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Things seem to be slowly improving so that’s good news I guess. I guess about this time last month I was panicking about my financial situation and then there was a death in the family which was a bit of a shock and hard to handle in a few ways and I guess it all got to me. Financially I guess I blew a bit of cash throughout the year so I’m looking to tighten that up for now. Hopefully with my next pay I’ll completely pay of my credit card with my pay and the crap I’ve sold. And yeah, I’ve sold some things on EBay and the like, a few things I would like to keep but for the most part it was just baggage, things I wasn’t using now or haven’t in years and given I live in an apartment with limited space selling some crap I don’t need is probably a good idea regardless of where my finances were. The end game here I guess is to drastically reduce my credit card limit so its never more than what I can pay off at the end of the month and hopefully save some money. That’s been a bit of an issue but I have a few holidays I’d really like to make so perhaps with an actual goal this will be easier. See how I go and I think I just need to stay proactive because most of my expenses come from me being bored and looking for toys to distract me.

As for the death, it’s kind of weird how that effects you. It wasn’t so much the fact I lost an Auntie (I have a few memories of her which I hold fond) that upset me but the realisation that not only did I not know her anywhere near as much as I would like, but going to Sydney and meeting the rellies was such a fantastic experience that upon arriving home it’s hard to deal with the fact that I don’t know any of the extended family. One relative joked when saying good bye that we’d all catch up again when either ‘someone dies or gets married’ which is actually a rather unfortunate truth. Anyway I might make an effort to get there in Jan, not only to see the family but friends in general. It’ll also be an opportunity to visit Sydney on my own time table, which I’ve never been able to do in the past.

Anyway, I guess my PMS is subsiding and I feel better about how things are currently on all accounts besides my best friend moving out but I knew this day was coming.

Looking for a new housemate currently and I must say this is incredibly difficult. Not only because I don’t want Ana to go but just as much so because it’s so hard to get a feel for someone in 5 minutes. Looking for a house is so much easier, you know whether you like it when you see it…a person is a lot harder to get a grasp of though in that short a time and they also have to like you.

WTB: House Mate

Seriously I would have to say moving here has been one of the best decisions in my life…period. Now don’t get me wrong…I didn’t half mind Indro, lovely house, close to cinemas ect but at the same time there was the shitty real estate agents and the hassles of public transport. All I can say is that despite perhaps being less grand a place, being a unit and all, this place smokes like an addict that hasn’t had any for some time (ie…quite hard).

The location here is superb and I mean superb in every sense of the word. In fact…I don’t think I could fault that aspect what so ever besides maybe the slight bit of noise you can hear around. But I’ll take that if it means being 10min walk to work and like 5 minutes on bike, having the river and thus river walk at the end of the street, being a few hundred meters from shops, cafes, restaurants, New Farm Park and having a bus service that comes every 10 – 20 minutes. Like fully, it’s so refreshing to be able to ride a push bike into town on a completly flat trip in order to see a movie and get there in the same time, if not quicker, as it would take to get a bus. Fucking-A.

Coincidentally buying a bike last week was another good move .

Besides that I like having less people in the place and ultimately despite being smaller, in a sense it feels less cramped. Dunno why that is exactly but it’s probably small things like the fridge not being full every time I come home after buying something and the fact we have no furniture (besides a rather sex coffee table we got for $33 today). But no…love it. Only thing I might bitch about is the oven but that’s half just me blaming the tools since blaming the chef either means blaming myself or having a house mate bash me up.

So yeah…if anyone is left wondering I’m over the moon with the move.

Starting off, thing’s have been a bit slow as of late so I haven’t had a huge amount to say really. Life goes on as normal. Soundwave last week was great and NIN was absolutly epic IMHO and it’s a shame to have heard two days prior that the band will be going on hiatus later in the year. With them and Janes addiction doing a tour of the states I really wish I could go over and see two or three shows but that’s about as likely as me brushing my teeth in the next thirty seconds.

Besides that works going well. Things are picking up and by Friday we will have a feature complete build that after some testing will be shown at a convention in the states. Pretty hard to believe I’m in a way shipping my first real product and theses only three developers working on it with an entire company focusing on that product atm. Interesting times anyway.

Besides that just looking for accomodation and a place to live so I can get out of here. Looking forward to that.

Here is a late upload of a selection of pics taken from the Gold Coast trip. Most are already available on my facebook account.

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