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This past Wednesday I took photographs for my favourite Spanish-rock band “Santos Renuentes”. I’ve written about this group a lot before. They underwent a change recently where the drummer, lead guitarist and singer were replaced. Yeah, that’s a pretty major sort of change. It was only a practice warm-up friends-invited-only session, but what’s resulted from all the changes is a band with very different group dynamics and, in my opinion, a much better sound. It was just amazing to hear and see the difference in the band. ...

Woohoo! This is insane. Miami Heat. NBA champions. People are going insane around here. Cars everywhere honking horns. And just announced - Dwyane Wade - MVP. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Gotta go now, gotta go party.

Wow. What a game of basketball with a final scoreline of 101-100 in favour of Miami. This is the second time today I haven’t been able to sit down to watch a sports game, the first being for the loss of the Socceroos against the Brazilians in the World Cup. I swear I need new feet from all the pacing that I’ve done in front of the TV. I definitely need a good strong liquor right now. ...

So I’m sitting in my cube, watching in disbelief the matchcast of the Germany vs Poland match. I took this screenshot because I didn’t believe that Germany could have so many shots on goal and not get anything: And then I saw it. Such a beautiful thing. In the last moments of the last minute my screen updates beautifully to show this: Go Germany. After Australia, this is my favourite team. Ich liebe Deutschland (und Australien!) ...

Woohoo! I’m sitting here in my very grey cubicle at work looking at the final score between Australia and Japan, and it’s all good baby! I’ve got my green shirt on today and combining that with the face colour of my watch and maybe a few post-it notes, it’s green and gold all the way. Pity I couldn’t watch a live telecast as I had to be at my desk, so I ended up refreshing the main page of the Fifa website over and over again to get match updates. ...

From this link “The 10-year-old and his brother, 6, decided to take the family car for a 100km spin to visit their grandfather in Moree, in the NSW northwest, about 12.30pm on Sunday.” This reminds me of my cousin Levi, who is quite adept at driving a car as well (click on pic for details)

I got the results for my tests back. According to the results, there is absolutely nothing wrong with me at all. Nada. Nichts. Jack $hit. So now I ponder and wonder what the hell went on, whether I get a second opinion, or whether I ignore it ever happened. My doctor told me it was probably an anxiety attack of sorts. Whatever the case, it’s time to move on in some direction, albeit more cautiously than before. I’m sick of staying home. I need to get out and do some stuff again. ...

So I’ve come through what seems to be a rather weird ride. Whatever caused me to pretty much collapse and have difficulty breathing, resulting in a rush to the emergency room, has gone. I have not been able to link it to anything that I ate. I’m thinking that somehow my body was telling me to slow down a bit. Perhaps. I’ve had a CAT scan, 24 hour heart monitor and blood tests done. I’m getting sick of all these blood tests. My arm skin is a slightly yellow colour around the region where all the needles have gone in. I feel like a pin cushion. ...

Whilst I’ve been bed-ridden recently, I’ve summoned the energy up to entertain myself with a little surfing of the internets. This post is a whole lot about nostalgia, so see if you remember these little youtube gems that I’ve found. Anyone got any more? Ones that I just can’t find are “AEIOU”, with those little characters drawn in the sand who fight some dragon or something. Another is “Robo Story”, where the white leader keeps calling everyone else “imbeciles”. ...

So Sunday night I found myself in the emergency room of a hospital. Three scoops of icecream is all it took to turn me into a mess of a person who had difficulty breathing or swallowing, was very light-headed, shaking, had a high pulse rate and was just about to collapse. I scared the hell out of my flat-mate, but rest assured, he wasn’t as scared as I. I’ve been talking to doctors, venom experts from Australia, etc. etc. etc. to see if this had anything to do with the bite I got in January. The consensus was that no, it didn’t, and that the venom only lasts for 5 days anyway. So whatever I’ve got now is supposed to be unrelated to the bite, supposedly. ...