You should call your daughter Apple! Geddit? Geddit?

Hiya. I'll get back to that there title in a moment. But first, how was our weekend, you ask?

Gosh, that's ever so lovely of you. Yeah, not bad. Friday night for dinner, we just got fish and chips from around the corner as is our wont on your average friday. The chips are the best chips in the world and we ate so many of them that each of my fingers is now as fat as your wrist. I'm...finding it...dfifficvult...to onmly predss...1 key atg a tiome...

Anyway we watched the 4th and 3rd last episodes of Lost from season 2 and prepared ourselves for what would surely be another huge letdown in terms of ACTUALLY GETTING SOME ANSWERS AT THE END OF THE SERIES. But obviously not enough of a letdown for us to actually not watch the next series. You know, just in case that series has all the answers.

Saturday morning I had two of the boys from the band come over to do some mixing on one of the tracks we recorded a few weeks ago. It's a slow process, especially when we stop to do a massive fried breakfast feast right in the middle of it. It was only semi-productive really, but hopefully we'll get something out there soon. We're planning to maybe release this recording as a 4-song EP, but we'll see.

Went pram shopping again on Saturday arvo. Looked at a few, and like all big purchases, the more you learn, the longer your list of "must-have" features grows. It quickly becomes impossible for one pram to have all the features. And how is it possible that some of the most popular, and hence most expensive brands can fail safety tests? Surely Gwyneth Paltrow loves her child too? Surely she wouldn't be buying anything less than safe...?

Which segues nicely into our title.

Look. There's nothing wrong with the name Apple. I have nothing against it. If you're a celebrity, and people expect you to name your child something ridiculous just because your life revolves around being noticed andnotforonesecondwouldyouconsiderjustbeingnormalforachange
Imeanthisisyourchildslifeforf$%kssakeandyoutreatitlikejustanother
redcarpetthatyouhavetowalkdown, but then hey - that's your bag and who am I to poke it?

But for us, even though we haven't yet arrived at a name for our daughter, I think I can safely predict that Apple will not be anywhere near the top of the list. Actually, most of the fruits I think we'll probably dismiss straight away.

I bring all this up NOT just to have a random dig at Gwyneth. (Although, was it misguided revenge on her part? i.e. "God, for my whole life I've had to put up with a first name that sounds like a sneeze!! Now it's my turn! BrooahahahAHAHAH!!"). No, I'm actually commenting on the fact that when you have a surname beginning with "Mac", people automatically lose every last part of whatever sense of humour they previously had, and saaaaaayyyy.....

"Hey wait - you guys should call your daughter Apple!......Eh? Eh? Geddit? Apple Mac! Ha!"

Let it be known, here and now, for the record, that this is officially the single most unfunny thing that anyone has ever said in the history of the world. The sentence "I've just had my leg amputated by a combine harvester" is in actual fact, funnier than the Apple Mac joke, even if you are the one saying it. Do I make myself clear?

Right. Thanks for putting up with my name-rage.

cheers,
Macca