I don’t know that I’m a fan of these Steve Irwin Halloween costumes. Basically the same as South Parks Steve Irwin character that cause some recent controversy - A khaki outfit with a Stingray barb out the chest (or the whole stingray in south parks case)! Apparently its been a popular item this Halloween in the bowels of earth (aka US), with some C class celebrity I haven’t even heard of wearing it out as well…

Just a little too soon I think! Now I’m not your average person in that, in most cases I don’t think death needs to be something people should tread lightly around.. Sure… Hate crimes.. Child or Teenage deaths through accidents.. Death caused by deranged individuals… or as the result of sexual predators… These however are all sensitive topics, which I wouldn’t be joking about often.. I’d be far more empathetic.. or enraged in some cases…

But being more of a realist - Death is inevitable were all going to meet him one day, lets just hope before then we’ve live long enough to have considered life worthwhile. If I died in some strange bungee accident tomorrow involving a crocodile and circus clown on a unicycle, I’d be happy to have the video of it widely publicised… Or even have jokes made about it… I’ve live a good life and I’m not afraid of death but not looking forward to it either :P

I’d prefer to know some people are laughing about it not just mourning… “The man died like he lived diving in to uncertainty laughing like a clown completely ignoring the signs (care crocodiles below)”…

Now don’t get me wrong I’m not a completely unsympathetic bastard, I think there could be a little more time allowed before treating the mans death so casually. If I were family sure I’d be upset about the ordeal, but he died doing what he loved and he achieved an awful lot more than the average man in one life time, who wouldn’t be satisfied with a life like that, even if it was shorter than expected!

At some point you have to realise if you can’t laugh at death, how can you truly laugh wholly at life!

After last weekends adventures not particularly keen to do anything too expensive, still trying to quickly paying of those debits so I can by a new Nissan 350Z! Only a few months away now, there is a light at the end of the tunnel… Wish I had my new car already, its weekends like these I’d go for a cruise down the Gold Coast just to sit and a set of lights BASS pumpin look across at some teenager in an excel.. Given him a nod… Give the engine a bit of a REV… Then sit stationary at the set of lights as they go green the idiot chirps a bit and speeds off, thinking I was actually going to bother racing him! Hahaha…

Indy was great… But I didn’t go out drinking any of the nights though, was just too buggered from the days! Would have love to have but would have meant staying with the boys for the Saturday night and I had a birthday party in Brisbane I though I should make an appearance at… Wasn’t too keen on staying with the boys either… 6 people to a 1 or 2 bedroom apparently sounds a little too cosey for me!! Hehe

As for Indy flashers everyone keeps asking me about.. yes another plentiful year! One girl was walking around the track by herself, got flashed by her on two consecutive days… given the odd’s of even seeing her again, but instead seeing the unveiling twice as well, I was surprised they weren’t more tanned! Haaha! Plenty of others on balconies all over the place, funniest was actually standing outside a building a mate was staying in, with a crowd of about 200 blokes all looking up… All of whom were chanting “pink shirt, pink shirt” etc… until the girl revealed something… then changing to a different color shirt in some other window… This happened for ages with 3 girls repeatedly flashing the boys! Haha… One revealing more than just the top half as well… Later that evening when up in a mates unit having dinner, a unit across the way had hired a full show WITH toys, no not lego’s… Hahahaha! Was hilarious..Was going to drive home on Saturday morning. Woke up to a sms from a mate who’d made it to the gold coast but the couldn’t get a hold of the guy he was suppose to be going in to Indy with… So we ended up going in for the afternoon and taking a lot more photos (especially since I wasn’t working Saturday!!).. He has an awesome semi professional camera too, had a nice zoom too which came in handy!

Many many more funny little stories I’ll have to remember, and share! One such story was a bloke sitting on a deck chair on top of a van, dangling a makeshift fishing rod down over a high traffic pedestrian path.. it had a lollipop attached to the end ;) Hahaha! So something I’d do…Special thanks to Michelle and Sul for putting me up for a few nights!

