Each night as i couldn’t sleep due to discomfort I would stare at the ceiling of the slum which happened to be made of empty cardboard fridge boxes.

I noticed something that you are going to find profound and life changing.

There is no ‘d’ in refrigerator. I have never noticed this before. Why is there a ‘d’ in fridge?

It should be pronounced re-frig-erator which sounds like some sort of nautical dinosaur.

So i’m thinking of starting a bring back the d campaign called ‘Plan D’.

Dave Andrews has ‘Plan Be’ all about bringing the beatitudes to a prominent place in our churches and personal faith.

Plan D shall attempt to return the D to fridge boxes, I’m pretty sure koorong will back me and sell my book.

No ‘d’. I’m still shocked.

Then Friday I went up the Surrender site to start setting up the slum for the weekend.

there are 10 of us sleeping in here and living here for the weekend.

On Saturday afternoon Melbourne put on quite a storm, massive hail that ripped through cars only metres away from the slum, luckily the slum roof of cardboard and plastic held up. There was only 1 hole (above my sleeping spot)

3 nights with just a sleeping bag no mattress and one set of clothes. 2 small meals of rice and dahl I’m exhausted So i got me some virgin lounge access at Melb airport. Which is where i am currently splayed out on a super soft couch chewing on a toothpick after beer, olives, coke, cookies and a really big much needed poo.

in a few hours i will be home

So today we did lot’s of moving and rearranging of stuffs.

Jenny even got me a sweet sign for the door.

The space behind out wardrobe will now be a storage area.

Now this is where the ‘Play it forward’ title comes in to play.

I lasted 10 minutes into the show before ejecting it. I sat through the tedious intro which made we want to punch the screen, then the show started and I wanted to laugh really i did but there was no jokes, there wasn’t anything remotely funny about it. So it’s time to play it forward. If you want to give it a go leave a comment and i’ll email you and post the DVD to you.

Watch it, or some of it depending on how long you last, then write in the enclosed visitors booklet i have made how long you lasted and then send it back to me or on to someone else. Eventually i’ll get it back and put up peoples comments and how long they lasted on the old blog.

So who wants to give it a go?

But that doesnt matter i’m having a great time watching them.

I shaved on Saturday.I’m eating brownies and that is you up to speed on my exciting life.

I just installed google chrome and it doesn’t seem to like the idea of spaces in between lines and new paragraphs.

His name is Wallace Weaving (thanks Jem) and he is an old man that decided to take advantage of his $2.50 pensioner train ticket and travel the entire cityrail network in a day. you can read about him here.

I can’t wait until i’m 65 years old and then I can try and beat his record, it will be tough as there is a long wait until i’m 65. By then the cityrail network will have probably fallen apart, I say probably I mean defiantly.

Sure i could do it now but it would cost a fortune, the daytripper ticket designed to let you travel as much as you want in a day has boundaries that are well inside the extremities of the cityrail network so you would have to purchase separate tickets to travel out on each limb of the network.

So it’s not going to happen…….

…. Or is it?

Today I decided to take Oscar on a train adventure, just s short one but enough to fill in 2 hours so Jenny could rest a bit.

I went up to the ticket machine not really knowing where to go, but then read that the machine was out of order so i had to go to the window.

When i got to the window with Oscar in his pram the man in the window said “are you traveling with a child’. I said “yes” then he said “that’s $2.50 for you to travel all day on trains, buses and ferries, if you have a child it’s $2.50 every Sunday for unlimited travel”

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

They call it ‘Sunday funday’ stuff that! I’m calling it Sunday Bloody Awesome Sunday!

yes it does need the ugly green highlight.

So my mission is set, I figure every odd Sunday i should get me and Oscar into train training, or ‘training’ as i like to call it. We will train for the big one, then one day we will do it. And all for $2.50. It’s gonna be the best day ever.

Today we just went to Macquarie Uni station and back again.

Oscar’s favorite part of the trip was putting his index fingers in the holes in the window.

Well that’s not what this post is about.

Today i had the best idea ever.

Fresh fruit salad + ice magic

I know it’s the sort of idea that could get me the Nobel prize.

The fruit salad was chilling away in a container in the fridge, so i got it out, added fruit to my bowl then poured on the ice magic.

I waited a few minutes but the ice magic didn’t go hard.

Maybe the fruit wasn’t cold enough.

So i put my bowl with all it’s contents into the freezer.

The ice magic still didn;t go hard.

So the best idea in the world has some flaws.

Why didn’t it go hard? Is there some sort of chemical reaction between ice cream and ice magic?