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This is where I was going to take a photo a day in 2012 but forgot to stop. I also write something random to give you an insight into the craziness that is Susan's mind.
Friday, August 31, 2012
August 31. Day 244. Weather....you like it
That used to be the question of choice around my place. These days the question posed are considerably more taxing.
Most recently it goes like this.
Mr 14: "Do you ever wonder how different our lives would be if we changed just one thing?"
Me, pausing to give the matter as much consideration as possible while not crashing the car or burning the dinner and finally coming up with something deep such as, "Like what?"
Mr 14: "Like if we decided to live in England close to Dad's family and not in Australia near yours".
The truth is I've never considered that. I've lived in England for two two-year stints once in my primary school years and once in my mid 20s. I loved it both times but I am an Aussie girl at heart and in the end it is the weather that drives me home.
I find myself ruled by the weather. If the sun shines, life feels so much better.
Days of rain and I start getting SAD (seasonal affective disorder).
Which is why Brisbane is such a perfect place to live. Today is the last day of winter and spring is very much in the air.
It is beautiful as I walked by the Queensland Maritime Museum this morning So this is where we live ... weather you like it (or not).
Thursday, August 30, 2012
August 30. Day 243. People in glass houses
Now the old saying goes "people in glass houses should never throw stones".
My father, a man of great wisdom, used to say "people in glass houses shouldn't..." . In the interests of modesty that's probably a good idea, at least not with the lights on.
I say it's not a question of should or shouldn't but more a question of can or can't. No matter what those highly annoying bank ads say, try as I might I can't reach and therefore can't clean much of the glass.
And the lightbulbs? How many residents of this house does it take to change the halogen lightbulbs?
Just one. The one to pick up the phone and call the handyman with the really high ladder.
Attractive design features are not always practical. Funnily enough I do not own ropes and harnesses and I rarely abseil off the side of buildings like this bloke cleaning the glass on a building near Roma Street Station this morning.
So for now, people in this glass house will just have to put up with a few smudges and smears. People in glass houses should get used to that.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
August 29. Day 242. What do we want?
Now children, before there was Facebook or Twitter people actually had to leave the home if they wanted to protest about something.
That's right. They would take to the streets, they would march and they would wave signs and placards. Frequently there would be clashes with police and arrests (that's the not-so-good bit).
These things did not just happen in Egypt, they happened here in Brisbane and very often students were at the front and centre of the protests.
Today's students are a very passive lot. Mostly they are not sitting around campus and debating the big issues or drinking in the university bar.
Mostly they come for classes and then they disappear and head off to work.Student unionism - once the training ground for the politicians of the future - is pretty much dead, at least where I work.
Now with the glasses off I can say that there were some very ugly sides to those protests but at least students were very politically aware and prepared to stand up and fight for what they believed in.
So it was with great interest to me to read that a protest was being held at the University of Queensland today.
This was peaceful student activism at its best. Passionate, articulate students protesting in the Great Court followed by a march on the student union building and a sit-in.
Protesting is apparently not dead. It was just having a little rest and then re-emerging dressed as a fairy or a furry animal. Whatever it takes.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
August 28. Day 241. Cranky pants
See how the claws are out. There is absolutely no doubt this fellow is very prickly indeed.
I share his pain (I also share his need for a good moisturiser. The weather might be beautiful at the moment but it's not too kind on the skin, but I digress).
It goes like this. If I get enough sleep, I can take on the world. But if I'm tired and grumpy you might do well to stay out of my way. You don't need spikes on the top of your head like this water dragon in the city botanic gardens today to let the world know that it might be a good idea to back away quietly.
And because it is my mother's birthday, I will also give you a bit of good old-fashioned mother advice for keeping on someone's good side.
Remember to say "please" and "thank-you".
Failure to do that may result in me breathing a bit of fire. Nothing is surer to wake the inner dragon. Don't say you weren't warned.
Monday, August 27, 2012
August 27. Day 240. Sweet 16
As I remember it - and of course we are talking ancient history here so the recollections are very foggy - there was nothing terribly sweet about being 16.
For a start that was Year 11 and that meant senior school assessment hell. Whoever wrote about school days being the best of your life obviously didn't put the same amount of pressure on him/herself in regards to exam results as I did. I loved the social side of school but the pressure to perform was stifling.
And of course being 16 means you are still in the middle of the teen angst years and there's not much to recommend that either.
But that's just me. My delightful niece Scarlett turned 16 today. I don't have to live with her but from my completely non-objective point of view I do think she is indeed sweet.
Happy Birthday Miss Scarlett. XXX
Sunday, August 26, 2012
August 26. Day 239. Hair raising
"Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. " I don't know who said this but it is totally true. Your hair itself may just be a collection of dead cells but it says so, so much about you.
Most of the time I think my hair says neglect. At least I will never be accused by a hair stylist of killing my hair by the overuse of product, or straightening irons or curling wands. Some days I'm flat out finding a hairbrush.
As long as cheap supermarket shampoo and conditioner, a towel and a 20 second blast with a hairdryer isn't found to be death to hair I should be okay.
I'd really love locks that fly in the wind like those belonging to these girls on the Cha, Cha, Cha at the Bulimba Festival today. Nothing says carefree like that.
But the truth is it's no going to happen and here's why:
1) I'm lazy and long hair takes work.
2) Long hair totally doesn't suit me no matter how much I might like to think it would
3) While there are many notable exceptions, I think shorter hair is generally more flattering once women reach a certain age. I reached that age when I was 15.
4) Even when I find a stylist that I like, he/she seems to have an obsession with taking off as much as humanly possible. Perhaps it is so they feel like you are getting your money's worth. Perhaps it's because you will have to come back more often. Whatever the reason, there seems to be no such thing as a bit of a trim. I'm not sure what the reason is. The answer, like the hair, may be blowing in the wind.
And anyway, there can be no better way to let your hair down than a day at a festival with family and friends. Don't believe me? A second hairy, scary shot from the festival appears below. It has nothing to do with today's post but on reflection I decided I like it. So two for the price of one.
Most of the time I think my hair says neglect. At least I will never be accused by a hair stylist of killing my hair by the overuse of product, or straightening irons or curling wands. Some days I'm flat out finding a hairbrush.
As long as cheap supermarket shampoo and conditioner, a towel and a 20 second blast with a hairdryer isn't found to be death to hair I should be okay.
