The Wonderful (or not so wonderful) life of Greg

Man, what a great weekend it was. After working Friday morning, Friday afternoon called for a ride. So off to the Black Spur I went. Went and did a lap of Myers Creek Rd & Chum Creek Road to get my rythm, and then into the Black Spur for some playing.

Man, It was great to get back out and my riding style was on fire after a few laps.

I was in my seat properly, looking through my corners, and everything just felt right.

Saturday was out with a few Netriders taking Cheng as a pillion while Loz with his healing broken arse took her bike out. We headded down to Acland Street for a bite to eat before popping across to Royal Tal to see Lenna for a few hours.

Saturday night I was wrecked after 2 days of riding and with another day of riding ahead of me, an early night was called for.

Sunday started with a hot chocolate with Julie at Carluccis, before picking up Renee who is down from Brisvegas. We then started heading towards the Spur before the heavens opened up. So a quick detour by my place to grab some wets, and as soon as we did, it stopped. (God damn Melbourne Weather!)

Down the Warby Highway to Healesville a quick stop for fuel before hitting the Spur.

The Spur was a little wet after the overnight showers, but I still had my rythm from Friday, and Renee was a great pillion, leaning really nicely with me so it was a breeze to have a nice hammer through the Spur.

Went up to Marysville for lunch with some of the Weekend Rider crew and then we headded off to go and do some awsome laps of the spur. I think Renee had an awsome time on the back as I hammered through the Spur, scraping pegs and getting the tyres nice and fluffy!

Well Monday came round way to quickly and it was back to work, surprisingly I pulled up really well, and didn’t have any aches or pains considering I was out riding all weekend.

Spent a bit of this morning cleaning up the house a bit before heading out to a very busy day of work.

Home at about 7ish to do a bit more tidying up for an inspection tomorrow.

Grabbed a quick curry for dinner as I really couldn’t be bothered cleaning after just making the kitchen spotless, and then just crashed on the couch reading email and forums.

Another busy week ahead this week. Car is in for the rest of the signage on Thursday, and next week is getting the gas conversion.

Well, that’s enough ranting for one day. Off to watch some more tellie!

G

Well the terrorist ants have taken over my house once again, so I have waged a holy war against them.

It started out small with only a few thousand, so I pulled out the small artilary… antsand, but no, they just kept fighting! Not a dish in sight, not a scap of food, not even a dirty bench, and the following day, the mongrel bastards were back again for round 2.

This time, it called for the heavy artilary. It started with an arial attack from Agent Orange and Citrus Spray and Wipe, and when they over came that, It called for a trip to the local shops to get supplies.

So round 3, and I was prepared, Super Dooper Aerosol, some Ant Rid, and external house spray. They didn’t stand a chance!

I went in hard with the aerosol, and defeated most of the troops. Followed by a quick check of the external perimeter, and laid some traps for the infidel ants that may return!

Well, all was good on the ant front for most of the week. I think they got the idea not to f**k with Greg!

It probably wasn’t overly wise to use the words, Jihad, Infidel, War or Terrorist in my blog as ASIO and the Fedral Police are probably now watching my house…. but with any luck, they will keep the ants out. They don’t seem to be able to keep much else out of this country. Baby steps, start with ants, move to illegal imigration boats, and then worry about the terrorists

Well the rest of the week has just been nothing short of chaotic! Work has been absolutely troppo. I hadn’t invoiced in 5 weeks, so that needed doing this week, which took about 10 hours to do. And between all of that we had a nice round of power black outs which lasted about 6 hours which was a royal pain in the arse.

The week ahead, well at this point in time looks rather cruisy, just the right amount of work to keep me busy, but, come tomorrow morning, I’m sure all of that will change.

G

My lord, are things busy! Last week I think share prices in fuel companies went up by a gazillion percent with my 4 tanks, yes, that’s $400 of petrol, or 1,200k’s travelled!

So after all of that, I have booked my car in for a gas conversion given that the government is doing a $2000 rebate on the install.

Other than that, work has been chaos. I haven’t invoiced in 4 weeks, my GST is due and I have paperwork coming out of my ears!

Saturday was the Rosebud Red Faces which went realy well and was good fun, and Sunday was a trip up to Elmore and then a slow trip back behind Arthur and the Plenty Valley caravan.

