Author: John

Still Waiting

Monday is the start of my last fortnight at work. Well, technically it’s my last week, but they wanted me to stay for an extra week – which is fair enough. It’s difficult to believe that it’s all likely to kick off next week – assuming our sponsor gets the documentation through from the tax

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eBay Feedback

eBay can be a tedious place, so I tend to try and brighten things up a bit by leaving cheery feedback. You can have a look at the kind of rubbish I speak here.

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Silence

As ever, I’m not posting because I’ve nothing to say We’re still waiting for Centrelink to be happy with the Assurance of Support information. There’s some paperwork our Assurer needs to provide them with which requires processing by the Inland Revenue, so until that comes back, there’s nothing happening. On a cheerier note, though, DIMA

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The end of an era.

Steve Irwin, conservationist and documentarian, died at the weekend after a fatal encounter with a normally harmless stingray. We’re all upset by this – particularly the children. Mr Irwin has been a part of our lives since the children were tiny and is in no small way responsible for the interest and respect they have

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Bah!

IBM begins casting Come To London IBM casts Come to London Peter is afflicted by Come to London Peter begins casting Go To London Peter casts Go to London on John John evades Peter begins casting Go To London Peter cases Go To London on James Peter’s Go To London crits James for three days

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Tundra Rap

Its the nothing-ness The whiteness The endless-ness Stretching on beyond the human imagination Desolation of the soul OH MY GOD Ice flow – nowhere to go Ice flow – nowhere to go Lost in the blinding whiteness of the Tundra Check him out They call him the shrew Arms in short then with the claw

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Ouch!

I’ve just done a BACS transfer of a substantial five-figure sum to our currency broker. It was sore. Still, it’s done now and it’s still ours – it just isn’t in pounds any more. Other than that – not much happening. It’s all likely to kick off next week, so we’re enjoying a relatively sane

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Was it only six days ago?

Yup – apparently so. There’s been no movement whatsoever, of course, but then we expected that. We’re very much in limbo at the moment. I’m having various conversations at work about handovers and we’re looking around for flights and planning a leaving party, but there’s nothing we can actually commit to at present. It’s looking

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We Have Broadband Again!

Or at least I have it on good authority that we do. Debbie has been in a mad surfing frenzy this morning, but as I’m at work I haven’t had the opportunity to witness its bandwidthy goodness first hand. So, importantly, this means I can continue Trollbert’s long march to level 40, get my podcasts

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New DragonForce Single

Second single, “Operation Ground and Pound” from the Inhuman Rampage album is out and, for those who don’t already have the album, it’s a beaut. As ever, they’ve punted the video for the single on Youtube, so here it is.

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