Oh GEES!  I wandered into NERD STORE tonight!!!!

Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself … let me start from the beginning.

At first there was nothing, only void … oh wait, I’ve gone too far back.  Let me start from this morning.

I woke up … wait, I’ll fast forward a little … just before leaving to go to work this morning I informed my mother I was going to be a bit late as I was going to a farewell drinks for a guy names Scott.  So, at 4:30PM I wandered out of work to a pub called Tiger Lil’s on Murray Street.   Scott actually bought me a lemonade and then my brother Paul turned up and he also bought me a lemonade.  I got off without buying anyone a drink … though when I went to get the first lemonade I was also buying some drinks for other people when Scott passed me a Tiger Lil’s card.  I thought it was a discount card or something, so I was standing there with my money ready when I was told to put it away as the Tiger Lil’s card is like a TAB.  So Scott actually bought the drinks … and I looked like an idiot standing there with money in his hands for no reason!  lol
Anywat, ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’ was playing on the TV above the bar, and I started talking to one of my co-workers who is also an Asian movie fan.  After Jay Chow got himself killed off etc in the movie the next movie which came on was House of Flying Daggers.  Funny, I own both those movies on DVD yet had trouble keeping my eyes off the screen.  lol

But, I decided to leave as it was getting VERY packed in the pub and I also wanted to hit Borders book store.  I’d received a voucher for my B’day this year worth $50 and have been meaning to spend it before it runs out.  So, off to borders I went.  Along the way I remembered I’d promised my brother Jeff that I’d buy him a packet of mixed dice from a store called ‘Tactics’ in London Court.

So, I wandered off to London Court and found the little stairwell which leads down to Tactics.  As I got to the bottom of the stairs I was surprised to see a little room with about twenty or so young guys.  At first I thought I was in the wrong place.  There were tables and chairs set up, and one guy was standing at the front calling out a list of names and chair numbers.

I was about to ask someone if the ‘Tactics’ shop was one of the door sbehind them, when I saw a guy exit one of them.  He squeeeezed his way through the crowd and past me.  I then squeeeeezed my way past the same guys and into the store.  Quite a large store too.

Just inside the door was the packets of mixed dice Jeff had asked me to get.  I bought a red and a blue packet as I didn’t know which colour he’d want.  [He kept the blue packet, so I now own the red one].  By mixed dice I don’t mean lots of different six sided dice (your regular ‘let’s play Monopoly / RIsk / Trouble / Ludo’ sort of dice).  This one consisted of several different sided dice, from the pyramidal four sided, to the dodecahedron of the twenty sided dice.  (Basically, you got a 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 20 sided dice, plus a ten sided dice which rather than incrementing in ones … like 1, 2, 3, etc, increments in tens, like 10, 20, 30, etc  It’s used for percentile dice with the other ten sided) .

I then decided to take a wander about the store, seems as I am a keen gamer (having started wargaming when I was about 15 or 16 years old … not including chess which I started a lot younger).  I thought it might be a good place to find a copy of Talisman or Nuclear War (two nice fast games from my youth).  I did find a copy of Talisman, but it was AUD$150.  OUCH!  Wish I got it when I was younger.  It only cost about AUD$20 or something when it first came out.  lol

There were lots of miniatures and books.  Books on battles,  tactics, army uniforms (for making your plastic / tin soldiers look correct).  Heaps of NEW games from some companies I’d never heard of before. Lots of games which used to cost about AUD$10 when I was younger, but now cost an arm and a leg!  Geees, I know the prices started to increase when I was younger, but at least they were still affordable to a young guy with little income.  Now they cost a weeks wages to purchase!!!  OMGoodness, Chocolate BBQ@!!!!

