Drive by Blogging alert

Only time for a quick-ish entry.

So if anybody cares my family was unaffected by the bombing in London. I said to my Dad that the UK’s been living on borrowed time since 9/11. Even the last time Pie and I were back in the UK they caught some people trying to make Ricin, or maybe it’s some of that bad English cooking I hear so much about.

Interesting how I haven’t heard one person in the US say about the UK “well it’s sad but they really need to look at their foreign policy”, but then again 90% of people I know didn’t put 2:2 together about me coming from London

MU’s first show went pretty well despite Jeff communing with the Mothership during the performance. Usually we can’t stop him soloing and that night he forgot about twice and totally lost his way in some songs. Charity was wasted and in the “I love you man” stage of drunkenness, which is better then the violent stage of drunkenness. We were meant to play the next night in Tacoma but it got cancelled at the last minute. I was actually about to go through my pre-show “shall I wear leather trousers” or not routine when a friend called and told me he didn’t think there was going to be a show. As sore as I was from the previous night I was pretty let down.

In other let downs our recording was cancelled on Saturday due to Charity having blown her voice. I had to drive to the studio to make sure that the engineer/producer knew. I felt all lost for the rest of the day (fortunately he didn’t charge us).

Here’s my parting thought for the day which is a quote from his holiness Bruce Springsteen:
"If you grew up in the 60s, you grew up with war on tv every night. A war that your friends were involved in...and I want to do this song tonight for all the young people, if you're in your teens... because I remember a lot of my friends when they we were 17 or 18, we didn't have much of a chance to think about how we felt about a lot of things. And the next time, they're gonna be looking at you, and you're gonna need a lot of information to know what you're gonna wanna do. Because in 1985, blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. Because what I'm talking about here is: War!
What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.... --Bruce Springsteen, introducing his band's rendition of "War" by Edwin Starr, Los Angeles, September, 1985

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