Computer Commuter (DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA…
Gooday Champs,
Well i’m still in Sydney (doh) but will be leaving in about 3 weeks. I’m no longer working on the beach as the weather has become a tad to cold for topless bathing so wrote my notice quicker than Prescott gives out his phone number in Brighton High St.
Shark Tale…… A few weeks ago in the next bay to Bondi a fella was attacked with the mongrel (i mean shark) taking a chunk out of said geezers board, i was surfing that day but i think Jaws assumed my daft hair was a clump of seawood and steered around me. Needless to say ever since this moment i’ve been looking at the seabed more than an upside down turtle.
Been to watch some Aussie Rules, and quite frankly it doesn’t rule anything.
Defied my bodies cries for ‘no beer’ and ‘more sleep’ by continually punishing it resulting in a few late starts, waking up on balconies and many blanks that need filling in.
Caught my first green wave (no Alco this isn’t secret code that you can use with your environmentalist friends) but is a good wave which would be useful from escaping from said shark and/or floaters.
Mixing with regular Aussie people……Was sat at a bus stop when an old lady let a seat trembler go, before i realised what was happening she was then asking me if i wanted a ginger? A ginger what biscuit, girl, haircut???
New Job……..started a new job working next to Harbour Bridge for a promotions company, unfortunately having two hips doesn’t qualify you as a hip young thing who gets to Hob nob and eat hob nobs with beer companies etc but instead type in names for competition entry forms (ooo wow, i hear you cry). I’m crying by the way because absolute t*ats like Nigel Longworth, KM Vignolio and Kelly Dennett enter a competition 317 times to win a whistle. On the plus side my job title is freelancer, which in my eyes means i’m a rebellious swordsman hellbent on gaining freedom for my people, in reality i’m a temp who prods a keyboard all day. I have however learnt that there is a road in Sydney called ‘Megalong Road’ which is presumably big.
Professional Commuter……….i have to get up really early and sit with other early morning haters on the train, after being late for my first 2 days on the job, i finally figured out how to get there and perhaps became a little too comfortable in my commuter role. After leaning against a clear plastic wall on my first train, i boarded the next one taking up position against a rather cold and sweaty pole (insert own mum pole dancing joke here), i quickly spyed a spot against a perspex screen and seeing the opportunity for a quick nap headed confidently over. I leaned and before i knew what was going on i was in the lap of an equally startled Chinese lady, i jumped up redder than beetroot mumbling ‘damn perspex theives’.
Disadvantages/Advantages of Data Entry………when you go into a bar restaurant instead of coolly ordering a beer you find yourself saying ‘DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA, DATA’, on the positive side at ten to two on a saturday night going up to a girl and saying DATA, DATA, DATA may be seen as charming persistence to score a date. Also on Friday nights the godly words ‘free bar’ are uttered and everyone makes like a bad striker and hits the bar. I bring in my industrial sized rucksack claiming i need to take files home over the weekend, before sliding the beer fridge in.
Soccerroo…..(GIRLS….fall asleep now) I’ve been playing football for a team over here and we have a webiste, which i’ve been writing match reports for, you can read my over dramatic totally untrue accounts of my goals, match winning tackles etc so far at www.glebewanderers.com then go to match reports.
Enough rubbish anyway, 3 weeks and the open road beckons with the plan to buy a Robin Reliant and run it perilously close to cliff ledges whilst running over snakes and spiders.
Hive fives, back slaps and bear hugs for you all
Briggsy xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tags: Australia, Sharks, Soccer, Sydney, Travel, Work
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