I'm excited. I'm heading down to Melbourne on Saturday with my big boy Billy to see the Saints play the Brisbane Lions. It will be a huge game! 

Lots of interesting articles have been written about this, but the one that I really like was the opinion piece by Michael Malthouse  - Why young Saints can't lose

Carn the Saints!!!

[listening to: Hello - The Cat Empire ]
11:02:16 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Hobbies

My DVD collection has been growing (matrix revolutions, the critic, dilbert, etc), but we haven't been keeping the inventory up to date. Last time we did this job was last year.

We tackled this challenge today and the results are available online.

And of course, I have this permanent article which links to the list of DVDs owned, as well.

7:59:31 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • TV

I have been on holidays this week and we all went down to Melbourne for the Easter break.

However our plans for the rest of the week had to quickly change, as we had an few ill children - mostly the flu, but Bricey has gone one better. He has impetigo, a rather nasty skin infection caused by bacteria and it is contagious. Impetigo forms round, crusted, oozing spots that grow larger day by day. The hands and face are the favorite locations for impetigo, but it often appears on other parts of the body.  As a result. we have been locked up at home dealing with Brice's condition.

Luckily for us, the antobiotics have worked well and the little fellow is feeling better. If only I could shake off this bloody flu!

Want to know more about Impetigo - here's a google search for you.

10:23:32 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family

I was very fortunate to get to go to the football on Monday to see the Saints tackle the Tigers at Telstra Dome

I took my dad, my brother Dan and my boy Bill to the game.

We had a great time and to top it all off, the Saints won!!

3 weeks into the season and the Saints are still at the top of the ladder - a very unfamiliar place. The next 3 weeks will really challenge the team, and if they win those, the we can get really excited.

The best coverage of the game was in The Age :

• Thomas's true call
  Grant Thomas invoked the ire of the football world by claiming his beaten Saints were the better side in last Easter's clash with Richmond. Since then it's been only onward and upward for St Kilda. more
• Tigers, Saints in off-field war
  A livid Richmond coach Danny Frawley has described as "absolute crap" a declaration by his St Kilda counterpart Grant Thomas that his onballer Steven Baker had been targeted by the Tigers. more
• Unbeaten Saints have high standards these days
  The Saints duly defeated Richmond by 45 points, but they and their fans were only mildly pleased. more
• Tigers tumble in wrestlemania
  As St Kilda and Richmond fought for the premiership points, the bash and crash was all unscripted, and there was plenty of it more

4:54:16 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Hobbies

I'm on vacation for the coming week.

No blogging from me.

But, I'll have my XDA II and I will be posting photos to my moblog.

See Ya!

7:58:37 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Interests

The Matrix Revolutions came out on DVD on the weekend, and we had to buy it.

It feels like the other day that I took my boys to see it at the cinema, but it was the 7th of November!

I now have the trilogy and am scheduling some time to watch all 3 movies with my boys over the school holidays.

[listening to: A Little Doubt Goes a Long Way - Reel Big Fish ]
3:35:28 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • TV

I took the kids to see Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed today.

The gang enjoyed it. Bricey sat through the whole movie and didn't ask to go to the toilet once. Emma, on the other hand made me take her twice!!!

If you want to know what the movie is like The SMH has a good review.

3:51:12 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family

I found all these photos and realized I hadn't processed them from the last time my dad visited Sydney earlier in the year, for Bricey's birthday.

I have taken my dad to see the opera house so many times and each time he claims it's the first time. well, here's the proof!!!! now you can say you have been there!

9:44:07 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family

I finally got around to uploading some new photo slide shows. This one is fantastic. We call it Bricey Preschool Dress Up Day 2004.

All the kids dressed up - some were fairies, some were superheroes. we even had a pirate.

Since it's almost easter, the kids also had 8 eggs come into classroom. Over the course of 2 days little chicks hatched. It made an impression on Bricey.

9:31:22 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family

I finally get around to setting up a moblog.  With a Moblog I can post pictures, video and text from a camera phone direct to web instantly

I'm using a free service from textamerica. It's really easy to setup and use. Lots of predefined templates and layouts. Very slick.

To use, it's pretty simple. I take a photo with my XDA and then use the builtin MMS service to email the message to my account at textamerica.

This weekend we are off to the Easter Show  - I can feel many photos coming!

6:58:14 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • Family • My Interests