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Friday, January 8th, 2010
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danbok
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| Time: | 11:23 pm. |
| Music: | Alexisonfire- Sons of Privilege. |
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I haven't been using this anywhere near enough lately.
I made a few posts about our trip up to Cairns on the blog I normally run for my zine
http://capital-eyes.blogspot.com/
We are going to Hook Island tomorrow. Unfortunately it's pissing down rain and probably not going to stop anytime soon.
Some people ask me "do you ever work". The fact is I do, just lately I have been managing my time really well and getting to travel quite a lot in between. I worked today, I was working by myself most of the day, but I managed to get quite a lot done in that time. I was reasonably pleased with myself as a matter of fact.
I haven't played footbag very much lately. Only one session for the whole year as a matter of fact. I would like to get myself into a more rigourous training schedule this year. I've got a lot of improvement in me still, and I should do it before I get too old.
This is the time when I can really go from being just another footbag guy to being on that higher level of player, if I get serious about it. I really want to go to Worlds this year, but I'm not sure if I will have enough money/leave/etc.
It's Francisca's birthday today. We were going out for dinner down the road, but the rains were too heavy and we couldn't be bothered, so we just went to Dominos next door and got pizza. We had a quiet night in, I drank a couple of the beers that I got thanks to Ocean Rafting because we sold lots of their trips.
Now it's time for me to go to bed, I'm pretty tired and we have to be up early tomorrow.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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danbok
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| Time: | 11:42 am. |
| Music: | Polar Bear Club- Boxes. |
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not sure if I can believe my eyes.
Feb 13- East Brunswick Club, Melbourne
Mindsnare
Samsara
Hopeless
Dead Kings
The Abandonment
I fly back into Sydney from PNG on the 12th, will probably stay there a night, then catch a plane to Melbourne. What a sweet lineup.
So I haven't been to a show in a long, long time.
If things go to plan in the next couple of weeks I will see
Jan 20- Polar Bear Club, Break Even, The Gifthorse in Brisbane
Jan 21- Jungle Fever, Ghost Town in Brisbane
Jan 26- Dead Kings in Sydney
Jan 27- Templestowe in Sydney
Feb 13- Mindsnare, Samsara, Hopeless, Dead Kings, The Abandonment in Melbourne.
Fuck yeah.
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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When I told people I got a job in Airlie Beach, I said it was close to Cairns. I think we drove about 1000km, and now we're in Cairns.
Have seen heaps of waterfalls and rainforests and other awesome stuff. Probably in a fair amount of trouble from the big bosses down in Brisbane cos I kinda skipped town without asking. However, I did just work 12 of the last 14 days. These included Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Eve (til 9), New Years Day (from 7am) and a bunch of other stuff that wasn't really that fun.
I think all shall be good.
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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danbok
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| Time: | 1:09 pm. |
| Music: | The Cure- Hot Hot Hot. |
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new manager arrived last night. I have given him a crash course in how to do some stuff I half know, now I'm going on a short holiday. We're heading up to Magnetic Island and the general Cairns region. Should be sweet.
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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Go to Worlds again.
Win an even at Nationals for Footbag
Do more travel and have adventures booked for the next year
Learn Spanish
Meet more friends
Use Couchsurfing more (hosting/staying)
Travel again for work
Keep in touch with all the awesome people I've met this year
Not get punched in the face by a bouncer
Go to shows regularly
Have a good time
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My aim for the year was to read a book for each week of the year. I didn't quite make it, but I made some solid progress, I came pretty close in the end. I'm going to back myself and say I'm going to be able to do it next year.
1. Occy- Mark Occhilupo & Tim Baker- 309 pgs
2. On The Road- Jack Kerouac- 291pgs
3. Five Months In A Leaky Boat- Ben Kozel- 419pgs
4. Love In The Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 348pgs
5. Going Solo- Roald Dahl- 210pgs
6. The Riders- Tim Winton- 377pgs
7. Bad Boys- Roy Masters- 320pgs
8. Dopeland- John Birmingham- 258pgs
9. Sleeping Around: A Couchsurfing Tour Of The Globe- Brian Thacker- 379pgs
10. How To Beat The Australians- Richard Beard- 236pgs
11. How To Drink Absolutely Everything- Ben Canaider- 239pgs
12. Down Under- Bill Bryson- 427pgs
13. High Fidelity- Nick Hornby- 245pgs
14. Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World- 380pgs
15. It’s Only A Game: A Life In Sport: John O’Neill- 386pgs
16. Neither Here Nor There- Bill Bryson- 256pgs
17: Inside George Orwell- Gordon Bowker- 434pgs
18: A Long Way Down- Nick Hornby- 257pgs
19. A Clergyman’s Daughter- George Orwell- 263pgs
20. American Hardcore: A Tribal History- Steven Blush- 302pgs
21. Tolkien: A Biography- Michael White- 250pgs
22. Into Thick Air- Jim Belusha- 316pgs
23. The Surgeon of Crowthorne- Simon Winchester- 207pgs
24. Of Mice And Men- John Steinbeck- 120pgs
25. Notes From A Small Island- Bill Bryson- 379pgs
26. The Autobiography- Eric Clapton- 364pgs
27. Stephen Clarke- A Year In The Merde- 383pgs
28. No Logo- Naomi Klein- 458pgs
29. Betrayed By F. Scott Fitzgerald- Ron Carlson- 220pgs
30. The Firm- John Grisham- 421pgs
31. Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia- Susanna Fullerton- 369pgs
32. All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge- Beth Lahickey- 223pgs
33. They Came To Murramarang- Bruce Hamon- 132pgs
34. The Great Railway Bazaar- Paul Theroux- 379pgs
35. The Moon & Sixpence- W Somerset Maugham - 217pgs
36. Fever Pitch- Nick Hornby- 239pgs
37. Hells Angels- Hunter S Thompson- 273pgs
38. The Runaway Jury- John Grisham- 484pgs
39. One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich- Aleksandr Solzhenistyn- 143pgs
40. Bert Brown of Papua- Garry Saunders- 205pgs
41. Tim Winton- Breath- 265pgs
I am also midway through
DH Lawrence- Kangaroo and John Kennedy Toole- A Confederacy of Dunces. They will be included in my list for 2010, once I finish them.
