" but I still love the old world"....Where to from here?"

[Skipper]

Can we steer this away from home renos.

I'm worried for Skips' mental wellbeing if it doesn't.

Cheers gents.

I'll take that as good hearted concern. as opposed to cheeky calumniation.
But nah, I'm good mate. Chuffed this baby's taken on a life of its own. My lurking about is due more to lengthy ruminations on some posts and trying to maintain on line connectivity to the general and tangental.
Head down though today juggling nursing duties, tea making for visitors, board repairs and general domestic obligations..hectic bro.

If she doesn't herself, I'll get round to steering her back on course in good time..meanwhile carry on...

[alakaboo]

the revolution has begun...someone grab a camera

[ajohnsen]

Woolly, I'd be happy to show around Excel anytime. Pivot tables are the bomb!

Sorry Steve, I know... I know...Skip's state of mind and all that.

[Grooter]

And when you're done with that woolly I'll get you down, dirty and funky with custom VBA programming and Data Services to really make those little spreadsheets sing.

Done to the tune of some cold VB's of course

[Skipper]

ease up with this state of mind sh*t, what am i? resident basket case all of a sudden....actually that's a rhetorical question.

So..allow me this indulgence...
coz i've had Terry Callier's - What color is Love playing on a loop today: opening track is a deeelightful bit of daily inspiration.

"For my openin’ line
I might try to indicate my state of mind
or turn you on
or tell you that I’m laughin’
just to keep from cryin’
pretty music, when you hear it,
keep on tryin’ to get near it
a little rhythm for your spirit
but that’s what it’s for
c’mon in here’s the door

I’ve seen a sparrow get high
and waste his time in the sky
he thinks it’s easy to fly
he’s just little bit freer than I"

[oldman]

and olds, the 'your' spello was deliberate..

I'm sorry, I think you have mistaken me for someone who gives a toss.

I only bring them up occasionally, just on a whim. I'm no spelling policeman, let at least 9 out of every 10 go through without booking the driver.

[Beanpole]

I much prefer William Morris and Voltaire to Thoreau.
Actually gave my little block plane a bit of a run this arvo and on a winters afternoon time stands still for a quiet moment.

Last Sunday decided the surf was too small and had a bit of a run and a swim. There was a whale about out the back. Cruised down to the park and there were sulphur crested cockatoos, galahs, big gang gang black cockatoos, black swans with their signets, ducks, geese and water fowls plus some cormarant looking birds making big nests in the trees. Its a hard grind in this urban jungle sometimes.

[scod]

Being of similar ilk I know of the triumph that results from completing such a task even poorly. Thoughts of buying more power tools, maybe a ute,

Seems that tasks completed or even attempted poorly are your forte, scrote.

Surfing, music, home reno's. What else have you got on the cv?

If you're going to keep hitting on me you should probably buy me a drink. I know you're lacking a clue but it aint up to me to provide you with one.

[dUg]

More cracks about cube monkeys, please, Mr Shearer sir!

Meanwhile I'll toss, if you'll pardon the pun, Hatchman and aJohnson a Sao.

Carry on.

[steve shearer]

To stave off the hypos as Melville used to say, and Carroll alluded to, or whenever I feel like randomly assaulting the next hipped out IT geek I see in Byron, freshly moved up from the city, I like to spend a leisurely afternoon at Bylesy's emporium. 69 Shirley St.

Thats right 69.

The Dalai Lama was on the radio as I drove up from the Ox, which set the spiritual tone perfectly.

Herro was there. And Bylesy. Both of 'em looking as fresh as colts in a paddock. I was staggered to see Shane. He had new teeth. He looked in shape.
But his eyes. His eyes. They had lost that clouded over gaze, in which a pained soul sought to hide itself.
The trouble seemed gone and he met my gaze with a clear purposeful look.
He's been surfing heaps. On a 6'0" made by Wazza. A 2+1.

It was hard not to remember some of the time's I'd seen Shane right off the hook. At a barbie on a Fri arve right in the heart of Byron. With a bunch of backpackers around Shane had stripped naked and grabbing his cock he pulled it around his wrist and walked up to a nubile swede.
'See this?", he said.

The girl winced but short of taking flight she had to acknowledge the member stretched over the wrist.

She nodded.

"This is all it's fcuking good for! "

Later he lay down in the nude in a crucifix position in the middle of the party.

My boyo was playing trucks with Byleys son, he had a fresh new baby daughter there. There was a glorious sense of the eternal recurrence, of life and vitality.

Bylesy was keen to do some filming and I sensed that even Shane with his extreme reclusiveness might be a party to that.

We swapped numbers.

I walked up to Shane and grabbed him and pulled his head to mine, maori style, so our foreheads were touching.
"Never be ashamed of who you are. You're a beautiful man."

That was stone cold sober at 2 in the afternoon.

Later I went home and draining our meagre savings I went and bought all the latest high-def camera gear I could afford.

If that gear captures one frame of Shane surfing it'll have been worth evry fcuking shekel.

[steve shearer]

yeah, I was thinking about Leonard Cohens Famous Blue Raincoat.

The next time I saw you you looked so much older, your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder.

[steve shearer]

did you ever go clear?

sincerely L Cohen.

[steve shearer]

Looks like someone is listening in.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/when-it-all-g ... 1gp7h.html

[oldman]

$7000 to move to Tamworth!

I just got a shiver running down my back.

What was this thread about again?

Skip, can you come back to re-align this talk.

[scod]

I hate living in sydney, but if they won't relocate my cubicle what do i do ?

I can't be a free range monkey now, I've been trained too long now at shitting in my hand and flinging it at others to anything different now.

[steve shearer]

There's a wonderful service up here that will help you re-train all those neural pathways Scoddy.

Comes for a small fee, but you get what you pay for right?

[scod]

There aernt many neural pathways to re-train, unfortunately

[Skipper]

Skip, can you come back to re-align this talk.

^^^^

There's this Situationist's cartoon out of a Greil Marcus I'm rather fond of, with two cowboys astride their horses, and one asks of the other-" so, what's your scene man?,"
"oh, reification" the other replies. To which the first comments -
" gee, I guess that means hard work with big books piled high on a table!" to which the other responds -
" nope, I drift, mostly I just drift"
:?