The lives we are
The lives we where
The lives we are yet to be
The things we do
The things we've done
It's our ingrained destiny
The place we're at
The places we've been
Our future's a mystery
Que' Sera' Sera
As Doris does say
Whatever will be will be
Me, 2011
Mark, Australian Resident, at your service.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Hey Look, I'm back..
Here we are, it's April. Life has been going on, like it always does. Work has been the same ol' same ol'. The Aust Open and all that tennis malarkey is way behind us and almost forgotten. The Melbourne Grand Pricks, oops sorry about that, Grand Prix has been and gone. The fun we had there with all those high end clients, Mercedes/McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull, Vodaphone and the rest. I'll not go into details but needles to say they sure do know how to waste money, God bless 'em.
And now I'm enjoying a 26 day stint away from the hire furniture game with some well earned annual leave. Just hanging out at home, a bit of time in the shed working on some way layed projects, spending a bit of time getting next seasons vegie patch sorted, cleaning up around the house, cruising some of the hundreds of op shops scattered through out Melbourne with my Lovely and getting some one else to make me breakfast in places like,
Puckle St Moonee Ponds
Brunswick St Fitzroy
Bridge Rd Richmond.
It's all about the pleasure of leisure.
And lets not forget the joy of killing people in the world of online gaming with Sony's Play Station 3. "War is Hell" and Mirsch (that's my online PS3 ID) is giving as good as he gets.
Battlefield Bad Company 1
and 2
have been blitzed, and thanks to 1080 hi-def, I can almost smell the
dank of tropical jungle warfare,
freeze my bits off in the snow covered mountains of some made up eastern block country and smell the gun powder after unloading hundreds of rounds into those apposing me.
Driving all kinds of vehicles,
Hummers, Blackhawks, Abrams Tanks. It may seem like I spend a lot of time on the PS3, but there are some people who seem to have no other life. There is this thing on online gaming called a Leader board and you are able to check out where you stand globally. On Bad Co 2, I don't even rank, ranking stops at the 25,000th mark. I've only played an online total of about 22 hours. The number 1 player in time spent joystickin' (on Bad Co 2 alone) has played for a massive 3,350h 18m, thats nearly 140 days. But in all honesty the game has been out for just on a year and I only bought the game cause it's on sale, 2 weeks ago. I've still been a cowboy from time to time in Good Ol' Red Dead Redemption but it's all about playing what your mates are playing and w_a_y_n_e_c_k and jonroch (both online ID's) are into Bad Co 2 at the moment so thats me too.
On Line ID's, now there's a whole new topic. I chose Mirsch cause I have a pair of stereo speakers which are made by the Swedish company
Mirsch, they are sleek and sexy and sound great. Many years ago a drunken fool at a party our house threw, turned my amp all the way up and blew the bass drivers in both my speakers. I was only able to track down Alison drivers to replace the blown Mirsch drivers so I ended up with Mirsch Alison speakers. A mate (TK)called me Mirsch Alison, I was impressed and ever since, whenever I didn't want to be me , I became Mirsch Alison and when prompted to enter an online ID, without hesitation I chose Mirsch.
Some online ID's met are GO_THE_RAT_, bigdik (yeah sure), T_BONE_A1 and lambchop, no kidding I was playing a round on Red Dead and came across both these people and thanks to my head set I kept on making jokes about the BBQ we were having, Fubus-Maximus, MrSmooth2405, B-A-S-T-A-R-D, dUrKa-omaha, John_J_Rambo81, SLAYER_Of_PIGS (should have invited him to the BBQ), FUK_U_PAY_ME09, MICKEY_MOOSE7, I could go on and on. Now all the above names are kinda fun and when playing with the head set on I talk, laugh and moan a lot calling out these names or versions of them and playing on there hidden meaning, my aim is to humiliate, aggravate, congratulate and more than anything else have a laugh. Playing under the influence of fine Irish Whiskey helps alot. Fun, fun and more fun.
10 days into the 26, I'm bound to be back soon. Oh the things I've seen in the Food Zoos, the joy of digital television (joy?), the changes to my regular thursday night outings and much more soon to be mentioned. Stay cool, mmm I guess that is unavoidable winter does cometh.
And now I'm enjoying a 26 day stint away from the hire furniture game with some well earned annual leave. Just hanging out at home, a bit of time in the shed working on some way layed projects, spending a bit of time getting next seasons vegie patch sorted, cleaning up around the house, cruising some of the hundreds of op shops scattered through out Melbourne with my Lovely and getting some one else to make me breakfast in places like,
Puckle St Moonee Ponds
Brunswick St Fitzroy
Bridge Rd Richmond.
It's all about the pleasure of leisure.
And lets not forget the joy of killing people in the world of online gaming with Sony's Play Station 3. "War is Hell" and Mirsch (that's my online PS3 ID) is giving as good as he gets.
Battlefield Bad Company 1
and 2
have been blitzed, and thanks to 1080 hi-def, I can almost smell the
dank of tropical jungle warfare,
freeze my bits off in the snow covered mountains of some made up eastern block country and smell the gun powder after unloading hundreds of rounds into those apposing me.
