December 25, 2002
The year is almost over again. This year has been the best year
ever for me, for two main reasons - Europe
and Andrea. Work has
been pretty good as well, with some interesting challenges and
four trips to Sydney. This will continue early next year with
another trip to Sydney. Next year I'll also be trying my hardest
to get more money, plus my housing situation will be up for
review (again). I've added some more photos to the
gallery...
this time it's Rusty opening his Christmas present and some
photos taken from my upstairs window.
December 7, 2002
Finally I've got around to creating a photos section.
At the moment
it only has Europe, Sydney, and Melbourne photos but I'll probably
add more before too much longer. I've also been updating the
movies page, I'm now up to 50 this year.
I should be able to at least equal last year's total of 55.
November 12, 2002
I've been slack on the updates again. I still haven't got my Melbourne
photos organised, I've get around to it eventually. I've finally got
all the frequent flyer points I'm entitled to from
Qantas,
ANZ, and
Holiday Inn. And now I've been
booked for next trip, two weeks in
Sydney in January for work. Hmmm. Posted my first real article to
K5 tonight. And I got Hand
Maid May on DVD today. I should get a DVDs page up sometime.
October 13, 2002
A lot has happened since the last update, so I'll just summarise. My
housing has been resolved satisfactorily, I'm now renting a nice
place in a good location. I didn't update harshbutfair for a long
time because I had no Internet access at home, but now ADSL has
arrived! Hooray! For the last week I've been on holiday in Melbourne,
I intend to have some photos up soon. Melbourne was fun, but
unfortunately I have to go back to work tomorrow.
Qantas and
ANZ
have been screwing me around a lot with the frequent flyer points
from my credit card, they are really quite pathetic. I'm going
to have to harrass them some more. I've discovered that
STA Travel
isn't the only website around that still has Y2K problems. Look!
Acton Real Estate has the same
problem!
September 3, 2002
My housing situation is still not sorted out. I've found someone to
share with, and a cool place to live. We put in an application on
Friday, and we're meant to hear back from them tomorrow morning. I
really really hope we get it, otherwise I'm in a bit of bother. I
just really want to get everything sorted - the uncertainty isn't
much fun. It looks like I'm not going to get time to finish
PFC8,
which is a bit unfortunate. I've got the basics done, but it's still
far too slow. I thought about buying DVDs today, but I didn't. Maybe
I'll have a look later this week.
August 23, 2002
Not much happening. My housing situation beyond the next four weeks is
still undecided. There's still a reasonable possibility that I'll find
someone to share with. Hope so. Living alone would be both expensive
and crappy. And I've discovered that home loans require a far larger
deposit than I thought they did. Not to worry, I'll just keep renting
for a while longer. In my spare time I've been thinking a bit about
Programming
Fun Challenge 8. I think I'll go in it.
August 15, 2002
I got this spam yesterday at work. Now this isn't remarkable in itself,
but I thought the content was pretty funny. The title of the spam was
New Loss Weight Plan, and the rest of it was in Chinese. And
attached were two images, both of which were before and after photos
that had been scanned from a fax. Why would you bother? I'm seeing
Signs at the
movies tonight. Hopefully it's ok.
August 4, 2002
I'm amazed. After a year and a half, there are still Y2K bugs to be
seen on such high profile websites as
STA Travel.
It looks like I'm going to miss out
on tennis today, because it's a bit wet outside. Perhaps I'll email the
people who I've been meaning to email for a while. I thought about
ordering some DVDs yesterday, but I didn't because Monkey and
Evangelion are still too expensive. I should pay closer attention to
the prices so I can purchase when they're cheap. The other thing I
should do today is finish investigating Melbourne hotels for my
holiday.
July 30, 2002
Went to the movies tonight and saw
Bend it Like Beckham. I
really enjoyed it. My desk at work now contains fluffy orange dice and
a blinkenlights sign. I'm going on holiday again in 67 days (only
Melbourne this time, but w00t anyway!).
July 21, 2002
I finally completed my Europe diary today,
and got all the photos
uploaded. It's taken me a long time (almost three months in fact) but
I wanted to do it properly. Having been working on the diary for
several hours today, I'm reminded how great it was and how I want to
go back. It will happen. And it would happen faster if work
would pay me a decent amount. Grumble grumble. Yesterday I bought the
parts I need for my car, it came to a total of A$262. Now I'm going to
watch an episode or two of Astroboy or Mysterious Cities of Gold, and
then I'm going to bed. Have to work tomorrow.
July 19, 2002
My car has died. The thermostat housing is corroded to hell, so it
leaks like crazy. Stupid car. So this weekend I'm not going anywhere,
instead I must rely on people to come to my place. I watched Thirteen
Ghosts on DVD this evening, it wasn't very good. Did my
tax return
last weekend, looks like I'll come out quite a bit in front. This is
good considering the state of my car and me moving house in a couple
of months. I thought I might start looking for a place this weekend,
but that's kinda difficult with no car.
July 10, 2002
Aarrgghhh, hard day at work today. Locked in a small room doing
documentation all day. Tomorrow and Friday will be the same. I'm not
going to the movies tomorrow night
because there's nothing good on.
Some people think Blade 2 counts as something good, but then some
people have very low standards. There's not even anything decent on
at the independent cinemas. Bah. Bowling tonight was hard work, but I
won two out of my three games without getting my average once. Of
course the first one was complete crap, but we won't talk about that.
July 6, 2002
After a busy week, I finally got around to doing more on my
Europe diary. This time I've completed
Austria, Hungary, and the Czech
Republic. I'm over half way! This week has been a bit nasty - I picked
up an eye infection somehow which has been uncomfortable since Tuesday,
it's getting better now though. I'm taking a long weekend this weekend,
because I think I need one. I've also updated the
movies page, and
archived the front page from March.