This week another chaotic week. Very busy today, another full day tomorrow, car service on Wednesday and who knows what the rest of the week will bring.

Other than that, this evening just trying to shake a bastard of a headache that has been hanging round all day.

G

Well, what a start to the new year, a damn busy start at that.

Work has been flat out, which is a good thing, but the body is feeling the lack of sleep!

Went up to Gilwell Park on Saturday to play radio with Al & Arthur and make contact with the Jamboree site and on Sunday Al and I went up to Elmore to the Jamboree site to catch up with the team and part take in the ARISS International Space Station contact.

Copped some crazy drivers on the way home from Elmore at about 10ish, gotta love a bit of late night road rage!

This week, out at a few clients, and lots of running around. Have a gig down at Rosebud for the community Red Faces that Big Noise sponsors and that pretty much sums up the week.

Nothing else too exciting happening otherwise, just another week in the wonderful world of Greg

G

Well, I kinda got a bit tied up over the last few days, so here is the last few months….

Today we’ll look at….. June, July, August, September, October…..(and maybe November and December aswell)

June
Well June was certainly a busy month. National Fox Hunting Champs in Mt Gambier, which was a fast paced weekend as always, and somehow, we managed to take home the national champs for a third year running.

That was about the highlight for the month, other than that work looked pretty busy according the the diary, then again it was a pretty busy year over all!

July
July saw the start of another fun filled financial year. I was stuck up in Albury for a few days a week for most of the month, and I think the car can now drive there by itself.

The radio service provided comms for a bike event, which was a fun filled 12 hours in Werribee. As always doing an event with the crazy cyclists brings a whole new view on life… (these guys are nuts!)

August
August was another fun filled month being stuck in Albury for the first week and then Jess was down from Sydney for the weekend.

The radio service competed in the RD Contest and once again, did quite well running a full 24 hour station out at the Kangaroo Ground Memorial Tower.

And I think the most fun filled part of the month was setting off the fire alarm at South Oakleigh College twice in one night….. whoops!

September
September was a very busy month, with Pink Ribbon only being one month out, we were getting very very hectic finalising the event.

It was a month of a big marketing project for me, developing new material for client packs and starting a new way of looking at the business which as proven to be very successful!

I had a tree fall on my car at the HART Rider training day that was fun and got completely drenched in the massive downpour.

October
Well, October was a month of fun and games. With Pink Ribbon Ride only weeks away, Bron, Don, Nola and Myself were flat out nearly every day doing photo shoots for local papers, running around getting stuff organised, and stressing our little brains out!

But, as planned, the day went off with out a hitch, and we managed to raise over $20,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation and have more than 1500 bikes come to the event!

We spent the weekend at the motorcycle expo in the first week of October, and man was that some weekend. I don’t think I have slept that well in a long time. Spending 18 hours a day for the whole weekend on my feet, that was hard work. Managed to sell all of our t-shirts which was a huge success and managed to get lots of sign ups for the event and lots of raffle tickets sold.

November
November is Scouthike and as always a fun weekend playing radio in a forest of ever changing conditions. One minute the radio was 5/9+++ and the next minute it was right down in the mud.

Got plenty of video editing done for Kent that weekend and another few DVD’s produced.

The bike went in for a service, and got some new Pilot Powers which I must say have made a world of difference to the way the bike rides. They are just amazing tyres!

And best of all, I managed to get my blog recovered from the May disaster and started blogging again!

December
Well December was certainly very very busy work wise picking up plenty of new clients in November, the work started to pile on in December.

The first weekened was spent in the bush with the Radio Service running comms for the Kona 24hr. Once again the crazy cyclists turned on a real show.

Jamboree became the focus trying to get sponsorship and finalise all the mess leading up to the event, and all in all, I think we managed to do reasonably well.

There was the Netrider BBQ, the Netrider KK and I managed to even squeeze in a few Netrider Coffee nights in December too!

And then there was Christmas and New Year.

Last night was spent over at Marc’s place for a night cruisy NYE by the pool.

Well, there you go, The year that was 2006!

I hope everyone had a great 2006, and that 2007 will be even better.

2007 will hopefully see me not breaking my blog, and keeping the juicy goss, and the life of Greg flowing on the big bad world of the Internet

Cheers,

G