{"id":783,"date":"2008-03-29T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T10:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=783"},"modified":"2008-03-29T20:14:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T10:14:35","slug":"im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"I’m back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspection seemed to go well, we’ll get a report in a few days, I guess. The landscaper came and gave the owner another quote on the yard work. If the garden ever comes to fruition, I’ll let you all know. It’s been about 2 years in the promising!
\nNo knitting today, much more exciting happenings have been going on!
\nLast night was the Duran Duran concert. Fantastic show, absolutely excellent.
\nBut even more exciting than that? The concert took place at the Sydney Entertainment Centre<\/a>. The parking station is right at the back of the centre, and where you come out is just on the other side of the fence beside the stage door.
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\nSee? That van? That’s THE tour van. I had to wait at the parking station for David to walk up to meet me (he was coming straight from work), so I hovered for a while, and discovered that the band would be coming out any minute.
\nAny Minute. It actually took half an hour, but who could walk away, knowing that it could be Any Minute?
\nBut patience is often rewarded. See the back of Simon Le Bon’s head.
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\nSee Simon in the car.
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\nSee Roger.
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\nSee John?
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\nDammit, I wasn’t fast enough! And I have no idea where Nick was. No autographs or anything, but Simon did talk to us, he told me that they were going to a TV station to film a segment before the show, and I asked him which station, and he told me it was “The Lair” on MTV.
\nPretty exciting, huh? It got better!
\nWe went round to get something to eat, and then came back around the back to kill time until the show started, and I was there when John came back.
\nSee?
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\nSee John’s autograph?
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\nPicture me beaming?!?
\nThe show was fantastic! They played for over two hours, combining some of the newer stuff with *all* of the old favourites. There were big warning signs outside the centre stating that cameras and recording devices would be confiscated, so I was good and didn’t take my camera in, and it was out of batteries anyhow. But nearly everyone else in there had cameras and were taking pictures, so I was kicking myself for not taking the camera and extra batteries! We were dancing about 4 metres in front of John, great spot, and I’m still feeling a little deaf.
\nAnd my feet are killing me from dancing all night in high heels. Well, half the night, because I kicked them off halfway through the show.
\nAfter the show, we decided to go up to Star City Casino for dinner, but nearly everything was closed, so we ended up with plain old fish and chips, then headed back to the car at the Entertainment Centre parking station about 12.30 or so.
\nAnd there were still heaps of people waiting back stage for the band to come out! (Silly them, should have been there before the show!), we headed up to our car on the second level, got in, started it, and straight away everyone started screaming. (All those middle aged women, Em would have died from embarrassment!). Jumped out of the car, and it was Simon, Nick and Roger coming out. By now of course, my camera was completely dead unfortunately. They stayed there for ages, signing autographs and stuff, but we were up on the second floor of the parking garage so I missed out this time.
\nDidn’t take the smile off my face, though! I felt about fourteen again all night long.
\nKnitting next time, I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspection seemed to go well, we’ll get a report in a few days, I guess. The landscaper came and gave the owner another quote on the yard work. If the garden ever comes to fruition, I’ll let you all know. It’s been about 2 years in the promising! No knitting today, much more exciting happenings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}