I'd really love locks that fly in the wind like those belonging to these girls on the Cha, Cha, Cha at the Bulimba Festival today. Nothing says carefree like that.
But the truth is it's no going to happen and here's why:
1) I'm lazy and long hair takes work.
2) Long hair totally doesn't suit me no matter how much I might like to think it would
3) While there are many notable exceptions, I think shorter hair is generally more flattering once women reach a certain age. I reached that age when I was 15.
4) Even when I find a stylist that I like, he/she seems to have an obsession with taking off as much as humanly possible. Perhaps it is so they feel like you are getting your money's worth. Perhaps it's because you will have to come back more often. Whatever the reason, there seems to be no such thing as a bit of a trim. I'm not sure what the reason is. The answer, like the hair, may be blowing in the wind.
And anyway, there can be no better way to let your hair down than a day at a festival with family and friends. Don't believe me? A second hairy, scary shot from the festival appears below. It has nothing to do with today's post but on reflection I decided I like it. So two for the price of one.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
August 25. Day 238. Everything in moderation
Despite this he was a lovely, kind and gentle person but it has to be said he had a professional dislike of sugar. We weren't allowed any. At all. No cakes, no lollies, no desserts.
I don't think I'd even tasted fairy floss until I was in my late teens.
Of course, as is the way with forbidden fruits, that only served to make sweet things all the more attractive and when I was away from parental control I had no control.
As with so many things in life, there's something to be said for everything in moderation, even fairy floss.
Let's face it, at least nutritionally, there is very little to recommend fairy floss but that blend of sugar and food colouring has a huge appeal.
I just love the way this little bloke was getting into it at the Home Festival at Kangaroo Point today.
The festival had a strong environmental and community flavour and there was quite a lot of emphasis on "good" food.
Want a smoothie? Well jump on a push bike and power the blender. Try some raw food, or whole food or organic food.
Or tuck in to the fairy floss. It is finger licking good.
Friday, August 24, 2012
August 24. Day 237. Are they there yet?
In just about every photograph when we were little Mum would have the three girls dressed in identical outfits. The earliest examples were hand-made by my grandmother and featured smocking - now there's a word you don't hear much of these days (thankfully).
As though it isn't bad enough having to dress like everyone else when you hit school.
You don't see that much of the identical dressing any more. Today's world is all about celebrating the individual and parents will go out of their way to make sure their youngster stands out from the crowd. This especially applies when it comes to names when it seems almost compulsory to invent a new and previously unheard of spelling.
Despite my longstanding dislike for identical dressing of children, I have to admit that I found these little girls cheering on the Olympic Homecoming Parade to be cuteness plus.
They were flag waving examples to true patriotism and just so excited to be part of the crowd.
I'm pretty sure when they look back at the photos of today they will be filled with pride and excitement at being part of the festivities and not complaining about what Mum decided to dress them in.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
August 23. Day 236. Land Ahoy
Actually, that's not entirely true. Boats are fine, until they get on the water with me on them.
It's just I have this strange aversion to spewing my guts up.
Only once have I really wished I could die and that was on a ferry between Greece and Italy in a wild storm.
I was on deck in the bucketing rain heaving into a rubbish bin. That could have been explained in part by the Turkish lighter fluid Raki we'd been drinking but there have been other instances where there was no alcohol involved.
The whale watching tour where everyone else was gasping at the whales and I was gasping into a plastic bag; the time I went out on a Coastguard boat for a feature story, the list goes on.
The result is never pretty.
So boats are fine as long as they are on dry land, like those at the Maritime Museum.
I like this view taken this morning just as the sun was burning off the early morning fog to reveal another beautiful Brisbane day, a day which I believe is best enjoyed on dry land.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
August 22. Day 235. Having a real spray
Their worlds have few barriers. They travel more, the see more, they are exposed to so many new, exciting and wonderful things.
And of course as digital natives, the things they can know and experience in Virtual sense at the click of a mouse are also quite extraordinary.
But when we look at what they have gained, occasionally it is worthwhile considering what has been lost.
Simple things. Things like running under a sprinkler.
Remember those summer days before every second person had a pool in the back yard where we would run under the hose or the sprinkler? Remember how much fun that was?
They were serious sprinklers too, not like these water efficient ones doing the business at South Bank this morning. You would get a serious soaking not a gentle spray like these ones deliver.
Until they develop a laptop that can deliver you a real spray, happily there are still things the real world does far better than Virtual Reality.
Spray over.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
August 21. Day 234. One man's trash
By we I actually mean me because I am not sure that the males in my house actually know where the rubbish bins are or what they are for. What do you do with an empty milk carton? Put it back in the fridge and hope no-one notices. How many men does it take to change a toilet roll? No-one knows, because it has never been done before.
Anyway, we live in a throw away society and what gets turfed from my fridge alone would be enough to sustain an individual for quite a long time.
It really is a disgrace not to mention a costly exercise.
One man is doing more than his fair share of work to expose just how wasteful we are.
Sculptor Christopher Trotter has made a career from creating works of art from junk.
His works are dotted around Brisbane and south-east Queensland but today my eye was drawn to a work on the Brisbane River at South Bank.
The work called Bio-mechanical Pelicans sits perfectly on the stretch of river between South Bank and Kangaroo Point.
It's a pile of old nuts and bolts that really captures the essence of the birds proving that one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Monday, August 20, 2012
August 20. Day 233. Something to crow about
The truth is this is an annual pantomime which I do not enjoy at all. I go to work, I do my job, I go home. I reckon I'm okay at what I do but to actually sell that makes me feel quite uncomfortable.
I suppose that's why it's called crowing. It's not a pleasant sound the crow makes. If singing your own praises was pleasant it would be named after a canary not a crow.
Anyway, after picking over the roadkill of my last work year, I think it was agreed that I should keep on doing what I've been doing.
So I gave myself a few more crows' feet for nothing. That is something I do well, even if I do say so myself.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
August 19. Day 232. Superheroes
I used to think being invisible would come in pretty bloody handy. There is a, however, a certain chain of department stores where you get to try that one on for size. Whatever you do to try and attract attention of the staff they seemingly just look right through you. It really is no fun at all.
As with so many things in life you really need to be careful what you wish for.
One power we could do well to harness is resilience - that ability to pick yourself up and dust yourself off no matter what life throws at you.
I saw bucket loads of that on display at the Brisbane Billycart Championships at Chandler this morning.
I only stayed for the events for the kids aged 4-6 but these little ones were amazing. They would hit the wall, they would crash and burn but they would then get up and head back up the top to have another go.