So last day of the year. Doesn't seem like a full 365 days since this time last year, but obviously it has been. This year has been pretty amazing, I finally got to go overseas and I've met some great friends this year. There have been some pretty good albums come out this year
1. Alexisonfire- Old Crows, Young Cardinals
2. Evergreen Terrace- Almost Home
3. Break Even- The Bright Side
4. Templestowe- Cimmerian
5. Poison The Well- The Tropic Rot
6. I Exist- 3 Nails and A Book of Flaws
7. Polar Bear Club- Chasing Hamburg
8. Hopeless- Dear World
9. Mastodon- Crack The Skye
10. Hoodlum Shouts- Horses and Human Hands
Favourite shows, 2009
1. Midnight Oil- Royal Theatre, Canberra
2. Every Time I Die, Poison The Well, Evergreen Terrace- The Espy, Melbourne
3. Dillinger Escape Plan, ETID, PTW- The Forum, Sydney
4. Break Even, I Exist- Tuggeranong Youth Centre, Canberra
5. Propaghandi- SO36, Berlin
6. Bleeding Through, Between The Buried and Me- Albert Hall, Canberra
7. Misery Signals- TYC, Canberra
8. The Amity Affliction, We Are The Ocean, Hopeless- TYC, Canberra
9. Comeback Kid, Verse, Against- Albert Hall, Canberra
10. The Abandonment- Bar 32, Canberra
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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I planned on getting this done by the end of the year, which is tomorrow, so I may be pushing it.
( 2006 )
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| Time: | 3:47 pm. |
| Music: | Break Even- A Long Drive Home. |
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I had a bit of a rough day today, I think the low point was when I looked on the website and our hostel ratings had gone down, making it the lowest rating in Australia. Today however, it was meant to be my day off, but I was a long way behind so I did some work, I did it up here on my computer, so it was good as I had no disruptions or anything, and I caught right up to where I should be.
In the morning I got a call about staying at the Hook Island Resort, we're going to stay there on the 10th, free of charge. I think it's going to be awesome. It looks so relaxed out there. You can get free kayaks and snorkelling gear also.
Another good news story was the fact they've hired a fulltime guy to be the manager up here. Me being up here was always just a temporary thing, and it's a big weight off me that someone will be up here in the near future. He arrives next week so I'll be doing some training with him, which will make things easier for me, probably means I can do a few trips out to the islands and stuff as well.
Thinking of changing my flight home so that I spend a night or two in Brisbane, I really want to go see Polar Bear Club, they're playing with Break Even and The Gifthorse, that's something I'd be super keen to see.
So the year ends tomorrow. I've got to work til 9pm then back up early, do a bunch of end of year, end of month, etc reports. Can't say I'm terribly excited by the prospect. Will probably drink some beer and have a meal in between. I just started listening to Polar Bear Club recently, I'm really enjoying their most recent album "Chasing Hamburg". Break Even are one of my favourite bands, they're alway good to see and the Gifthorse are sweet. Such a sweet combo. They are playing shows in Brisbane on the 20th and 21st, so if I could get to both of them, that would be pretty great.
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
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So my 2004 entry probably missed a lot of details, it was a pretty crazy year, that really reflected on my studies. I really just didn't give a shit at all. I don't know if that really changed all that much the next year.
( Let's go back to 2005. )
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Back to the current times.
At work, early start again. Had the day off yesterday, first day off in quite some time. Went out Ocean Rafting again. I bought Francisca the trip as her Christmas present, she really liked it. We had a pretty great day together. After the trip in the boat to Hill Inlet lookout and Whitehaven Beach, we did two snorkels. The visibility wasn't quite as good as the last time I went out, and didn't get to see quite as many big fish. I bought one of those disposable underwater cameras this time, hopefully the photos turnout sweet.
Haven't really done so much the last few days, been pretty busy with work. Have a bunch of paperwork to catch up on and I am NOT excited about that. Yuck. Going to make a new post and continue going back through the decade.
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