The Book of Ashes

Friday 11:07AM

I'm getting behind in my diary entries here so lets have a little flash back to Friday...

Friday morning I was a little tired but not bad since I had stopped drinking early. I later found out that Damian wasn't feeling so good. Went to work and ended up going out to Petone. It was pretty good out there, the work was cruisy and the people good. I got a message on my cell phone at around lunch time telling me that my little bro Eddie was in town, up from Dunedin. Wow cool I thought and tried ringing him but couldn't find him. I went back to work and found we had the photos back from the night befores staff meeting. Lots were under exposed but otherwise there were some good ones. I hung around for a coke while everyone else drank beer. Jon tried to log on to my PC to steal images of me at the light house but he wasn't fast enough I caught him in the act. He wants proof on me as I have so much evidence on him (digitally altered or otherwise). I am not so dumb as to let him at it easily though. Went home and finally caught up with Eddie. We arranged to go out for a meal at Calzone. We ate and caught up on events which was cool. The bastard weights more than me now, hes up to 80kg and I'm just under, hes six years younger so shouldn't weight more than me, at least not just yet. We went out and played a little pool then went looking for some live bands to listen too but all we could find was a jazz one so went home. I discovered a personal tax return in the mail which was good as I get refunded $168 - wahoo!

Eddie and I stayed up late that night talking about shit. I told him of my idea to compare the genome of the salamanda and another creature, say a lizard to isolate the gene that allows the salamanda to regenerate limbs. Once isolated this could be spliced into the human genome giving us the ability to regenerate limbs. This is a cool idea but I don't know how feasible it is. I think the way that the salamanda does it is to revert cells at the damaged site to stem cells, those cells that exist in the featus as an animal grows that can change into whatever kind of cell is required at the time. It would be awesome to be able to chop off a finger and have it grow back after a couple of months. Imagine the tricks you could play on people.... hehehe sorry I've got a sick mind and I know it

Sat morning 11:11AM

Ok now its Saturday morning, I got up at 8:00 with Eddie, which is way early for me. We went for a brisk walk up to Nana & Poppa's who were surprised to see us up at this time. We picked up Eddies gear and came back down to visit my sister who lives just down the road from me. She had been out the night before and was feeling a little tired. We went out for some wedges then saw Eddie to the bus. By this stage it had begun to rain and is now raining quite steadily. It would have been a beautiful day to stay in bed.

I think today I'll do a little house work, maybe do some baking then go into work or Damains and do some work on the web site. Its quite strange not being hung over on a Saturday morning.

Anyway on with the days events..

Sat afternoon 11:56AM

Ok so I did the house work, went down to the Embassy and watched 2001 - A Space Odessy. It was a little slow and dragged on and was hard to understand without having read the book. I don't really recommend it, go read the book instead, its way better. Anyway it continued to piss down all day. Got out of the theatre and gave Damian a call but he wasn't about so didn't get to do any work today. Went home and borrowed the neighbours cook book. Went and got some butter and cooked some more chocolate chipie biscuits. They were all good. I rang Robyn up and gave her some as she complained that she didn't get any of the last batch. I also told Tammy they were there as she also complained but I don't think I'll see her again to give her some before they're all gone! After that I cooked two legend pizza's with all the healthy stuff, large chunks of veges and meat, mmmmm yum! I ate one and stashed the other for when I'm hungry tomorrow. Then there was nothing to do so Gerry and I decided to go to work and watch a movie on my computer, I have a few but she wanted to watch Coyote Ugly. We were walking around the streets looking at resturants for her to have her birthday in (its next weekend) and happened across Crispin & Damian at Sophies birthday dinner. Pretty funny. Well left them too it and watched the movie and now am home, drinking Berocca cause I think I'm getting a cold. My nose is running and my ears are feeling a little stuffy. I should go to bed soon as I have lots to do tomorrow. I think I'll just leave you with this nagging question...

Do you run faster when naked? And is it different for guys and girls (eg what effect does support have)? The answer is of course you run faster when naked, you sure as hell don't want anyone to see your white arse as you run as fast as you can to somewhere that has clothes