howie’s halfpipe

I”ve rodded 3 times today it sucks its like im a vegetarian!

26 unique visits at the close of the day….smashing all records

If people hear things from other people then I don’t care because it’s probably not true, because I didn’t say anything and if Jo didn’t say anything then it must have been created by assumptions and then that assumption turns into a rumour and then that rumour spreads and spreads until it is so warped and un-true. So people believe and think what ever the hell you want, but if you want the truth maybe you should find out not from someone else but from me or Jo.
I know I have been playing along with the laughs and jokes but I think it’s got a bit out of hand so now I’m pulling back. This message isn’t intended for any one person it’s just for the masses, me included.

24 unique visits so far today and 37 page views, its my biggest day ever, the old record was 19.
This month i have an average of 13.28 unique visits per day with 239 unique visits so far in July.
229 unique visits in june. So this month is the absolute bomb!

Well as you all know I have a new mobile phone, so I have a new alarm clock, so I set it on Wednesday night hoping that it would be a much more pleasant wake up than my aggressive current alarm that has a problem with anger and needs to have some time alone switched off. Anyway the new phone was set and then in the morning off went the new alarm> it was such a woosey alarm, it did the beeping thing but it did the beeping thing in a soft timid feminine voice, so I have one alarm that needs anger counseling and other that has a self esteem problem. What’s with alarms these days, isn’t there any alarms that are stable and do their job well. Sheeeesh!

Well yesterday I spent the day at the Fusion office with Steve Wade and the gang, it was fun, I was looking into getting a video editing computer for fusion, I’m gonna write to big corporations and stuff and see if they can assist financially or physically with equipment. So that a bit of poshness. I also had a 90 minute lunch in the foodcourt with the boys, David, Tom and Chris. Then after fusion I went home then it was time for Terminator 3.

T3, it was a good film, I was expecting a piece of crap just made to cash in on the success of the first 2, but I was proved wrong, the preview for the film made it look like it was going to be a piece of crap too. There was action and romance, and drama and suspense, and even the odd gag here and there. Arnie was looking much better than he does in interviews and stuff too, he’s getting the old terminator. I agree with tom that it had a good ending! Yeah I recomend it to you all. It was a biggish crew of us that went. There was Tom, Chris, Jo, David, Jem, Anmol, Tim, Tim’s friend and Steve Wade.

After T3 stave Wade went home to his wifie and we stood around wondering what to eat and where to go, we ended up going to woolies and getting pasta and ice cream and coke and then headed back to our house for a night of frivolous conversations, blog poshing and the odd rude comment aswell.

It was a fin night with much laughter, David kissed me! That was a bit odd.

Jo and I watched my new “Death to Smoochie” DVD, then at 2:24am tom and myself took Jo home to Belorse and on the way back we got egged.

Right now I’m at rough Edges, Jane told des about Jo, Jane is a real gossip queen, its all funny,

Well today was a good day, although my stupid alarm clock woke me up again with its stupid beeping. One day I’m gonna creep up on my alarm in the middle of the night when its fast asleep and I’m gonna get up real close and shout in its little ear BEPP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP and see if it likes it. Anyway after my alarm went off I went and had my shower and checked emails and stuff.

I got up at like 9:47 or something crazy like that. Then I had a chat to tom and left for Chatswood where I would be meeting the lovely Jo. She was running a bit late so I went and bought “Death to Smoochie” on DVD. Then when Jo arrived we walked around Westfield for a bit then had some Maccas and then a bit more walking then we went to the RTA to do our L’s test but we couldn’t do it due to us not having birth certificates and signed reference form things. So we walked back towards Westfield and had some ice cream in the mall. Oh and on the way to ice cream we went to Optus world and I upgraded my plan and got a new phone, very exciting.

So all in all it was a spontaneously fantastic date, I mean Maccas, Westfield, mobile phones and ice cream, what more could a boy want!

Well today I minded Hannah from 1pm til 7:30, it was fun and she was in a really tops mood!
So that filled up a lot of my day seeing as I got up just after midday.
Then tonight I watched ‘Analyse that’ with Tom and Tinku (notice I didn’t link to tinku). But before we watched the film tom and I talked about going to woollies and getting coke, and one of the other things we talked about was seeing “finding nemo” the new animation film, and tom said “I wanna see that film with my pants down” I’m sure it didn’t mean to come out like that but it was very funny. The reason he said that was because of the TDK add on tv with the woman who’s clothes fall off when she turns up her stereo, and tom was saying that he was so excited about ‘finding nemo” that his pants would fall off. It just came out a bit strange. But it gave me something to blog about.
Karinda got a blog yesterday but she wont let me link to her, and matt got one today well done Matt and karinda welcome to the revolution. I love blogs!
I am like a blog evangelist, its a bit geeky! ohwell

I think Ryan might have moved to Newcastle today, but who knows if he did or not

welcome to the land of blogging mr Matt, you have made the right choice and will be richly rewarded, you even got your name in that list over on the left.
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I was planning on doing all this cool stuff for my blogs birthday like a new template and funky buttons and links and stuff, but I never got around to it, so it’s the same old boring whiteness with two colourful stripes. Maybe I’ll prepare something funky for its second birthday!
We have the TEAR support group tonight so I cant go out and knock back a few drinks for the old blog

Blogs are so much fun, both reading and writing! I hope my blog keeps going for many years to come!

