Well it's been an eventful 11 days away from the microphone, I spent a few hours waiting in line at the local Emergency Department while Lu took on a bunch of wasps...and lost.
GETTING USED TO THIS?
Maybe it was tiredness (all those sleep ins?) or possibly general acceptance of what I do now, but I didn't have fever clad dreams of missing my alarm(s) after 11 days of holidays. I was woken by my daughter coughing a few times (damn bug going around) and the cat doing the stupid cat dance an hour before it went off but when the alarm did finally sound, I wasn't shocked wide awake in a state of confusion really to hurl the obnoxious noise maker through the nearest wall.
Look at me, this new gig really has taken hold hasn't it?
I MENTIONED IT BRIEFLY
Not once but two visits to Albury hospitals Emergency Department over the last one and a bit weeks: the first for a migraine that confused the poor kid to no end and then back again because Jack couldn't keep anything down.
Sadly because this second instance is a sign of possible Covid, understandably it wasn't high on the Emergency list even though he was all clear on the rapid antigen test. This meant the more important cases came in, the further down the list we went. Doubly so if there was a motor vehicle accident and since it was a busy Friday night, we weren't going to be seeing anyone in a hurry.
So after watching one of the Planet of The Apes movies on the nearby TV, we decided after a few hours it was time to go and headed home instead for some much needed rest. Thankfully this proved to be the best idea ever and he's well and truly back on his feet.
(And a shout out to the team at the hospital too for doing what they could on a truly nightmarish night case wise. Given how much was going on in that waiting room, I could only imagine what was happening behind the scenes.)
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - HERE'S A MANGLED CAN
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| And not something as classy as this Nancy Whitehead painting either! |
Donna and I hit ten years married during my mini holiday break and after researching the gift for the year (10 year is tin or aluminum) I thought it would be quite clever to craft up 10 roses out of some spare aluminum cans.
Clever yes, effective no as each of my attempts looked like a high speed motor accident. And this was after three different tutorials on how to do it too. It would start off well, end up looking nothing like a rose or even anything flower related and hit the bin sooner than you could say 'well that didn't go well did it?'
The material constantly curled the wrong way and tried to lacerate me on more than on occasion. The glue didn't stick, it just burnt my fingers and after three hours of trying I threw the whole lot and the general idea in the bin.
We settled on takeaway pasta for an anniversary dinner instead (Jack was still sick) and unlike my brilliant rose idea, this worked and still looked like pasta when it finally arrived...
STUNG ON THE BUM
Well that's life on the farm for you isn't it? Move some cows, get murdered by wasps. While on the lookout for snakes (it's the season!) Lu accidentally trod on a wasp hive and the swarm immediately pronounced 'Vendetta!' as homicidal wasps are known to do and then attempted to sting her eyeballs into submission. They failed to do that however but got her in the chest, the arms, the neck and one ear.
Oh and the bum. And wasp stinger straight to the rear end.
So she danced the dance of the furious swat, hiked back to the house, pulled angry wasps from her hair, loaded up on anti-histamines and then got straight back to the task at hand. Those cows aren't going to herd themselves you know!
FASCINATING FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS
As we chatted to Malky about TV shows I mentioned the Secrets of the Playboy Mansion doco series looked good. And when I say looked good, I mean in a 'good God almighty, how deep does this twisted rabbit hole go?'
Because here's another in depth look at a man once idolized by many in Hugh Hefner who turned out to be a massive dick to women and not in the way he was hoping. The dark stuff that was happening at the mansion was overlooked and hushed up at the time but now the stories are coming to not only draw the curtain back but rip it right off the curtain rail. And there's a lot of stories, a lot of dirt, a lot of murk to wade through.
(And if you love stuff like this, I'd also like to recommend the 3 parter about actor Steven Segal that the Dollop Podcast have created. From all the lies to the way he dealt with people - especially women - his mob connections to the story about being a dog, there's so much bizarre here and I've still got one episode to go! And to think I was a fan of his work once upon a time..)
TOMORROW IT GOES TO THE GAMES
We're giving away more copies of Border Monopoly, a version of the classic board game where all the properties and tokens are local and have been nominated by fans of the show.
You can't buy these in store, you've got to win one.
And if you win one, you're in the running to play our giant version coming up next month where the ultimate winner walks away with $10,000!
Now that's one game of Monopoly you're not going to forget anytime soon!
Chat then!
-Almigo
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