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So, yeah, Warped was fucking amazing.

It wasn't all roses, the weather was brutally hot and I got sunburned as shit, plus the second stage ran about 20 minutes late the entire day so I only got to see about 4 or 5 songs of Hatebreed and Parkway Drive and the sound on that stage was a bit ordinary so the heavy bands kept distorting...
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Only four days now until the Australian Warped Tour in Brisbane and I'm starting to get pretty damn keen.

Currently my day looks a bit like this:

8:30+ - Offspring

8:00-8:30 - Parkway Drive

6:40-7:30 - The Amity Affliction

5:40-6:40 - Millencolin

5:10-5:40 - Hatebreed

4:20-5:10 - New Found Glory

3:20-4:00 - Veara

2:50-3:20 - Confession

1:40-2:40 - Reel Big Fish

11:50-12:30 - Man Overboard...
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Holy fuckballs yesterday was awesome fun.

By the end of the night I was so fucking wankered I couldn't even sit up.

Started drinking at 9am and didn't stop until about 3am this morning. How I'm even awake right now is beyond me.

The Gabba

Drink The Beer: The Ashes

pre-cricket pints

hehe

It's fucking Friday!

Okay so technically it's only Thursday but I have tomorrow off and I'm off to the Ashes so fuck it, it's Friday.

Having a three day work week this week was the absolute tits.

Kinda steaming though. Our team leader took another management position within the company and the first thing we hear of it is a generic companywide email congratulating him...
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Today is just one of those days where everything just plain sucks and I want everyone to die.

Work is shit.

And to top things off the Queensland vs New South Wales Super Rugby game in Sydney I was planning to go to next year is the same day as I'm in Adelaide for Soundwave. Out of 20-odd rounds it has to be THAT weekend....
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Had some of my work featured in a writer's festival yesterday, so that's pretty cool.

It's probably not as glamorous as that makes it sound, it was only a student union type thing, but still, a university in another state that I've never been too had a writers festival that featured some of my work.

That really gave me a bit of a boost, I've...
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There are so very many things in my life I’d love to be able to go back and do differently…

So it's not quite been as frequently that I've been updating things around here that I was intending. It's been a pretty hectic few weeks lately.

Work has been nightmarish the past few weeks, people leaving people taking time off and moronic new processes being put in place that serve no identifiable purpose beyond making our jobs harder. Gotta love Bureaucracy.

Football (soccer) season has...
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I need to have a quick whinge:

I have to wake up at 4:30 every weekday for the next 6 months for work thanks to the fucking moronic concept that is daylight savings.

Seriously, what is the point?

I've been to Sydney and Melbourne during summer, numerous times, and it's light out until anywhere up to 9pm! If you're going to try to save daylight...
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