Computers suck

Dear Kel,

So I was all excited and ready to get online last night and write the very first entry in my blog dedicated to keeping in touch with you...the computer however had other ideas. Somehow it temporarily wouldn't allow me to access any site on the web other than the web providers. Hmm...I am a conspiracist at heart, as you know, so I am wondering what conspiracies were at play here.

Anyway I wasted 15 minutes of precious sleep time on the phone waiting for the tech support monkeys to pick up the phone - which they never did. But just like magic when I logged on tonite it was all there. Computers suk.

The other thing that didn't go according to plan today was my photo taking. "Take photos of stuff you get up to during the day so I can see" you told me the other day on the phone. So I dutifully packed my camera into my handbag earlier this week. I got it out at lunch time ready to take a picture but alas (like the battery in my old mobile) the batteries were flat! And what a shame it was too.

This being my first football season in Melbourne, and me being fortunate enough to see my team in the Grand Final for the first time in almost a decade, I scored myself a convenient city based meeting whose end co-incided with my lunch hour whose start coincided with the start of the annual Grand Final parade.

The Grand Final Parade - it's out of this world! Outside of the Olympics I have never seen a city and it's tourists care so much about sport! And where, pray tell, have all these Sydney fans been for the past couple of years? In all the years I lived in Sydney I never saw so many fans yet here in Melbourne they number in the 10s of thousands.

Whoever thought I could be a footy tragic?! Ali, that's who! She proudly held her banner high in honour of our teams super star player and she roused on me for not holding my side of the banner straight enough and for being shy and not being tragic enough! I even got int trouble for being considerate of the little kids whose pushy Mum's whispered behind our backs "don't worry kids these people in front of you will give up their spots for you". Now, I love kids, as you know Kel, but it's not my fault my tragic footy friend got to the parade barrier before anyone else in the city did while Mum behind us was late. People can be so presumptuous.

So anyway back to the photo debarkle. I wanted to take photos. I couldn't cause of the battery. The kids next to us got on the telly. I told ALi not to let me be seen on the telly coz I was too embarrassed. Actually the real reason was cause I wondered what my work colleagues would think I was doing so far away from the office during my lunch "hour"!

OK, I had heaps more to tlel you but the 15 minutes of sleep I lost last night to the ISP support monkeys has caught up with me.

Yawn (oops I hope this post didn't make you yawn!)

Miss you.

Love B xxx

PS This post is so long I can't be bothered to check for spelling stuff...not that I ever usually bother anyway...