Watching TV tonight - a rare event, yes - I was stunned to see, at prime time during the news..
An ad for Viagra.
Yup, with dancing old men in the streets.

We're going away for the long weekend this weekend, so there will be no Wombats until next week. Its a long weekend for Independence Day, which as far as I know involves Will Smith killing lots of aliens, but Sarah assures me there will be lots of fireworks and also lots of people waving American flags. I'm looking forward to the fireworks, and to explore Chicago. We'll be staying with her sister until Monday, which gives us plenty of time to look around and forage for some food.

Today's quote from Dubya: "Its amazing, this modern technology. They have cameras that can distinguish between a squirrel and a bomb!"

Have a good weekend!

Hopefully it will work as planned - you'll notice a little box over there on the right where you can send short emails direct to me! Yay! With some luck, this will work better than the last incantation I had up there.
Looking forward to hearing from you!

So Brian Harradine resigned... did you know he had thirteen children? Thirteen! Must be something in that Tasmanian water...

oh, and the photos are up too.

Last week another friend of Sarah's, Melissa, dropping into Bloomington for a few days. Of course this meant going ten-pin bowling (I am getting better at this, really!), and in a moment of feeling sophisticated, throwing a 'dinner party'. Well, as sophisticated as okonomiyaki can get, anyway.

Saturday we set off to a place called Louisville to see Sarah's grandfather, who isn't that well, more family, and for Sarah to have a dress fitting. One of her cousins is getting married next month and Sarah is a bridesmaid... lots of fun! I had been warned about the erratic behaviour of Sarah's grandmother (hrm, does everyone have one weird grandmother? I heard Nana was committed the other day, or that might have just been wishful thinking) but I was pleasantly surprised that she seemed to be on good behaviour. Everyone else was surprised too.
There is a photo I must put up that I took on the drive; a removal van driving down the freeway with a piece of artwork on the side that made us laugh. Shall put the photos up soon, along with the

Lousiville is in Kentucky, which is apparently famous for horse racing, though I thought it was famous for fried chicken. I was on the lookout for a KFC, thinking that the signs may say 'FC', though I was disappointed. I did see a shop that had the whole name spelled out - havent seen one of those since they built one in Sale years ago, left the signs up for less than a month and changed them all to KFC.

We now have a clothesline! Sadly nothing so fancy as a Hills Hoist, but a plastic cord we can string up between the door and the window inside the apartment and dry clothes from. Saves paying a dollar for a load of washing in the dryer...