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Saturday 4 March 2000
Posted Mar 3, 2000
Contentment can be sought, but never reached: only found.
The day has dawned overcast, humid and warm. This is not good, because I have some washing which I need to hang out.
Benjamin Hoff* has a really good take on how life can be dealt with - perspective is all. Wu wei: do the least to achieve the most.
Rage is interesting at this time in the morning: the music "chart" is evidently a lot more than just the top ten!
The Hot-Dogging, Mountain-Biking Hero is set for a comeback sometime this weekend, probably - if only the weather clears enough that he can actually see the trails, and if only he manages to get his washing out first...
*The Tao of Pooh
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Wednesday 1 March 2000
Posted Mar 1, 2000
I'm feeling dangerously nihilistic and bored.
Weather is turning sunnier and less cloudy than previously.
I can't read what I'm writing.
My times to Woden are improving.
The gym is less interesting, and more prone to injure me, than usual.
My fingers have been hurting more than they should have for the last two weeks or so.
I'm less wealthy than I feel I should be...
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Sunday 27 February 2000
Posted Feb 27, 2000
Sunday night. The aftermath of a long and tiring weekend which involved social insecurity, lack of glycaemic control and alcohol in about equal measures. Much party was had.
Weather has been fairly uniformly awful for the last 24 hours or so: overcast, spotty rainy and cool. At least it was sunny for most of the actual party yesterday.
Finished up again sleeping fully clothed with one of the gruesome foursome from the last party, who gave me a lift home this morning and loitered for a few hours while being "hyper" on alcohol and adrenalin. This is becoming disconcertingly like a habit, but that first morning coffee tasted very good.
Hangovers are still bad, but this message will probably have cycled off the screen before the next one arrives...
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Friday 25 February 2000
Posted Feb 25, 2000
It's early Friday morning, and as I sit at my desk, looking out the window at the ‘quiet' suburban neighbourhood of Dickson, the road past my window is as clogged as any major Asian urban thoroughfare. The traffic will quiet down in a little while, I don't doubt, but there are still far too many cars on the road, polluting, colliding, making noise and stinking. Most of the cars that there are outside my window have fewer than two people in them, which is, fundamentally, a waste of resources.
Being a cyclist, and never having had a driver's licence myself, I am suspicious (at best) of drivers anyway. I tend to find that a lot of what they claim to be able to use their vehicles for, I do anyway, with just as little trouble and with far fewer personal and environmental consequences. I find car drivers incredibly selfish road users, far more willing to take something they want than acknowledge another's right of way. When they hit things with cars or motorcycles, as they all too often do, they damage them - possibly irreparably, which is not much good if what they hit, as is often the case, is people.
I do not claim that cars should not be used, nor that there is no place for them on city streets - all I ask is that the consequences of car use be sheeted home to the users.
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Wednesday 23 February 2000
Posted Feb 23, 2000
Today has been an interesting day. Four fifths of all the money I had has been whisked away over the last five days in what I, and my bank, believe to be credit card (or debit card, to be strictly accurate) fraud. There is no evidence that this is actually the case, of course, and there is no way to know how it really happened without doing a lot of investigation, but the card itself was in my possession the whole time that somebody else was using nearly two thousand dollars worth of my money. Visa are investigating, and I personally suspect an employee of one of the places where my card has recently been used, but further developments await us!
The weather, in a fitting tribute to such life exigencies, has been glowering: overcast, warm and prone to light and humourless rain.
In other news, I have had a succession of illnesses, including sinus congestion (why do these things happen in what is meant to be the middle of Summer?) and a cold. I have worked my body almost as hard as I can work it, to the point where it is only just functional, at present. My age is, I suspect, not wholly a product of my imagination, nor of unwarranted exaggeration on my part. BodyCombat* has been more difficult, rather than less - could this have been something to do with the fact that I wasn't drunk when I've tried it recently?
I really wish I had a job at times like this!
The sequel to my last journal entry about the "fun, but weird" weekend will also happen this weekend. I will acquaint the expectant millions with what occurs...
*Note corrected spelling!
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