So yeah, this is my life??

Haggard as!

2008-07-13T21:24:00.000-07:00

Well normally I post up pics of my friends as I mention them, but yesterday I mentioned Mikey, but I didn't have a picture, so here he is. I personally think this is a perfect picture of him and his way of life and thoughts...

He's a Gimp mun

Dntnowachyatakinbout!

Episode 1

2008-07-13T09:47:00.000-07:00

Yeah, thought I might add a link here. It's Out of Focus episode 1, I'm taking up making quarterly web edits, episode 2 is currently being edited, but this is the first that was done about 3 weeks ago. I'll chuck up episode 2 as soon as its done: http://www.vimeo.com/1262106

By the way, thanks to Anthony for stuffing around with his net and programs and shit for me to post this up.

Untill next time...

Back from the great frozen escape!!

2008-07-13T05:45:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I know I've been really lazy with this, and after a good yelling at from Seraphina I'm updating whats been happening. Not alot has really happend over the last week, actually a bit, haha. After another horrible shift at Bubble I went and rode Dandy skatepark with Dan.

And for the surprise of the year, Chris came to Dandy park, and rode his bike! After spending the day there, it was time to retire back to headquarters for a drink with Chris. The next day I went over to Mikey's to see if he wanted to come to Canberra with me, he said he was up for it, as long as he got to pick where we stayed, so I said it was ok with me, as long as he did it because I had other things that I had to do that day. Surprise, surprise, when it came to 9pm that night, I get a call from him and apparently there is no accomodation anywhere, so he's not comming. I still wanted to go anyway, so I did, haha. The next day I took off on my journey at 7pm, and chose to drive all night, at about 2am I was at Albury and had a 3 hour sleep. I woke up with THE sorest neck, but battled onto Canberra and was on the outskirts by sunrise.

By 9:30 I arrived at Weston Creek skatepark. There was a Maccas next door, so I dived on it as quick as I could, I wasnt hungry, but I needed the toilet sooo bad, I could bearly hang on. In about 5 seconds, I think I weighed about 5kg's lighter, what a relief! Haha. So yeah, I seshioned Weston Creek for the morning which was fun, the local kids were pretty welcoming so I rode with them for a while and just after lunch I was starting to get a bit bored of that park. I took off to Erindale banks, which in my opinion is one the the greatest parks ever designed, the only fault being the flat ledges are shit for grinding, but other than that its awsome. Wish I had pegs on, the rails there looked like so much fun, so many rail lines. Got some new tricks there though, I also pegless grinded one of the rails which I was happy with. So I rode that spot till I was exahsted, which was about the time it got dark, so I retired back to camp, which happend to be my car in the parking lot haha. I was amped as, 4 shirts, 2 jumpers, a sleepin bag, a long lost emergancy stash of longneck VB's and Canberra radio. Canberra radio is awsome because its the same as Melbourne radio, but just with a hint of that ch31 elliment in everything they do. Nothing beats the photocopying add I heard, "So come down to Fyshwick photocopying because as you know, all Canberrians are Fyshwicks!"

I woke up the next day and was frozen! I ficked the radio on and stuck my head back in the bag as quick as I could and tied up the top of my sleeping bag. It turned out that it was -1 at 7am! When I built up the strength to pull my head out into the cold, i rolled over and noticed that my sleeping bag was iced over.I was still up at 8am though. I went and rode the park again, untill it started raining 10 mins later. My heel was hurting so much from the day before, and with the rain and the riciulously cold weather I decided it was best to take off home. I'm glad I did, becuase by the time I got to Yass it was snowing!

The next day I went around to Mikeys coz he messed up his cranks because he doesnt know what he doing. I ended up with pretty good deal, I gave him some shit cranks I don't want and gave him my shadow bars for Rhys' old F-it flow bars and an old Salt stem. My bike feels better already, just need a front wheel and some forks, but I'm starting to think maybe I should stay pegless. After going to Mikey's I haven't really done much else, I had work last night which wasn't very nice. None of the bar staff showed up, so the boss decided to take 3 of the bussy staff and put them on bar, so I was left by myself to run all of downstairs, and the worst part was that all the bar staff was telling me that I wasn't helping them enough! I was thinking, "so, when are you guys going to come out and help me on the floor when I need it?"