Whilst looking around, the store guy behind the counter started talking to some other nerd in the store.  I mean, these two guys were NERDS with a capital NERD!!!!  Oh gees, they were talking ‘monster statistics’ or ‘hero statistics’ from some stupid game.  I mean, I don’t care if Ragnar the Destroyer has 25 strength and a special hit ability when fighting chaos monsters … or if the Nadyar Globular creature from Gooble Gooble has a saving throw better than any other monster!  The whole conversation sounded  so NERDY … and at the end of it the customer guy goes, ‘So why are we talking about this? I don’t actually own that game.’  Oh Ka-Fooook!!!!!!  The whole thing sounded contrived as it was happening anyway.  I had this feeling it was like, ‘Hey, there’s a new guy in the store.  Let’s try to impress him with our amazing ability to spout off meaningless statistics we’ve memorised that can easily be looked up anyway!!!’

But, I digress … oh wait, no I didn’t, that was tonights topic.  lol

Anywat, I felt a little uncomfortable in there whilst they were talking.  I did see an amazing thing too.  I was surprised to see a GIRL in the store.  Now admittedly she was in there with her BF and they both looked like nerds, so she was probably a nerd.

I will say this about the store though, it did carry an impressive range of stock.  A lot of the stuff I’d only seen on the internet.   I have to admit I only found out about the store as my brother Jeff told me about it recently.  I might go back and have a better look when I have money (or if I get a GF willing to go in there so that I can show off the fact I can actually GET a GF … well, okay, I can’t at the moment.  But I have had them in the past and I’ve been married, which is closer than most of them will ever get to a girl they didn’t have to pay for!  lol)

My next stop was Borders books.  This is what I picked up:

Kitchen - by Banana Yoshimoto thingy lady!

N.P. - also by Banana Papaya What’s her face.  I had to get them fter so many people said not to read her!  lol
The Plague  - Albert my last name sounds like camel a bit Camus.  A book I’ve been meaning to buy for a while.

Wild Sheep Chase - by Hakuri Dakuri Dock , three mouse ran up a clock, Murakami.  Manly as there were so many bad reviews by bloggers for this one too.  lol

Gai-Jin - by James ‘who hasn’t read my book “Shogun” must DIE!!!’ Clavell.  (He also wrote the screen play for ‘The Great Escape’)

I’ve started reading Kitchen, which I am enjoying inspite of everyones best efforts to give the Banana lady bad reviews.  lol

My knee was playing up when I got home and my mother pointed out that rain was on its way!  lol

Darn it, my knee is a barometer.  Actually, it was playing up on the way to work as well.  I\\\’m seriously considering having the Doctor look at it.  I haven\\\’t been able to exercise because of it and it has been a while since it collapsed when I got off the bus.  I haven\\\’t touched the Wii Fit either in that time … argh!!!  It\\\’s bad when you can\\\’t have fun with fun stuff you\\\’ve bought because of a stupid knee injury from over ten years ago.  Actually, my shoulder is playing up too … that\\\’s an injury from over twenty years ago.  Is this what old age has in store for me, sitting around complaining about my dumb injuries as they torment me?  Well, hopefully not.  That\\\’s why it might be best to bite the bullet and see the Doctor.

I\\\’ve always secretly been hoping my body would naturally heal itself.  If the Doctor decides an operation is needed, then it might be a long few months of hobbling around with a cane.  (I know, my Canadian friend Brandon told me about his knee operation).

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I\\\’d like to review a few movies I\\\’e seen and liked.  First was a movie called \\\’Lars and the Real Girl\\\’.   This came out in Aussie in April this year.  I don\\\’t know if it was released in Malaysia, but was released in Singapore October last year.  [That\\\’ll confuse my Malaysian readers if the movie never gets released there].

Anywat, movie is basically about a guy named Lars.  He\\\’s sort of a loner who has some social awkwardness.  (Okay, that might be an understatement).  He orders a doll off the internet and starts a meaningful relationship with her.  Even though it\\\’s a \\\’sex doll\\\’, he never intends to use her that way.  To him it is the woman of his dreams.

A comedy / drama, I found it quiet moving.  It was well acted and if you happen to be a guy … um … maybe you might like to skip it unless you like \\\’girlie flicks\\\’.  I wouldn\\\’t call it a \\\’girlie flick\\\’ though … but, it is a touchy feely movie when the jokes aren\\\’t coming.  I like \\\’girlie flicks\\\’ and the occassional \\\’touchy feely\\\’ thing, so I really enjoyed seeing it.