Driving all kinds of vehicles,
Hummers, Blackhawks, Abrams Tanks. It may seem like I spend a lot of time on the PS3, but there are some people who seem to have no other life. There is this thing on online gaming called a Leader board and you are able to check out where you stand globally. On Bad Co 2, I don't even rank, ranking stops at the 25,000th mark. I've only played an online total of about 22 hours. The number 1 player in time spent joystickin' (on Bad Co 2 alone) has played for a massive 3,350h 18m, thats nearly 140 days. But in all honesty the game has been out for just on a year and I only bought the game cause it's on sale, 2 weeks ago. I've still been a cowboy from time to time in Good Ol' Red Dead Redemption but it's all about playing what your mates are playing and w_a_y_n_e_c_k and jonroch (both online ID's) are into Bad Co 2 at the moment so thats me too.On Line ID's, now there's a whole new topic. I chose Mirsch cause I have a pair of stereo speakers which are made by the Swedish company
Mirsch, they are sleek and sexy and sound great. Many years ago a drunken fool at a party our house threw, turned my amp all the way up and blew the bass drivers in both my speakers. I was only able to track down Alison drivers to replace the blown Mirsch drivers so I ended up with Mirsch Alison speakers. A mate (TK)called me Mirsch Alison, I was impressed and ever since, whenever I didn't want to be me , I became Mirsch Alison and when prompted to enter an online ID, without hesitation I chose Mirsch.
Some online ID's met are GO_THE_RAT_, bigdik (yeah sure), T_BONE_A1 and lambchop, no kidding I was playing a round on Red Dead and came across both these people and thanks to my head set I kept on making jokes about the BBQ we were having, Fubus-Maximus, MrSmooth2405, B-A-S-T-A-R-D, dUrKa-omaha, John_J_Rambo81, SLAYER_Of_PIGS (should have invited him to the BBQ), FUK_U_PAY_ME09, MICKEY_MOOSE7, I could go on and on. Now all the above names are kinda fun and when playing with the head set on I talk, laugh and moan a lot calling out these names or versions of them and playing on there hidden meaning, my aim is to humiliate, aggravate, congratulate and more than anything else have a laugh. Playing under the influence of fine Irish Whiskey helps alot. Fun, fun and more fun.
10 days into the 26, I'm bound to be back soon. Oh the things I've seen in the Food Zoos, the joy of digital television (joy?), the changes to my regular thursday night outings and much more soon to be mentioned. Stay cool, mmm I guess that is unavoidable winter does cometh.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Why????
Why are Melbourne Taxi Drivers so fucking annoying and incompetant??
Whatever it is, it's here and it's here to stay. I better get over it, eh!
Whatever it is, it's here and it's here to stay. I better get over it, eh!
Slack or what????
Well I guess it has been a while since I last posted. Sorry ya'all. Slackness has prevailed. No, really it has, I have enjoyed the releif and relax of finishing all to do with the Australian Open. A couple of working weeks of nice easy days, with pick-ups and deliveries of units less than ten. Nights of TV, downloads and Play Station 3 with nary a care, and of course the company of my most lovely Lovely. Life has been good.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
The Australian Open is finished for 2011, yay....
Today the fun began for the Good Ol' Valiant Crew. Melbourne provided a beautiful sunny day, top of 39c, for the start of the big bump out. A wonderful day to be lugging desks, tables, bookcases, credenzas, lounges, ottomans, all kinds of other weird furniture and chairs. More chairs that you can poke a stick at and believe me I would love to beat the shit out of all of them chairs with a big stick. Another fun part of today was hanging in the back of the many trucks packing all that wonderful furniture. Luckily I work with Alan, Al Packer master of the tie, the pad and the furniture. Tetris in that mans blood.
I lucked it today and started at 6am, there were some who started at 3.30am. And the reult was 15 full trucks returned home locked and loaded. Eleven of us and we got to knck off at 3.30pm. Nice day, now I'm eagerly looking foward to the rest of the week for more of the same.
I lucked it today and started at 6am, there were some who started at 3.30am. And the reult was 15 full trucks returned home locked and loaded. Eleven of us and we got to knck off at 3.30pm. Nice day, now I'm eagerly looking foward to the rest of the week for more of the same.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
The Rot-Crotch Conspiracy and other Disasters
The Rot-Crotch Conspiracy and other Disasters, Yeah, it's been a while since last I blogged. Since the New Year Thingy a while back, all I've been doing is hanging out at the Tennis lugging furniture. There has been some super steamy weather and you haven't been able to blink without sweating. Low clouds, rain every now and then and heat. It's been like some sort of joke, a conspiracy, a plan to knock out the work force with the horror known as Rot-Crotch. Nuff said.
"Help.... the Rot Crotch, I'm melting, Aargh, my legs I can't breathe..."
Well at least we have finished with the Tennis until the whole tournment is over on the 30th. Then the real madness begins as Olympic Parks Melbourne, demand that Tennis Australia hand over Rod Laver and Hisence Arena within 3 days of the tournemnt finishing. That's hundreds of contractors trying to dismantle, load and get out. We have something like 600 typist chairs alone to pick up. I'm not sure of the actual item count , I'm trying to find out. There are famous people at the Tennis
Other disasters, a bit of rain up North, Hang in there folks. Jason, Thinkin' of you.
"Help.... the Rot Crotch, I'm melting, Aargh, my legs I can't breathe..."Well at least we have finished with the Tennis until the whole tournment is over on the 30th. Then the real madness begins as Olympic Parks Melbourne, demand that Tennis Australia hand over Rod Laver and Hisence Arena within 3 days of the tournemnt finishing. That's hundreds of contractors trying to dismantle, load and get out. We have something like 600 typist chairs alone to pick up. I'm not sure of the actual item count , I'm trying to find out. There are famous people at the Tennis
Other disasters, a bit of rain up North, Hang in there folks. Jason, Thinkin' of you.
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