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Hahaha... Well, I never!
Posted Feb 16, 2003
So I gave up the smokes, I exercise now, I'm having a career plan and I've been overseas. Who said, "If you're not a rebel at 20, you've got no heart. If you haven't gone establishment by 30, you've got no brains"?
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Premature happiness
Posted Oct 2, 2000
How stoked am I? It looks like I might have made the pub turn a profit for the first time in two years. And I've only been there for three months. I knew I could do it, but I didn't think I'd be able to until about November. Which means that by November the place'll be raking it in.
No extra cash for me though. Ah well. Mebbe next year.
I got invited to the launch of WINTV's launch of it's cricket season coverage, so in a couple of weeks I'm going to have a few beers with Dougie Walters and the fat man Merv. Beer and cricket. Woohoo!!!!
AND I've got two of the things done that Dragonfly said I had to do.
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Off the holiday now.
Posted May 5, 2000
So I've been going a bit wild. Okay, a lot wild. I've probably ruined Australia's reputation forever in the minds of the backpackers around here, but somebody's gotta hate us besides the Sth African cricket team.
But it's all over now. Okay, two days from now. Tomorrow night I'm probably going to get v e r y s l o p p y. It's my last night at the fun, easygoing, busy, physical stress-free George Public Bar. I think my boss there has left me an unlimited tab to drink when I finish. Ouch.
But then, on Monday, I start building an empire. In Victoria, where I live, the brewing giant is CUB and everyone was brought up on their beer. In the rest of the country, Lion Nathan is the market leader. They've always had their eye on Victoria though and are just starting an enormous push into pubs here. They've bought around half of them and most of them are great pubs.
I've been put in charge of one that was, until a month ago, a strip club. A SEEDY strip club. Right now it's probably one of the dodgiest pubs in Melbourne. There is still a lot of 'personal services' gear upstairs. Including a spa (which I plan to make my office 
).
I get a big BIG budget to turn it into one of the 'it' places in the very centre of town. And very little time. And a LOT of pressure. It's going to be FUN! If I can do that then I'm the front runner to be the head of Lion Nathan's entire in a few years. Akin to being the state head of Coca-cola or Ford. Well, maybe not. But I'll definately win a lot of favour.
If I can stay off the piss (relatively).
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I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers...
Posted Feb 5, 2000
Haven't put a journal entry up for a while. I guess I should.
Like I should be applying for the job in the paper last week, filling in the insurance claim form, filling in the loan application form, finishing a painting, and washing the car.
Of the above I will probably only finish the painting and wash the car today. For some reason it is raining dirt lately.
I have jury duty on tuesday. I don't know why. I thought they only picked old buggers. Old RESPONSIBLE buggers. Not some guy in his twenties that doesn't care about, at last count, anything. Except his bad-taste car, which has been unrepairably smashed.
Benn working a lot lately. By this I mean physically in a flat-out sweat-pit of a bar with a cooling system comprising of a single fan. In 35-40 deg heat, for 8-10 hour shifts with NO BREAK. At least now I'm fitter than ever and my small beer-tum has disappeared.
I spent Wednesday night as the cook. Five hours over the grill in 37 deg heat outside which made it about 45 where I was. Almost set a record for the most amount of money the kitchen took in a night. A paltry $6 off. Spent most of the night singing a Whitlams song:
I make HAM burgers,
I get all the girls,
And I take them out to dinner,
If they work I keep 'em,
If they don't I keep 'em too,
And I teach 'em all how to be d-d-d-d-d-dirty girls...
Which is true, except for anything to do with girls. Didn't have time to so much as perve.
Speaking of which, I've been at this job for nearly two months now and I haven't yet become involved in a tawdry affair with one of the bar girls (Anyone who knows me and is reading this would probably be pissing themselves laughing right now. I have done this.....a few times ). Why is it always bar girls? NEVER customers, okay a few times, but almost always bar girls. At least this time I'm not their boss, which takes a bit of the tawdriness out of it. Damn.
Painting's going obscenely well. I'm doing stuff now that even I think is F%#king good. I'm going to have to sell some soon. That tarot card reader three years ago was right. I AM going to be world famous in six years time. The trouble is, now I've become OBSESSED by it. I think about painting now ALL the time. Except when I'm painting.
I'd better go wash the car and go to work.
I make HAM burgers...
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Interstate road trip.
Posted Dec 24, 1999
The car: A 1980 CM Valiant. (Plymouth in the US)
Colour: Banana Yellow.
Distance: 3000 km
Optional Extras: Extractors, wide tyres, mags, mirror ball, tiger skin seat covers, mahogany steering wheel, a James Brown tape.
Reason: A couple of beers. A bit of a swim.
Time allowed: A week-ish.
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