howie’s halfpipe

Oh the joys of broken mail servers.

Smartyhost sometimes you really piss me off.

Sometimes having a second hand clothing shop attached to work is such a blesssing.

I loved hey hey its saturday, my favourite tv show of all time and today i picked up this little ozzie ostrich toy for $2.

Now all i need is a Daryl somers doll

Praise the Lord for big concerts on DVD

Jenny and i are watching Live8

So far this year I have recieved 5 phone calls, 2 of which were missed calls.

rigged up the old VHS player to the home theatre set up tonight.

Boy oh boy does VHS look good when its projected this big.

We are watching ‘Good News Week, Unseen and Obscene” which is damn funny.

You have a candle, an oil lamp, wood in a fireplace, and only one match. What do you light first?

this weeks prize is a turramurra high school calculator, oh yeah!

today is back to work day.

how dull.

Just watched ‘kenny’

My goodness me that is a fantastic film, Oh deary me it made me laugh.

Who would have thought that 2 hours of poo jokes would work wonders in the film world.

think i might have to buy it on dvd, i could watch it again right away.

Today the wife and I went and had lunch at pie in the sky followed by a movie at Greater Union Hornsby.

We saw ‘Pursuit of Happiness’

It felt really long, some bits quite dull and really not needed. The characters where going through a tedious bad time so maybe the director wanted to audience to feel just as bad. It was not too bad a film just incredibly slow.

Will Smith is pretty cool.

I’ll give it 4/7

Now in some more exciting news.

I refuse to sit in my allocated seat at the cinema casue i think its stupid and I can say that i have never sat in my allocated seat.

Today was no different, we sat about 5 rows in front of where we were supposed to be, as it got closer to the film starting the cinema was getting quite full and the result was that about 30 ended up not sitting in their correct seats becasue of myself and jenny.

And none of them seemed to care it was a beautiful piece of  “Up Ya, Greater Union”

the wife is cooking lasagna tonight.

oh yeah!

the holidays are drawing to a close.

maybe i could develop some kind of new illness called “lostaworkis ohdarnis”

The acute brain disorder resulting in the patients complete memory loss of the whereabouts of his/her work place resulting in the patient never making it to work.

Today debbie and i went to Luna Park, We got the the mega super duper pass that meant we could go on everything unlimited times.

It was fun, we went on all the rides excpet the ones that are just for little kiddies, some rides we even went on 5 times. If you get a chance to go there make sure you go on the ‘extreme speed machine” its one hell of a ride.

what a fun day. my stomach hurts.

today we went and has lunch at the bevis abode in the mountains.

It was nice, we sat around chatting and eating. miriam cooked some mega healthy looking lunch with lots of green stuff, it tasted really good.

thanks for having us bevdogs!

Getting closer to jenny in singstar, tonight agsint her i was a superstar and she was a singstar ony a few hundred points in it…..