*****
Another movie I\\\’ve seen, this one more in tune with what Guys would want to see, was \\\’Wanted\\\’.   Based on a comic book (Gees, can\\\’t Hollywood think of an original idea without raping more comics or anime?), some of the scenes REALLY need the good old \\\’suspension of belief\\\’ in order to take the movie seriously.

Other than that, it was a really nice fast moving movie.  Lots of action.  Lots of good lines.  My favourite was this one:

\\\’You know when you have a dream and you\\\’re half-awake, but still in the fringe of your brain, and when you open your eyes you\\\’re so damn glad it was a dream?  This was nothing like that! \\\’

It has a nice pace, Angelina Jolie, fast cars, lots of action and … more. {I don\\\’t want to say too much as it might ruin it}.   Thoroughly recommended for people who like action/thriller films.

On the bus today we started discussing bucks night.  I always felt that I got off quite easy on my bucks night … well, actually I escaped.  lol

I’m sure I’ve blogged about my bucks night previously … but, let me fill you in on a few other peoples bucks nights that I know about (though I wasn’t at all of them).

When my old drummer Mark got married, there had been two fatal bucks nights previously that month.  Both very sad incidents.  However, his brothers and friends, being the way they are, decided to tease him a LOT about doing similar things.  This got Mark all worried that he might end up dead by the end of the night.

Sometime that night Mark got an eye brow shaved off.  For weeks people would look at him and not know exactly WHAT was different about him, but his face sort of looked strange.  lol  He was also made to run through the Airport tunnel in his boxer shorts.

Mark got off lightly, my friend Rosco had to do the Airport tunnel run completely nude.  I wasn’t there to witness it, but plenty of cars drove past beeping.  Ah, what our friends do to us when we get married.
Another poor soul (whose name I will withhold) ended up getting tied up in a dress outside his girlfriends house.  After a few hours his friends went back and took the dress away and wrote over his naked body in permanent marker.  Some of the things were quiet disgusting and if her parents had of seen him they probably would have had a heart attack.

At another friends bucks night (I left early in the night), one of the guys from my football team (we used to call him day release), got drunk and tried to start fights with team members.  Why was he called Day Release?  Well, he was a violent drunk.  He’s the sort of person who shouldn’t drink as they just start fights.  He missed games or turned up late for them (or training) as he was in the slammer for being in fist fights the night before.

Now … back to the ones which resulted in death.  I can’t think of many worse tragedies to befall a person than losing the one they love just before they get married.  Yet, some bozo’s do silly things.  The reason they stick in my mind is they happened so close together.  Not that I remember the details of one of them (darn, old age).  But, the other one was a total smeg up!  What happened is they got the buck so totally drunk that he could hardly move.  Then, they got a chain and wrapped it around his legs and threw him off a bridge and into a river.  The best man THOUGHT the buck would just unwind the chain and swim to the surface.  Unfortunately they’d got the guy so drunk he wasn’t able to and drowned.  (Happened before the internet so unable to find a link to the story).

Anywat, the thing I find stupid about bucks nights is the fact that friends ‘torture’ the buck in the name of ‘humour’.  I’ve been to a LOT of very pleasant bucks nights where the night was great and the buck was treated with respect.  We didn’t find the need to get the buck plastered, we didn’t need to do stupid things to them, and we didn’t need to torture or humiliate them.  I was even at a bucks night where a few in the group proposed doing stupid things to the buck and I told them they’d have to travel through me first … they basically said that they were going to do the same to me as they were going to do to the buck, but other friends also stood up and said the same as me … till eventually the ‘you’ll have to go through me first’ actually outnumbered the ‘lets humiliate the buck’ guys.  It’s wonderful to have friends that respect you enough to stand up for you and ensure that your last night as a single man is a fantastic experience surrounded with friends and fun.
On another note, I did quiet often get invited along to hens nights as well.  lol

Had the phone go off at 8AM this morning.  As I went to pick it up it stopped ringing.  Eventually it went off at about 10AM.  Was the art place in Sydney phoning to advise me of the cost of shipping.  On the website it did say they’d confirm, as they had a price of anything under 2kg as $25 or something, but everything over as having to be worked out.  I was expecting something more expensive.  The girl embarrassedly asked if $30 was Okay for shipping.  (ROFL).  I said it was.   Apparently, she was the person who phoned at 8AM, but she thought I might still be asleep and apologised.  lol She also thought it was 7AM here when she phoned.

