It’s Wednesday night and so far I’ve kicked the football, played grip ball (2000) & basketball, each day after work with Kirstie. It’s great having an awesome reserve nearby. Hopefully can squeeze in frisbee tomorrow. A pretty good end to winter 
Bring on daylight savings!
I want more guitars.
I think I can validate my decisions as when there a little children running around, they will have access to plenty of musical instruments to go nuts with from a young age. Something I missed out on. And I mean real ones, not upside down tupperware drums.
I have always wanted a few in particular, and I will try and acquire them over the next year or two.
The new Fender American Standards are refined, state-of-the-art updates of our four core instrument models: the Stratocaster® and Telecaster® guitars, and the Precision Bass® and Jazz Bass® guitars.
Alder body, quartersawn eastern hard rock maple neck (through body), compound radius ebony fingerboard, Seymour Duncan® humbucking pickups, Floyd Rose® Original tremolo and black hardware.
*mmm*
Today was present day!
- I received some new underwear (yes I went to town with no underwear on).
- We purchased some sports (I use this term loosely in some areas) goods for the house. A basketball, football, frisbee ®, grip ball, 3 tennis balls and some needles for the pump.
- I bought a wooden MAB block from Wooldridges. It’s one of those blocks that looks like 10 x 10 x 10 single blocks. In primary school we used to have these, as well as single blocks, and sticks of 10 in a row. There was only ever 1 or 2 of these big ones, and I never got to play with it. Now I’m a big adult I can just go to the teaching store and buy one. So I did.
- A bluetooth car kit courtesy of Kirstie’s mum. Just tested it and it works great. Clips on to the visor so it should keep out of the way. Legal phone calls, here we come.
We spent lunch down at the park near the office, and the local ducks decided we were prime targets for their lunch. Obviously not many people go down that way on the weekend. They are so tame though, eat right out of your hands.
you can yogo anywhere you go,
you can yogo when it’s hot;
you can yogo when it’s lunchtime,
you can yogo when it’s not.
So what do you do after you post about yogo advert lyrics? You google them, and find it returns one result. Posting pretty much what I just did.
A while ago I wrote a post on abortion. I couldn’t find the time to review it and finish it off without posting it up half finished, so I left it for a rainy day.
It hasn’t rained today although I’m going to post anyway. It’s not the original post, but something that probably works better anyway, without the emotion.
Firstly, I think the whole argument has lost all meaning with the terms pro-life and pro-choice. Since when are two sides to a debate both “pro”. Life and choice are not opposites.
What could we debate then?
Pro-life/Anti-life: people who agree with abortion (for whatever reason) are not anti-life.
Anti-choice/Pro-choice: people who are against abortion are not against people choosing things in their life. They are really trying to determine at what stage a cell grows into a human life. Sometimes based on religious reasons, so it’s not constant even within “pro-life” groups.
Why don’t we just drop the media friendly terms and face facts.
People are arguing about women’s rights vs. human rights. People on one side are accusing other people of being murderers (all the while happily supporting the death penalty or accepting casualties of war). People on the other are trivialising the issue because it has been argued for so long and in so many different ways. People on both sides of the issue have various valid points. I don’t understand why we can’t debate on facts and valid questioning instead of emotion. I guess that goes part the way to describing why this issue will probably never be resolved. There’s too much emotion to have rational questioning.
How about some simple questions (some from a digg commenter, some from me):
I would really like to see a page of questions given to supporters of abortion, and a page of questions given to opposers of abortion and someone collate these into as valid discussion. Maybe that’s already been done and I missed it. Maybe that’s an impossible ask.
This post doesn’t even begin to delve into how many more questions surround this issue, but I wanted to bring to light how ridiculous the argument has now become in my mind. A civilised society should be able to work together to solve problems like this. There’s obviously reasons why this one can’t.
After being excited six months ago about finding a chilli plant in the back garden (albeit full of dead chillies) I promptly forgot it existed.
However, I happened to see it from the laundry a few weeks ago, and was surprised to discover there was what I thought, about 30 chillies.
Well today I picked a bunch (about 35) and there’s about the same amount still on the plant. What a harvest!
Anyone wants some, let me know. We won’t eat them all!
I have never really looked at Panda’s before. Upon receiving an e-mail the other day, I’ve realised how damn awesome they are. To me they actually look like a guy wearing a Panda suit. A comical version of themselves. Awesome! I want one.
Tonight I made a lasagne using a bunch of vegetables and some TVP (my new favourite ingredient).
Upon making this lasagne, it was pronounced “best lasagne ever” that we’ve had so far, and also I think I found the easiest and best way to make white sauce.
Easiest white sauce ever recipe:
1 cup milk
2 tbsn plain flour
2 tspn margarine
Step 1: Put milk and flour in a bowl
Step 2: Whisk until no lumps (about 10 seconds)
Step 3: Put margarine in and microwave for 1 min
Step 4: Whisk again and repeat until thick (about 3 mins)
Best white sauce I can remember in a long time. The whisking kicks ass, and it takes no time at all.
The filling of the lasagne:
assorted veges (carrots, zucchini, mushroom, capsicum, onion, tomato, celery)
garlic
TVP mix (tvp, boiled water, basil, oregano, salt, pepper mixed in a bowl)
tinned tomato
tomato puree
Step 1: Fry onion and garlic
Step 2: Add vegetables
Step 3: Add TVP mix
Step 4: Add tinned tomato and 1 tin of tomato puree
Step 5: cook until ready to use in lasagne
Yummy to the maximum.