Here's the caped crusader in action. He was not going to let the small matter of stacking it interfere with his day.
He got up and finished the race on foot pulling the cart behind him.
There may not have been any super powers on display but he's what I consider a boy wonder.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
August 18. Day 231. On the ball
My older sister Marie and I were in the same team which made the grand final that year. Both my father and my grandfather came along. This was a huge deal because generally the men were off watching my brother playing football. We used to give them hell about it.
Unfortunately, if the idea was to show them what they'd been missing all season, things did not go to plan. We were totally outclassed on the day. It was not a pretty picture.
As the story goes, it was such a train wreck to watch that my father and grandfather were spotted with their backs to the game taking a keen interest in the lawn bowls being played over the fence. I'd be filing a law suit for emotional damage now if either of them was still with us.
I was reminded of that day today at my niece Cleo's netball grand final. Her team was also totally outclassed but the girls kept up the fight until the end. And did we head off mid match to watch the lawn bowls? Hell no. We cheered until the final hooter.
If today goes down in Mum's little book of family stories it will be because we were all nearly carried away by the wind and not because we were carried away by the excitement of the bowling.
Friday, August 17, 2012
August 17. Day 230. Here comes the sun
It's going to be 27 degrees today. Repeat 27 degrees. Suck that people who live somewhere else.
Admittedly it was a little cooler than that when I ventured out when the sun was rising this morning.
But it was perfect walking weather which lured me to head away from the river and to venture on a route I don't normally take.
I feel the break from routine was rewarded. People who say a change is as good as a holiday obviously are not taking holidays in the right place but stepping out of your comfort zone does have its rewards.
The sun rising over the church is a beautiful start to the day. Yes, the gods were smiling.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
August 16. Day 229. Rest in Peace
There's nothing like the death of a friend to make you fully contemplate your own mortality.
I am still trying to process the fact that a friend and colleague Christine Fogg died last week and will be buried tomorrow.
I keep thinking about the last time we were together - just a few weeks ago over coffee in a West End cafe.
We talked about a text book she had written and I had contributed to some years back. She wanted to pick my brains, she said, about possibly reworking and updating the book. Would people be interested? Would people mind being contacted to ask if they still thought there was a place for the text?
It was very much a conversation about the future. What I didn't know was just how little future she had.
Christine was dying of cancer. I have since learned that she didn't want people to know but I keep asking myself if I should have noticed something, if I should have asked her more about how she was travelling.
I totally get that she wanted people to treat her as they always had and not the women with cancer. I hope I wouldn't have done that but could have been a friend or could have lent a hand.
But Christine did things her way. She also was thinking of others right to the end. I got a call within hours of her death. She'd left a list of people to notify and it would appear little notes on how she knew each of us.
I love her for that. So today's picture was taken in the historic Dutton Park cemetary near my home this morning. It says to me that I should try and concentrate on the bright and colourful memories like the flowers and not on the bleak and sombre.
Clearly that is what Christine was telling me she wanted.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
August 15. Day 228. Squawking
I've heard just about enough squawking today to last a lifetime.
Honestly, I only reminded someone about a science assignment. I tell you being the parent of a teenager can be bloody difficult. You want to give them the space to make their own choices but you know that no matter how grown up they think they are they still need guidance.
Problem is while they NEED guidance, they don't always WANT it.
And so the squawking starts.
And so the very responsible parent left the house and went for a walk to South Bank. Some arguments you are not going to win so it's best to just retreat gracefully and come back to fight another day.
So having escaped the squawking, what did I find? A bird squawking.
While I watched this little bloke put on quite a show. He spread his wings, he posed and preened and feigned disinterest while going out of his way to draw attention to himself.
Sounds a bit like what I left at home really. I guess you just have to give them the space to spread those wings until they are ready to fly the nest.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
August 14. Day 227. Having a real spray
As someone who prefers the arts to sport, I confess to giving just a little cheer when crowds gather to see an artist at work.
So it was in the city today when Aaron the spray paint artist was creating his masterpieces at the Casino end of the Queen Street Mall today.
It has to be said that spray cans are generally more closely assoicated with defacing public property than serious artwork but in Aaron's hands the results are amazing.
He says he is self taught and heads to the mall three days a week as overspray art is his day job and only means of income. He's been spray painting for 10 years but has been arty his whole life previously trying his hand at sculpture and drawing.
In the short time I watched, he sold two works for $50 each and there were plenty of others (myself included) prepared to throw coins into his bowl because just watching the artwork coming together was fascinating.
Funny. People don't seem quite as prepared to pay up every time I have a spray no matter how colourful it is.
Monday, August 13, 2012
August 13. Day 226. Putting your feet up
When I grow up I want to be a lady of leisure.
I used to think that I really need to work to be fulfilled and stimulated but now I reckon I could do quite nicely putting my feet up for a bit.
In all honesty I've been wrestling with the question of what I might do when I grow quite a bit lately (generally when bogged down with a large pile of forms or other administrivia). It's enough to drive you crazy.
Today I was finding inspiration particularly hard to come by so I went out for a walk - and just kept walking.
Something over two hours later I ended up at South Bank where I saw these two young men wrestling in the pool. They were creating quite a splash and their joy was obvious.
With a head clearer from fresh air and sunshine, I'd come up with a few truths.
a) A job where you can go for a long walk in the middle of the day is not all bad, even if you have to work late into the night to make up the time
b) Splashing out to have fun with family and friends is a good investment
c) You may have to grow old but you don't have to grow up. It's a good thing to embrace your inner kid and indulge in a bit of child's play
It would also appear there is more than one way to put your feet up. This looks as good a way as any.
I used to think that I really need to work to be fulfilled and stimulated but now I reckon I could do quite nicely putting my feet up for a bit.
In all honesty I've been wrestling with the question of what I might do when I grow quite a bit lately (generally when bogged down with a large pile of forms or other administrivia). It's enough to drive you crazy.
Today I was finding inspiration particularly hard to come by so I went out for a walk - and just kept walking.
Something over two hours later I ended up at South Bank where I saw these two young men wrestling in the pool. They were creating quite a splash and their joy was obvious.
