Yeah, 18th Commonwealth Games is here in Melbourne BTW. I have noticed.

John Howard's down inspecting the premises, The Queen has landed in Canberra, odd goings on down the river, lots of volunteirs comming and going on the trains in their blue uniforms. And there were fighter jets above the CBD today too. Noisy.

When I was 3 years old the Games were in Brisbane. 1982. I can clearly remember from TV that there was a big kangaroo named Matilda. Her pouch opened up like a draw-bridge and lots of little (kangaroo?) people raced out to do things like jump up and down on trampolines. I was very impressed by the concept.

Matilda, BTW, now lives at Wet'n Wild. This is one of the big theme parks on the Gold Coast.

This whole Commonwealth Games jazz annoys me on several levels. For example, I don't like the State meddling in economic activity. On the other hand it is a nice internationalist event to have. But then again, it's going to bugger up our lives around here for the rest of the month. Although, it does give athletes a reason to exist. But I don't even like athletes because they're so often pushing a tiny part of their human potential at the greater expense of the whole!

So, my blogging about The Games for the next couple weeks is going to be as bi-polar as anything.