I have not long returned from a great evening with the girls. In belated celebration of mine and Becky’s birthdays, Becky and Rebecca journeyed down from BrisVegas and held us a special ‘Do’ full of laugher and frivolty.

It was so wonderful to see the ladies again and spend time to catch up with everyone. We played games, from pool through to Taboo, and ate lots of naughty foods. One possible highlight of the evening was me trying to express “Cottage Cheese” in a round of Taboo. My team (Carla and Rebecca) had the Cheese bit down pat, but when I tried to describe the first word as “A little house in the country with lots of flower gardens” Carla screamed out “Parmesan!”. Another great moment was Sophie trying to protray “Breed” by saying “Tyson is the only one in the room allowed to do this”. I’m not sure Sophie’s up to date with the latest legislation.

Speaking of Carla, it was so wonderful to see her again as I only ever get to catch up with her at the latest birthday party. There are still severe remnants of our high school years, during which we spent all day, every day together due to our timetables being the same. Check out this wonderful gift she bought me.

Special thanks also to Zoe who put her love and tears (and maybe a little arsenic) into a batch of cupcakes baked for me. You know how much I loved the “Cupped Cakes”! Shame everyone else ate them! My other great present was a sheet of name tag stickers from the ’70s Ursula picked up from a closing down time-capsule of a shop. It’s even better that the name on the stickers is Darren!

What a great night! Thanks to Becky and Rebecca for organising and hosting the evening. Photos are a bit on the scant side, but Rebecca took a number of photos (as did I on her camera), so I’ll post some of those when I get them.

After going to Amy’s singing recital for her students, Amy, Adam, fresh from his USA tour, Min and myself went out for a spot of bloat at Chili’s. The storm had really picked up while we were in there and we had a great view of the illuminating sky thanks to the wrap around windows. At one point a sporting team of some description (the hawks?) came in to eat, but we outstayed them. Trying to stall before re-entering the storm, we got a bit photo-trigger happy, and you can see some of the more ‘public’ ones on my flickr account.

Afterwards, aided by Adam’s jetlagged body-clock, we went to Adam’s place for some exercise machine workout (or not), and watching some of the many hours of video tape he took in America. I intend to get the time I watched those tapes deducted from the my quota for viewing the final, edited video presentation. It was almost worth it to see (and hear) Bagpipe Betty who had learnt one of the Beatles songs on bagpipes, and had dressed up in full Scottish attire just to serenade Paul McCartney as he drove into the complex he was performing in that evening. Next to her, about a dozen women were trying to scream, but since age had ravaged them, it just sound like 12 women gargling at Paul as he drove past. It was slightly scary though as it panned around and Greg was one of the aging women, holding a sign “We Came From Australia”. Holding it up to the camera, I suspect he was hiding a little moist patch from view after Paul had driven past.

I do think it was a wasted opportunity though. I would have been there with my on-location equipment recording interviews, but Adam was too scared to get close to them. You could tell he was using zoom.

All Our Children

The murder mystery party was great. You can see the photos here. Halfway through the second or third round I had seriously thought I had done it. The evidence was mounting. I think we even got into it more this time than last, and had a much better idea of what was going on story wise. I can’t wait for it to happen again! Who knew murder could be such fun!

Breaking from my usual sunday ritual of tv and dinner with friends, I went out to Carla’s house with Heather for a lovely dinner, taking advantage of a few days Carla was spending back home. We had a great laugh, and a reminisced about our school days, days which were full of social activity.

After coming home, I popped on the tape of the first episode of a Broadway documentary series which I taped from TV. It has been a long time since I dealt with VHS and now I remember why. Whenever there was a significant portion of white on the screen, the screen looked like someone was pulling it to one side, and it looked awful. At one point, it looked like Julie Andrews had been assassinated (which would have been appropriate had she been mentioning the Sondheim musical of a similar name). This on top of already bland reception. Setting the timer record was no fun either. I’m looking forward to the day hard disk digital recorders are cheap enough.

Instead of going to straight to bed, I had to pop open the iBook to type this out to you (I know I’ve been neglecting you), but now I must really go to bed. After working all day on uni and other work, and still having so much to go, I’m looking forward to sliding off to sleep for a nice break.

Another weekend of Nunsense II over, one more to go. Our drummer for next week will be Clinton, who was our drummer for ‘The Boyfriend’. A fantastic drummer, and he is familiar with Hedwig, which earns him extra points.

A crowd of groupies (Greg and Min) gathered as we quickly ran through the music with Clinton after today’s show. With so many hungry people in the pit, things quickly degraded: (gallery online soon, with video)

Afterwards we went to dinner at the delicate Chillis Resturant, where we witnessed this sign, which has been digitally enhanced.

I know that I can turn to a bottle of Wingarnis next time I find I have a case of Brain-Fag.

On a depressing note, I have a lot of work to do this week. I’ve written out a list, but make sure you all tune into AJ’s Mid week Mixup on RGIN.com this week as I am the very very special guest host! I intend to go a bit crazy and really wake up the american listeners! I have some very special material planned, so make sure you all check it out. I think it is 9pm to 11pm EST American or something.