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radio waves…

It’s funny how the radio station you listen to says so much about you …. (well that’s my rapidly evolving theory anyway).

Driving several different work cars throughout any one week, I’ve now taken to guessing who drove it last…according to what station the car radio is tuned to…And I’m most often correct.

We’ve got the ‘high-brow workers’ who listen to nothing but the ABC Opera channel…, the Hipster who listens to JJJ…,the right wing radical that can’t get enough of shock jocks and their talk back trash on the A.M bandwidth… the Baby Boomers who can’t let go of their youth, so they re-live it by sticking with hits of the 70’s on WSFM, and the politically inclined that seem to find parliament being broadcast no matter what time of day. It all adds to the light and shade of the work day.

BUT today I jumped into “Mr 50Something’s’ regular ride to head off on a shopping adventure with ‘Miss 20Something“…I was shocked and puzzled to hear the oozing melodic sound of an announcer that made me want to puke. He sounded soft and silky, smooth as velvet and oh-so repulsive to hear the pseudo-sexy tone of this man vibrating through the speakers …I’m not hard to please but I like a man to sound like a man…and there is nothing sexier than the sound of a naturally deep ‘radio voice’; but this amby-pamby nonsense just did my head in. (while he was busy doing his ‘love song dedications’.)

**Note to self ….ask Mr 50Something …WHY ?????

Tags: radio voice, random ravings, vocal quality

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nature…..naturally

8 Nov

Sitting out on the deck tonight, I had my first cicada encounter for the year….those noisy high pitched sounds reminded me that it is summer in Australia.

But as we explained the little we knew about the lifecycle and lifestyle of these humble critters, to our English guest, it got us wondering… what IS their greater purpose ? I mean seriously… what possible benefit do they really serve ?

So of course ‘I googled it’.

I was surprised to read that they do actually have a role in the function of the environment …. but more that that they are important to us human being types too …..well depending on what you call important . I guess…it’s all relative 😉

If you think keeping researchers employed and providing a focus for a hobby are essential …. then I guess its true. Likewise (according to Cicada Mania ) these humble creatures have also generated names for bands and, helped us to create childhood memories ……Mmmm, yeah well maybe, if mr google says so.

I still wonder why on earth we need these noisy little monsters…guess it’s just another first world problem,

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Friday …

7 Nov

I’ve gotta say I love the occasional train commute out of the city…. such a fantastic people watching opportunity.

Today I was in the fortunate position of being in the ONLY seat that was facing in the direction that we were travelling ….. meaning that EVERYONE else on the carriage was going backwards !!!!! go figure. …Why on earth no-one flicked their seat over and started a trend ..I have no idea. BUT there I was watching the faces of 50 or so bored Friday afternoon commuters.

It was magic. …the sleepers (complete with one dribbler) , the readers, the chatter’s, the just plain blank….all colours and walks of life… I had a full view of them and would LOVE to have snapped a pic (but figured that might blow my opportunity for a little voyeurism).

Whoever said train travel was boring ???

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lighting up …..

6 Nov

There is no denying that Christmas is not too far away…but when is it too soon to ring the bells on the festive season???

Today when I was driving through Penrith in Sydney’s outer Western burbs, I was struck by the flashing coloured billboard advertising the lighting of the city and arrival of Santa…TOMORROW .. .the 7th November!!!!

It’s bad enough that we Aussies struggle to compete with the idyllic picture of a white Christmas… complete with egg nog, sleigh bells and the scent of homebaked gingerbread …. but SERIOUSLY ???

We have our own unique way of celebrating in the sun and the surf … BUT the first week of November, out in the burbs is a bit of a stretch to ‘get us in the mood’.

I suppose I understand the commercial battle for the dollar, and I get that stores push to grab it earlier and earlier each year …. but lighting the town and generating that anticipation and magic of Christmas, can surely wait until December.. Can’t it???

I mean, let’s face it, if Trafalgar Square in London and the Rockefeller Centre in New York…two of the world’s more iconic Christmas spectaculars…, can wait until December, then ….let me ask “what’s the rush Penrith” ????

Tags: christmas, christmas lights, magic of christmas, marketing, mood, nonsense

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the getting of wisdom …

5 Nov

too tired to think, so

….borrowed from some wise soul ….

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the soundtrack of my day…

4 Nov

Can you imagine being trapped in a dark tunnel, with the sounds of jack hammers banging in your head….while being tortured by pedestrian quality karaoke voices singing what was about as entertaining as the soundtrack of a bad James Bond movie ???

No ? …Well that was how I finished my day. Subjected to an MRI scan on several body bits in the one sitting, there I was this evening in a tunnel of auditory torture for over an hour.

The worst part? … no it was not having my head strapped in a ‘cage’… nor not laying still without flinching a muscle … or panicking that I might sneeze… it was the inescapable music being piped directly into my brain, with the background beat of the jack-hammer.

Despite the tragedy of the situation I managed a giggle when the first song cranked up and this sultry Asian/Australian voice belted out ‘I will survive’….. oh the irony 😉

Lets just hope the results are worth the torture …….

Today’s window (courtesy of Bronny) ….looks remarkably similar in size to my tunnel of torture , but far more festive.

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cosmic or coincidental ….?

3 Nov

I know that I tend to recycle some themes in my daily ramble….clearly they are the things that get under my skin or amuse me, the most … but none more than ‘what are the chances’?

Call it cosmic or coincidental, these moments of bizarre serendipity seem to find me in the most peculiar situations; and this past week has been no different. I have been haunted by Mormons – (I mentioned the word once in the morning only to have no less than 5 Mormon moments during that day). Then on Saturday evening I was googling rather randomly and I searched a somewhat famous person … only to have a news report about him come on the TV the minute I hit ‘search’. Weird ???

To top it off…, last week no matter what time I travelled to work listening to trashy morning radio, I caught a repeat of the same program segments on my return trip (in the ‘highlights section’) ….That in itself is not so strange I guess, until you consider that each time I was in EXACTLY the same location on the road (just headed in the opposite direction).

For a peek into some of the other strange happenings in my world, feel free to check out

I know you’ve heard it all before, but what are the chances ?

What are the chances? – encore edition

Schindlers Lift and my gastrocnemius, what’s chance got to do with it?

What ARE the chances?

Go figure !!