New Glasses

Hey,

I have bought some new glasses. They are much smaller, lighter than before and have much thinner lenses.. Unfortunately they cost a bit, but I managed to get a few discounts and money back through my private health insurance, so I’m ok with the expense.

So far (I got them on Thursday) my father has not noticed that I have new glasses :-P , I’m waiting to see how long it takes for him to realise (They sort of look simular to my old glasses so he does have a little excuse)

Unfortunately I have not been able to do my road trip / holiday blog entry yet as I am awaiting a friend to send me pictures.. It should be up soon.

I managed to get a free copy of Visual Studio .Net 2003 from a Microsoft web site last week, Yay free software :-D If you want it, you are a student, just ask and I’ll give you the directions so you can get if for free aswell ;-)

This week I start uni again. I also start a job at a business, I am not sure where, I Will find out tonight.

Oh well, Cheerio Have fun..

On-Line Learning

"... some of you were connected for over 2 hours as well (even if it was by a wireless laptop from in bed!) - that's on-line learning at its finest" Uni SA Lecturer

Well what's that about?? I'm doing an online subject at uni and had a lecture at 8 am this morning. In an e-mail to students the lecturer stated the above!! I made full use of the resources at my disposal.

Thought I'd just say that...

Cheerio.

Road Trip

WOW, I have had soo much fun over the past couple of days.

OK, I went on a trip to Mount Gambier, South Australia (the place with the blue lake). A friend of mine from high school, Adrian, had recently graduated as a police officer and has started working at Mount Gambier. So along with a couple of my friends (from both Adelaide and Port Pirrie) we set off for a drive to Adrian’s place.

Thankfully I was able to use my dads work car, so we had a reliable ride, with free fuel.

Once we got to Adrian’s place we set about setting up to sleep. Unfortunately we decided that it would bee a good idea to blow up our air mattresses with a large air compressor. This enabled me to blow mine up so much that it fell apart and spring a major leak (it would empty in 30 mins). So unfortunately my first night was spent sleeping on 4 pillows with a deflated air mattress providing a somewhat smooth surface.

The next day was spent buying a new air mattress for me to sleep on and shopping for some camera gear. Unfortunately Adrian was working throughout the day, so as soon as he got off of work (4:30pm), we headed back to his place and picked him up and went out for a drive. We went to see a lake thingo and walked out on a pontoon, saw the beach, jumped up and down on the pontoon causing it to rock, it was good. We then headed back to Mount Gambier, rented some DVDs and watched them. I must say, the improved air mattress was a godsend.

The next day was pretty similar. We went for a little drive into Mount Gambier, found a sinkhole (full size pic). It was pretty good, There was a well kept garden in the bottom of a 20 meter hole. Fortunately we could walk all the way down to the bottom (unlike some of the other sink holes which are just rocky holes that you can walk up to the edge of, although ths one did have some rocky bits).

Adrian then got off of work, so we decided to head over to Victoria for some Absinthe (we saw a movie which had some and my friends were of the opinion that it cannot be bought in South Australia, but can be bought in Victoria). Anyway when we approached the border we came across a whole heap of Victorian police doing random breath testing on the border (as in 30 cm from the border). Anyway we found out that country Victorian pubs do not have it.

On our way back into South Australia we stoped at this nice stake place “the Barn Stake House”. They had very nice stake, it tasted good and was well cooked. On offer was a 1 KG stake for $25, although I had a 400 g rump stake for $21. Whist there I made the “comment of the trip”, see, my friends commented on the ass of one of the waitresses I let out the statement “Geeze, that’ll stain my pants”, as it happned I was referring to me spilling salad dressing on them, not anything to do with the girls ass ;-)

After that we drove into Mount Gambier and visited the police station. It was an interesting experience, we looked through the cells, I had my finger prints taken, and was hand cuffed. Although the police station was quite new, I would never want to visit it as a bad person ;-)

We then went and hired some more DVDs and watched them. And went to sleep again.

On Saturday we woke up early and headed into Victoria. We could not decide what to do when we were there, so we decided in the end to drive to the Grampians and have a look. So we drove to them, and decided to drive a little into them to have a look. We came across a road heading into their direction from the main highway, turned off and drove along a dirt road (Glenelg creak road to be exact).

The dirt road went for quite a distance (I think about 150 KM in total, so we decided to travel down a “track”. After a couple of KM, multiple big rocks hitting the bottom of the car quite hard, and coming across a creak we came to the opinion that “tracks” were really meant for 4 wheel drives, so we crawled our way back.

Anyway, we continued along the original dirt road for quite a while. In the end we managed to travel the complete distance through the Grampians, entering in the south western corner and exiting through the north eastern corner.

We then managed to wok our way back into mount Gambier, getting back very late, watched some more DVDs and went to sleep.

We then woke up, packed up and headed back to Adelaide, soping via some smelly lake wetlands thingy with a boardwalk out into a bee infested lookout hut.

It was nice to see adrian, he is struggeling a little. He only had a card table and fold out chairs for furniture, but that what you get wen you move out on your own for the first time. I wish Adrian the best of luck in the police force! Hopefullly he will not have any more incidents with guns (He almost shot another policeman the other day, this can be added to his unauthorised repetitive firing of his gun on the police fireing range)

In all the trip was very fun, but exhausting for me as I was the only one allowed to drive (although I am sure my friends would have made better driving candidates, they seamed to criticise my driving allot).