With a head clearer from fresh air and sunshine, I'd come up with a few truths.
a) A job where you can go for a long walk in the middle of the day is not all bad, even if you have to work late into the night to make up the time
b) Splashing out to have fun with family and friends is a good investment
c) You may have to grow old but you don't have to grow up. It's a good thing to embrace your inner kid and indulge in a bit of child's play
It would also appear there is more than one way to put your feet up. This looks as good a way as any.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
August 12. Day 225. Have no fear
Quite frankly I have none. So I am in complete awe of natural athletes and those who put in so many hours of practice that it looks natural.
Like those who take part in Brisbane Hardcourt Bike Polo. The idea of riding a bike, one handed at speed in a competition with other rides to strike a ball is really quite unthinkable. Actually you can think about it, you might just have to be insane to actually do it.
But on a court in Musgrave Park, quite close to my home, the riders do this every Sunday and from what I saw this afternoon they are extremely good at it.
Not only that, they are exceptionally good sports and have a great time.
So if you think polo looks like a great sport but you can't afford a horse, on ya bike.
I, on the other hand, will be more than content to admire their prowess from the sidelines (either that or just go back to that nap)
Saturday, August 11, 2012
August 11. Day 224. Winners are grinners
They also say that second place is just the first place loser
Or that winning isn't everything but it beats anything in second place.
Or even "There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing."
It seems to me that in the past two weeks we have been sending very bad messages to our future sports people.
At school there is such a big emphasis on taking part.We tell kids participation is important and if at first you don't succeed try, try again.
But kids are not blind nor are they stupid. They see the national gnashing of teeth and the sometimes quite vile name calling when our elite sports people don't win. It's all quite unbecoming.
But I'm pleased to see that at a local level kids can still enjoy getting out and having a go.
I went to my niece Cleo's Under 11 netball preliminary final this morning. The Redbacks played beautifully and as you can see from the photo above winners are grinners.
But in the true spirit of the game, the girls all lines up and shook hands and congratulated their opponents and thanked the officials. Three cheers for that.
Friday, August 10, 2012
August 10. Day 223. Wicked wind
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. It's the same wind that signals to people in Brisbane that the Ekka is in town.
Those wicked westerlies blew into town today and unless you were somewhere very sheltered just standing upright was a challenge at times. So that's today's image - a completely improbable "No Standing" sign near the QUT Garden Point campus. This sign cracks me up. Not only is the pole bent but it is also a couple of metres from the bank of the Brisbane River. The chances of anyone standing there are somewhat remote unless there's been a second coming no-one's told me about.
I'm sure there is a very good reason for a sign like this to exist in that position - I just have no idea what that reason is.
So in the absence of facts I may just make something up. With luck, that might distract me from remembering how that westerly is cutting into me. It's an ill wind..
Thursday, August 9, 2012
August 9. Day 222. Fetch
I mean, look at Jett having a ball (quite literally) at Kalinga Park today.
As often as owner Nicole would toss the ball, Jett would charge across the park and fetch.
Don't you love the apparent obedience of a puppy? How they will fetch a stick, a ball, the newspaper or your slippers in a way that lets you pretend you are the master?
Of course, we all know who really heads the pack and it's rarely the human.
Jett (with two Ts because he's just a bit posh) was the one who decided it was time to go to the park.
He gathered all his toys in the courtyard so that Nicole would be in no doubt that it was park time.
Then when he'd had enough he dropped the ball and went on sit down strike. Easy to tell who had trained who.
Not that you'd have it any other way. It's a small price to pay for the happiness a dog can bring.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
August 8. Day 221. Seeing the light
If there was such a thing as a screen tan, I'd look like I'd been spending a fair chunk of time at a solarium. Much of my life is spent by the glow of a monitor, often tuning in to the twittering on the site with the little bird. This may explain why I was so attracted to this display wall in the Gallery of Modern Art's children's gallery today.When it comes to social media, I have seen the light.
First thing in the morning and last thing at night I am checking emails or twitter on my iPhone and for large chunks of the rest of the day it's the computer, iPad or TV. Much of this is work but an awful lot isn't. Frankly I feel lost without connection to the outside world without social media. It's fun. It's my idea of Paradise by the iPhone Light (with apologies to Meatloaf).
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
August 7. Day 220. A Rolling Stone
My second worse field trip ever was the Year 11 biology camp to explore the mangroves at Coolum. It bucketed down, was freezing and I can't remember actually being able to see much less draw any of the very interesting things we were meant to find in the mangrove swamps, rocky foreshore or dunes.
I say second worse because the time I led a group of journalism students on a trip to cover an army exercise at the Shoalwater Bay training camp was worse but 11 years have not been enough time to allow me to talk about that one. With therapy, one day.
I was thinking about mangroves today because 14-year-old Mr O is off on a science excursion to chart mangroves.
Is camping out in Coolum and enduring some of the worst dorm food ever part of the deal? No.
He gets to walk to the north bank of the Brisbane River where mangroves abound. It is a beautiful spot and the site of one of my regular morning walks. This photo was taken there this morning.
The very ironic thing is that while this spot is in walking distance to the school my son attends, it is even closer to the high school I went to so exactly why we were bused to Coolum I really don't know.
Time may have distorted my memory but I am pretty sure it is not just that the grass (or in this case) the moss is always greener.
Monday, August 6, 2012
August 6. Day 219. Easily distracted by shiny objects
Yes, it is true that diamonds are a girl's best friend but I can be very happy with things that are much, much cheaper.
My "jewellery" collection is large but contains very few actual jewels. Mostly there are just a lot of bright, colourful things that catch the sun and sparkle and accessorise nicely.
Yep, if you wanted to lure me into your web, baiting with a shiny object would doubtless do the trick.
I think that's why my eye was drawn to this spider's web in the city Botanic Gardens today. A small shaft of afternoon sun was filtering through the trees along a very shaded section of path.
It was just enough cast an amazing light on this spider's web.
I doubt this effect would have pleased the spider greatly - I presume the idea of the web is to capture insects unaware not to shine like a beacon advising of your position - but it certainly had my attention.
Now if I could only figure out how to create a necklace just like it...
Sunday, August 5, 2012
August 5. Day 218. Sticking your neck out
For his trouble he was shouted down in some of the most vile terms. That's the problem with sticking your neck out, there's always someone ready to chop it off.
While the government has maintained that the mammogram program will be maintained - a fact which opponents doubt but which I am not in a position to know either way - what I do know is that the name calling won't help.
People have every reason to be very concerned and very angry but all the effing and blinding in the world will not make any government change its mind.
Protest but can we play the ball and not the man?
This is an issue that needs to be fought on the facts. It does no-one any credit to just take to social media and swear. As my mother used to say, if you can't say anything nice....
