Fuh. A relatively quiet (and plenty enjoyable) night on Friday watching Michael Palin docos and drinking expensive French cider was followed on Saturday morning by a fantastic home-cooked scrambled eggs this utterly amazing fresh bread from some bakery in Nicholson Street.

At 30, that’s my idea of a good time!

Saturday afternoon saw us kick off festivities for Kev’s buck’s night, with the groom and groomsmen heading down to The Jam Factory to watch Red. Excellent movie. We missed the first 10 minutes of course, because none of us bothered to tell the groom that anything was even happening!

Now that’s solid planning.

After the movie, it was off to the Tiki Bar for drinks, along with the presentation of Kev’s costume (the poor bastard) and the challenges he’d be facing for the night.

A great time was had, though I don’t mind admitting I went too hard too soon, and ended up heading home early. Don’t quite recall the trip home…

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Time again for the monthly ‘end of month meet’ for the JDM Style Tuning forums, which I help run.

This month’s event, held on this Saturday just past, will probably be the last one at Docklands for a little while. As our numbers grow, the number of troublemakers increases – and so does the presence of security or, worse, the police.

No police this month, but the car park’s security did show up. They were quite good about the whole thing, but in the end it’s all private property and we need to look at organising a meet that doesn’t rely on using a government- or privately-owned venue for our gatherings.

For next month, we’re considering a drive out to the country, with lunch at a pub or restaurant somewhere. We’ll see how that goes…

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I caught up with some old friends and made some new ones last night, with a couple of folks coming down from Sydney to check out the Semi-Permanent design conference (I really need to go to this eventually).

Justin and Christina made the trek down to Melbourne, and because they own the online JDM Style Tuning and VWGolf.net.au communities, we organised an impromptu joint meet between the two groups.

Sadly, as is generally the case in cold old Melbourne, not many guys could dig their balls out of their vaginas to join us and it was a pretty small outing in the end. Certainly wasn’t boring though.

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This has been a busy week. I haven’t been home for a single evening since last Friday, and it’s going to continue that way until Monday, I think. And I’m definitely not boasting; I’d give your left eye for a night in, right now.

This afternoon, I had a suit fitting in the city for a friend’s wedding, so I left work a little early and dropped in on Friedy before heading in for the suit fitting.

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It was Friedy’s birthday yesterday, so we pulled together a few of her closest friends and headed to The Alderman for some drinks. I may have a bit of a headache right now, but I’ll neither confirm nor deny this.

Most of these shots weren’t taken by me, but I’m definitely not saying I would have done a better job. I really need to learn how to get the most out of my GF1, ‘cause it’s going to waste right now.

If anyone wants to give me a crash course on my camera’s functions (the universal ones, anyway) – I’ll happily let you borrow the little bastard.

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