Not only is today’s title the name of a crappy recent film, but it’s also where I find myself today.

Last Saturday I celebrated my 30th birthday. Whatever happened to fresher Brian at 18? Can I please go back and do it all again? Ha? Can I, please? Apart from all the usual considerations of one’s mortality which are generally associated with a milestone birthday such as this – I feel like I’m in a pretty good place.

• In four months time I’m getting married to a wonderful woman.
• I have just bought a house (settlement was yesterday – Hello Footscray! Hello rice paper rolls!)
• In May we plan to go live/work in Europe until we get sick of it or we run out of money.
• I have a cool bunch of friends.
• I earn a reasonable wage for the amount of work I do.

Really, I can’t complain. Although if someone out there can hurry up and invent a fat loss pill, I’ll be thrilled.

A few years ago I was having a whinge to my wizard friend David Greagg. He was carrying on about some Venus return business – a time in your life when the stars fall into place and you get your shit together. Well, as it turns out I was getting confused with the concept of venous return from my physiology lectures and what David was actually talking about was Saturn Return. Read the linked article – I’ve found it to be a bit freaky. I’m not saying that everything that’s supposed to happen has happened – but some of it certainly has. Perhaps it’s coincidence, perhaps not.

I’m just looking forward to the bit in the Saturn Return process where I work out what I want to do career wise. Some time before I retire would be nice.

David appears to have a book coming out. The things you discover by doing a websearch on someone’s name.

For all you computer geeks out there. I’ve just been sent a link to this new model of USB Flash Drive which has become available.

I think it’s very silly.

I can’t believe people get paid lots of money to come up with crap like this. Needless to say we will not be ordering this in. But really, is it the kind of thing that would take off in Japan?

During the week a “For Lease” sign went up outside our block of units. At first I wondered, “Gee I didn’t know that the people from either of the other two units were moving. It then dawned upon me that the sign was for OUR unit given that it’s now on;y about 3 weeks until we move. I felt very silly.

This morning we had our first open house inspection. It’s one of those cases where we had the place looking so good that if we weren’t going to move into our own place we may have reconsidered leaving altogether. I got chatting with the Real Estate agent, and when describing my job she told me that her husband was all into burning CDs and DVDs. In fact just the night before she and her hubby had sat down to watch the new Tom Cruise film “Collateral” (which is currently showing in the cinemas) that her husband had downloaded and burnt to DVD. I told her that a very good friend* of mine had also downloaded that particular film. It turns out that the copy the REA had suffered from the same dodgy sound problems that my friend had with his. This freaked me out a little simply because I’ve heard that there are lots of copies of any given film available for download, and the coincidence of me chatting to this REA just after she’d seen a copy from the same source as my friend was a little unsettling.

My friend is very naughty.

Last night I went to the 30th birthday of a friend from primary & high school. Known him since 1980 – now that’s scary… Happy Birthday Dennis!!

Anyway, way back when Dennis had a neighbour, Vince who was in the year above us. It was good to see him and alot of other old mates at the party. Vince brought along his younger brother Adrian who I think was in Year 7 when I was in Year 12. I remembered him well, and young Adrian told me that he had one enduring memory he had of me from high school. One morning in Year 12, on the train station a friend of mine had acquired a girlie magazine and was showing a couple of his friends. Adrian was going over to have a peek when I pulled him aside and said something along the lines of “Hey Adrian, stay away – you don’t need that shit.” This act which to be honest I can’t even remember apparently had a bit of an impact on young Adrian. He said that he remembered me as a good bloke and a person of principle. This freaked me out a bit but also made me feel pretty good. No, I’m no saint (boy am I no saint), but all the same I thought it was a nice story. It’s interesting how things which seemed so insignificant at the time can have an affect on people.