Saturday, August 4, 2012
August 4. Day 217.On a downhill slide
Who needs snow when you can glide at great speeds down a mountain of sand? A big grassy slope is another excellent option as Tony and three-and-a-half-year-old son Sasha demonstrated in Highgate Hill Park on Dornoch Terrace this afternoon.
No sooner would they reach the bottom on the home-made cardboard sled when Sasha would scream "again Daddy" and they'd climb back up to the top.
The one downside to this activity is that you find that it's a long way to the top even when you don't want to rock and roll.
The sled was making its debut today. Last time the family was at the park they were there for a picnic and had make do with the picnic blanket. A bit of crafting at home and today they were able to unveil the grass toboggan prototype. It was an outstanding success.
Something tells me they will be back.
Friday, August 3, 2012
August 3. Day 216. Still carrying the scars
Just as one injury was nearly healed, I'd have another fall and there would be a new wound. My knees still carry the scars from years of gravel rash, cuts, scraps, blood and gashes.
Almost all of these injuries were scooter-related. We had a steep concrete driveway with a large concrete slab at the bottom of the hill. Perfect. We'd pick up a head of speed down the drive and then swing right onto the flat concrete at the bottom and stop. Well, that was the plan. I failed spectacularly often. Another day, another fall.
Time is a great healer but I don't really remember it hurting. If it did it wasn't enough to stop me walking back to the top of the drive and doing it again.
Scooters went out of favour for a bit but it pleases me greatly that they then made a spectacular come-back, lighter, trendier and far more maneuverable than ever before.
I thought of my scooting days as I watched the lads at the skate park today. I can only imagine what my elbows and knees would look like now had I ever attempted some of the stunts they were displaying.
I am pleased to see that scabs on the limbs are still part of the deal.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
August 2. Day 215. A bit of spit and polish
It was 2004 and it was a shop in Elizabeth Street in Brisbane that no longer exists. I wish it did as I would really like another pair of boots identical to these ones but much, much newer and ideally in black not a very dark brown. These boots were made for walking. They are incredibly comfortable. They have also been incredibly badly treated and are nearing the end of their natural life.
In an effort to help the boots hang on just that bit longer (and because I am both lazy and curious) I stopped in Albert Street today and let Blair the shoe shining man buff, polish and condition my boots.
They now look a million dollars.
While he polished and I took photos Blair also told me his story. He was in the building trade. "I used to swing a hammer" but "I'm 60 next birthday" and so the work was drying up.
Blair said without a strong education his alternatives were limited so he decided to give Buffed a go.
Buffed is a network of shoe shine stands across Australia which according to its website is designed to create "real business opportunities for people whose employment outlook is limited - such as recently arrived migrants, people with unstable health, or those who lack the basic skills required for mainstream employment".
Blair says he liked the idea of shoe shining because "I like to see the reward at the end of the job".
The rewards for both of us were obvious. I left looking very buffed.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
August 1. Day 214. Tackling the Big Issues
I handed over my $5 this morning to Tom just by the QUT Kelvin Grove Busway and in return he gave me a copy of the magazine and an insight into his life (as well as permission to take this photograph).
Tom's story is a reflection of the horrible truth about homelessness and poverty in Australia - most of us are only one or two pay cheques away from being in a great deal of financial stress. If the income stream suddenly stops and the bills don't, then what?
In Tom's case a serious accident has left him incapable of working most jobs.
He tells me about waking up in hospital with two broken arms, two broken legs and serious damage to his lungs and liver after being hit by a car on the Gold Coast. He even shows me a very nasty scar on his leg where the muscle protrudes.
But, he says, he never complained.
"I couldn't, my jaw was wired shut."
He tells me that you have good days and bad days selling the Big Issue. The magazine comes out fortnightly and when it is hot off the press you do well. Other days you might not sell a single copy.
Vendors like Tom get $2.50 from the sale of the magazine which is designed to give people who are homeless, disadvantaged or marginalised a leg up.
Tom, for one, is grateful because he says he could not do a normal job.
I'm the first one to admit that I whinge about my job. Speaking to Tom, I shall try to be just a bit more grateful that at least I have one.
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"If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Romania's official submission for the best foreign-language film Oscar, is a study in confinement," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. "Like many other recent Romanian films — Cristi Puiu's Stuff and Dough, Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days or Radu Muntean's Boogie — it trails after a young protagonist whose choices are drastically limited and not very promising. Silviu, an 18-year-old inmate at a juvenile prison in a drab rural area, is a few weeks from the end of a four-year sentence, but the idea that his release will bring any kind of freedom seems like a delusion or a cruel joke."
"A volatile but sympathetic protagonist, Silviu is played by George Pistereanu, a nonprofessional still in high school when Serban discovered him," notes Tony Pipolo for Artforum. "With a natural ability to project charm and threat in a single, wide-eyed glance, the young actor easily embodies Silviu's cauldron of suppressed rage and unpredictability, fusing the cool single-mindedness of Bresson's Michel (in Pickpocket [1959]) with the personality and impetuousness of a young Steve McQueen."
This "memorable first feature" from Florin Serban "is slack yet taut," writes the Voice's J Hoberman. "[T]ension builds whenever Serban hits the narrative pause button. Even once all hell finally breaks loose, the suspense is enhanced by lengthy stand-offs, real-time delays, and pervasive confusion on how to best handle a situation gone wildly out of control.... It's a measure of the movie's success that one oscillates between two despairs — noting the abject failure of the system and the utter futility of revolt."
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"Nearly 50 years on, the relegation of folk-pop recording artist Phil Ochs to the turgid second rung of 1960s protest singers seems more an act of twisted fate than an informed critical judgment," writes Joseph Jon Lanthier in Slant, where he addresses "the rumor that Ochs's death was in part inspired by his inability to compete with Bob Dylan's appointment as generational spokesperson. Kenneth Bowser's vintage photo-laden documentary Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune immediately if subtly debunks this assumption.... Footage of his final days as a raving, overweight street wanderer (he looks like one of Andy Kaufman's schlubby alter egos) is nearly as tragic as the inaccurate portrait of his heyday that posterity has preserved. There But for Fortune admirably attempts to revise that image, but its fidelity to its key demographic doesn't allow it to go far enough; the inadvertent message is that Ochs will likely never escape the obligatory prism of his populist outrage."
