Managed another "AFD" today (Tuesday) so that's two this week.

How many AFDs do "they" say you should observe per week? At least two I think. If I stay in, I don't drink. If I take my car with me I don't drink either, but when I park my car in my garage, whatever the time, there's nothing to stop me heading down the road for a schooner or two. It's 0110 and I could go out now. I have done so in the past, but not tonight. I'm tired. No need to "show me the way to go home" as I'm there already, and feeling virtuous.

I'm too busy (trying to) write an essay on blogging to blog.

That's just an excuse, one of many I can call upon to justify leaving everything to the last cliché before I submit my essay. "SUBMIT!?" I still haven't started the fucking thing. I do have a mass of Word documents containing various start/stop/stuff ups which I should hyperlink. CAN I hyperlink them? I just noticed that on Word. If I hadn't started this course on Web Comms with the OU, via Curtin, I still would not know what hyperlink is. I use them, of course, though never in Word, apart from grasping the fact I can move from Word to Web by clicking on a web address.

I've learnt a lot during the course of my research, and I am typing for the sake of writing, or should I say, improving my writing. NO! I'm HOPING my writing might improve if I practice enough. 

That's enough. My essay is due in at noon on Friday (Sydney time) so I've got less than 48 hours to finish it.

The day David Bowie died

My friend K texted me to tell me the news. He bought me Bowie's last album The Next Day for Xmas a couple of years ago. It was just about the first Bowie record I'd got since Rebel, Rebel in 1974 I think. I've also got Starman. I wish I'd bought John, I'm Only Dancing, my favourite. I used to like The Sweet in the early 1970's and I think Blockbuster's riff is very similar to The Jean Genie?

When I heard he'd died from cancer my first thought was what type of cancer?  Wasn't he a heavy smoker? My second thought was that he almost had his "three score and ten" like Lemmy. They used to die in their 20's and 30's from drug and drink ODs, but now it's old people's diseases.

The evening after the night before (The Trinity and The Strawberry)

Only 1930 so it's far too early to be going out. I'm actually thinking of popping down to Bronte for a swim soon.  I - we - did not get mega drunk last night, but it would have been so much better for our heads and wallets if we'd gone straight home from the Trinity, when it closed at midnight, but of course we were only "half-full" so we went down to the Strawbo.

I've never ended an evening at the Trinity though. Sometimes, it's the entree, sometimes the main course, but even then I have dessert at another place, i.e. The Strawbo.

That's the beer that is our current fave in the photo and it's also the monthly special at $6 a schooner, which is part of the reason we are drinking it, but it does taste good.  They have plenty of great beers, but why pay 8 or 9 bucks for something that never tastes 2 or 3 bucks better?

I had Coopers at the Strawbo whilst Mick had the Great Northern - a mid strength I think, and we shared a pizza, enjoyed it too. Pity Mick called one of the young barmen as in "serve me......" Mind you, he called me a c*** in the Royal Ex the other night. The pub fell silent. In fact every pub in Surry Hills probably fell silent and they all looked at me.

He does so believe in The Illuminati.

Tonight the pub, tomorrow the football. (And Sunday too, or rather Monday as Spurs kick off at 0300.)

I'm going to the Trinity tonight, not the Crown, with my brother, leaving it late as it's 1020 already.
Then it again, it is never too late living in Surry Hills there is no "lock out" and when the Trin closes, another door opens at the Strawbo.

Two "AFD's" managed so far this year, New Year's Day (when I never wanted to drink again) and Tuesday 5th when we stayed in and watched movies.

Tonight, he looks at me and I look at him and we both ask "are we going out tonight?" When Mick's not here I can say "I'm feeling lonely and I've been inside all day and I want some company" but that excuse does not hold.

Sod the guilt trip!

Why did I have to enrol in a course (at the OU) about the internet to find out about things like "RSS" and "Delicious?"

20 past 2 in the morning and I should already be in bed but I'm trying to do some research for an assignment in my latest Open Uni unit - Web Communications. Naturally I'm leaving everything to the last minute. Even after four units I've not yet been able to complete assignments with a week to spare, not even a day, an hour, perhaps a minute, though.

It's interesting and even as I am cursing my inability to schedule my time more efficiently, I'm also beginning to understand some of the issues. For e.g., today I managed to install an RSS feeder - Snarfer, I think, and even add some links to sites like The Daily Mail to it.

The puzzling thing for me is that I knew how to find websites for newspapers but I didn't know you could get an RSS feed. Why don't "they" advertise it, whoever "they" are? Same with Delicious. I'd never heard of it until it came up in my course.

In truth I've never really learnt more than the basics, not unlike driving a car for a few months before finding out there is more than one forward gear. Maybe not a good analogy. There is an "overdrive" button on my gear shift which I'm never sure if I'm using or not.

Blogging is this week's topic so maybe I'll find out how to do that properly.

0230. At least I managed an AFD, my second of the year.