tales from an ordinary world

1999-01-03

Breakfast at Big Mouth's in St Kilda. I maintained my dagginess, though, by having mere scrambled eggs (so sue me. I don't remember the last time I had them !). I started (re-)reading an old Frank Moorhouse book, Futility and Other Animals, in the hope that I'd pick up stuff I missed the first time, when I read it a year or two ago. I've always tried to avoid doing this sort of thing (seeing films multiple times, or reading books again), at least without a reasonable period of time in between - I figure I'll get more out of the whole experience that way.

From St Kilda I made my way over to meet a few friends at the Malvern town hall, which was hosting this week's computer swap meet - the bargain basement of computer bits and pieces. I'd promised my housemate Lee that I'd get his Playstation, uh, "circumcized" (for want of a better word) for Christmas, and so while some kid (under the watchful eye of his mother) soldered away at Lee's little grey box, we waded through the crowd (there were a lot of people there this time) and priced a few random hardware bits. By the end of it, I was drenched with sweat from all the crowd dodging, and glad to leave it all behind...