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Last enty is getting on to be 1.5 months ago! Nothing too interesting to write about, though we had school holidays just two weeks ago. The highlight was probably ANZAC Day when we had Richard and Paula, their son Joshua and their baby Saskia over for lunch. I cooked up some roast lamb on the weber, as always with weber cooked meals, it turned out great.

We’re already three weeks into the school term I think. Kinda bad because I’ve hardly advanced at all with catching up with school work. Not sure what I’ll do there. Yesterday it was Effie’s birthday (my brother Tim’s girlfriend), so I went over to their place and then we went to Strike on Chapel and then later I went back to sleep at their place, though now I’m home.

My life’s been generally bland these days. Shrug. What can I say? I’ve just been staying at home waiting for something to happen, but I don’t care. I’ve pretty much been doing nothing.

Hehe, okay I got that out of The Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator. It’s not quite how my life is, but you get the drift!

Usually I only update my Jog when there is something interesting to write about, however, sometimes when I have something interesting to write about I forget to update it anyway! So I’m going to break this rule just this once and update it without anything interesting….

Well anyway nothing interesting has happened since I updated it last Thursday. Friday I went to school for the morning, had physics then maths methods, before coming home at lunchtime. Got to drive for once since my mum didn’t need her car. Friday night I was feeling pretty tired so went to bed realitively early (well midnight). With the great weather we had on Saturday, I managed to clock up half an hour in the sun reading my physics book. With another fine day today I went over to East Burwood with my sister to do some shopping. And that wraps up my weekend. Nothing too interesting, aye?

Again, I’ve been slow to update my Jogger. My country is now officially at war and so has been the case for the past two weeks. Two weeks ago, the Americans would have has believe that it would be over in a matter of weeks. Now that only two weeks have past, it can clearly be seen that this ‘little’ war is going to drag on for months. Never the less, I didn’t agree with it in the first place. I can only see that it’ll add more fuel to the fire at the terrorist/extremist camps. Australia may already have been a terrorist target, however it can only help to breed more terrorists. The end result is that the Americans have dragged it’s allies to war with a war plan that has proven to be flawed. In a sense it’s ironic since the French are accusing the Americans and the Germans don’t want to go to war! Just as well the that these European counteries have some sense.

Overall the Americans are really to blame for getting us into this situation. The reason the Americans know that Iraq has the weapons of mass destruction is because they gave them to Iraq. Who do you think setup the Taliban? Well I’ll be damned, it was the Americans! It only angers me more that Australia has become involved in this affair. It’s he first time in the history of our country that Australia has been involved in starting a war. Thank god there is still such a thing as humour though. Little Johny’s blog is a sure crackup.

Asides from all this depressing business, I am only going on with life as usual. Didn’t do too well (C+) on my Physics SAC, though fortunately it only accounts for 3% of my marks in Physics. As for Specialist Maths I got 13/20 which I thought is pretty good, considering that I would have been doing one less subject if I didn’t do it. Apparently that will scale to about a B, though that depends on my total score at the end of the year. Fortunately there has not been a Maths Methods SAC yet. Enough about school anyway.

Today was a long day. Not only was it hot, but I have a cold and have had a headache all day. To top it off there was a Physics SAC today. I don’t think I did terribly well, although I did have something something to write for just about every question (albeit possibly random). It wasn’t helped by the fact that I wasn’t feeling well and I hadn’t been feeling well over the weekend, when I was supposed to study.

Last night I was scrounging around for a class photo from year 9. Finally I found that I didn’t have it on my computer or a CD-ROM as I had expected, though I found it was still on my old school’s network after all these years! I also found a year 10 one that was on my computer (but couldn’t find it last night because I had forgotten which form I was in, in yr 10!). Scary that one is because there were no chics in my class!!! It’s a little wonder that I never showed up for school in year 10. Well now seems like a good time to sleep.

Well yesterday’s bike ride was quite an adventure even though I’ve covered all the bike paths that we rode before.

Started out in South Yarra where Rebekah lives and also because we had to borrow a bike for her dutch friend Michael. By this time it was probably 4pm. Though a little incident did occur in Toorak Rd with a taxi driver who wasn’t watching where he was going, everything went fine and smooth.

Packing was where the fun begun. Between as we had to take beer, food, etc. Since I had two panniers, I was happy to take most of the load so I took a six pack of beer and a melways. The others took sausages, biscuits and salad in their backpacks.

We mainly followed the course of the Yarra (where the bike path goes alongside it) past the Carlton & United Breweries, past Dights Falls and through Fairfield Park until we got to the Yarra Flats Park in Heidelberg. In 1.5 hours we had covered approx 30km.

Arriving at the Yarra Flats, we decided that it was time to end our ride and have our barbecue. As it turned out though, the barbeques were wood fire barbeques. We were expecting electric barbecues! Fortunately a workman in the park lent us a lighter (it’s times like these that it’s good to have smokers around!) and not before long we had a fire going. As it turned out, my cooler bag, along with an esky ice-pack had kept our beer ice-cold. Nothing like sitting by a fire eating sausages and drinking beer!

Unfortunately, getting home by train wasn’t much fun. We ended up waiting for half an hour for a train at Heidelberg before we got off at Jolimont and rode to Richmond station in time to get a Frankston train to Hawksburn to take the borrowed bike back. After that I got to Richmond to wait another half hour for a train.

Well funny that… the last time I posted to jogger was at the end of my last holidays and well, I’m on holidays once again! Last Friday was officially my last day of school for the year with some annoying year 12 orientation day and even that was a week after I had any actual exams.

This week I got busy delivering pamphlets for Public Transport First. I got rid of 500 by letterboxing and 400 at Blackburn railway station between 7am and 9am yesterday morning. In total I got rid of 900 within 24 hours. As a result I got accused of being a hippy but I’ve never even hugged a tree in my life and I have no interest in that!

Last day of the holidays and I just found out I don’t have school tomorrow…. gotta love that… extended by one day!

Finally I was able to go on a tour of the Carlton & United Breweries today (along with my brother Tim). My question of the day was “you don’t get the water from the yarra do you?”. It was actually quite exciting, you get taken around the site in a little minibus, although it wasn’t a great distance there is a fair bit of traffic on the site and I spose they are also factoring for the slight chance that someone may turn up on the tour after a few too many beers!

Obviously the best part was at the end when we got to sample the beer. The beers that we sampled were (and in order):

1. Foster’s LightIce
2. Carlton Midstrength Bitter (I think?)
3. Carlton Draught (the one I liked best)
4. Carlton Black Ale

Who’s idea was it to ever combine bar with a 10 pin bowling alley? I’m sure I was aiming straight! But sure it was fun and all in all I was only a little tipsy, so really I wasn’t *that* bad…. and when I mean bad… this fat man next to us managed to land his bowling ball in the 3rd lane from his own and land himself flat on his belly on his own lane. Well now I’m back at my bro’s/his gf’s place and no one seems to be awake so guess I’ll be heading off to bed soon.