The adventures of Almigo

In one of our last Flashback posts for the month, we check out the time when I was amused by what I found in a Spotlight store... In casa de Almigo, we have two places we go when the creative/handy person mood suddenly strikes. For me it's the nearest hardware store (like Bunnings) where I can quite happily drift aimlessly amongst the shelves, thinking that it can't be all that difficult to build your own pergola with the right tools, some wood and half a slab of Barecove Raddler (they've changed thier name! This bares investigating!) Easy with some beer! For the finance (yeah, thankfully she did say yes when I put a ring on it) that store is Spotlight, where everything can be built with a sewing needle, a staple gun and rolls of fabric, provided someone shows you how to first. Today was no different as we roamed the store of 99% women in search of shiny things that would make her handmade engagement party invitations take a big hot flying dump on any you could...

Oh dear, it seems I've broken my own cardinal rule this week: Never buy any technology brand new. Not when you can get it much cheaper a generation (or two) later.. What? This isn't old technology! I've bought a brand new laptop. There goes the neighborhood..

Ahh it's June Flashback time. And once upon a time I thought it might be a good idea to try my hand...as a movie reviewer. This looks interesting...

(Taking a quick break from the June Flashbacks today before I forget what I was going to write about...) If there's one downside (and depending on your situation, it can be a BIG downside) on being slightly knowledgeable when it comes to both computers and automotive thingamajigs, it's that more often than not you'll suddenly find yourself playing tech support when you least expect it. This can be for family, friends, work colleagues, hell even the homeless bloke who yells at invisible people who has a smart phone for some reason. I'm unofficial tech support using tools I've stolen borrowed from professionals, coupled with minutes of learning straight from Google. And my guarantee is that if I can't fix it, you probably should've found someone with half a clue first ;)   It's not sexy work. No woman will throw themselves at a guy who sorts out their email problems and now my wife doesn't bat an eyelid when I bravely dive into the router to clea...

As part of our ongoing Flashback series this month here at Almigo's Adventures, today we cringingly go back to a time where we didn't know who we were actually interviewing.. Expert on texas rodeos.

Flashback month continues at full steam with today's look back at a time when I was sorely disappointed the TV series Heroes was cancelled..(Actually I feel the same today)..

In today's June Flashback we harp back to a time when attempting to impress Kesha/Ke$sha was all the rage... Current outdated Ke$ha impress techniques failing to fire? Not sure what will be the 'deal clincher' when it comes to getting Ke$ha's attention? Going to be stuck in a situation where a handy guide to impressing singer Ke$ha might actually be useful? Well you're in luck my star struck fan - here's 5 ways you can gain her attention, impress her at the same and hopefully spark up a conversation* Currently unimpressed - quick, read the guide! *Once potential conversation has started, you're on your own.

This month we jump back into the time machine and reminisce over old posts with a glass of brandy in front of a warm fire. This time around it was a time where I attempted to be this bloke: 

June is Flashback month, the time were we look back at some old posts from another of my (now defunct) blogs. In today's Flashback we return to a time when there was only one bag of fruit in the whole house.. I could count on one hand the number of suits that currently hang in my wardrobe – and still have enough fingers to play pretty much most of what my guitar teacher has been showing me. Because in a world of high fashion, I have but one entry in the suit stakes. Suits you sir!

In today's June Flashback, we revisit my intense hatred of one particular piece of xmas music... To Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas is you' played in shopping centers the country over during December, Australian's say no... This is Wayne Carey, no relation. 

June here is Flashback month and today we revisit my helpful guide to make your radio demo actually a worthwhile  exercise .. Make your demo tape really sing. Put your best stuff on first. If you make it to the interview stage, wear a tie. Be prepared to travel. Bribe the program director. Remember that you might not get a reply back for a while… I learnt all that helpful stuff on how to land a job in radio 10 years ago as a just-finished-being-pimply teenager in radio school, ready to take the world on. The course had finished, I bought a stack of blank tapes (yeah CD burning hadn’t really taken off by then), borrowed the family mobile phone in case anyone called with a red hot offer and then proceeded to flood every station within a 1000km radius with tapes, resumes and even Kit Kat’s to try and land that all important first gig.

In our lastest June Flashback, we harp back to a time when I was the happy owner of an HTC Wildfire. I remember I didn't stay happy for long...

I'm dedicating the entire month of June to Flashbacks: Hitting the blogging time machine and exploring what I was rambling on about many moons ago on a different (and now defunct) site. For our first foray into my past, it's all about moving into the house I had just taken out a life changing loan on... It wasn't a typical house move, it was a bloodbath. Mine mainly as my lifeforce ended up on both the washing machine and fridge to add a splash of colour to the otherwise dirty off white. But that's what you get when you try to wrestle heavy white goods off a truck and you're not as built as the truck you tackled it off. Still aside from the shredded skin, gouges and half destroyed pack of bandaids - I can happily report that Operation Mansion Move (with thanks to the better half and her parents and their Deathtruck 2000) was a raging success. I'm now in my mansion, I'm now unpacking in my mansion and gosh darnit, it brings a wet eyeball of happiness ...