Anyway, as it turns out I survived the night, which leads me to today, I came home and was glad to see that Seraphina was online, but I felt way to gross, so I had to have a shower. When I got out, I had to sit down for a min because I felt so tired. I closed my eyes and when I opened them it was 10pm, 7 hours later. So I jumped online, which brings me up to date, now I'm talking to Seraphina and Ranchana.

Untill next time...

Takin the first step

2008-07-03T17:47:00.000-07:00

Well, I'd just like say, today I got up and I had a piece of toast, haha, nah not really. I don't do breakfast, haha. Although today was pretty important to me because I was meeting with council members to disscuss planning of a new Glen Waverley skatepark at 3pm. The first half of my day went sooo slowly, it was so boring, nothing to do, and it looked like it was going to rain. In the end the bordom become to much, so I left for the skatepark at 1, which was empty, because Glen Waverley skatepark is sooo boring, haha. It was a bit better when Rhys "fukin" Saunders came past on his way back from pickin up a gram from the station.

So we had a bit of a ride till about ten to three, then I was off to the council meeting. Like always the council like to take tiny little baby steps, there was alot of talking without any progression. I kept pushing to try and get somewhere, but they're pretty stubborn, they enjoy constantly repeating themselves. It was like I was locked in a room of cockatoo's.
"So we want to work on a new skate facility!"
And another would say, "so, what do we need to do?"
Then then another would say, "work on a new skate facility?"
Then the first guy would say, "so we want to work on a new skate facility!"
After 2 hours of this I was starting to get pretty annoyed and my head was hurting bad! Eventually I stood up and asked, "what are the plans, are we thinking of building a hole new park, of just redoing the one we have?"
No one could give me a straight answer. After hours of pushing and interpritations I'm thinking that either a street plazer is going in at the old Monash high school location, or the current park will be upgraded with more street stuff.
Driving home from the meeting, I noticed that the park as always was empty, haa. By the time I got home it was time for scrapheap challenge, but like all shows its starting to get really shit, this time it was windmills, boring! Not enough destruction!! Haha. I spent the rest of my night attempting to do some editing, but for some reson its impossible to find a song to fit with the footy which is a little annoying, so I was just chatting with Seraphina and Jarooster, organizing a ride on Friday

One MACE gangster!

Mid-week drink

2008-07-02T06:56:00.000-07:00

So for thoughs who don't know, this is me, Alan Mirams, I hope you visit this blog more than once. Although I won't be surprised if you don't, anyway, I hope you enjoy the story of my life, as it happens, kind of....

So yeah, this is my first post, and I couldn't think of a more boring day to start. Haha. Well I all in all today didn't turn out to be to bad, the manager from Bubble rang me up and begged for me to come back, so I agreed I would, just for a little extra cash to get me by. I also found a couple of adds in the local paper today, a couple of shitty paper delivery jobs that'll be better than workin at bubble, come to think of it, anything will be better than working there. I'm not quite sure what happend to the rest of the day, the next thing I knew it was 6:30, Scrapheap challenge was on and there was a plate on my lap with the dryed remains of what seemed to be spaggetti. The show wasn't the best, the challenge was submarines, one didn't really work, and the other was a pipe with 2 swimmers behind it. I prefer the challenges where things get destroyed, haha. Right as that finished, I got a message from Chris, and that could only mean one thing...TIME TO DRINK!!!

So I went round to his place chucked on some Bruce Lee movies and had a drink. After sitting around in his garage for 3 hrs, it was way to cold so I packed up camp and left for home, mum and dad were in bed so I jumped on the computer to see who was online. Surprise, surprise, Polly was on, but I dont think he ever gets off, and I was also very happy to see that Seraphina was on because I hadn't seen her in a couple of days, haha. I was starting to miss her, haha. So yeah, I've got her to thank for getting me into this.