Had a good day.  In fact, I was laughing almost all day with my co-worker Karen.  She is so funny.    She usually sits on a floor two below mine, but as she’s going away to do some training I am going to take over part of her job whilst she is away.  So, today we spent the entire time training me up on doing the job.

I’m not sure what anyone else on the floor thought of us, but we were laughing so much and so hard all day, trading jokes backwards and forth.  By 3:30PM we’d finished and I was surprised at how fast the day had gone.  In fact, I think we originally assumed the training was going to go into tomorrow as well, but seems we got it all sorted out.

She was feeling rather sore because she’d run a marathon on the weekend.  Talk about opposites.  lol  She’s thin and I know some of the guys have crushes on her.  (Well, one that left recently was ALWAYS raving on about how hot she was!)  lol  I’m short and fat and if I believe what people put in the ‘compare me’ application in face book, I have 0% people who want to sleep with me or even date me.  lol

My stats are something like this:

GOOD STUFF:
Nicer Smelling;  Nicer; More Entertaining; More Famous; Better Taste in Music; Better Friend; More Punctual; People are More Jealous of me, Smarter.  lol

BAD STUFF:

Apparently I’d make an appalling father!!!  Obviously I need to send THOSE voters to their room!  ; I’m NOT a good catch!  (AWWWWW!  Just insult me behind me back!!!); Not very naturally talented!  (AWWWW COME ON!!!!); Not Popular; Not Cute; Not Cuddly; (Awww, come on, ask somene who has actually cuddled me!); Least Creative (Let me burn my music and art work NOW!); Least Atheletic … well, I’ll wear that one!  lol; Least like to date; Not Sexy; Not Loyal (WHAT???); Not tech Saavy (Hello, Computer!!!); Rather Not Sleep with; Not Attractive; Not a good Body; Not very polite (WHAT???); Can’t Dance; Can’t make people laugh; No one wants to kiss; Bad listener; least likely to succeed; Least Generous (lol OMGoodness!); Least Confident; Ugly Eyes; Bad hair; lousey smile; and no one wants to travel with me!!!!

Now that REALLY makes my ego feel good about itself, NOT!!!!! lol  Oh well, I guess that’s life.  Play with subjective applications and what you get back is peoples honest views.  lol
I could have added more, but I discluded the ones with very few votes on them.  lol  Otherwise there would be a plethora of OTHER bad things to add to the list … and one good thing.  Apparently I wouldn’t skip class.  lol  (Says someone has NEVER known me from my University days … even the classes I attended I had a habit of sleeping in.) 

But, if you happen to be on Facebook and doing the ‘Compare Friends’ thing, just remember to vote to make me look good.  (Okay, you don’t have to lie! Just embellish the truth … a lot.) lol

Selamaaaaaaaatttttt Paaaaagiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Saya suka teman gila gila!!!

Selamat Menyambut Hari Merdeka.

Saya sayang awak!!!  But not as much as pizza!!! 
Have a good one Malaysia! 

Canadia is a Provence of America north of everything.  Today in Canadia they are celebrating ‘Point out everyone’s Bald Spot’s Day’.  Three tourists unfortunately have been eaten by polar bears whilst pointing at their bald spots.  The Canadia Television News said this was Okay as they were from a country down south called Arizona.  The bears have asked that someone please put them down.

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Meanwhile, seems we are on the topic of Iceland, I can confirm that I am now in possession (or is it re-possession?) of my trench coat.  Detective Samuel Spud would be proud … if he cared.

Way it went was this:

Got on the bus this morning.  Asked Michael Jackson if he’d happened to have picked up my trench coat.  He said he hadn’t and if he’d realised I’d left it he would have picked it up for me.   I got to work, but it was still too soon to phone the depot to see if they had it.  So, I started to work … and work … and then at 11:30 I suddenly remembered about my coat!  OMGOodness, Chocolate BBQ!!!!!!