Friday was more fun down here at Indy… I was looking after a Gillette PitStop Challenge.. Remove a tire from a fake car, put it back on, hit a buzzer, fast time each day wins! I was yelling out using one of the phone operator style mic’s Madonna would use on stage… Was pretty cruisy… Was yelling out heaps of random stuff.. like when it was quiet I was saying “One at a time please folks, Orderly lines please, don’t all rush at once, there’s only one machine..”… Or if some guy was taking ages comments like “Someone call RACQ..” or “I’m just going on a break mate, I’ll be back soon..” Haha!Or to the dubious gazers I’d yell “Our current best time isn’t even held by a Mechanic! I don’t think those guys are used to getting things done quickly… Or perhaps that’s just mine!”… Also had other sayings like “Line up here for the Gillette PitStop Challenge, the closest you’ll get to being in the Pits!” followed by a more quieter “unless of course you have a pit pass…”

We even had one of the drivers (Mark someone.. you can tell I follow motorsport!) come and have a go at the game! He got a lousy 50 seconds.. the best time I saw was 21 seconds!! Oh and the guy that was doing the Duracell bunny the remaining days even had a go… It was hilarious to watch, he couldn’t even get the wheel back on! Soo funny channel 7 brought their camera crew back around and made us do it all again! Hehe..

Having a ball working at Indy!! Thursday saw me as the Duracell bunny.. Didn’t find out I was doing this until the last minute… Oh well it was hilarious in the end as you can see from the video of me breakdancing in it… I couldn’t see very well tho so I was walking around holding a promo girls hand. Knocked over some dudes beer at some point (What’s he going to do, beat up a bunny?)… Nearly stepped on kiddies too… The kids were cute wanting hugs… Had a couple of dudes try rape the suit.. I was expecting this sort of stuff so I thought it more funny to see how disgusted they were when they found out it was a guy in there!!! Hahahaha.. Was going the rrrrespect Ali-G hand motion.. Had dance off’s with some guys… Mimed the directions for some random asking where to find drugs… Haha! Hugging tree’s… Doing the robot dance… Play fighting with the promo girls… etc..

Got that phone back a couple of days ago… but it turned in to a brick today.. Called nokia and they said to get it repaired again (Yes, the 3rd phone.. 2nd replacement job)… “Our only solution is for you to get it repaired again.” to which I responded multiple times “That isn’t a solution, as history would have it, it is a problem!” anyway, half an hour later I was more frustrated, I still couldn’t speak indian, and slammed the phone down!

Ended up calling Optus because last time this happened, in case you haven’t read the earlier post, I stormed in demanding a different phone. At the time the store staff could help so I sat in the store speaking to head office for 45mins. After speaking to numerous divisions the last guy just said put it in for repairs another time and if you have no luck ring us back… So I did!

Spoke to a few Optus divisions today and eventually ended up with the retention area (Solution services, the guys who try to keep you as a customer!) After much discussion they offered to give me an early upgrade on the contract (4 months in to a 24 month contract)… So now I’m free to sign up for another contract and get another phone!

So I’ll get the broken phone repaired AGAIN and flog it off on ebay.. This will offset the price off the new phone I plan to get, which is the top of the line latest Nokia. Yes I decided to go with Nokia again… In the past I’ve always bought the more expensive models, and have generally been a pretty happy chappy… So I figure if I stick with that I won’t run in to these issues again!

Just called an optus store and they have the phone I’m after in stock… so yay I’m excited… after months of being shitty at the mere mention of a mobile ;)

For those of you who told, and those I didn’t, I applied for an A06 job at work about 4 months ago.. I got in for an interview about a month ago.. Just today I found out that I was the preferred applicant… The job will be official as soon as its all signed off! About 10G’s more a year and some added stress :S

Now there is just the hassle of finding someone to fill my old position… which I imagine I’ll be looking after as well until then ;)

Picture the old retired regulars that spend their days hiding from the wife down at the pub pinching the bar girls and mumbling stories about times long ago (or one can only assume, words eventually roll in to each other with no meaning, but maintain heighten pitchs at important points) a mix with the odd curse word the only ones to be clearly pronouced, as though practiced and used much more often in drunken states…

Picture those beer sculling hardass women, smoke permenantly hanging out of the wrinkled and pouted lips, usually clutching a pokie machines with each thigh, or soaking up the clearly exgerated comments of men twice their age just looking for story for tell the rest of the folk at the retirement home, 3 abused children curlled up at feet with the other 4 in the car…

Picture the terry tuff nuts who use to walk around the streets late on week nights, throwing bottles at parked cars, stirring up dogs, stealing letter boxes, all in the name of a good time, returning from some childs birthday party they just tried to crash, before the cops turned up and they had to jump some fences… but now they’re older and a little less mature, driving around drunk in VL commodorees looking for fights cause because they secretly question their own sexuality and masculinity…

Put these and many more of societies undesirables in the one place, supply them all with 100’s of different types of beers and we’ll call it Octberfest ;) This weekend.. So who’s going?