garry pettet

Wimbledon, Yay!

posted by Garry on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 08:58
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Despite the fact that I am useless at tennis, I love Wimbledon. What a first day we were treated to yesterday! I have a tendency to root for the underdog (I’m British, so no chance of rooting for the favourite I guess!) and yesterday was full of near-victories for the underdogs. I enjoyed watching Federer squirm against Falla and I really wanted Olivier Rochus to beat that annoying, chest-beating, i’m-worth-$17 million, Novak Djokovic but he just fell short. Here’s hoping that the bar remains set-high for the tournament.

Only two days to go until the global launch of the iPhone 4 on the 24th. I’m really excited. I’ve decided to go with Vodafone after much deliberation and I have my PAC code at the ready. Most shops are opening at 08:00 on Thursday so I ‘m going to head down to the city centre at around 06:30 to start queuing in the hope that I can pick up a top-of-the-range 32GB one.

I seemed to have “volunteered” to be on-call this evening at work. An extremely unreliable co-worker phoned in sick and poor Oli was tasked with finding an SHO to cover her on-call today. He’s stepped up to do the day but I couldn’t let him miss out on engagement ring shopping this evening could I? I only have to work from 17:00 ’til 21:00 and I will be paid (a pittance) for it but it does screw my day up as I often have a half-day on a Tuesday. Oh well, mustn’t grumble.

4 comments

Anit on June 23rd, 2010 at 02:53:07

You’re a good man to “volunteer” to do an extra on-call. A little delusional to think you are going to get paid more!!

I’m waiting for the iphone 4 to come out as well. Time to upgrade. I need a new phone to go in Felix (the name for the A3).

Garry on June 23rd, 2010 at 06:43:58

Is the new phone coming out tomorrow in Oz too? Fi thinks I’m crazy for going to to queue early – I just hope I don’t get raped in the city centre…

Anit on June 23rd, 2010 at 10:26:36

Nah, a couple of months wait of course. Gives it time for all the kinks to be ironed out.

How is Max?

Garry on June 23rd, 2010 at 21:21:51

He’s good. Still have to constantly defend the fact that he’s NOT a hairdresser’s car!

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