Monthly Archives: January 2006

A man dressed in blue and a foxy designer made me do it!

Four jobs I’ve had in my life

• Model
• Web designer
• Monkey tamer
• Astronaut (those were the days)

Four movies I can watch over and over

• Fight Club
• What dreams may come
• Amelie
• Closer

Four places I have lived

• Western Australia
• San Francisco
• France
• England (Ok, the last three were places I want to live)

Four TV shows I love to watch

• Lost
• Sex and the City
• Family guy
• Mythbusters

Four places I have been on vacation

• Margaret River
• Rottenest Island
• Geraldton
• Lancelin

Four of my favourite dishes

• Honey chicken with noodles and broccolini
• Homemade minestrone soup with herb scones
• Roast turkey
• Kick ass brownies

Four websites I visit daily

• Flickr
• Penny Arcade
• John fucking Oxton
• Karen Cheng

Four places I would rather be right now

• On a beach in the Whitsundays, reading a good book
• Snowboarding in the Snowy Mountains
• In Adelaide with Ella
• Buying a PowerBook with the money I won in lotto (a mere dream)

Four bloggers I am tagging

• Matteh
• Candy (force her to blog)
• Becca
• Sergio

I apologize to the individuals I have infected, don’t blame me, blame the meme creator. I’m actually quite glad I was tagged, because I have been focusing on the re-design so much lately that my mind is far to fried to even contemplate a somewhat witty blog entry.

Oh yes Becca, soon it will be Christmas! 😉

I finally went for an eye exam after months and months of procrastination and blurriness. I ended up ordering new pair for long distance and having my old frames fitted with new lenses for reading. My health insurance didn’t go through at the store the first time, it said ‘health fund down’, I imagined my health fund to be wounded in battle and asking the doctor to tell his wife he loves her and little Timmy… Tell Timmy he will grow up to be a fine young man, a fine young man indeed.

I had told the optometrist that I used a computer quite a bit and I felt that it was putting strain on my eyes, thus the reading glasses to relax my eyes were prescribed. After the eye exam I was dumped with a talkative young woman whom I was told would sort out my eyewear needs, she read my eye exam card and asked me what I did on computers. I paused, contemplated saying “why looking at foot porn of course, what else does one do with high speed internet?”, and then replied with a sensible answer of “mainly web design”. I could have said blogging, but I tend to shy away from that reply, as I have found that it takes a copious amount of time to even explain what word ‘blog’ means without confusing the subject enquiring and wanting to kill myself for mentioning it in the first place. “Wow web design, that must be hard, how do you learn that?” she said with hint of amazement, “self taught” I responded, “Wow” she said with even more amazement. Then she said it, the thing computer illiterate people always ask anyone who show the slightest knowledge regarding computers, “Can you hack into computers and, like, read peoples email?” she enquired, and shortly after the words came out of her mouth they were accompanied by an evil ‘I have this ex…’ look in her eye. “No, sorry” I replied with a laugh, dashing any chance of her finding out what her ex was up to these days. “Oh” she said with a sigh, followed moments later by “Ok then, let’s talk glasses”.

And we did, I spent all up $600 on said glasses, luckily my health insurance finally went through and paid for half. Being able to see is fun, I highly recommend it.

Do you know Dan?

I got to know Dan quite well this week while waiting for an appointment, I sat in a waiting room for about 20 minutes listening to the guy behind me have a conversation with a younger girl about The Great Dan, who is a top bloke by the way, even if he does break shit a lot when he’s not smoking.

Guy: All my friends are top blokes.
Girl: Yeah.
Guy: Josh, now Josh is a top bloke.
Girl: He’s bit of a pot head.
Guy: But he’s still a top bloke.
Girl: Yeah.
Guy: Dan’s a top bloke too.
Girl: I don’t know, he seems a bit… on edge at times, like he’s going to kill me with an axe at any moment.
Guy: Yeah, he’s quit smoking again, every time he quits smoking he breaks everyone’s stereos.
Girl: Oh.
Guy: He just goes nuts without the fags.
Guy: He’s a top bloke though.
Girl: Yeah.
Guy: You know how his windshield is cracked?
Girl: Yeah.
Guy: He cracked that the last time he quit smoking while he was trying to kill a fly by punching it.
Girl: …
Guy: We told him to just keep smoking, it’s not worth quiting.
Girl: …
Guy: Top bloke that Dan though.

It was at that point in the conversation that I my name was called, which is a pity, I was really enjoying hearing about the adventures of nicotine addicted Dan. He’s a top bloke you know. They could make a drinking game out of that guy, every time he says ‘top bloke’ you drink a shot, you would be plastered in no time.

It’s that time of the year again, time to nominate your favourite weblogs in The Sixth Annual Weblog Awards, better known as The Bloggies. I gather since you are reading this that Kitta.net is one of you favourite weblogs or that your are just here waiting for the monkeys signal to take over the world, either way, if you have a moment to spare please consider nominating Kitta.net for a Bloggie.

The categories in which this blog is eligible for a nomination:

• Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog
• Best Tagline of a Weblog – Don’t feed or spank the monkey
• Most Humorous Weblog
• Best Writing of a Weblog
• Weblog of the Year

Nominations are open now until Tuesday the 10th of January, 2006. Hopefully I’ll win one this year so people can bitch about how much I don’t deserve one, yeah, that would be cool. 🙂

• One tenis ball.
• A few boxes of sparklers.
• A sharp knife.
• Tiffy’s bottle of water to crush sparklers into dust.

Setting off a sparkler bomb in the driveway on New Years Eve and having it nearly hit powerlines and set cars on fire.

Priceless.