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There’s a new Bumblebee Tuna up for you to read, stare at for a moment and quietly chuckle before checking to see that no one saw you.

About a month ago I was reading a book called Timequake. The premise of it (some of it anyway) was that time experienced something like an earthquake and everyone had to live the past ten years over again, doing everything exactly the same, changing not a single detail.

For that amount of time it seems terrifying. But, sometimes, maybe for a month or even just a week it would be good.

And sometimes, no matter how tiresome and energy consuming a week has been, you would do anything to live it all over again. Because the good bits were just that good.

Unfortunately, there is no repeat button on life. There are no convenient timequakes. You just have to keep moving forward and cross your fingers that what comes next is even better.

So, go on – cross your fingers.

DO IT!

I’m waiting…

There’s a new Bumblebee Tuna up for you to read, stare at for a moment and quietly chuckle before checking to see that no one saw you.

It’s rather amazing how much things can change within the space of a few short months. It’s even more amazing when the changes come in just a few days, it’s almost frightening.

Just a few days ago I was but an unemployed house dweller with no prospects and too much time on his hands.

But now, low and behold, we have a full time student with too much travel time on his hands.

It was early Friday morning, while job hunting amongst the interwebs, that I logged on to the vtac website. I hadn’t done so for at least a week, maybe two, I had actually given up on the tertiary course of action for this half of the year after the disappointment of rounds one and two.

But log on I did and found that I’d been offered a place in a tafe out yonder… really, really out yonder. I rang and arranged for a meeting this coming Monday, today in fact, and hung the phone up. I’ll go as far as to say – I did a little jig that evening.

(I’m skipping over a rather good Sunday afternoon/evening here but that isn’t to say it didn’t happen, it’s just not pertinent to this story. Let’s just say it involved a festival, a russian girl, three dogs, a taxi driver and a few drinks.)

Then we arrive at today. Apart from missing the final connection and having to walk up an extraordinarily long hill, the travel was uneventful – I didn’t even get lost once! But still, I arrived at the meeting five minutes late. (the horror!) and sweaty.

I met, I talked, I listened, I posed for a photo…

And boom!, just like that I come out of the meeting a student. All ready to begin class tomorrow morning.

Wait. Tomorrow morning?

Oh, crap.

This is two kittens in a barrel, look at them in there, having a whale of a time. You see the one on the left? He’s called Phillip.

There’s a new Bumblebee Tuna up for you to read, stare at for a moment and quietly chuckle before checking to see that no one saw you.

Number 10! Milestone high five!!

Adding to other pointless internet based activities designed to help me with my compulsive work avoidance I’m now on Tumblr.

I’m not sure what i can do with it that I can’t do between my Blog, twitter, twitpic or flickr but I’m sure I’ll find something.

Probably just post some crap.

Same as everywhere else.

It was good, thanks for asking.

You will never guess what was flying over my house this morning -

FIRE!!

IN HOT AIR BALLOONS!!

And there’s even a few more photos over on my Flickr

_{Note: Photos here may not be in chronological order…}

There’s a new Bumblebee Tuna up for you to read, stare at for a moment and quietly chuckle before checking to see that no one saw you.