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Heart and Hate

When you go the VicRoads website to see what you need to take to get you name changed on your drivers license you find a few things.

a) Marriage Certificate*

b) Your license

c) Something like your Medicare card

Well here’s some news for you, a) is wrong. You need to send away for ANOTHER document from the office of births/deaths/marriages.

I spent 40 minutes waiting in the machine-like horrid hole of Vic Roads only to be told I couldn’t get it done with the standard marriage certificate. *Apparently I now see it mentioned on the website but isn’t it nice of them to make it difficult.

I was (and am) really, really pissed off. And by the way, you couldn’t pay me to work at VicRoads – I rather work at Maccas, that might be a cheap shot, but it’s a contemplated one.

On the other hand, I love my semi-local Camera House. Because if I wanted they could get in for me a medium format lomo camera with a glass lens and filters for like $100! I have to think about the whole medium format thing more, but my goodness, they just do customer service right. They’re nice, they’re knowledgeable, they’re helpful, they treat you like you know what you’re talking about and explain anything you don’t, they are actually interested when you ask for strange things. I love them ever so much.

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Starred Posts: late Jan- early Feb

The list was getting far too big, so to inundate you with yet another blog post, check out some or even all of the links below.

These are things that over the past month have inspired me, made the think, laugh, made me go ‘Ah ha!’ and all other whatevers that have given a somewhat slightly stronger response than the other posts I’ve been reading. ie. They wound up in Google Starred section.

By some fluke it seems the girls have won this time, with some nice familiar regular ‘starred’ faces showing up, along with some new ones.

Working from late Jan through to Feb:

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Regarding the Superbowl

As Greg so put it in his very Australian way:

So pretty much the little guys run like terriers and the big guys try to squash them.

I confess I wound up spending probably more time playing UNO Spin with their daughter Hannah-Kate than watching the first part. I did join in during the final quarter. Strange game. I could like it, if I knew the rules better. Some of it’s really quite ridiculous – particularly the Patriots losing.

In AFL (Aussie Rules Football) every player is lean and athletic. In NFL there seems to be all shapes – so long as you’ve got the exaggerated V happening before the shoulder pads go on.

But then, we don’t wear helmets, shoulder pads and leggings. To think of it, AFL is really quite Australian. Who cares.

Both games, as per most sports, incur rabid, fanatical viewers. Here I think is a universal thing.

On a totally different note. Poor Scott keeps getting his comments eaten by Askimet and I have to fish them out of the Comment Spam area. It’s just his posts, they don’t contain links and it is every single time. Shouldn’t Askimet/Wordpress learn? Any idea how I can fix this?

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