the debate in one minute, and a rant about vice presidential candidates

Like every american I'm speaking with are ill about the position we are in with the bailout that is needed to shore up our economy and putting it back on the right track. It's gotta be all about job creation. Health care reform, reducing takes has got to accompany trade as opportunity, not as competitive scary thing. All those things under the umbrella of job creation makes my head explode! This bailout is a part of that.

Oh Shit!

Back To the Grind

We're four weeks into Mr. & Mrs. Iselin. Married life so far is pretty great, though I'm not yet comfortable with the 'mrs.' part (nor the 'Iselin' part, while on that subject). Our time home was perfect and because of our wedding gift for the 'rents, we've got it on home video.

Coming back home to Sydney was difficult. The perfect blend of homesickness requires heaps of perfect weather, a dollop of Grand Canyon, two servings of wedding, and a few days at the Four Seasons to taste. The best cure for it is summer's approach in Sydney.

This weekend was fantastic. After weaseling our way into Diplo at the Oxford Arts Factory (which is a block away) on Friday night, I went to to James Squire Brewery in Darling Harbour to watch the first presidential debate with Democrats Abroad. Watching the debate with a room full of Americans was exciting... I get more riled about being an American when I'm abroad. After spending the rest of the day in the Rocks, I met Josh at Coogee beach with a picnic in hand. Josh was a bit pissed after a day at the races (to those Americans reading this... 'pissed' means drunk, and 'races' are the horse races where everyone wears outfits straight from the polo scene in Pretty Woman). Dinner on the beach and a movie. Today was more of the same - barbie with some good folk, beach, and now bed.

Check out facebook for some wedding pics!

The goings on

Apple store just opened in Sydney to the delight of dorks everywhere. Stupid people flew from the US of A to wait in line to go to a store they could have gone to in the US (where it's cheaper anyways). What in the insane is going on?

Then like 2 weeks later the iphone is released. It's complete mayhem. there is an 8 hr wait at the apple store.

Why can't I have one?

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"Fore-sta"

We went to Forester last weekend - it's pronounced "Fore-sta." A good way to remember it is to think of it as four-star with a twist, although I'd give it 3.


at a winery we went to in the middle of nowheres.

Make sure to click on the picture on the right - Rupal is the tiny dot in the corner. We went hiking at some mountain on the way home. Rupal thinks it was called mt. askot. I refuse to look it up.

Make sure to click on the pic on the left, Rupal is in mid air.

Wedding planning is taking over. Beginning to lose touch with reality. Reading a really good book though - it's call ed "The Brief Life of Oscar Wao." Highly recommended.

This weekend we did nothing. I didn't leave my bed except once to make tea - I had food poisoning from some faulty Friday night feast. Pretty sick. I watched Sopranos, and drank gatorade.

OK back to bed. :-( but before I do, here a picture I took 3 weeks ago of one of the best afternoons of my entire life. I'm prone to exaggeration, but damn look at this picture. It looks like a dream sequence from a movie about "HORS D’OEUVRES" which I clearly copied and pasted from the first website I could find that knew how to spell.

We're back at it again

tunaman, in search of tunaas usual

Ahoy,



Yea yea, this hasn't been updated in a long time. Like close to two months. And we have valid excuses, mostly having to do with Indiana Jones. But I'm going to skip those and get right into it.

The past few months have absolutely flown - most recently my parents came to town for my mom's 20th birthday...

These arehappy people

The tunaman came straight from Coachella, which was insulting and awesome at the same time. The crew went straight to the Hunter Valley upon arrival, and then after recovering from jetlag spent a few days in Sydney, and up to Cairns->mission beach -> dunk island.

grizzled as ever, tunaman attempts to be cute and fails

Dunk is a national park island with a resort, so we got to see wicked spiders and snakes but weren't too far away from gluttunous all-you-can-sneak-in-a-ziplock-bag seafood.

I didn't take this picture in a zoo, or at a farm for freaky poisonous creatures. This thing is not made of plastic. The photo is not blown up to 20x. This spider is the size of my torso.

Rupal and I smashed a coconut against the rocks like savages, but then enjoyed the plentiful bounty

After spending a day in the hot sun playing golf, archery, and other unfathomably weird sports we felt refreshed as ever

What else... we had a going away party for our friend Phil, with a costume theme of "p." Rupal was a princess, I was pee-wee herman (and a dead ringer). See facebook for snaps of that.

Much love and hope to update this a bunch more in the upcoming months.

Neglect

Sorry for being negligent, but traveling for work and parents being in town has been distracting.


Here is a picture of some happy people. I promise to add more in the next day or so.

Love,
Josh

oh bummer

It's been raining the last two days, we hit daylight savings in the wrong direction, and Radiohead is headlining Lollapalooza. Weak.



This is a picture of some cool dude we met in a pub in Tasmania to make me feel better. The red thing in the foreground is a bottle of champagne we pretended to steal from the guy next to him.

Rupal Rules!

Go Rups!

Go Rups!!