Lightly Toasted

Do you believe in Luck? Well, I don’t but I don’t mind if you do, although I have sometimes found myself using phrases like…. “you lucky thing”, “Oh so lucky!” But they are merely expressions of half-hearted self-centred joyfulness. I neither believe in luck, yeah I said that a second time nor do I advocate anyone reading this… so you are on your own if you read this on Friday the 13^th and a missile goes through you head and you die and land in Hell in Devil’s bedroom lying naked next to his warm skin on his fur bed surrounded by the fires of Hell and Devil’s slippery green mossy tail hissing over in slow meandering manouvers over your face? Chances are you’ll never come back to planet Earth to design a Web Standards compliant website nor talk of Web Accessibility or bitch and moan about the shitful IE or even take the micky out of ya mates on Flickr, what a shame — but then you would have Devil’s undivided attention wouldn’t you just and I’m sure he’ll keep you entertained!

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I was coming home late at night from Mosman last Tuesday. It was also Melbourne Cup day — the biggest event in Australian racing. Makybe Diva has etched a permanent place in Australian racing history by winning an unprecedented third Emirates Melbourne Cup. Wow, what a supermare!

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This is a monologue I wrote in my creative writing class yesterday. Unedited, raw and in fifteen minutes flat. Yep! you got it, don’t judge

I cannot quite tell the colour of her eyes. I see green, tiny patches of soft china blue, green, more green and a smidge of yellow.

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A funny visual went past my mind just then… imagine you lived in a high rise building in a populated city.. .well hence the high rise… real estate was a premium and obviously you lived close to the train station… just that in crowded places you rather commute by train than your own wheel-barrow. Now think that the station was really close by… probably so close to the building, no scratch that… it was right under the very building you lived in… so every time a train went past you’d hear the noise… just enough to let you know of approaching and departing trains… hmm, wow doppler effect comes to mind… alright… you were having dinner with your buddies hmmm well with people… strangers… you had picked up off an internet chat.. and … a train came by and the building shook up a little bit… like a tuning fork on low frequency… and while at the table, well I hope, seated with your honarary strangers — stuffed plates in front… and the plates moved in a synchronised bouncy twitch and went on over close to the person on your right… hmmm… okie I am going nuts! But.. it was funny… *cracks up*.

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Think am on a roll, there were days and weeks I didn’t write a bit and now am all fired up… only this time with a lot more personal stuff…. did I say I’m quite a private person?

Yeah you guessed it… this could be asked in many different ways and in different situations but what seems to the usual societal conditioning is the fact that if you show you are too eager (sometimes just eager) in an ensuing date/relationship it may be detremental! The idea somehow doesn’t hold water for me, then again what would I know about relationships when I haven’t had much luck myself .

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The search for the answers to life and its laws,
is rooted in everything, since effects have their cause.
It’s as easy as saying when words hit a wall,
they come back at the speaker like a red rubber ball.

The Great Illusions has always intrigued me, its been one of my favourites since I found it back in 2001 if I have that right. Everytime I read through the prose it seems to make a lot of sense.