{"id":1019,"date":"2009-07-19T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2009-08-14T17:21:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T07:21:22","slug":"the-weekend-of-too-busy-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"The Week of Too Busy To Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a hell of a busy week.\u00a0 It’s been entirely awesome but I’ve had no time to blog until now.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night I went to State of Origin Game 3.\u00a0 It was the first Origin game I’ve attended and I went with Matt, a relative who’s visiting from Scotland.\u00a0 I grew up watching Origin and always enjoyed the spectacle of bone crunching tackles, rabid fans and the game descending into a giant brawl.\u00a0 In recent years the biffo had largely been removed from Origin.\u00a0 Fortunately for me and Matt, this year delivered in spades.\u00a0 It was a closely fought contest and not only did the last ten minutes of the game descend into a slugfest, Steve Price got stretchered off the field, knocked out cold.\u00a0 We were highly entertained and really felt we got our money’s worth.<\/p>\n

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It’s my birthday on Monday, but for the sake of convenience I had all the social gatherings over the weekend.\u00a0 On Friday I had the one with the rellies.\u00a0 We went to the Japanese restaurant Sono for dinner and then back to our house to drink and play Singstar.\u00a0 It was a very entertaining evening with all involved getting thoroughly plastered.\u00a0 I’ve made a short video of the evening but I’m still having troubles getting Adobe Premiere to align its video resolution with Youtube’s widescreen mode so I’m not all that happy with it yet.\u00a0 I felt it was important to upload the video now though as everyone should see Don’s rather unusual complaint about why he doesn’t like the Harry Potter series as well as his awesome version of Roy Orbison’s Only The Lonely.<\/p>\n

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Today we had a big chilli cook-off with some of our friends.\u00a0 We made up a big batch and our friends came over with their own brands of chilli and we just gorged on food and drank beer & whisky.\u00a0 It was a pretty awesome way to spend a birthday.\u00a0 Once we finished off the chilli, we entertained ourselves with the Swordplay mode in Wii Sports Resort and then a game of Balderdash.<\/p>\n

It’s been an amazing couple of weeks and in just a short while, even more friends and relatives arrive!\u00a0 We’re also now under two weeks away from the wedding.<\/p>\n

Things are going pretty good at the moment.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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