::: Saturday September 04, 2004 :::

Woke up altogether way too early, went down to Beths place to fetch her sister and family, and went for brekkie in Brighton. I had a little snooze, and when I woke up, Karen and family had gone to the snow, and Steve and Anne were there instead. After a very civilised dinner, we watched a DVD and went to bed.

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::: Friday September 03, 2004 :::

Not a whole lot apart from work. Canned the beach weekend as too knackered. Met up with Beth and her sister from QLD at PJs, went on to Retro, then put sister in cab back to Beths place, and we went back to the apartment.

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::: Sunday August 29, 2004 :::

Chilled out at Beths. Met Kylie (Beths daughter), Socks (Aged battle-cat), and Bella (Kylie and Tristans turbo-rat).

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::: Saturday August 28, 2004 :::

Went to PJ's. Got pissed. Went home.

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::: Friday August 27, 2004 :::

Hmmmmmm.....everything seems quiet now that the project from hell is over.

Met up with Nick at the European Bier Cafe after work, first time there on a Friday night, not bad women, if a little pretentious. Then, as it was Helens birthday, down to Retro, camera in tow. Now this is where things start getting hazy.......I've got some very revealing photos, and I seem to recall someone by the name of Megan hitting on me, but I'm sure I sent her home with her boyfriend (I don't play around with attached women). Now, it looks like Mark, myself, and a bunch of other Retro Goths also went on to Pony after the 4:00am Retro closing time. Pony only closes at 7:00am, so what on earth was going on, I ask myself.

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::: Thursday August 26, 2004 :::

Work......
GRUMP

almost...........

been...........

a...............

bad.................

week...................

Until the vendors crap software was beaten into submission!!!!!!!!
It only took two months over the project projection (Which I warned was a realistic time scale), and cost us, but F**K IT! , it's done! No more 22 hour days working on two projects at once, I can now kick back and relax - only 16 hours a day required!

Bugger, forgot to take time off for my birthday, so we're going to have to hightail it back to Melbourne from the beach house next Sunday.......This is, of course, assuming I'm going to be in a fit state to drive Fugly by then, after a weekend alone with B.............BTW, Fugly now has the towbar fitted, the roof rails and Bogan Bars, otherwise known as 'Roo bars, are on order. Seriously toying with the idea of getting the mad Icelandic kit for the car, which will give it some insane ground clearance, and turn it into a true rock scorpion. However, then I will need to buy the Porsche, as Fugly will then only be fit for off-road, and nothing else.

Been a superb week, we are back to the kind of weather where we don't need jackets or coats anymore, been about 21 degrees AVG the last few days!

Roll on the beautiful Melbourne Spring and Summer!

Which, of course, means the beautiful Melbourne women will be getting most of their kit off again! God, I love this city!

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::: Monday August 23, 2004 :::

Work......
GRUMP

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::: Sunday August 22, 2004 :::

Had breakfast in Cheltenham, then up to Essendon for my flight. Discovered that Peter had "overslept" and missed his flight. Took UWR off runway 17 after a 45 minute delay due to weather. Interesting conditions, a very wet runway. Strange thing was, once out of the ground turbulence, the air was flat as a pancake. Made good time out to Point Cook, checked out the windsocks, and decided runway 22 was the best as far as wind direction went, joined the downwind leg of the ciruit, perfect level turn onto base and dumped 20 degrees of flap. Turned onto final on profile, and brought her in to a perfect landing. While rolling, John brought the flaps up and killed the carb heat, I applied full throttle and we had rotation at 55 knots, less than halfway down the runway. That was the only perfect circuit of the day.........Got clearance back into Essendon on runway 35 (Same as runway 17, only the opposite end), so in the hour and a quarter we were away, the wind had shifted 180 degrees. Nice one, Melbourne weather!

Joined Teri and Paul at the folks for dinner.

Uniform Whiskey Romeo - "My" baby	Preflighting UWR
More preflighting UWR.	Relaxing with Teri, Paul and Frankie, after a stressful training flight.

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::: Saturday August 21, 2004 :::

Went out to Brighton again for breakfast, then back up to the city to go and work. Finished up about 18:00, chilled out, then met Peter, Dan and Reese at Bear Brass around 21:30. Had a few pints, then on to PJs. Peter and I got incredibly drunk, and Peter sort of forgot about his 11:00 flight the next morning. I can't remember what time Peter sloped off back home, but by that stage neither of us were very stable. I carried on for a while, and then got hit on again, at which point I decided that the beer goggles were probably on, and that maybe I should go home. I'm making a point these days of not picking up women in bars (Or lately, getting picked up), as the last time that happened, it made me marginally happy for only three years, but very unhappy for five.

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::: Friday August 20, 2004 :::

Went off to PJs (AGAIN!), crossed the river to the city side at about 22:45, went to Retro, back to PJs again at about 1:00am. It's getting boring now, every time I go to PJs I get hit on by some or other woman! On second thoughts........!

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