The Backflip Boys Weblog

So, where was I when I left off…. that’s right, deep in the heart of Hollywood.
Hollywood was our base camp for the beginning of our whirlwind tour of the Western bit of America. At the end of our first day in LA, we drove over to the Beverly Hills/Rodeo Drive area, parked and walked around. […]

We’ve been in the US now since Good Friday - that time travel thing is still messing with my brain - and LA is history and now it’s all about Vegas, but we really should go back a bit and talk about the LA part of this trip.
The remainder of the flight was pretty uneventful […]

I write this as I sit Row 68-Seat C of Qantas flight QF-149 non stop Sydney to LA. By my watch the time is now 2:05pm on Good Friday, but I am currently time travelling forwards so it’s actually around 4:05pm where the plane is located right now. According to the flightplan map on the screen […]

This time tomorrow (Good Friday for me, probably sometime in the past for most of my dear readers), all going well that is, I shall be somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in a large lumbering 747 beast heading towards the USA for a whirlwind quick tour of LA, a side trip to Las Vegas to […]

I need to alert you all to a crime wave I have discovered. I stumbled across the following news item when I exited Hotmail a few minutes ago. It’s unbearably unbelieveable:
“Court convicts bear of stealing honey”
“A Macedonian court convicted a bear of theft and damage for stealing honey from a beekeeper who fought off the […]

One day, I am going to die. It is an inevitability that will one day come to us all, but don’t start fretting about it now because my long term plan is to live at least until I have had another 50 birthdays. Longevity does seem to be a trait that my lineage toys with […]

I’ve been in a remarkably good mood all this week - a sure sign that the apocalypse is heading our way soon. An additional sign is the fact that this morning, I got to work to find that my Depot Manager had actually responded in writing to some letters that I sent her last week. […]