I don’t know why I’m nervous. I shouldn’t be; it’s just football. And I’m not nervous, really, not mentally. It’s just my tummy feeling strange before the game. Which it has no right to because I’m a bench warmer today, just a sub in case anyone comes off injured. Which suits me fine because I…
I had a nice time at training last night. Unlike usual, my head didn’t run its anxious post-mortem of things I said or did that might be totally stupid. I’m getting comfortable with saying and doing stupid things; I mean silly little things, not like property damage or endangering other people. That’s beyond stupid. Today…
I played like crap tonight. Two weeks off for Christmas and my football skills have worn down to a nub. Ow, and my callouses have become tender, ow ow ow. For football – competition in general – I’ve decided I don’t mind losing, so long as the game was good. By good, I mean good…
This is my mate Martin. He just launched his first online business – SockemToMe.com.au SockemToMe is a subscription-based sock shop for plain black business socks – you sign up and they send you a batch of socks every few months so you don’t have to make a trip to the shops for such boring, basic…
Nothing like a week off work to start the year right. Hello, 2011, here’s what I got up to on my week (and a half) off. 1. Slept. By this I mean deliberate hardcore sleeping. I think I spent all of the 30th and half of the 31st asleep. It was good. Many strange dreams;…
The Expendables. Gratuitous, brutish, indulgent, completely unashamed of its tenuous storyline and crass dialogue. This is 2 hours of pointless, action-packed entertainment – indeed it has plumbed beyond the depths of shit and emerged victoriously brilliant out the other side. Awesome closure to a good weekend. I scored a goal today too, and had pizza pockets…