Blah!

Well, that's the last two days effectively wasted preparing for a CPA exam tomorrow. Well, I did manage a quick 50km ride last night, which reminded me that I'm actually still alive, because I wouldn't have realised it ploughing through all that insipid rubbish. I'll be glad when that's over. I've resolved to actually do something with my apartment when I get some time. At the moment it's in something of a disgraceful state (even allowing for the fact that it's inhabited by a single male), which hardly befits the location or the amount I'm paying to rent it. The way I see it, I've taken around 1,400 pictures of various things on my travels in the last 18 months, yet none of them adorn the walls. I think it's time I fixed that.

Oh yeah, there was one reasonably amusing thing to come out of today, right now there is a guest "speaker" in the Queensland parliament because the regular speaker is in trouble over some overseas travel expenses (slightly old story). It seems the replacement didn't waste any time making an impression, this time with some rather interesting interpretations of "inappropriate language". Apparently the phrase "stuff up" is inappropriate for use in that context (Premier Peter Beattie had some fun later with the media --- "I made a stuff up by using the word 'stuff up' "). If that wasn't bad enough, apparently the term "hypocrisy" is inappropriate, as indeed is the expression "double-standard" (no, I'm not making any of this up).

Only in Queensland.