It's been a long Saturday
Racing. Tip from Hon for the Queensland Derby just didn't quite cut it. Spuruson - don't trust names that are run on together, especially not "IGOTTHELASTONE" - an also-ran at Randwick this weekend. Couldn't work out whether it was I Got the LA Stone or I Got the Last One. Lise and Trev, whose house/computer I'm borrowing in order to blog, can't believe that that's all I've written given the time it's taken. Something to do with the red wine.
In our group at the races was a boy from Cobram. He's in his 30s. He joined the navy when he was 17 because there were no other options. He has three kids. The youngest was born when he was 21. He said that he'd be happy for them to go into the navy as well. Surely when he joined it was a different world with not so much at stake? He says yes, in a guarded way. Are people in the navy pissed off like the rest of us that our leaders are taking a direction that we don't believe in? Yes, but we've made a commitment. What can we do? He's out of the navy now, a financial planner, at the pub after the races, explaining the way the bookies run their shop.
So now I'm at Lisa and Trevor's for chorizo stew and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (If only we could erase the girl who turns up on the balcony, Tom). They have a piano playing monkey at their house - just like Jay and the Dr. Everyone loves the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs? Totally? They don't love you like I love you. Ma-a-a-ps-Ma-a-a-a-ps-Ma-a-a-a-a-ps. Whatever.
In our group at the races was a boy from Cobram. He's in his 30s. He joined the navy when he was 17 because there were no other options. He has three kids. The youngest was born when he was 21. He said that he'd be happy for them to go into the navy as well. Surely when he joined it was a different world with not so much at stake? He says yes, in a guarded way. Are people in the navy pissed off like the rest of us that our leaders are taking a direction that we don't believe in? Yes, but we've made a commitment. What can we do? He's out of the navy now, a financial planner, at the pub after the races, explaining the way the bookies run their shop.
So now I'm at Lisa and Trevor's for chorizo stew and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (If only we could erase the girl who turns up on the balcony, Tom). They have a piano playing monkey at their house - just like Jay and the Dr. Everyone loves the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs? Totally? They don't love you like I love you. Ma-a-a-ps-Ma-a-a-a-ps-Ma-a-a-a-a-ps. Whatever.
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