Driving to Belrose is a trek it’s in the middle of nowhere, no trains, no Westfield, No anything! Where as Hornsby is the Hub of modern day society.

Going to Chatswood tomorrow to go and try and get my L’s I’m pretty sure they will say no but it’s worth a shot hey! And Jane said I could drive the Hannah van if I got my licence, she is regretting saying that now, now that I’m actually going to go and try and get my L’s everyone is scared in case I do get them and I begin driving. It’s not that bad people I can see some stuff, and anything I can’t see doesn’t matter cause if I cant see it then it doesn’t exist.

But don’t worry because they are going to say no, you cant see enough, then you guys can stop being so scared

being the first birthday of my blog and all i thought it fittig to republish my very first post, so here it is:

“well this is my first pot on this bloggy thing, I wonder how long this will last. I give it 2 weeks then i will forget about it or just not be bothered to write more, i cant use the excuse of not having enought time but i can use the excuse of “just cant be bothered”, what am i saying if i want to stop i will and if i get lazy thats fine i’m alowed to this is my bloody blog, you can presure me all you want but when push comes to shove i’m the big boss, i’m the chairman, i’m the big kahuna, this blog is like my corporation and i’m the guy who wears a suit and sits up in a big office overlooking the harbour and i fi i feel that the company is slowing down and that profits are down it is in my power to close branches across the country, and belive you me this blog is the first branch to shut….yes indeed you punters will have to move to someone elses blog, i dont care about the customer, if your upset thats your own fault for geting emotionally attached to the blog, For me its all about market success, you know healthey shares, a good annual profit that sort of thing.

Any resembelance to Australian banks is purely coinsadental and fictional”

posted on the 15th of July 2002 at 11:42:05pm in Hazelbrook NSW

all my archiver are over there on the left where it says “the old stuff is in here” if you want to read any of them

here is an email i wrote once
ahh the bliss of young love, dont we do and say silly things sometimes!

ITS MY BLOGS FIRST BIRTHDAY TODAY, HIP HIP HORAY!

“M” IS FOR MONDAY AND MONDAY IS CENTRELINK DAY

Well today my alarm went off a bit after 10, but the noise of my alarm annoyed me so I went back to sleep and woke up again about midday. Its almost a little spurt of defiance, like my alarm goes off and I’m like “man I hat that sound, I refuse to get up because I hate the sound you make” then I turn it off an go back to sleep..I showed that alarm, wont ever wake me up with that horrible noise again!

Then I had my shower and talked to Jane a bit, I accidentally squished Hannah fingers in my door today, she got very upset, it wasn’t very nice, I didn’t mean to.
I checked emails and read blogs, then got stuck into the Centrelink form filling out my form and applying for jobs and filling out the mutual obligation diary, its not hard work, its just a drag. Then the boys Tom Chris and Matt tempted me with a visit to the foodcourt so I happily obliged and met them at our favourite table. Io had Macccas and we talked about the good old days of all the stages of Westfield opening and how we had been at all the major openings (quite geeky really) we are real life mall-rats!
We bagged Tom out about his films today, and me being aesthetically unpleasing, it was all fun and games, then the boys went back to recording and I began my journey back up to Hazelbrook to return Steve’s camera. It’s such a dog of a journey, bit over 2 hours each way, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, it’s always good visiting the bevis’s. We chatted away and they gave me spaghetti bolognaise, it was yum, we chatted more. Dylan showed me his computer, the tower had a big hole cut in the side of it and there is a thick sheet of pur specs over the whole and inside he has put a green neon light and stuff and he’s getting UV paint and the lights will flash to the beat of music and games and stuff. I have to say it’s probably the first thing in my life that I have ever thought was a waste of money the only exception being “pure joy” (Toms film that was a flop). Anyway its stupid, its like putting spoilers on your computer and getting it lowered with a sports exhaust USB port and a phat sub, not to mention my hydraulic disc drive with ABS processing and anti-lock keyboard, next thing you know he will be hanging fluffy dice of the front of the monitor and cruising down the main streets of Lakemba in his hotted up Pentium 4 dual processing IBM. Clicking his mouse at all the ladies, and winding down his tinted monitor. To show off his DELL tracksuit and Microsoft gold chain.

I’m sorry Dylan you’re a good kid its just seems a bit silly to me making your computer “sick”.

I left Hazelbrook at 8:45 pm and began my journey home, with many messages to Jo and some to Chris and Ryan. You see everyone over this side of town has been trying well sorry I shall rephrased that, everyone over this side of town IS trying to set me and Jo up together, and on the other side of town everyone is trying to set Jo up with someone else. Poor girl is having men thrust upon her!

Anyway there was a few amusing incidents tonight that occurred, which I wasn’t present for but I heard about from a few sources, you see everyone was at the blue gum and Jo went too.

