october update

So another monthly update. At least there is an update I guess!

Foxtel iQ has taken over my weeknights and most of my weekends too.


AVATAR is my fave show atm. The animation is great, the dialogue is poetic, charachters are witty, and has a great balance of sweet and hard situations. The most interesting charachter is Zuko, an anti-hero type charachter struggling with his identity as a result of his dysfunctional family. The eldest (only) son of the Fire Lord in chinese/asian culture he should have a high status. However some disgrace (I am only half way through the series...) caused his father to punish him in public to retain his honour. Now Zuko carries his shame as a disfigured face as he travels with his genial uncle, a former general now also retired in disgrace having lost his only son, who tries to share the happiness he has achieved through a new perspecitve on life with his troubled nephew. Zuko hunts the Avatar to regain his honour while his psycopathic sister Azula wages war against the other nations.



Last weekend I went to Winnie and Warnes' Wedding. It was pretty coo although Warnes' Pa was doing his best Dr. Phil impression...

This weekend I will probably rock up to Ranse' Halloween Party which almost completely slipped my mind. I thought up a groovy 'Suicide Patient' costume when he first sent round the invite, I wonder if it is feasible...


Bah I am feeling really annoyed at this very instant... I bought a new HDD/DVD recorder for $400. I shouldn't have done that. Sure it is a useful device but a) it has no SD/HD tuner so can only record from external source and b) it cost $400!! I priced buying Avatar in Aus and it was $20 per disc, but I just did a quick search while looking for the above pic and it would cost me only $100-$150 to buy Book 1 & Book 2 from Amazon! :( Bah, how am I going to get another $300 value out of this hunk of junk?! And it will probably be completely obsoleted next year when iQ gets upgraded... maybe there is something else good on fox to tape, or I will record more soccer (which once upon a time was the whole concept...)


Summer Soccer kicks off this weekend. My ankle has only been so-so over the last month. I was worried for a while (and still am slightly) that I have done serious ligament damage. Going dancing at Justice and ANUWSC Presentation Night did not aid recovery. Speaking of which Preso night was quite fun. Men's preso night was pretty coo too although I was a bit cheesed at not being nominated for Coach of the Year.


November sees me undertaking my Senior Coaching Licence and attending Justin Timberlake in Sydney. I'm going to miss Gabe's b'day for the first time in several years alas, unfonrtunately the Senior Course is not held annually and I am in the mood to push on with my coaching, esp as Ranse's plan to coach the Premier League women's squad crystallises and I even applied for a youth coaching position for 2008 (which would effectively prevent me from playing infact...).