eastbound

Yesterday my daughter had her first Christmas. Everybody says Christmas becomes good again when you have kids and they are right. it was a great day and i can see only better times ahead. i have freetime now until the 4th of Jan. the eczema is clearing now, i cant believe its gotten so good. No real estate stress, no work, nothing to bring on the scratching. often at work if i was in the middle of a disaster i would find myself hacking away at my shin, and if my hands weren't able, i would be dragging the back of my boots up and down it. it did a lot of short term damage, and i hope i can get it to the stage my ankle is now at. im just not sure now what i will do when im stressed at work next year.

tomorrow i hope to catch up with the boys for a session at the corner hotel. we did it last year and had a good catchup, however this year a few of the guys are away. im not sure what will happen tomorrow. it will probably just be less of us.

we had our christmas party last tuesday. it was a real clash of classes. it had originally been planned at a function centre in Brighton, but too many people thought this was too far from home and were unwilling to get the cab fare home. i personally think 10 hours of free food and booze? a $40 cab is something you just deal with. so Brighton was cancelled and we ended up at the Chelsea Heights public bar. 95% blokes 5% desperate women. depressing kind of venue, horseracing on the wall, jukebox playing chisel, you know, we've all been there. it was an ok night, but everybody knew that if the booze wasn't free, none of us would have been there. it takes away something from a night out when you know that. its funny how its turned out now. there were at least three massive bogans from work there. im talking bourban drinking, MMM listening, bad jean wearing etc etc, these guys are the classic bogan and these guys were on E's at the chelsea. these guys probably would have beaten you up ten years ago if they found out you were on E. its the new bogan drug, and i suppose its probably got a lot to do with the fact that i didnt see a fight that night.

im a bit off writing up my top 10's for the year, however the next week im away at a holiday house on the beach. i will think hard and post them next.

what i will say now is the best show of 2010 is once again from HBO. Eastbound and Down. if you haven seen it, or even if you have, check out this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GdB30O0zt4

otherwise happy new year.