"Though hewing to a too-conventional structure, Bowser's film is densely researched enough to yield insights not just into its overlooked subject, but also into his overly analyzed era," writes Melissa Anderson in the Voice. More from Stephen Holden (NYT, where Bob Baker has a backgrounder), Michael Simmons (Huffington Post) and James van Maanen. At the IFC Center.
"The Bright Future program section, in which International Film Festival Rotterdam presents debut or second feature films, will this year screen eighteen world premières, ten international premières and eleven European premières. Both fiction films and documentaries are included, as are many films that have little time for such distinctions. The selection as a whole, which encompasses a wide range of subjects and filmic forms, demonstrates young filmmakers' unflagging faith in the possibilities offered by film as a means of expression. In total, this year's Bright Future is made up of 80 films selected from 38 countries." The festival runs January 26 through February 6.
The Goethe Institute in Paris has invited Revolver, the excellent German film journal, to screen ten films over the course of the year. Christoph Hochhäusler has the full schedule.
Rita Ackermann and Harmony Korine's installation Shadowfux is on view at the Swiss Institute in New York through January 22.
From Ecstasy to Rapture: 50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema opens tonight at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox and runs through February 2. Writing for Artforum, Jason Anderson finds that "the series is rich with revelations about what was possible for filmmakers both during the Franco regime and in the decades that followed."
Golden Lion? That was then, this is now: "Quentin Tarantino Explains — and Regrets — Leaving Somewhere Off His Top 20 List." Jordana Horn's made the phone out to California for Vulture.
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At In Contention, Guy Lodge's #1 film of the year is Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, "a near-wordless essay on aging, placelessness and companionship, leavened by the unmistakeable watermark of Tati's wry observational comedy."
Lisa Rosman's is Mike Leigh's Another Year, which "pulls nary a punch as it scrutinizes the limitations of friendship and kin in a great wash of tea and wine and nervous laughter that will ring in your ears long after it's died out. In so many ways, this is the writer-director's crowning achievement, a searing distillation of his career-long themes: haves and have-nots, as well as the potential for misery and happiness that lurks in every minute of every day."
Marilyn Ferdinand's list is in alphabetical order, so I'm simply going to yank out a title I'm looking forward to catching myself when I can: "An ordinary tale of adultery given an extraordinary treatment by master filmmaker Radu Muntean, Tuesday, After Christmas provides an allegory for Romania in a newly prosperous era."
Josef Braun selects his DVD and Blu-ray releases of 2010: "What constitutes 'the best'? I guess it's some mixture of relevance, discovery value, quality of supplements, thoughtful packaging and, most of all, curatorial verve."
"One of the incidental pleasures of watching even a mediocre movie is experiencing the way a specific song is used," writes Vadim Rizov at GreenCine Daily, where he lists "10 of my favorite examples from the past year, with any film-length scoring (like Shutter Island's primer on 20th-century chromatic classical music, or the ever-popular BRAAAAAAAHM of Inception) disqualified."
"The Art Directors Guild (ADG) today announced nominations in three categories of Production Design for theatrical motion pictures competing in the ADG's 15th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards for 2010," reports Peter Knegt at indieWIRE, where he's got the full list.
The 3:AM Awards 2010.
Sad confirmation from the Hollywood Reporter today: "Swedish police have positively identified the remains of actor Per Oscarsson and his wife Kia Ostling, confirming that the actor, who appeared in the Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium crime series died in a house fire on New Year's Eve day." The AFP: "Oscarsson is beloved in his home country, where he appeared in theatre, films, television series and popular children's specials. He won Best Actor at the 1966 Cannes film festival for his lead role as Pontus in Henning Carlsen's Hunger, an adaptation of the novel by Norwegian Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun." In The Girl Who Played With Fire, Oscarsson "played Holger Palmgren, the legal guardian to the heroine, Lisbeth Salander," notes the AP. "In his review of the film, US critic Roger Ebert singled out Oscarsson's performance and described him as 'a great Swedish actor... who incredibly never worked with Bergman."
"Jill Haworth, a British-born film ingénue in the 1960s who made her only Broadway appearance as the original Sally Bowles in Cabaret, died Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 65." Bruce Weber in the New York Times: "A petite, strikingly pretty blonde (she wore a dark wig on Broadway), Ms Haworth was just 14 when she was signed to appear, along with Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint and Sal Mineo, as a displaced Jew in Exodus (1960), Otto Preminger's grandiose adaptation of the Leon Uris novel about the birth of the state of Israel. She made three films in France and then two others with Preminger, The Cardinal and In Harm's Way, before auditioning for Cabaret, along with more than 200 other actresses, and winning the part of Sally, the lovably intemperate lass who sings for her supper at a decadent nightclub in Weimar-era Berlin." More from Andre Soares at the Alt Film Guide.
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In large enterprises, the testing and auditing process is either handled by external contractors or by internal security specialists. In small businesses, security testing and auditing is usually handled by ... well, nobody, really! A combination of apathy, shortage of in-house expertise and budgetary constraints mean that the process simply doesn't happen in the majority of small businesses. And that's a mistake. No matter how small your business is, you have valuable IT assets and you need to make sure that those assets are properly protected. You need to establish that your defences are up to par and you need to establish areas in which your security plan needs to be updated. And the only way you can reliably do that is by security testing and auditing.
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Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT). MSAT is based around a set of more than 200 questions about your infrastructure, applications, operations and people. The answers to the questions are collated and used to provide recommendations about measures that can be taken to improve your security.
Qualys'SANS Top 20 Scan. This scan "detects the 20 most dangerous vulnerabilities impacting networks worldwide" and, where appropriate, provides links to recommended fixes.
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The most damage in a single area was reported in Mississippi late last week where four counties reported damage to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). A spokesperson for MEMA said 49 homes received major damage and 177 others had less serious damage. Residents in Desoto County who were unable to return to their homes found shelter at the Longview Heights Baptist Church in Olive Branch.
In Cordova, TN, the Tennessee Office of Preparedness reported more than 125 structures sustained damage. Most of the damage was to roofs and storage sheds. The Rev. David Acres, with the Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief, said Monday his group has responded with chainsaw teams to help clean-up fallen trees.
Tornadoes were also reported in Maryland and New York.
A spokesperson from the National Weather Service said a small tornado caused minor damage in Kirkwood, MD, near the Pennsylvania border, and that the agency was also investigating reports of a tornado in nearby Windsor.