So, I phoned the depot and the girl confirmed they had my coat there.  As I was at work and couldn’t get to the depot during the usually nine to five business hours that their office is open I phoned my brother at home.  I described the coat for him in case he was asked anything about it.  I didn’t hear back from him all day, so I knew he’d got it Okay.

I arrived home and I couldn’t see my coat.  So I asked Jeff if he’d gone and got it.  My mother then told me that the depot didn’t have my coat.  I told they did and asked where it was again.  lol  My mother then smiled and admitted she couldn’t keep a straight face.  I knew they’d got the coat, because if Jeff hadn’t of they’d both be in a panic about how to explain it to me and probably would ahve phoned me at work.  lol

*****

Tomorrow I’ll try to fix my car and use it for the THIRD time this year.  I’ve got to go in search of A0 and A1 paper for my art work.  I better have a good read of what I need, because I don’t want to spend too much time going back and forth to the city for art supplies on weekends.  I also want to hit Borders and buy some books with my gift voucher from my birthday.
Hmmm, which books to buy.  I really need to keep track of which  ones I own so I don’t double up on them.  Sometimes I can’t remember if I borrowed one from the library & read it or bought it & read it.  lol  The reason my brothers family bought me the Borders book voucher is because I’d given them a long list of Japanese Authors and their books that I wanted.  Since then I lost the list.  lol

Actually … if I’m going to take forever to select books in the city I might forget about driving in and just take the train.  That way I can also hit the Library, JB Hi-Fi for Anime and DVD’s plus any whre else I decide to go. 

Every now and then even I do something REALLY STUPID!

Today, I got off the bus and left my BIG WARM COAT on the BUS!!!!!!  BOdoh Dabido!  Baka Dabido!!!!

I got home and smiling at my stupidity told my mother and brother [who were already seated at the table and eating dinner] what had happened.  My mother then started yelling that I had to go catch the bus and get my coat back else I’d never see it again.  My brother lept up and ran for his car keys.  I was trying to explain it wasn’t that big a deal.  I could always phone the depot, or if I was lucky my friend Michael Jackson might have picked it up for me.  [I love using his full name!] 

Meanwhile, Jeff had grabbed the keys, beaten me out the door.  I followed him and we drove off.  He was sort of panicking and driving fast and I told him to slow down and take it easy.  I had strange visions of us both getting killed over a stupid coat.  Fortunately he listened and slowed down.  I explained to him the coat did not matter that much.  I can always buy a new one.
We got to the Train Station (where the bus was heading for after dropping me off), but found it had already left.  *sigh*

So, back home I went and started to look up the depot phone number on the internet.  I could hear my mother yelling in the back ground.  Something about me having lost that coat for good etc.  The transperth website said to contact the contractor who provides the buses, so I was looking them up.  My brother came in and wanted to know why I wasn’t on the Transperth site.  I explained I was looking up the contractor who ran the buses.  I had to backtrack to prove to him what te site said about contacting the contractor.  He then left and I started to navigate away from the page again … in came my mother and wanted to know why I wasn’t on the transperth site!  *SIGH*  So, I had to back track to explain to her what I was doing.

I got the phone number fo the depot and phoned, but it was too late, they had gone home for the day.

My mother and brother were still going on about the coat.  My brother suddenly turned around and said, ‘You know what?  I’m the only one who didn’t panic over this.’   By this stage I was getting irritated over the whole thing.  So I pointed out that I was the one who had to ask him to slow down in the car.!  *sigh*

Anywat, I’ll check to see if my friend Michael Jackson has the coattomorrow on the bus, and if he didn’t pick it up for me, I’ll phone the depot once I get to work.  *sigh*  All this over a stupid coat I can easily buy a replacement for.  Plus, it doesn’t fit me stomach anymore anyway!  lol  I can’t even button the thing up! 

