Ramblings

The only TV show so far today that has gotten both Ash and Brett’s undivided attention is a little “expose” on Hugh Heffner and his girlfriends. It’s disgustingly cliché.

It’s funny how song associations develop and change. Sarah and I had a few songs that were special to us. And I found out that way that picking good songs to be “Our” songs is a really dumb idea… they become irreversibly tainted once you break up. After we broke up, there were a few… Read more

So, there’s a mini-series on SciFi at the moment called The Triangle. Sam Niel, the chick from Jag, and a few other familiar faces. Quite good, actually. The especially interesting part of it all – given the show’s about time travel and distortion, etc – is how all three parts have appeared on TV some… Read more

The grossly dominant brand of confectionary here is Hershey’s, of course. They’re really not that big on milk chocolate here at all – Hershey’s is not. It’s the same chocolate you get in M&Ms (which, yes, are available here, but they’re pretty expensive). While it works well in M&Ms, because it’s slightly richer, when you… Read more

We went to Pizza Hut tonight. I don’t know why, but I decided when leaving work today that I really wanted to have Pizza Hut. Of course, Pizza Hut here is not exactly what I’m used to… it was more or less just a sports bar, that happened to serve massively overpriced pizza – $20… Read more

They don’t have Milo here. Weirdoes.

I was having such trouble deciding what to buy yesterday when we went grocery shopping… by and large there’s no familiar brands or products. Just try finding normal peanut butter here, let alone vegemyte or anything… :( But when I arrived at the cereal section, it took only moments to decide. And thus now with… Read more