We are the navy Blues!

Went to my first game of football at the MCG on Sunday evening. I finished work and walked down to the ground, took me about fifteen to twenty minutes. Got inside just at the end of the first quarter. Damn, it's a big ground, deceptively big. There were a lot of spare seats in the top tier, up where I found a spot. So I was thinking there weren't that many people there, until they put the crowd figure up as over 59000 people! I don't think i've ever been anywhere where the crowd was that big. It was a beautiful night with a pinky-orange sky and a fullish moon rising over the ground - and Carlton won! Yay! It looked pretty bad during the third quarter, but the boys got their shit together and ran over the top of Richmond. Was very cool and hearing all of the Carlton supporters singing the team song at the end of the game was great. So my first game at the 'G' was a win - all very good.

And Liverpool ran rampant over Arsenal 4-1. But the poor Wests Tigers lost in extra-time to the Eels. Two out of three ain't bad, but I feel bad for the Tiger boys, they've now lost three in-a-row. That's certainly got to dent the confidence. I hope they can get one over the Cowboys in FNQ.

Looks like I'm going to Sydney for a couple of days in May to go to a Fender seminar for two days - should be fun, at least I hope it will be fun! Maybe they'll give us some freebies? The assistant department manager was supposed to go, but he has family commitments so he nominated me! I must be doing something right at work.

Other than that, I'm just working and hanging out. Hope all you krazy kids in Brisney, FNQ, San Fran and the U.K.-on-their-way-to-Turkey are all well and happy.

And thanks to my Tiger-buddy for the messages the other night, sorry we couldn't get the boys over the line. Keep the faith.

Rock on,
J.