I'm sitting here at my computer....

....watching a rather large cockroach crawling across the wall in front of me. He's made one trip across and back, and now he's just sitting there on the wall.

I'm trying to decide whether going upstairs to get the insect spray is worth the effort. He's not moving too quickly. Sometimes the spray can make them fly around really fast and in crazy unpredictable circles. That freaks me out a bit.

He's still not moving. We get our house sprayed for cockroaches once a year. It's been a few months since that happened. It would be nice to think that this might be his death throes that I'm watching. Although I think that the death staggers might look a bit more unco-ordinated than what I've been watching so far.

Can you all tell that I'm really scraping the bottom of the blogging barrel here? I was wondering whether I should illustrate this post with a picture, and then I just thought...umm...no, probably not required. I'm sure you can all visualise what's happening well enough.

While everyone else was paying big money and queueing for hours to see Coldplay In Brisbane....

....my lucky brother got paid to be there. He does sound (or something audio-related, can you tell I have no clue what he does for a living but it's something to do with electronics and computers??) at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane so he was being paid to sit there and listen to them.

Most of what he does is boring soccer games (that few people turn up to), rugby league (I'm slightly more interested in those) and other sporting events. But the stadium can host up to four other big major events or concerts per year. Coldplay would have been pretty good I think.

And in other big news of the day....

Greg Wiggle is making a comeback. Sam's been bumped. Read about it here.

Poor Sam. I quite liked him. But I guess he'll need to continue to be on stand-by in case Greg's health takes another turn for the worse.

Who Was Right: Orwell or Huxley?

This is interesting.

I read 1984 recently. Haven't read Huxley yet, but thinking that perhaps I should....

I think there are societies in the world that reflect each of them.

Bored

Meeting going on upstairs. If I go up there to heat up some late dinner it will mean walking through their discussions. But I do need to eat before 10pm since I am then supposed to fast until my 2 hour glucose tolerance test tomorrow morning. So I hope they'll stop talking soon.

I've just typed the minutes from the meeting I just came home from. No other pressing work to do. Everything else I want to do (books, mail, TV etc) is upstairs.

No great words of wisdom here to share with the blog world. But during the 2 hours of sitting in the waiting room tomorrow, I'm sure I can come up with something. Chris can look after Rosie for the first 45 minutes of waiting. After that I think it will be chaos trying to keep a toddler in the confined space of the pathology waiting area.

Where oh where have my comments gone?

Why aren't they showing up in the "recent comments" area? (Hoping that posting this might make them magically reappear...)

Sounds of summer

Listening to female tennis players screeching at the Australian Open (on the television) while a thunderstorm passes over our house.

Quintessential summertime.