In total we travelled 1700 KM and spent $220 on fuel (which my dads work paid for, yay!!!)

Anyhoo, Cheerio :-D

I Have A Job

Well, I do not really have a job, I just have a role..

I am the proud "Senior Site & Blog Analyst" for Catalienne . It's all fun, I enjoy it :-D

I am going down to Mount Gambier over the next couple of days with my friends from high school, so after it's all over I'll hook you up with my experiences :-D

Cheerio, Have Fun

WOW, what a busy time!!!!

WOW, what a busy time!!!!

About a week ago I realised I had some money in the bank and also found something fun to buy over the internet. So I decided to transfer some money from one bank to another. This turned out to be a bad move, my money disappeared for a couple of days (Tim informed me that this is usually the case, and after a little investigation confirmed what Tim sad.). So this was a fun little scare that the bank had stolen my money.

Later on in the week I went to see the optometrist about getting some new glasses. Along with this came an eye / vision check, what I found amazing is that my vision has improved!!! The theory (of the optometrist) is that after studying for a while and looking at books up close I have had a slight tendency in my eyes towards being short sited, so this new tendency along with my long-sightedness (I’m longsighted) means I’m less longsighted, which means I have better sight, got that :P. Anyway, I picked out my new glasses and will be getting them in about a month.

On Friday my mum and I decided to return the stuff she stolen from my grandfather’s place on Christmas day (well she did not know what she was doing at the time, the stelling really involved me convincing my brother to fill my mums handbag with cups, forks etc). Anyway when we got there were some new people that we had never seen (They turned out to be family of his girlfriend). They were there as he had found their dog for them as they were on holidays and the people looking after the dog had lost it.

Anyhoo, we stayed around a bit and then decided to go home. Later on that night we got a phone call from my grandfather who was in distress. The girl who was at his house (who had medical mental issues and was of the opinion that my grandfather had stolen his dog) had cut every cable on his computer. She had really ripped into everything, she had cut both ends of his computer cables, including the power cable (which threw the circuit breaker and left a burn marks on the cutters she used) and the data cable into his monitor.

So I ran off to help, checked she had not deleted any of his files, checked she had not pored any liquids into the computer, looked up on the internet and got instructions on how to put his case back together (she had also dislodged the door / flap on the front of his computer which cover s the USB ports etc) and soldered a couple of cables back together. In the end he just had to but a couple of USB cables and a new monitor (I was not confident with playing about inside the monitor).

Yesterday I went to an orientation thingo at uni. It was sort of crap, It was not aimed at me, the air-conditioning in the building did not work so I was very hot (it was already 41 degrees). However, this sad, I did get to meet up with my friends from uni, which was fun, so I was glad I went along.

A new project I am working on at the moment is to create a website for myself, focusing one me :-P If I ever get it up I’ll link you all over to it :D

Have fun, Cheerio.

Christmass Break

Hey, I have not bloged for quite a while, sorry.. Ok here it goes

Christmas was quite fun and disappointing at the same time. I have just realised Christmas is ALL ABOUT KIDS!!! As per my recent experiences, I did not feel into the Christmas spirit much this time around, however this “low” ended when I went to my cousin’s place for a family lunch on Christmas day.

My cousin’s one and a half year old son made the day for me!! I found him to be so cool, he is really well behaved and at the same time very sociable (he even clinks glasses when you say cheers). What amazed me was when we went to open presents, it became his role to hand out the presents to the dozen or so people there (He just gave presents to the people who waved at him, and yes that does mean he was stumped when he was given his own present). After experiencing my cousin’s son and how he was happy, I regained my like for Christmas.

A couple of days later I went down to the beach at Goolwa to go body boarding with Tim, Dave, Edward and Kara. This was quite fun, I made full use of my dads work car and drove Tim, David and myself down there. Once down there we spent a couple of hours in the water, although in that time I only managed to catch one or 2 waves as I am not experienced at body boarding.

After getting out of the water I found myself to be sunburnt. The unfortunate thing is that I did put sun screen on, it was just the fact that I did not have enough on myself and I seriously missed some areas right next to areas which I seriously applied sunscreen too :P Here are the pictures (back front) if you really want to see my sunburn.

On the way back into Adelaide we made a stop off at the car wreckers to see if we could find a part for Edwards car, whilst there I found the same make / Model of car as my mum drives, so I was happy when Tim took a couple of pictures of me next to it.

New Years Eve was spent with my friends from high school. It was very nice to meet up with them once again. Unfortunately one of my friend’s car had hit a kangaroo in the country, however as he is an country ambulance paramedic and need to come down to Adelaide for work he was able to borrow an ambulance to drive down in (so I got to have a little ride :-D) New years eve was a little disorganised, we were going to go to a friends place with a spa, but he pulled out at the last minute. So in the end, at about 11 pm, we decided to go to another friend’s house with a pool (he was with us at the time, I sad we were disorganised). The pool was very nice, the water temperature was not too cool. We had a couple of drinks and enjoyed ourselves.

Unfortunately from being in the pool I managed to get a blocked ear. I suspected ear wax was the problem, so I took myself to the doctor and got my ear syringed. This provided immediate relief and entertaining event as I got to see what came out of my ear, which was allot of wax.

I think that is all for now, enjoy yourselves. Stay safe!! Cheerio