I came home and then me Ryan and Ian took Jo home to Belrose, Belrose is a crazy town, it’s a rabbit warren of streets that all look the same. Its crazy, then we came home and now I’m here and soon I wont be because I will go to bed but until I go to bed I’m still here not typing because I have already typed what you are reading but I might still be here reading other peoples typing…

Well today I woke up and Jane said it was elens birthday lunch but I have never heard of elens birthday lunch before but Jane said she had told me, but I’m not sure.

I sat around on the Internet and cooked a chicken pie in the microwave.

Tonight I went to Northridge Vineyard Church in Wahroonga, with Jo and Tinku, it was at the bush school hall, Happy Clappy churches seem to always meet in school halls except hillsong and Daysprings. Anyway it’s not a big congregation, probably about 25 - 30 people there tonight! There was music and a sermon about spiritual gifts and how we should listen to God to get our gifts and listen to him for words and prophesies, There was lots of references to books that people had written on gifts and stuff, it wasn’t the best sermon in the world. After the sermon there was a prayer time where we had to listen to God and what he was saying to us about the people around us and ourselves, listen for words and prophesies and visions for those amongst us, and I don’t think God will necessarily talk to all of us at that particular moment, it was a bit forced I think god does it in his time. Anyway after that time we where told if we received any words and stuff about people to go and talk to that person. 2 people came across to me and the guy was really excited and enthusiastic about what he had to say that I was a “spiritual warrior” and that god had plans for me as a warier but not just a normal spiritual warrior but a loving compassionate one who would sit down and listen to people and then begin warfare against Satan. And the 2 prayed for me and the guy found this verse:

2 Corinthians 10: 3-6

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

I found it a bit “bler” though, the atmosphere just seemed a bit forced or something, like they almost thought they had to come and say something to make it look like they had been given a vision or word. And it may not have been, I do believe that God does talk to people and prophecies do happen, so if I’m wrong I’m sorry that I have dissed the whole experience tonight.

I’m not sure about going back to the church, Jane said I should

Well yesterday was the wedding, between Mark and Susanne it began at St Stephens Belrose and I was on the roaming camera and tom was on the back camera with a tripod, a very posh hired miller tripod. It was a bit scary filming this wedding, I have never filmed a wedding before. There was this photographer guy who it seemed like he was making it his mission to stand in front of every shot I tried to take, and it times it looked quite purposeful, but that’s life in the wedding business.
I got some good shots I think at the ceremony.
Then it was off to the reception where we arrived early to case out the joint and do some setting up of camera gear, we met the DJ guys and we all had a little table off to the side of the reception where our dinner would be served. We became more friendly with the photographer seeing as we had to share a table with him, and he became much nicer towards us, so from that point on he seemed much less stand of ish, although he still did stand in front of our shots a lot. I think $200 for a wedding video way way to cheap, but its my first wedding so I didn’t know what to charge. It ended up that me and tom earnt about $4.15 an hour each, even McDonalds isn’t that bad. I talked to the few people that I did know at the reception a fare bit during the bits that didn’t require any filming. All in all it was a long day, but a bit of fun mixed with a bit of scariness mixed with a bit of do I really want to be doing this mixed with a bit of food.

ROBERT HOWIE REPORTING LIVE:

I’m sitting here at the scene of a dog poo epidemic here in 5 summers Ave Hornsby. Resident Thomas French was talking to me about the wedding tomorrow when a smell entered the conversation, it smelt richly and whole heartedly like dog poo and as I began to complain about Thomas’s fart smell we then began to think that maybe it was dog poo. The shoe checks began but they unveiled nothing, the shoe check began again, and this time still nothing then Thomas moved his hand away from his shoe and there it was, browner than a sunburnt African, Dog poo on toms hand.

Well today was long, well not really all that long but it felt long. My alarm went off at 10:07 am this morning but I fell asleep after it had finished going off and woke up again at 11:43am which was a poo because I had to go to Rough Edges today, so I got up and had my shower then I rang ASC (thanks to toms reminder that he sent me) and I booked a tripod, then I left for Rough Edges.
I arrived at Roughies about 5 minutes late, but no one seemed to mind, I’m probably the only person in the history of Rough Edges that has turned up on time, well that’s not true just you wait as soon as Jane reads this she will disagree and crush my unrealistic interpretation of the punctuality of people at Rough Edges. Anyway I had 3 people turn up today which was good. After rough Edges I began the trek up to Steve’s house in Hazelbrook, so I could pick up his video camera for the wedding tomorrow, I stayed there a couple of hours chatting away, then Steve dropped me back at the station and I caught the 9:45pm from Hazelbrook and arrived in Honrsby at 11:50, not a bad run at all coming home…
On my way home from the station I stopped of at magic kebab and got a chicken kebab, it was very good, and man I was hungry.

I’m thinking about buying an acoustic guitar with the money my Grandma gave me!

Chris has been a busy little boy he made me a guestbook, how posh!

marquee at the top is getting anoying now…gonna stop it.