life

i need a home loan and a smile

i need a home loan and a smile 9

nothing really much to say, nothing happening, nothing much funny, well except for this tremendous video below. it landed upon my facebook universe ( thanks michelle ) and it has shaken a wide smile out of a slightly bored tbaoo. here’s a photo designed to break the mood.  work continues, bills are pouring in and [...]

i might have obsessive compulsive disorder

i might have obsessive compulsive disorder 22

it’s official, i think i have a rampant case of obsessive compulsive disorder ( ocd ) and even though i look and sometimes sound a bit normal, i’m definitely not. those who are exposed to my excessive behaviour normally placate me and allow me to run free without restraint. this well meaning but deluded folk [...]

we saw bikini girls dancing

we saw bikini girls dancing 26

a wondrous occasion as the four participants in the family troupe, traipsed out of the relative calm of an air conditioned hotel lobby out into the wild, sun scorched, blindingly tacky world of the gold coast. it has become excruciating in it’s continual grasping for the tourist dollar. the weather here has made up for [...]

gold coast fairytale with some guinness

gold coast fairytale with some guinness 14

what’s happening ? has tbaoo closed down, has it’s tormenter, muse or bur under the saddle retired ? well no. he’s just been lazy and relaxing away from the box that houses the apple. it’s been very odd actually, watching all sorts of other things burst on by and not reacting in much of way [...]

outdoors the gold coast is powerless

outdoors the gold coast is powerless 6

branches blew and trees spent over themselves to escape, while the soil was sodden with an excessive amount of innocent water. the green and gold and the obscenely bright sunshine has gone. it does seems that it will be missing for many weeks and it’s replacement unloading on those below it, for a very long [...]

bucketing down here and i need a bucket

bucketing down here and i need a bucket 8

it’s amazing, the south east of queensland australia is nearly underwater. tbaoo is floating, surviving, surfing the rain, smoking cigarettes, internetting and watching with alarmed interest the peculiar going’s on. it seems like a tremendously frightening thing and i’m very lucky that aside from what appears to be a slight leak in the roof, i’m [...]