More than 51,000 customers including a major Baltimore area hospital lost power Friday night after high winds and a tornado downed trees and damaged homes northwest of the city. Tornadoes were also reported in Frederick County, in western Maryland.
In addition to winds, several small towns near Philadelphia received nearly five inches of rain Sunday. The National Weather Service reported that all the rain came down in only a few hours resulting in flooded roads and trapped cars.
Amazingly, only a few minor injuries were reported in all of the severe weather events.
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Starting from Dubrovnik and ending in Athens, this 11 day tour visits Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia.
Welcome to Dubrovnik, upon your arrival, you will be welcomed and transferred to your hotel.
At 13:00, head out on a guided walk along the city walls, enjoying views of the Adriatic Sea. You'll also visit Big Onofrio's Fountain, built by the European architect Onofrio della Cava in the 15th century to supply water to the city, the 13th century Franciscan monastery and the Sponza and Rector's Palaces. At the end of your journey, perhaps you'd prefer to simply unwind on a beach.
After breakfast, we will drive along the Adriatic coast line towards to Split. In the afternoon we will have walking tour of the city visiting, Diocletian Palace, a Roman imperial palace and UNESCO World Heritage site. We will walk the southern part of palace, the Bronze Gates, through the Vestibul of the Emperor's Palace, The Mausoleum, St. Dujam's Cathedral, Cathedral Treasury, Temple of Jupiter, St. Martin's Church (Golden Gate) and conclude the tour at the fruit square and visit the Venetian castle, Milesi Palace and the Monument of Marko Marulic.
Today depart for Sarajevo via Mostar, a town situated in a beautiful valley in the high mountains of Herzegovina. The city was the most heavily bombed settlement in Bosnia during the war, but it has since been rebuilt and now features on UNESCO's World Heritage list. On the way, we visit the famous Stari Most Bridge, built by the Ottomans in 156. It was the great architect Mimar Hajrudin who succeeded with the impossible mission to cross the Neretva River with a single span stone bridge. Afterwards, we drive to Sarajevo, which is Bosnia and Herzegovina's small but vibrant capital. Twenty years after the end of a devastating war, Sarajevo is slowly asserting itself as one of Europe's most beautiful and interesting cities. The city mixes east and west dotted with minarets, mosques, bazaars and the aroma of coffee. In the evening, perhaps enjoy a simple but delicious meal in Bascarsija, Sarajevo's old bazaar and you must try the local specialty of 'bosanski cevapi' (grilled minced meat mixed with mild spices).
This morning, after breakfast, we depart for Serbia's capital, Belgrade, which is famous for its grand Orthodox churches and museums. In the evening, head down to Skadarska Street in the bohemian quarter of Skadarlija to sample some authentic local food and enjoy the lively atmosphere, in a place where Orthodox churches vie for space next to fashionable nightclubs.
Today, we will visit the city's wide boulevards and squares, and the historic and green heart of Kalemegdan Park. The park is home to Kelmegdan Fortress, which has overlooked the Danube River here for centuries.
Departure for Skopje via Nis, the third largest city in Serbia. After a sightseeing in Nis, visiting remnants of its Ottoman past, we cross the border into Macedonia and proceed to the capital, Skopje, arriving in the afternoon.
The afternoon will be for gentle walking tour of the center, visit Kale Fortress, the Church of the Holy Savior with its iconostas, one of the finest samples of traditional walnut woodcarving, Old Bazaar and Stone Bridge.
This morning, we drive to Ohrid, this UNESCO world heritage site is known as the 'Macedonian Jerusalem' due to its large number of churches. Nestled on the shores of a large lake which is renowned for the clarity of its water. Discover highlights of Ohrid, The church of St. Sofia (11th century), the most eminent mediaeval monument in Macedonia with magnificent Byzantine fresco paintings and St. Clement Church with its icon of Annunciation.
Today we set off towards Thessaloniki, famous for its UNESCO listed Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments and the foreshore lined with cafes, cocktail lounges, bars and restaurants.
his morning we drive to Delphi where we will explore the incredible site and museum of Delphi. The sanctuary of Delphi, where the oracle of Apollo spoke, was the religious centre of the ancient Greek world. We then continue to Athens.
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Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take testsuoften against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even outside of school children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision, and are afforded few opportunities to control their own lives. The result: anxious, unfocused children who see schoolinguand lifeuas a series of hoops to struggle through. In qFree to Learn, q developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know, but will do so with energy and passion. Children come into this world burning to learn, equipped with the curiosity, playfulness, and sociability to direct their own education. Yet we have squelched such instincts in a school model originally developed to indoctrinate, not to promote intellectual growth. To foster children who will thrive in todayOCOs constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history, Gray demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient. This capacity to learn through play evolved long ago, in hunter-gatherer bands where children acquired the skills of the culture through their own initiatives. And these instincts still operate remarkably well today, as studies at alternative, democratically administered schools show. When children are in charge of their own education, they learn betteruand at lower cost than the traditional model of coercive schooling. A brave, counterintuitive proposal for freeing our children from the shackles of the curiosity-killing institution we call school, qFree to Learnq suggests that itOCOs time to stop asking whatOCOs wrong with our children, and start asking whatOCOs wrong with the system. It shows how we can actuboth as parents and as members of societyuto improve childrenOCOs lives and promote their happiness and learning.qIn terms of numbers, homeschooling is the largest truly alternative schooling movement in theUnited States. Thenumber of ... Both they and theirkids typically find theplanned curriculum tobe boring, sothey beginto domore interesting things, usuallyinitiated by the kids. ... The term was coined in the1970s bythe educational theorist and former teacher John Holt, in his magazine Growing Without Schooling.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Try as we might to fight the inevitable, we all get older. So, we should all be a bit wiser when it comes to dealing with the aging process. We all want to stay independent as long as possible. At the Minnesota State Fair, the Wiser Living 2014 exhibit aims to help us do just that.
This year, the exhibit – located in front of the 4-H Building — has doubled in size and features a lot more technology. That's good, because our elderly population is growing dramatically, too.
"Growing older … the idea is to maximize how long we can stay in our house," co-founder of Wiser Living Michelle Witte said. "So, when you look at the aging demographics, in the next 10 years we're going to double the amount of people over age 65. So, people really need to make their houses work for them."
Moving around the house when you get older is tricky. For example, getting things out of shelves and getting into the shower are much more difficult. So new companies featured at the exhibit, like Help Your Shelves and ReBath, help remodel homes for the long-term.
