tales from an ordinary world

2000-08-27

The forgotten advantages to going back to the familiar orange hair dye - going for a walk around Caulfield and having an old friend you haven't seen in a year or two jump out of his car and say "Cos ! I thought that was you !" and so you stand on the nature strip making the usual catchup smalltalk with smoke in hand and it's great to see him happy and smiling and doing well for himself and hey, we'll do something real soon, maybe next weekend, we're catching up with all the other guys anyway, so come along, here's my email address and we'll sort something out.

An evening's catchup with Alex, not seen since others were still here, in a restaurant so loud you feel like even people's thoughts are bouncing off the walls and into your ears. Escape to Big Mouth for coffee and dessert, but even they're playing music slightly too loud to relax to.