{"id":2579,"date":"2005-05-16T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2579\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:09:49","slug":"2579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2579","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

My birthday has been good overall. I would have liked to have shared it with someone special, but it has been good none the less. And I got some presents!!! And I guess some more will be coming later. <\/p>\n

My brother gave me a copy of Bill Bryson’s book ‘A short History of Nearly Everything’. The book looks cool, even if it is the sort that seems to be sold at airports everywhere. If you have not read any of his other books I would advise you to read them. Start with his book on Australia and see if you can put it down. I have a friend in the USA who just loves to quote Bill Bryson… And shares his view of this country. <\/p>\n

For some reason I have started at Chapter 14… Seemed a nice place to start. Anyway, I love a quote from Bryson, talking about the location of a visitors centre, and described it by saying “It’s slightly in the middle of nowhere”. Such cool imagery. <\/p>\n

I also got a copy of Audrey Hepburn’s Roman Holiday from my mother. Since I have been there she thought it might be a sort of a Holiday Video for me. Alas, no romance for me in Rome when I was there in September… Mum is going to give me something else – I am not sure what yet. That is all the presents at the moment. My father is planning to ring soon. I will probably be going out to dinner with Richard and Michelle sometime this weekend to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Dinner at Sizzler’s was good… A great time catching up, and the food was good too, although Sizzler has come down a notch in the last few years. It was also a good chance to test the tracking unit. The new software modifications worked a treat. As mentioned I have a whole bunch of mods to make. The first of them seem to be working.<\/p>\n

Anyway I think I am going to go to bed and read some of the book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My birthday has been good overall. I would have liked to have shared it with someone special, but it has been good none the less. And I got some presents!!! And I guess some more will be coming later. My …<\/p>\n

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