If only this were true
In the light of Western Australia’s woeful performance in the Pura Cup game against Queensland (that was still meant to be going on), I IM‘d Phil and said:
so, what should be happening now is that Gillies and Dorey should be mopping up the QLD tail to register the first win of the season
And in perhaps the best piece of fantasy cricket writing ever, he replied:
in my own dream state that is exactly what has happened. After Gilchrist had made a tidy 250 from 138 balls and Martyn a very stylish 303*. Then I would have had the Bulls 8-15 with Watson ‘retired dead’ before a handy last wicket partnership of 290 took them to within two runs of victory before Bichel suffered a massive brain haemorraghe and fell on his own stumps cutting his carotid artery.
Gold.
Robbery
In preparation for having to be able to work while in the US in December (we’re going for xmas and such … a plane trip with a 5 week old and a 2.25 year old … mmmm, fun), and I priced out a MacBook Pro. It came to AUD$4613, which is a little pricey, but hey, it’s a sweet machine.
As an experiment I went to the Apple US website, and priced the same spec machine. And what do you know? It comes to AUD$3818 at today’s exchange rate. $800 difference. Just because it’s in Australia? Even when you factor GST into it, it’s still about $400 cheaper.
So, guess what I’ll be buying in the US?