Here’s a little ‘toy’ statuette that arrived in the mail last week. And it’s the weirdest experience I’ve had in so long.

What you’re looking at is ‘The Shirt Ninja,’ a pseudonym for the main character of a popular webcomic called Real Life.

I actually stopped reading Real Life about a year ago. Not because of anything to do with the comic though. I simply dropped off the face of the internets for a while and never got around to returning to my old reads when I finally found more time to be online.

So when I got a phone call from my dad last week to tell me that “some package is here for you mate, it’s got ‘real life’ or something like that on the box.” My brain broke. I had no idea what he was talking about.

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Will you just look at this, ain’t she a beauty? This is my ‘new’ 1996 Trek 470 Fast Track.

It was a fairly basic rig when it hit the market 15 years ago, and it’s nothing special today either – but compared to my generally beloved Shogun ‘Extreme’ (oh save me), it feels like I’m riding on Goku’s Flying Nimbus.

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Despite the threat of continued storms all across the state, we jumped in the car with friends Kev and Aly today to check out the Red Hill Farmers’ Market down on the Mornington Peninsula.

Afterwards, on the way home, we detoured through Mornington to see what’s what.

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