Fatlo.af

Some people love burger rings, I count myself among its fans, its a classic. In talking to some people at Tenix in Melbourne I found out that its apparently incredibly hard to find them over there. So I did what any normal, able minded person would do, I mocked them. Then I couriered over half a dozen packets. It was worth it.

Specifically, I couriered them because she didn’t believe that I would and in not doing so would probably confirm her belief that all men lie, blah blah blah and, to quote scrubs, they’re bastard coated bastards with a bastard filling. Of course, I couldn’t just courier them over in a small satchel, I had to use a large box, fill it with lots of bubble wrap and then put 6× 50g packets of burger rings in it. The guys who picked it up thought it was amusing.

I’m not sure if she planned out some sort of rationing schedule to make them last as long as possible or if she opened them all at once and just poured them into some crudely fashioned funnel and stood under it waiting for the bounty of orange salty goodness to fall from above. I’m going to with the latter.

I’ll talk about the weekend just gone later in the week, I need to mention the weekend before that first.

It all started fairly well, an early morning trip up to Mt Pleasant to watch the Rally, Laura came with me for the trip. Something about fast cars and rally drivers, I wasn’t really paying attention. I was going up to do some work in the Service Area with a friend who provides the wireless internet access for all the teams so I got to be a geek and a spectator. It was tempting just to wander about in the back of the Toyota Team’s camp and just gather parts for my car but I don’t think they would have appreciated it very much.

We had to leave there with enough time to go back and collect Spence before heading up to the Barossa Cup. Of course, not 5 minutes out of the service area and Laura was asleep, she snored too, it was quite distracting. We had plenty of time once we got back to Spence’s so his mum showed us some photo’s of him doing his best frankenstein impression at a party he was at. Very daunting indeed.

That was about the highlight of the weekend, the bowling was atrocious. I will say this, the condition they layed out at Barossa was fantastic, it was damn hard and very unforgiving. I love those sorts of conditions, you have to work for everything and be happy when you get it. I couldn’t do it on the day, I’ve since changed my style around a bit and that probably would have helped then but I’ll have to try next year to see if it works. There’s another tournament coming up in September at Salisbury, I’d say the condition there will be a cake walk compared to Barossa. For me, that’s disappointing, I think more hard conditions need to be layed out to sort the bowlers from the spectators. Not going to happen though, low scores don’t bring in new bowlers, big scores do.

Can’t really do much about it though, it’s all business.

Saturday evening consisted of a mega schnitzel at my house, Spence was in awe over the fact you could get a take-away schnitzel from the Mawson Lakes Hotel and as the restaurant is normally packed on a Saturday night, we took this option and took up lounging positions on the futon at my house. I must say, its the first mega in a while for me and I was struggling a bit towards the end. I did make it though which pleased me greatly. It was a lovely schnitzel.

Sunday started out with the best of intentions, but laziness quickly took hold and its grasp held me down on the couch until late in the afternoon. My day was filled mostly with television and snacking. A fairly unproductive day in the end, I liked it.

The Fatloaf Go-Karting event that’s being planned is starting to come together quite well, the wrestling title belt that I ordered off of eBay arrived the week before last and its quite spectacular in its shiny plastic grandure. I was impressed. I’m thinking of going down to the track for a bit of a practice before the big day, Paul and Kylie have expressed a desire to do this also. This is turning into a big event, knowing the track is going to play a big part. I’ll officially announce the teams next week once everything is confirmed, its looking like a 7 car event, with teams of 2 in a Bathurst style layout.

Should be a corker.

You’ll hear from me later in the week.