So the last week was spent in Melbourne with Kirsty and Tabitha. We went over to see an eye specialist for Tabitha named Dr Kowal (pronounced Koval) to see what he had to say as we weren’t completely happy with the doctor here in Adelaide.

We drove over on the Monday (12th April) and spent the first night in Ararat as Tabitha had, had enough by then. The Tuesday we went into Melbourne via Daylesford where we had a look at a few of the springs and tasted some. Some free advice they are AWFUL!! Just tastes of sulphur and not much else.

Wednesday we had an appointment at the University of Melbourne Eye Clinic to check the waveforms of Tabitha’s eye to determine the type of Nystagmus (involuntary moving of the eyes) she has.

Thursday was the appointment with Dr Kowal and he was quite pleased with everything and recommended surgery to straighten Tabitha null point to the middle as opposed to having a 30 degree head turn.

All in all was a good trip – will be heading back later in the year for Tabitha to have the operation.

This week I have spent watching non-stop basketball. I have spent 2 days watching the High Stakes Hoops (HSH Website) tournament live at the Dome and the other day watching it live on OneHD.

What is High Stakes Hoops you ask? It is a brand new concept brought about by Jeff Van Groningen and many others, in which 8 teams compete for a first prize of $175,000. They have gone back to traditional 48 minute games and have included a ‘game breaker’ which each team can activate once per half, and once activated any 3 point shots count for 4.

I have quite enjoyed the concept and the level of basketball played. While crowds at the Dome have been quite small (a few hundred per day), I imagine the TV viewers would be significantly more.

Yesterday saw the completion of the pool games and the Fleet, Rush, Rays and Reef all advanced to the top four and a chance to win the $175,000. The Fleet went through undefeated and will now face the Reef in the crossover, while the Rays will face the Rush.

Overall this is a great concept and will only improve over time. I actually look forward to seeing where this format is in 5 years and how far it has come.

You can also follow ECB Hoops on twitter here for updates on the games. You can also visit HoopsSA for the chance to get a free ticket or a ticket at half price, or simply be one of the first 150 people to say the code “Footlocker” at the door from 3pm and $15 tickets after the first 150.

Well after someone hacked into my original blog and was trying to spam people – so I had to re-install wordpress and the likes, which meant losing all of my previous posts.

To those of you that were reading this page pre-hacking welcome back, for those new to the site Welcome and I will give you a quick run down on what this blog will be about.

This is a blog to get my thoughts down on paper, thoughts about life, music, sport, family, friends just anything that comes my way. You can learn a little more about me and my family here.

I will try and keep this blog as up-to-date as possible and will try and add some imagery to my stories.

Hope you enjoy the site.

Edit: Just testing a plugin to send any edits or new posts to my twitter.
Edit 2: Still testing.