Some of my regular readers might remember me writing about my mother having a slight car accident.  You might also remember me saying that from my mothers description it seemed the other car was at fault.  Anywat, she heard back from the Insurance today, as she contacted both the police and the insurance company about the car.  Apparently the license plate the other car had on it doesn’t exist.  They can’t find any trace of the guys in the car nor the car or anything.

My mother suspects that this [as well as them causing the accident], is why they were in such a hurry and pretending they couldn’t speak English (even after one of them accidentally said they could).  So, probably a person driving without a license in an unregistered car who caused an accident and left my poor mother on the side of the road with no one to help.

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Oh … sometime today my hit counter went over 200,000!!!!

Hits since October 2nd 2006
Total Hits: 200123
Hits today: 348

So, thanks to all my readers!    I’ve managed more than 100,000 hits on average per year since I started counting. 

Now, here is a little twist on the trip to KL in December (December 30 to January 12th … or 13th … ).  I’ll be flying in on Air Asia in the morning of the 30th (I hope.  Still trying to find my passport to book the flights!!!)  Yes, I do want to go to a NYE party like last year.  Thanks for asking! 
BUT, I’m wondering if during my stay there if anyone wants to do a day trip to Penang or a trip to Kuching?

Is a day trip plausible?  One hour to get on the flight, 45 minutes to Penang, hang out all day, then hour at the airport to get on the return flight and  back to KL to sleep????  Of course, people in Penang or Kuching, I expect you to remain where you are.    No running away just because I am heading there.  [You can hide in the jungle like the rest of the people!] 
Of course, with almost two weeks in Malaysia,  if enough people in Kuching and Penang want to meet up, then maybe I should book a hotel and stay over night or something.

Of course, having travelling blog buddies would also be nice as well.  So, maybe if we fill the plane up and all head to Penang and then Kuching! 

I don’t know how much the tax is to travel interstate in Malaysia, but it basically doubles the airfare from Perth … butI suspect the taxis more than the airfare, as it’s only RM15 to Penang.  (Only RM90 *cough* to Kuching). 
PLUS!!!!  Here is another thing I saw.  Apparently if you book a flight from August 26th to August 31st,  Air Asia are giving 1,000,000 free airfares away (but you have to pay the tax and everything else).   The flights are from 1st April to 31st July.  Just wondering if any of you are going to head to Perth [Looking at Ninja Kitten to see if she’s coming to annoy Mags again!  Hee hee!] 

I did consider booking myself, but then decided I was too busy organising this trip to make a judgement within the time frame.  [Don’t know what work holds for me by then].   But, anyone who is coming from Malaysia into Peth during that time, be sure to drop by and hassle me!    Let me know if you’re coming.

Oh … and I had my boss approve my leave this morning!  hee hee!    So I definitely have the time off. 

Another Stolen meme.  This time from the Queen of … um … Hedonism maybe!  lol
1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?

I learned to read.  Come to think of it, as an introvert reading is one of those past times that is wonderful.    I used to really love Dr Suess and Asterix comics when I was young.    Plus, I loved teenager detective things (even before I was a teenager).

2. What are some books you read as a child?

Every Dr Suess, Readers Digest, Asterix, Encyclopedia Brown, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Secret Seven (Enid Blyton books) I could find.

3. What is your favourite genre?

Hmm, maybe SF (Science Fiction).  I discovered Dune and Lord of the Rings in Pre-Teenage years and never looked back.

4. Do you have a favourite novel?

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima.

5. Where do you usually read?

Anywhere and everywhere except in unsanitary conditions. (Never could understand how people can read on the toilet!!!)

On the bus, in bed, in libraries, in parks, at cafes, even at school and University … I just READ! 

6. Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?

Yes.  In fact, I have a habit of puttign books down every now and then and not picking them up for years, but can still remember where I am up to when I return to reading the book.  lol

7. Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?

In a different way.  Not in a different place.  Can\’t see how the subject matter of what you are reading coul dbe affected by the place (unless the place is unusually noisey).  Non-Fiction I often read different as I\’m looking for specific things for University assignments etc.  Fiction you can just read along and enjoy the ride.  Non-Fiction can also be enjoyable in the same sense.  Just, the PURPOSE of reading will affect how someone reads anything.

8. Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?

Buy books.  I have five book cases all full.  I have got rid of most of my books (given away or sold at CHEAP CHEAP PRICES) more than once in the past, but I doubt I\’d ever do that again.

9. Do you keep most of the books you buy? If not, what do you do with them?

Now I do.  Once I sold them all as my church at the time didn\’t think SF and Fantasy was \’good reading\’ for a Christian, and once I got rid of them as a flatmate insisted I have LESS STUFF else she was going to evict me (even though I was going to pay to have them stored in private storage), but it was either I give them away or else!!!  (Stoopid flatmate!)  Not to mention the times other people were nice enough to sell my books behind my back!!!!

10. If you have children, what are some of the favorite books you have shared with them? Were they some of the same ones you read as a child?

When (IF) I have children they can read as much as they possible can without them exceeding any legal things (like they can\’t read R rated stuff, or 15+ stuff till they are legally allowed to) … 

11. What are you reading now?

Hmmm, LOTS of stuff for my Arts Degree (I mean LOTS of books, articles, readers etc), Wheel of Time Book 1(Michael Jordan), Killing Floor (Lee Childs), manuals, programming stuff, blogs, web stuff, Deep Six (Clive Cussler) … more stuff than I can name … of, still going with Musashi as well.

12. Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?

Only in my head!  lol  Well, sometimes I write books I\’d like to read on paper and then forget where I leave the paper.  lol

13. What books would you like to reread?

Good ones.  lol  Maybe some bad ones.

14. Who are your favourite authors?

Terry Pratchet, Larry Niven, Yukio Mishima … Um … bloggers.  lol

Another Meme stolen from the Emperor of Memes.
A is for Age
Neolithic!
B is for Burger of Choice
Vegie Burger.  Best ones were from a shop near Miranda Fair (Sydney) opposite the community Centre (Provided it is still there)
C is for Car You Drive
I don’t drive, I get chauffeur driven in a Mercedes every work day.  (Admittedly that Mercedes is a bus).
D is for Dog’s Name
Toby and Elly.  Though, if I was to name a dog, it would be Cerebus the DESTROYER!  THE MUNCHER OF MAN KIND!!!!
E is for an Essential Item Used Each Day
Brain.  Don’t leave home without it!
F is for Favorite Television Show
Futurama.
G is for Favorite Game
Total War: Medieval II
H is for Hometown
Define Hometown?  Born, Ipswich Qld, Live, Perth, WA, spent 22 years in Sydney, NSW.
I is for Instruments Played
Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, clarinet, Oboe, saxaphone, pipa, cello.  Will one day play flute and violin … maybe!  lol
J is for Favorite Juice
Banana, mango, peach … anything but citrus stuff which makes me bleed.
K is for What You’d Like to Kick
My own arse to get me writing more!!!
L is for Last Restaurant You Ate At
Utopia Northbridge.
M Is for Your Favorite Muppet
Fozzy Bear.  I’ve based my life on him! 
N is for Number of Piercings
ZEROOOOOOO!

O is for Number of Overnight Hospital Stays
Four .. I think.
P is for People You Were With Today
Work People … Family … Bus people … that’;s it.
Q is for What You Do in Quiet Times
Pray that I get mroe sleep! 
R is for Regrets
Getting Married to a SHE WHORE!!!!
S is for Status
Permanently Single.
T is for Time(s) You Woke Up Today
5:30 AM.

U is for What You Consider Unique
Those guys with no testicles.  Oh wait, that’s a Eunic!
V is for Favorite Vegetable
Potato

W is for Worst Habit
Eating things I’m allergic too … like Chocolate!!!!
X is for X Rays You Have Had
About ten … I think. 5x Foot … ribs x4 … spine x 1 … do CT scans count?  Cause I can add a few more.
Y is for Yummy Food Eaten Today
Blue berry Jelly.
Z is for Zodiac Sign

Caution, You are going the wrong way!  (Or Gemini … I always forget)  Or Snake in Chinese Zodiac … though somedays I’m a Moose or Yak!