Me: You think you got problems?
I just went to the bathroom… and discovered a big black smudge on the end of my nose!
I must have got some ink on it or something.
I looked like a clown.
Oooh, I know what it was from!
It was from the texta the barista used on the lid of my coffee; that must’ve been it.
And i could’ve been that way for, like, an hour.
Snookums: You need to go to the bathroom more often, then you’ll notice sooner.
Author: Kris
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Male Logic
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Decaf Skim Latte
On one hand, I hate being the type of person who orders a “decaf skim latte.” I mean, really, what’s the point? But on the other hand, it’s either this or nothin’. And on a rainy, crappy day like today, I just can’t take nothin’.
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Flemington Markets
Last week Eva kindly invited me to accompany her, Steph, and Kathleen to Flemington Markets on Saturday. I’d been to Paddy’s in Chinatown before, but this is the big market out near Homebush. It was INSANE. Hundreds of stalls with people selling fruit and veggies by the boxload, and it was all incredibly cheap. Bananas for $1/kilo. Whole crates of apples for $5. A one-kilo bag of peeled garlic for $2. We rented a cart and started piling stuff up. A couple hours (and one cramped car trip) later, we pulled it all out in Steph and Eva’s garate to divvy up. For less than $20, I ended up going home with apples, bananas, plums, mandarins, a pineapple, a pomelo, beans, coriander, cherry tomatoes, purple sweet potato, asparagus, the aforementioned bag of garlic, and nine(!) bulbs of fennel. So of course, now we’re cooking everything in bulk and stocking up the freezer for winter…
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The Great Automatic Grammatizator
This article about books written by computers reminded me of something… Oh, that’s right! The Great Automatic Grammatizator! The obvious next step is for this Philip Parker guy to start paying “real” authors not to write.
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Clothkits
I absolutely love this skirt, but all up with shipping it works out to about AUD $100. That’s an awful lot for a skirt you have to sew yourself… (Link to Clothkits courtesy of Alison.)
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RunningBlog
As of today, I am officially FOUR WEEKS away from the Sydney Half-Marathon. I’ve already run three times this week, so I’m going to cut back the distance on my long run today and go for a timed 10K just to see where I’m at. Then I’m hoping to do my first 10-miler on Sunday the 27th, and my longest pre-race run, an 11-miler, on Sunday the 4th of May. (I’m hoping that race day adrenaline will be enough to push me through the final two miles.) For the last weekend pre-race, I’ve just signed up to do the Mother’s Day Classic (8K fun run) on the 11th. I figure that should be a nice easy way to get fired up before the big day on the 18th.
As for my goals, first and foremost I want make the 11km 75:00 cutoff point. Once I do that, my goal is just to finish. If pressed to set a time goal, I’d have to say that finishing in less than 2.5 hours would be fantastic. That would bring me in just before Norma Wallett’s time of 152:52 from last year, when she was the oldest competitor (at 78!) to finish the race. So yeah, I’d like to match Norma’s pace. 🙂
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Chippendale Property on the Rise
From Life in Chippendale: “Chippendale Property on the Rise.” According to today’s Sunday Telegraph, Chippendale was #2 on the list of best performing Sydney suburbs in terms of property value. Over the last 12 months, the median property value here rose by more than 25%. Sweeeeet. The actual median price in Chippo is around $640K, but we paid substantially less than that for our 3 bedroom town house. (Note: I think the previous owners could’ve easily gotten that amount if they’d wanted the hassle of going to auction.) So if/when we ever decide to sell, it looks like there’s a good chance we’ll be making a profit!
Edited 21/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
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Biscuits and gravy
The Snook made us oatmeal for breakfast this morning, so I was nomming my way through that when I read this thread on the great Full British Breakfast (which is more or less the same as a full Australian breakfast). Yum. Not something you can eat every day, but when you’ve got a hangover, it’s the Best. Thing. Ever. I was surprised at the couple comments from Americans who couldn’t fathom eating baked beans at breakfast. Huh? I don’t remember ever thinking that. I mean, baked beans = double plus good, no matter what time of day (as far as I’m concerned). But anyway, the whole point of this is to mention that towards the end of the discussion, somebody linked to the Wikipedia page for “biscuits and gravy”, and I nearly choked on my own drool. There’s not a lot I miss from home that I can’t get here, but that is definitely #1 on the list. I’ve tried making it myself, but it didn’t turn out well. The biggest obstacle is finding the right sausage. American-style breakfast sausage – the heavily spiced “Jimmy Dean” type – just doesn’t exist anywhere else. Maybe I need to try to make my own…
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Shared today on Facebook
is wondering what the heck to do with all these vegetables!