I woke up yesterday with a couple of mosquito bites. First time I've been bitten since I arrived. Not too shabby since Jennie says she gets eaten alive. I killed a cockroach the size of a Toyota Celica last night. Freaky.
Therefore, today is Bug Day (+1). No sightings today. This is good.

I went heaving through the meandering herd of humanity at Westfield today. I had to fax something to the removalist who is removing my shit from the wharf to here very soon [knock wood]. I gave up on the NewsAgency when the woman couldn't understand what the hell a cover page is. I found that the color photocopy guy upstairs was much more fax savvy and we briefly discussed the Spruce Goose (a minor obsession of mine) as I saw he had a picture of it hanging up.

I was also pleased yesterday (Bug Day) to note the police parked out on The Kingsway (our street/highway) nabbing speeders. It's become a pet peeve of mine because... Ohhhh. I dunno. Maybe I hate the sound of motorcycles and hopped up Nissans screaming by. Anywhoey, there sat John Law out front in his crouching high-performance car. Nothing like the sedans back home, I should point out. Fast, low-slung Holdens with purring racing-grade engines. It was quite fun to watch. You see, ordinarily when they do this they park [hidden] in front of a van that's usually here. But yesterday it was out doing something van-oriented. So instead of a zoom+siren it was as if some localised gravitational phenomenon existed in front of our house. Cars would come roaring down the road and suddenly their speed would drop as this anomaly of physics pulled them into its influence. I swear, it was if they were suddenly fighting some sort of gravity well. hahaha! I laughed. Much like that.

What else... Tidbits: Aussies love ABBA. They reallllly love ABBA, on the whole. Fries are nearly ubiquitous. You get them not only at McDonalds and Happy Jacks [Burger King], but at Taco Bell and Pizza Hut and KFC. I don't like cricket. There are generally 5 (sometimes 6 if you're lucky) over-the-air TV stations. They are repeated (and sometimes localised) around the country. They are: ABC, SBS, 7, 9 and 10. We also get NBN/RTC. And the stations are not fixed-frequency. You gotta tune your TV set. After 30-something years of U.S. TV this was something of a singularity to me when I was shown. I expected it in Great Britain because, well, you'd been told to expect it, but I wasn't thinking it would be the same here. It's interesting...

OK, time to start dinner. Later!