40. Make Luv (featuring Oliver Cheatham) - Room 5 Ft Oliver Cheatham

Dearest L0nelyWif3,

How are you? How's the children? The weather treating you fine? It's cold over here, probably something to do with the fact that it's the middle of winter.

Just wanted to write you a short letter in reply to your recent proposition. I must say that I'm very flattered that you want to "ho0k up" and I appreciate that you really do "Need2GetLaid", but I must sadly decline your offer as I'm going to be busy this weekend. You see, Miss L0nelyWif3, I don't really know you, and lets face it, I'm not too sure how you got my email address in the first place. And while I'm sure that you're quite the hottie and all that, I really can't see any long term or even short term relationship blooming between myself, a real human being, and you, who quite possibility is a randomly generated name from a computer in Brazil.

It's me, not you. No really. I'm just an idiot that way.

Sorry,

kjingo.

PS: if you can, get in touch with WOrldMeds ("Provider ofHighDeman Pharmacuetical") and let them know that I'm quite fine with my drug suppliers. Thanks.

39. The Way We Get By - Spoon

Exam results via SMS?

What's next, tutorials via MSN group chat? Or lectures via youtube?

Haha I love unnecessary technological advancement.

And as much as I like to poke fun at the idea with my poke fun stick made entirely out of red pens, I must admit that i took the time to register my details to get my semester one results by sms. So come...well anytime today actually...I'll get an sms, forget that my results are via sms, think it was from a friend. and then be unprepared for the results that may or may not be decidedly average. Fun times ahead.

I was thinking of a few things that I could have done, maybe send my results to a completely random phone number, or just sms a friend sometime today with a message that just contains F's. The only problem with that idea is that it will either be really really funny or in very very bad taste if they actually happened to get F's.

So lets not do that then.

In other news, I see that there is a total 25 cm of snow at Mt Hotham. And in comparison with Mt Buller (8 cm), that looks totally awesome.

But like many things in life, and some things on the lifestyle channel, its not.

I'm a simple man (contrary to some suggestions...yeh you know who I'm talking about), and I have simple needs when it comes to snow levels during the middle of the snow season; I like there to be snow. I'm no specialist but I know that 25 cm is 5 cm less than 30 cm and a total of 75 cm less than 1 metre. I pay my taxes, I obey most road signs, I never drop cigarette butts on the ground (a simple task considering I don't smoke) and I always remember to wash my hands after using the toilet. So is it too much to ask for some snow? It's not like its not cold enough...

Get back to me with an answer tomorrow morning.

38. Ironic - Alanis Morissette

The nights have gotten longer, its a hell of lot colder, and like Eddie McGuire on the Footy Show, the sun has been relegated to guest appearances.

So it must be Gold Coin time yet again.

Yup so that may require some type of explanation...

Way way back in 1999, I was just a wee tacker. Well not really, I was a naive and sensible teenager of indiscriminate age (probably 16ish?) on the constant search of whatever kids that age sought. And I found myself in the year 10 commerce class held by the venerable Mr. Graham. Hmm now that I think about it, it may have been Mr. Truman or Mr. Smith, but I digress; the actual name of the teacher really isn't the focal point of this tale of my halcyon youth.

Anyway, way back in year 10 I was studying commerce as an optional subject. I was always interested how commerce as a high school subject was only offered in the last few years while subjects such as geography was pretty much forced down our throats since year 7. That's not to say that geography was a wasted exercise, I know my life is that much more complete now that I can identify a cumulus cloud from a stratus cloud. And I still giggle like a schoolgirl when I talk about grassy knolls.

At some stage in that year, our teacher decided that he would give us a little class test. One of those last minute, 'I'd forgotten that I needed some form of assessment before parent-teacher night' tests. And in a form of academic stupidity that sadly does not disperse at university, a large part of the test consisted of a 'identify the abbreviations' section. Terms such as PAYG, or GST (which may not have been around considering it was 1999) were used, as well as 'GC'.

What the hell was 'GC'?

Well to cut a long story shorter by an inch, GC stands for 'Group Certificate', and is actually a term being phased out and changed with 'PAYG payment summary' this year. But back then, when my knowledge of commerce was surely lacking (as opposed to today *cough*), GC had my stumped, I had no idea.

But not my friend Jazz; in a flash of brilliance, he came up with Gold Coin. When asked about its relevance to commerce, I'm pretty sure Super Mario Brothers was mentioned...

So Gold Coin time is Group Certificate time, a time when I roll up my sleeves (not too far though, coz it is cold) and help my dad write up group certificates. Its a hard task (not really) but I'm pretty sure that I'm getting paid for it, so who is to argue.

In an interesting postscript, last year Jazz finished a commerce/bsys double degree and is currently working in accounting. And 1999 was my last year of studying commerce, having decided not to take it up in VCE, preferring the Asian 5 (English, Math Methods, Specialist Math, Chemistry and Physics) and Japanese. And while I've spent the last five years floating in the worlds of law and business systems, in a nice little bit of irony, I'm going to find myself working in tax next year. Yup tax, where GC is everywhere.

Now that beats a black fly in your chardonnay.

In other music/'83 songs' news; the new evermore cd has come out, and I have no money. Last week I was in JB-Hifi and actually did not buy anything, a great feat in my own little existence. But I'll admit I was holding the new Snow Patrol cd for a good few minutes. And there is a song from Dashboard Confessional called 'Don't Wait' that has a pretty cool music video, although I'm not too sure if Dashboard is the band name or the name of the singer... Cos that would be a bit weird, Mr. Dashboard Confessional. I mean, seriously.

Oh, and if you search for 'clouds' in google, you get a pic of Cloud from Final Fantasy VII, further proof that nerds rule the internet.

37. Let's Do It Again - TLC

There's a wise old saying that is not often heard, and by the oft chance that it is, its never translated properly for it to make sense. One time someone tried to write it down for the future generations but he couldn't find a pen that worked properly. Another time it was sent via email but it was attacked by a worm. A big worm wearing a bow tie so it wouldn't be stopped at the door. How a worm puts on a bow tie is another question altogether.

Yup. I know what your thinking, what the hell is going on?

Well its quite simple really, I feel like I've lost my ability (however little there was) to write in this blog. And while I could just sit around and wait for it to come back, I've decided to force myself to write some random crap and post it, just to get over that proverbial hurdle.

So I'm just gonna end it here and hopefully come back soon with something better.

Oh it can only get better from here.