Weekend Wrap

A very big weekend!

 

Started on Friday night in which Niki and I went with friends Steve & Kate to see The Cure at the Entertainment Centre.  I hadnt been to the EntCent for so long given most things in Sydney happen at Homebush, but I tell you what - what a fantastic concert!

 

Robert Smith and co played for a staggering 3 1/2 hours and 100% of it was their old songs... nothing from the most recent albums and some very old songs dug up from years ago such as "Shiver & Shake".  Really good concert and much better than when they came out in around 2000.  We had B Reserve seats, which were right in the front and centre of the elevation above the floor and because we were right behind the mixing desks, we had perfect sound.  I have to say I was most impressed and Niki enjoyed it as well except a) they didnt play Love Cats and b) some of the grungier stuff from the Pornography album and the like didnt really sit with her.  However, the massive guitar song Kiss Me was a massive hit for me!

 

After dropping off Kate & Steve and checking out their new place in Dulwich Hill (which is very nice! Well done guys!) and getting the kids from Penrith at Niki's sisters and picking up the car at Penrith station, we got in around 2am... we are definately not as young as we think because when the alarm went off at 7:30am for Netball, Niki and I both struggled.

 

Netball was great though... I really enjoy watching Kate play and she was the star this weekend by breaking a 0-0 scoreline in the 3rd quarter when she scored a very nice goal.  The Sparkles went on to win 2-0 and only have one game to go before the seasons end.

 

Saturday afternoon, I played my Blood Bowl leagues Grand Final with my Elf team taking on Pete "Tribalsinner" Arentsen and his Dark Elves.  In a classic game of elf-ball, the score was 2-2 at full time, but I lost in overtime 5-3.  A staggering 4 touchdowns scored in OT... unfortunately 3 by Pete and despite being minor premiers, we went down.  Great game though and hopefully the turn around for Season 2 wont be far away.

 

Literally as the Blood Bowlers left my place, Mum & Dad showed up after their 6 week overseas trip... we had dinner at the local Indian place and they gave the girls a souvenier from NYC and Kate's belated Birthday present.  Which were some Nintendo DS games and an iPod Nano.  Kate was absolutely wrapped and spent the rest of the weekend glued to the Nintendo!

 

The iPod has proved problematic however, and I was up until 2am Sat night trying to get it to work and by 11pm last night I got the music onto the iPod however it will only play 2 of the 11 songs that I have on it.  The problem i think is the iTunes software not the iPod itself but I think I may have worked out what is the issue... I actually woke up at 3am this morning realising that the music I am copying from the CD is about 470MB for 11 songs... i realise that the music needs to be "ripped" into MP3 and should only be 10% of that size.  No wonder I have been getting Disk Errors when trying... I will revisit that tonight.  You would think iTunes would convert it into the compressed MP3 size wouldnt you???

 

Sunday we went up the mountains to Katoomba to ScenicWorld.  They had advertised it to be "Snow Day" with lots of fake snow and snow ball fights etc.  Well, if you remember the D Generation and "Piss Weak World" you will know what I mean.  The "snow" was a fake blow up snow man surrounded by crushed ice on the ashphalt carpark and given it was 22 degrees and not a cloud in the sky, that was simply melting away.  The advertised "blizzard" was a series of bubble machines blowing detergent into the wind and the "snow pit" was a white polymer soaked in water in which the kids could play in.  The white polymer had the same consistency as snow however it wasnt cold and the girl manning the entry point said proudly "its the same stuff they put in nappies to soak up moisture"... choice!

 

We did the ScenicSender and the ScenicRailway though and the kids had a good time.  We did ride on a double decker bus around the mountains to look at the sights and it was a good day out overall, but seriously, the Snow Day was pretty lame!

 

Tired after all that, still annoyed at the iPod but back at work :)