describe the ruckus

Drive-through bottle shop
and a case of Cooper’s Ale
handed through the passenger’s
window by the highly amused
Mungo “Nugget” McPhail.

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Test Cricket consists
of lots of zinc oxide
and upper-body cartwheels
and helmets and some posturing
and occasional bursts of
activity.

I always think of Groucho
Marx who after an hour of
watching cricket turned to
his UK friends and said:
“This is great! When does
it start?”

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our clothes off and
laughing. We had just
watched Ladri di biciclette
[The bicycle thief] which had
a disappointing ending.

“And the moral of that film
was..?” I looked at LL.

“Don’t get a job,” she sez.

“Don’t buy a bike that looks
like a gazillion other bikes,”
I sez.

“Anyways, how’s about I wear
my heart rate monitor this
time? See how long it takes
to get back to resting heart rate?”

“You goof ball,” she says in
a cute naked way.

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at the gallery.

Cute without even trying.

_{As per normal}

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Today I rode to the
local outdoor 50 meter
pool.

There are 12 lanes, it
is heated and it’s under
a perfect, Australian
blue sky.

The pool’s surface is
unflawed because no
one is in it and it’s
reflecting my begoggled
face as I grin and..

Splash!

1600 meters free and
then some goofing off
swimming underwater and
shit.

_{Nothing like a big
outdoor pool to yourself.}

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Went for a 2 mile run last
twilight. There were about
30 kangaroos in a field and
I had to stop and watch them.

After a few minutes they were
all watching me like a bunch
of overgrown ratsquirrelrabbits.
It was slightly eerie.

Today I swam 1000m free and it’s
cool out so I’m going for a 10km
run after lunch with LL. I sang
to her this morning whilst I was
showering. “It’s the final countdown..
boo-do-do do, boo-do-doot-do-doo..”

I couldn’t remember any other words
so I feel I need to buy lunch as an
apology.

_{Boo-do-do doo, boo-do-doot-doo-doo..
You horror, she says.}

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Geographic Center of Victoria

_{Which was terribly exciting; we
looked in vain for an enormous
index finger pointing at us from
out of the clouds but no luck. The
ground was not made out of brass
either. I suspect deception on
some level but can’t articulate
precisely what or where.}

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OMFG!

This’ll be like, the bestest
thing since sliced bread, clown
horns, and cute Australian brunettes!

_{I can hardly wait!}

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A practical note [I know, I know – I’m
usually full of crap but this is a truth]:

Always fly out of San Francisco
when possible, west coast people.

Los Angeles is the worst
most confused nightmare
of an airport to fly
overseas out of: Don’t do it!

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Sitting on the
porch half drunk

..long day.

Not unhappy with
my answers to
pressing questions.

I have a visa to
stay in Australia
and live there.

But this dripping
of water off slim
leaves has all my
attention now

..because I can’t
believe that what
I most wanted just
happened so quickly.

And so I sit here
happy and numb but
mostly happy.

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