melbourne

This concept called seasons is quite interesting. Spending the last 23 yrs in brissy and the last quarter of a century up north really alters your view. Melbourne has seasons. stable summer and unpredictable "other". The other can be a mix of the three stereotypical seasons. Today is 9-20 degrees, rain, no rain, a bit of sun, the no sun.

Don't get me wrong, I am liking it, just quite different.

p.s. I like tunes, and vanilla biscuits from floriana's and wine and coffee and my new merrel shoes and my new couch from freedom that will arrive tomorrow and stephs return from her rural rotation TODAY!

mmm knoedl

Kartoffelland Knïdl - halb'n'halb in onion, mushroom and leffe radieuse (bavarian dark ale) gravy with some awesome lamb.. yeah that's a good meal.

Why was I born in australia?

That's one of the benefits of melbourne I guess, it's not just the occasional gourmet deli that imports foreign food  - it's fricken all of them. Well a lot. Although for some damn reason it's so damn hard to find prosciuto. I am not a fan of the million and one salami's - but like my cured/semi-cured Pork products.

Someone wants to give me and my 2 siblings $5k. Now I am torn as to whether my scepticism over it being a possible scam and my debt being reduced a bit. Have one more aspect to check out tomorrow to see if it's a valid trust/insurance payout company, two avenues seem all clear so far.

Juno

So, I watched Juno. Quite impressed actually. A little slow at points, but overall quite a good, mostly unique movie. Simple, but entertaining. Go watch it.

p.s. Dodgy old fluoro lights + white shirt + shiny screen = bad reflections. Lets see if they replace the light fixture when they do the roof tiles and desks for the office area next week.

new blog

so peeps - changing servers. new blog will be at http://worldofannwn.net/night/blog/ <- nightshadow.co.uk will be redirected there soon enough... a few new tricks, once I get them sorted - like openID support - prefpass if it chooses to work, new syndication - windows live writer plugins to crosspost to blogger, lj and my site. etc etc...

mmm beers + tiesto make work on a sunday almost pleasurable. (p.s. a real tiesto CD, bought from a store, my how the times are changing).

I am just starting to get over a nasty bug - it may well be real influenza. Knocked me in the ass, which is very frustrating since i never get that sick.

paying off debts, working hard, steph managing to get the car towed, buying some new furniture (cheap ikea bookcase etc) and ...

A new laptop.

Asus F3SR, 15.4" WS, C2D 2.0 Ghz, 4 gig ram, 160gb sata, BT, abgn wifi, DVD multi, fwire,fprint reader, cam, vprem etc

A fast lappy (bought for work, not geekiness, photog etc) and fast net (nakedDSL) is a nice combo.

No time to set it up how I want it yet, just installing the basics.

Steph is now sick, so thats no fun. Also got to clean the apartment, and take more crap to the storage locker downstairs

My head hurts, I might take some codein with some beer.