Seniors who use wheelchairs can more easily communicate and engage with the innovative i-Can — a wheelchair that comes with it's own lift.
"If you want to be in the conversation, you can lift it up," Witte said. "They've taken technology that they use to raise toppers on cars, etc. and apply it to the wheelchair."
Other tech includes home monitoring, which helps the children of elderly parents stay in touch.
"The Lutheran Home Association, who just got a huge grant, has what's called remote sensing … that assesses your normal routine," Witte said. "So, [for example], it might say dad got out of bed last night 13 times, so that'll be a queue that something's not going so well. Or the refrigerator hasn't been opened in two days, so what's going on. So it's a great way to help assess without video."
Since falling is a major concern for the elderly, one of the really cool things at the exhibit is called the NeuroCom machine, which helps determine balance.
"The machine, which was developed with NASA for NASA astronauts, assesses how balanced you might be. If you have balance issues, it finds out the problems. Maybe it's strength, maybe it's vision, maybe vestibular," Witte said. "So, we have all these things that people just don't know about."
As the picture below shows, I had the opportunity to try out the machine. During the assessment conducted by Saint Therese of New Hope, you take certain tests with your eyes open for some and closed for others. The platform you stand on can move, as well as the surrounding walls. Its purpose is to isolate problematic areas of our senses (somatosensory, visual and vestibular to be exact). I scored well in comparison to people 60-69 years of age, of course, but they did say I put more pressure on my heels. For an elderly person, that could mean a higher chance of falling backward.
The aging process comes with a hefty price tag, but there are things to be done. Witte shared a few thoughts.
"First of all, the most affordable thing is prevention. So, understanding balance, being strong and learning what you can do to prevent falls is a really important thing happening in the senior movement right now.
"A lot of these featured companies are great at helping people maximize your current living situation. It can cost, you know, $3,000 to $5,000, to live in an assisted living environment … the idea is to stay in your own home as long as you can. That will [help you] keep your dollars for when you're really going to need them.
"The other thing is Aging Services of Minnesota is a partner with the exhibit and they have what's called a Confident Choices seal – like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval – for senior housing. So there are those systems that evaluate and help you make good choices about what's the most affordable care out there."
Finally, what does it take to age successfully? Devour information.
"We just have to remain lifetime learners. Be curious and persevere. Ask questions and find out what the resources are out there. Senior LinkAge Line (1-800-333-2433) is great service in Minnesota. So, just plan ahead. Get the information ahead, so when you need it, you know what's out there," Witte said.
For more information on the Wiser Living exhibit and all the businesses they feature, click here.


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So it turns out he really isn't faster than a speeding bullet in the autumn, isn't more powerful than a November locomotive. And he really can't leap tall buildings in a single bound. That last one would have been helpful yesterday, actually, as Derek Jeter, working-stiff commuter, fought the traffic coming up Manhattan's East Side.
"Usually, it's a quick zip of First Avenue and then quick trip over the little bridge," Jeter said yesterday, as he arrived in the Yankees clubhouse, frantically trying to pull his uniform on before his team would work out at a near-empty Yankee Stadium, explaining his travails trying to inch his way toward the Macombs Dam span.
"But I was sitting there, and sitting there," he said. "Then I moved over to Third, and tried that, and it was no better. I didn't think I was going to get here. I was standing still for 45 minutes. It was brutal."
Stars. They're just like us.
"No police escort?" someone asked.
"I wish," Jeter said. "I'm not the mayor."
Not yet, he isn't. In truth, if he would have found a gap in the ninth inning on Monday night, when he came up with two men on and nobody out and the Yankees trailing by three runs, he probably would have gotten a couple hundred thousand write-in votes.
And who knows? If he'd actually taken Ryan Madson out of the park then — with 44,000 Phillies fans inside Citizens Bank Park about to suffer a collective nervous breakdown, and 2,000 or so Yankees fans ready to rattle the place to its foundation — he might've actually gotten a four-year lease at Gracie Mansion.
But that didn't happen. Jeter did work the count to 2-and-0, did seem on the verge of sending Madson straight to therapy, and did have his legion of acolytes confidently speculating where his two-run double would travel. Then he took strike one. And then he hit a ground ball sharply to Jimmy Rollins, who flipped the ball to Chase Utley, who fired it to Ryan Howard, a 6-4-3 double play that sure seemed misplaced within the Derek Jeter Scrapbook of Postseason Memories.
"You can't always hit the ball where you want it," Jeter said immediately after the Phillies finished off an 8-6 win. "If you could, this would be a lot easier game."
So instead of stinking up the charter bus that brought them home with the odor of drying champagne, instead of basking in a day of warm-up before a tour through the Canyon of Heroes, the Yankees were at the Stadium yesterday, and their captain was fighting through uptown gridlock, and there was a full day to ponder once more what lies ahead of the Yankees, and ahead of Jeter.
Thirteen years ago, when all of this was so new, when there was another off day between a Game 5 and a Game 6 of a Series the Yankees led 3-2, a small crowd of reporters had gathered around Jeter, then a rookie, then just 21 years old and shockingly precocious. Most of the scribes sought out Wade Boggs or Jimmy Key, the veterans with stories of their own, and almost everyone was waiting to hear how Frank Torre's heart transplant had gone.
Thirteen years ago, on the doorstep of ring No. 1, someone asked Jeter, "Does any of this stuff make you nervous?"
And Jeter, a quizzical look on his face, replied, "If it did, then someone else should be playing shortstop in Game 6."
In so many ways, that has been who Jeter's been and how he's conducted his business across these 13 years. And yesterday, on the doorstep of ring No. 5, there was as big a crowd around his locker — and, later on, on the field — as you've ever seen at a World Series. In many ways, the newest generation of Yankee fan, and this latest generation of Yankees excellence, has grown up at precisely the pace that Jeter has.
"This is what you play for," he said, just as calm, just as carefree as that kid was 13 years ago. "You play for the chance to win a championship. The fans have been outstanding all year and they'll be vocal tomorrow night, and hopefully we can get it done for them. It would be nice. But we still have a lot of work to do."
He had a shot to extend his autumnal legacy, a thick resume that already bursts with snapshots of splendor. And unless something very odd happens in the next few days, you have an idea he'll have another crack or two to get the one for the thumb he's been waiting nine years to add.
And it might be worth mentioning: Of all the walk-off, cream-pie celebrations the Yankees have thrown this year, Jeter hasn't been the star of even one.


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