On Sunday, Kirsten and I moved out of our house. All of our stuff is now in storage and we are homeless. We are staying with my Mum in the Blue Mountains for the next week or so, then it is off to Dad and Honey’s place for the remainder of our time in here. I have 18 days left in Australia!
Basil is now living with my Mum. He has taken the move quite well and seems to be enjoying himself already, quite a contrast from our move into the Lane Cove apartment, where he spent the first 3 months between the door and the wall with his nose in the corner. Kirsten was a bit apprehensive as we didn’t know for sure if Mum would like him, but when we got there she had already had a cat door installed and had prepared a nest for him to live in.
It has been almost two years since I decided to make the big move, and for all of that time it has been a far away goal, like a dream. It still does not seem completely real, but with the move it is starting to become so. People tell me that it hits when you get on the plane and realise that you won’t be back for some time.
I will definitely be returning around July/August for the birth of my new niece or nephew, but that will only be for a short time. We must return “for good” by next March, both because of my visa and for Kip’s uni commitments.
Now playing: Faith No More - Underwater Love
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They have magically changed the usage data for my account to say that I am cumulatively 2.15GB over my usage limit (of 5GB) for December/January. I collected data every 5 minutes using THEIR web service for this entire period and this was not what that service reported to me. Luckily I have saved that data and will retrieve it when I go home tonight.
My bill for December/January/February is $734.23, which I will not be paying. TIO time.
At a party last month I was speaking to a lady who worked for Telstra in some kind of management role. When I pointed out to her that her whole company was comprised entirely of f***heads and they are f***ed and I hate them, she conceded that they do have problems with customer service and billing.
Update: I used the magic word (”Ombudsman”) and all excess usage charges have been dropped, as well as a threatened $80 disconnection fee.
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Written on 28 February 2005
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On Saturday Kirsten took me to Good Vibrations, a music festival held at Centennial Park in Sydney. I went with the expectation that I would be too old, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the crowd was about my age. Sure there were a few kids but the majority of people were late 20’s / early 30’s.
There were probably 20,000 people
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Just got home from my ‘friends’ birthday dinner (as opposed to the ‘family’ birthday dinner). What a great time, at my favourite restaurant: Taiki in Lane Cove. I can still taste the Kabayaki* now, what heaven! I have a great bunch of friends and I am sure that we all thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
Chris, Tristan and I enjoyed a few servings of tasty sake each and the mood was particularly jovial at our end of the table, although at one point we overheard Kellie, Kirsten, Nicola, Scott and Bits having a much racier conversation than ours (we were discussing The Muppets). Adam and Stephen were also in the Muppets conversation making it Boys vs Girls (sorry Scott).
On the gift front, I scored very well. Tristan and Kellie gave me the Senheiser headset that I have been lusting over, and Scott and Nicola gave me the elusive Waratahs jersey: quite appropriate. Stephen hooked me up with a handy phrasebook (it has a section on Alcohol), a waterproof camera protector and a Traveler’s Tube of Vegemite (to keep me strong).
Thanks to everyone who was there and who gave me such a great night.
*Kabayaki = super tasty grilled eel
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It is already shaping up as a great birthday. Most of my immediate family have called and Kirsten has outdone her usual birthday surprise.
I woke to a house filled with balloons, streamers and banners saying that “The party’s here”. Then it was time for the present hunt as Kip had hidden my gifts throughout the house.
Through the hot and cold method I was able to find them all, some from the Buy Presents For Darryn website and some not. I got:
- 3 video tapes for my digital camera;
- The Lonely Planet guide to Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei;
- The good vibrations 2005 CD;
- and best of all, 2 good vibrations tickets!
Uitstekend!
I plan to spend the day at the beach, probably Manly and Shelly Beach, as Kirsten, being a European, does not know how to swim in surf - it terrifies her. We will get in a nice lunch (courtesy of Mum) and tonight for dinner Phil and Honey will be making their famous Chili Crab. Yum!
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man your page is badly written you cannt read the whole of the left had side on most browsers so its kinda stupid
So, can you read it? I tested the design on IE, Firefox and Opera and it seemed ok to me. Perhaps this ‘gus’ is living in the mid-90’s and has his screen set at 800×600. If this is the case then I pity him, and admit that I deliberately excluded him by absolutely setting the site width to 880 pixels. He probably gets headaches from his 60Hz refresh rate.
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Written on 03 February 2005
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http://www.soosed.com/ljforum/viewtopic.php?p=2048#2048
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A little over five years ago, when I lived in Lane Cove with Jai, we came across some graffiti written in the footpath. It says “Lane Cove Sux”. Having a new digital camera, I took a photo that included Jai.
This photo has become quite popular on some forums, including kissmyknees and soosed.
from this soosed post in the “Girl Next Door” thread:
This is a GND Public Service Announcement
Girls next door, when you binge drink, shoot heroin, snort coke, free base, or smoke pot
bring your camera along and take lots of pictures.
We want them here up here in the GND.
LOLF!
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