Exactly.

It’s not even worth joking about any more

I’m finally settled in and feeling like this is “home” for me, in one sense at least. And then… And then I think, crap, only, what, 5 months to go? And I’m back to Sydney. I’m getting the moving cycles shorter and shorter, which is one thing moving (back) to Sydney was supposed to reverse. I guess it matters less and less these days, in the context of near-instant communications and the whole e-World that makes the distance near meaningless, or at the very least lets you redefine it to your own needs. I’m at least as up to speed with Australia’s news as I am with England’s, but despite being that much closer to Europe I’m still by and large clueless as to what is happening some 300 - 400 km away on the continent (distances on Australia’s scale are near-meaningless here). ...

Double header review! Transformers: The Movie (1986) The animated cult classic! This movie was cool, man. Except when you’ve grown up, and you look back, and realise how lame it really was. Plot? What plot? Characterisation? They’re robots… that transform! Oh and there’s a goofy kid to give you the human interest story. Um. Deus Ex Machina! ★☆ Transformers (2007) Now this, this is proper summer blockbuster. CGI, stuff blowing up, not-quite-b-grade-but-not-A-grade acting talent, and to give it some credibility, it’s got multiple legs to its plot that all tie up together at the end. ...

Sniffing a onion to tell if it’s bad? Not a good idea.