August 2007

So, what’s been happening in the past month or so?

Well, my hard drive curse has continued, I'm up to 7 dead hard drives belonging to people who have had computers near my house from over the past year. Talking about dead electronic things, my good old mobile phone died. Some of you who have seen it in person might remember it because of its “uniquely Owen” case. It survived being chucked onto concrete across a room and so forth, I was in love with it. So I'm now onto one of those fancy does anything and everything under the sun. Fortunately these phones are small these days (one of my too priorities) . I hope it survives, it's already survived one small test (see below).

Anyhoo, It was August that just passed, a really popular month in Australia for being born, strange I know. Anyhoo, not wanting to be too different I too am born in August, and this year I decided to get a bunch of my friends from all walks of life along to celebrate it with me. The night was amazingly planned, the restaurant was right above the bar where we had drinks. I even managed to book the table 2 days before the night, even though they usually are booked out 2 weeks in advance. The meal was nice, I had some kind of pizza thingo. It was nice...

Once finished with tea, we had only to walk down some stairs and along a shop front to get to the next place, Fumo Blu’s, one of my favourite cocktail bars (My other is Elysium, but they have suddenly become popular and I think they have new owners). Anyhoo, Fumos, I really like the place, they have niceish cocktails, and it’s now less smoky :-D ohh, the fish tank is cool, along with the metal thing I say hello to each time I go there. I just find the place a nice place to go as it's quite enough to have conversations with people (I love tlakign), but not dead quite; they also have a whole heap of really good of the menu drinks that you learn about by going there over time, and they have these really cool couches.

Anyhoo, after a couple of drinks, and Tim buying me a supersized triple chartreuse on ice... (Yum! Thanks for that),We then moved on yet again, to a local pub (FYI, it was alongside the old Formula one track for F1 fans like me), It was cool there, but i cannot remmeber much. Anyhoo, I ended up dropping me new phone on the floor and it’s sound stoped to work ing( I might have just turned the volume down, meh drunkness does starnge things to me, but it works now). It all finished up by 2 am, I really hope everyone had a good time. If your keen to see more of the night, the pics are here.

So, anyhoo I must send out a big thanks to everyone who made it on the night, although it’s unfortunate that some people had to work :-( But the biggest thanks goes to Thi for staying on my back to organise something :-) So, what’s coming up? I'm just about to start planning a ~6000 KM road trip (hey, that’s more than enough to drive from Perth to Brisbane (through Melbourne and Sydney ). BRING IT ON!

Cheerios