What are you doing on Saturday? Well not you, but that's what Jo, one of my friends from tennis, asked me last week. Luckily I didn't have anything major planned for the day because she had scored tickets to the match day entertainment in the Centenary room at Bellerieve oval for the Devils football game against Williamstown. The Devils haven't been traveling too well this season so I wasn't expecting a great game of football, but I was looking forward to a collar and tie function with good food, good drink  and good company along with hearing from the guest speaker Australian cricketer Damien Flemming.

The food was OK, but nothing to write home about. The beer was free flowing and available in copious amounts. The company was great, Jo works with a very funny bunch of people and their partners were great fun as well. Damien Flemming was very funny. He is a great speaker and has a lot of funny stories to tell.

As expected the football was crap with the Devils being thrashed, but to be honest I didn't see a lot of that. There were a few funny things that happened during the day. My divorce lawyer was there and I was sitting next to one of his female clients (not Jo!). When he spotted us chatting together he did a double take, but then he almost died when he saw her ex partner (the one he represented her against) sitting on the other side of her! Only in Tasmania. There was an assisted wardrobe malfunction at one point, but that's a story for another time. One of the guys on our table won almost $1000 on the horses, so he was pretty happy.

We went into the Clarence football club rooms after the game (the rules say you must leave the room quickly and quietly as soon as the game is over. The also say there is to be no physical contact. I'm not sure what they meant by that one!) for a few more beers and I was a bit scared to see that many of the Devil's players girlfriends were no older than my own daughter. 

We then split up and headed our own ways. Jo had a family dinner to go to and I had a dinner planned with some friends (Colin, Anne, Andrew, Vicky and Yeutha). Apart from the fact that I drank more alcohol in one day than I have in the past year and felt very sorry for it in the morning, it was a great day/night all round.

OMG!!! Google released street view for Australia last night and they have done Tasmania. We haven't been left off the map this time. For those that have no idea what I'm talking about, Google street view is an add on to their Google Maps website. They drive all over the country in a special car equipped with a heap of camera's on the roof and GPS and stuff then put it all into their computers and allow you to "drive" down the roads looking around as you go at the photo's they have taken. The photo's are all stitched together really well so it just looks like driving a car. You can see people on footpaths, cars in driveways etc etc. I checked out my place but someone else's car was in the drive so it must have been before I moved in. I checked out my old place and my car was parked out the front and my wheelie bin was sitting there empty!

There are web sites dedicated to finding interesting things in street view like a child falling off his bike or a car on fire, but I found one today only a few hours after it was released. I was looking at the channel court shopping centre in Kingston and found the Google camera van stopped outside the wine cellar. Does that mean the Google man was driving under the influence?

Click here for the street view map, or check out the snap I took below.

Emma has made it onto the little screen yet again. She starred on both Southern Cross and WIN news tonight. Kingston High School participate in some awesome community projects and this one is no exception. The Eating With Friends project aims to encourage our more senior members of the community to get out of the house and have a healthy meal and a bit of a chat. Check out the two video's below and keep an eye out for Emma giggling!

It's not very good news really. For the third time since I started this caper I'm actually lower than my original stake. That means that I've lost over ten thousand dollars in the past few months. When I say it that way it sounds bad, but I haven't really lost that much. It's only funny money really because I never actually had it in the first place, it is just a paper loss. My actual loss if I sold everything now would only be a few hundred dollars. The other thing that I find interesting is that on each of the previous two dips there has been a larger following gain. I'm hoping that pattern will continue, however I don't expect it to happen any time soon.