one day, the singstar crown will be mine

1. Initials: RAH
2. Name someone with the same birthday as you: no idea
3. Last thing you ate? 2 metamucel capsuls
4. For or against same sex marriage: Against
5. I say Shotgun! You say? wedding
6. Last person you hugged? Sam
7. Do you believe in God? Yes
8. How many Australian states have you been to? Which ones? All of them
9. How many of the Australian states have you lived in? Which ones? 1, NSW
10. Ever lived outside of Australia? Where? Yes, I was born in Scotland came to Aus when I was 18 months old
11. Name something you like physically about yourself: My knees
12. Something non-physical you like about yourself: My lack of stress
13. Who is your best friend? Jenny & Tom are on par but I cant marry tom
14. Why are you still up? Casue I’m doing this damn quiz thing
15. What/who made you angry today? Nothing
16. Favorite type of Food?: Lasagne
17. Favorite holiday: howie and toms one day visit to melbourne
18. Do you download music: Itunes oh I love it
19. What illegal things have you done? Driven a car, aquired road signs,
21. Would you date the person that posted this? Dating is for chumps got straight to marrige
22. Has anyone ever sang or played for you personally? Don’t think so
23. Do you love anyone? Yes my wife
24. Do you like Howard: not when people call me it
25. Have you ever bungee jumped: Nope
26.Have you ever gone white-water rafting: Nope
28. How much money ya got?: $4.25 in my wallet
29. Have you met a real redneck? An aussie version yes
30. How is the weather right now: drizzley I think
31. What are you listening to right now? The tapping of the leys in my keyboard
32. What is your current favourite song? Waiting of the world to change – john mayer
33. What was the last movie you watched? Most of Garage Days
34. Do you wear contacts: Nope
35. Where was the last place you went besides your house? Launceston
36. What are you afraid of?: america
37. How many piercings and tattoo’s do you have?: none
38. How many pets do you have: 2 - Ham, Pineapple
39. Have you ever loved someone: Yes
40. What turns you on? Ice cold coca cola
41. What do you usually order from Starbucks: chai
42. Have you ever fired a gun? Yes at an indoor shooting range
44. Fav. TV show? Of all time hey hey its Saturday, in more recent times the panel and even more recent the chasers war on everything
45. Do you have an ipod?: yep a 4GB nano
46. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celeb? When I was quite young people used to think I looked like macauley culkin
47. When are you 47? 3 years before I’m 50
48. Who would you like to see right now? Bono
49. Favorite movie of all time? Malcom / blues brothers
50. Do you find yourself loved?: sure do
51. have you ever regretted something you didnt do? Yes
52. Favorite flower: flowers are for pansy’s
53. Butter, plain, or salted popcorn? All of the above
54. What Magazines are you reading: none
55. Have you ever ridden in a limo: Nope
56. Has anyone you were really close to passed away?: not yet, no one in my family has died since I have been alive
58. What’s something that really bugs you? Impatient people, just wait!
60. Do you like Michael Jackson? His music is tops
61. Whats your favorite smell? Fresh cooked lasagne
62. Favorite basketball team: N/A
63. Favorite cereal: honey smacks, don’t think they exist anymore
64. Do you drive? nope
66. What’s the longest time you’ve gone without sleep? More than 24 hours, but not sure otherwise
67. Last time you went bowling? Was with Jenny, Lachie, Will, maybe Tamara and Ben?? A year or so ago?
67. Where is the weirdest place you have slept? dunno
68. Who was your last phone call? Tom a few days ago
69. Last time you were at work: Thursday before Christmas
70. Whats your favorite city to be in: Wellington is pretty cool

Almost time to check out of this b grade establishment and fill in a few hours before our flight.

Launcestons on a sunday is a happening place!

Today was the day of Andy and Penny’s wedding.

We began the day with a walk around the shops followed by a driving expedition to coles (which we found is open til midnight every day).

Followed by a trip out to cataract gorge.

Then back into town for the wedding, it was a nice ceremony, andy scrubbed up well and penny was a hottie. Was good to see lots of buddies and sit with them during the service.

The reception was fun, they stole our idea and had lucky door prizes, but aslo some other games and a pinyata. Good food, some entertaining dancing and good buddies made it a very enjoyable and worthwile voyage to tasmania.

Andy and Penny are such lovely folks.

I leave you now with this photo of Launceston’s contribution to Australias obsession with ‘big’ things like the big pineapple and all that.

does it need an explination? this guy is situated on a main road right outside bunnings warehouse. It was pointed out to me on one of my first visits to tassie and only now have i been able to document it.

the toilet paper in our room is nasty.

I just opened the cupboard in our motel room, this is the order of the itmes that are in the cupboard from front to the back of the cupboard.

1.Pack of 6 Condoms

2.glow in the dark tube of personal lubricant

3.Holy Bible

this could also be summed up by the following

Lust

Tension

Repentance