I packed my bag tonight for our UK trip. I know i broke my own ‘day of departure packing’ policy. but for some reason i did.
Anyway I have packed socks, undies, boxers, shirts, shorts, pants, hats, drink bottle, shoes, thongs, cables, towel and other bits and pieces and my suitcase is only just over half full.
I’m pretty much the best.
one more sleep then i get to go on a plane, i love planes.
I’ve now sent out my resource kit that i made at work. It’s gone, posted, and emailed. So now thats done i’m ready to escape for 3 weeks to the kingdom that is united.
don’t really have a heap to do now so maybe it’s home time…..
there is no internet at work casue telstra are dumb, and now we have gone over our limit at home so its super slow thanks to dumb optus. looking forward to the 5 mins of free internet at sydney airport on Saturday. Unmetered, internet kiosk bliss.
In other news Paul Mcdermott still hasn’t called me asking me to be a guest on GNW, must be waiting for the season finale.
Today was day 2 of meetings in melbourne. I awoke to the rudeness of my alarm at 7:23am and had a shower and a vegemite sandwich (not at the same time). Then began my walk to Richmond train station so i could grab a train out to blackburn. I really enjoy exploring transport in other cities.
I got to the station as the train was pulling in so i had to make a dash for the platform, I just made it!
Meeting today was good. Although i was pretty stuffed so didnt say much compared with yesterday.
at 4pm 6 of us filed into a maxi taxi to head to melb airport.
we parted ways at the airport and 3 of us boarded straight onto out flight back to sydney. The plane landed at 7:20pm and at 8:25pm i was in hornsby ordering a pizza. lovely.
It was good to go down and meet my colleagues and see the national office. Met some lovely people and had some good conversations, was also tops to hang out with david and sleep in his pad and talking over a beer in a richmond pub.
it’s not even 5am and i’ve already had my shower.
friggin melbourne meeting, friggen early flight, friggen frigg frig
We drove to Armidale on Friday, Drove home yesterday.
Was a pretty productive time, we planned lots of our trip to the UK. Not the kind of planning Gowers do but super duper planning for the howie’s.
Us howies normally rock up somewhere for a holiday and decide on each day what we will do that day and just stay and places we drive past and think look nice.
So i think jenny was finding that idea a bit stressful. So we have planned a fiair bit. We even know which towns we are staying in each night. On top of that we have even booked a few of the nights accommodation.
My dad nealry exploded with all the planning and had to go take some time out. I kept it well hidden that i too like the just rock up kind of style but its not too bad, we dont have a running sheet for each day, if we had that i’d run away.
Now the only hurdles that need to be jumped before we leave is that my mum needs a passport and my dad needs a re-entry visa into australia.
minor details
in the morning wife and i are heading up to Armidale to hang out with the fossils over the weekend. the plan is the organise a bit more of our trip and do some booking of stuffs.
we drive up in the morning and drive back sunday. 1 full day in armidale is more than enough.
with just over 2 weeks until we jet set off to the UK, I’m starting to get super excited about a 3 week holiday.
I think for one of the first times in my life there are people who are really starting to get on my nerves, more than i can ever remember. So it will be a lovely moment stepping onto the plane and taking a break.
In other news I think 2008 could be the year of howie getting a tattoo.
Today two of our buddies got married. I was all dressed up in a suit and tie. Wife and I were ushers.
It was a nice wedding, although the minister began his sermon talking about a diamond incrusted g-string and how he saw it on the internet. not your average wedding sermon.
The reception was fun too, at a fancy place in pyrmont.
now its bond watching time with sammyt
Today I worked hard all day, I was super productive.
Which means I should be able to send out my schools resource pack next week. Thats exciting!
I do wish jenny would hurry up and find a new office, all this walking is making me hot.
Don’t let the title mislead you, my phone number eventually got ported to virgin mobile. Take that soul you piece of crap phone company.
I whinged the other day when i discovered that the charcoal chicken shop in hornsby closed.
Today it re- opened with a new name and a few bits of silver stuff stuck over the top of the old decor.
It’s now called ‘Flying Chicken’
bit of a strange name, anyway it was important to see how their chips would be. Their chips arnt as good as the old days, this new mob gets a 3 / 5 for their chips. dissapointing.
today is the day when my phone number should be ported from soul to virgin. It’s an exciting day! 2 years of waiting!
Soul is a piece of crap!
Today I went to TEAR work. I bought a travel 10. I got a new mobile phone. I got on the wrong bus with wife. I got off the wrong bus. I send some emails. I recieved some emails. I sent some letters. I worked on a resource pack. I caught the train to the inlaws. I ate chicken pizza. I ate more chicken pizza. I drank coke. I drank splashe. I went home. I farted. I blogged.
In a couple of hours i”ll e boarding a plane to come back to Sydney town.
Had a good time out here but looking forward to my home.
it’s a beautiful place out here.
It’s 5:45am and i’ve already had my shower.
I’m off to Uluru with work today, in past years I have spent 2 weeks on a coach to get out there and back. This year I have the luxury of flying. But some noob booked me on the friggen 8am flight from sydney airport.
I should be able to get a little bit of blogging done whilst out there, and will return on sunday.
for the record, i booked my flight, all to save $60 i chose the early one…..deary deary me
that is the time my alarm is going off in the morning.
Can’t wait
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you have probably already read the news on jenny’s blog. But if you are looking for a more offensive and insensitive version of events then please read on.
We got an email on Friday morning from the family who own the house we are staying in. They let us live here rent free while they have been in New Zealand for the last 2 years. It’s a tops house. and 5 bedrooms is just the right amount of space for the 2 of us. Anyway they emailed to say they are heading back to Australia probably at the end of June. Which is nice, if I lived in New Zealand i’d want to move back to Australia too.
To break it down for you, just in case you are thicker than a rugby league players neck, we have to find alternative accommodation. Apparently not only are they coming back to Oz, but they want their house back too.
Once we heard the news we jumped into gear and came up with a pretty weet option. Kmart is having a sale on 6 person tents, so we headed into Kmart but the dogs had sold all the tents. So that option is gone.
Leaving us with only a few other avenues to follow.
Which option do you recommend?
Today I got a letter at my old address, most weeks i seem to get mail there. things like ‘get this fancy new credit card’ or the friggin humane society who sends me mail all the time, in fact they send me more mail since i called up and asked to be removed from their mailing list.
Todays mail was the humane society, a superannuation one and one from a debt collector.
the debt collection letter was very short, it simply said it was acting on behalf of centrelink and that i owed the commonwealth $51
I thought this was a little odd, seeing as my last dealing with centrelink where in 2003 . The letter didnt explain why i owed them money so i found a phone number for centrelink and spent a good 20mins on hold.
Eventually i got to speak to a human who said i owed them $51 dollars becasue i got overpaind in some of my youth allowance payments. And that now centrelink had outsourced it’s debt collection.
they sure are quick at noticing things, oh look 5 years ago we paid this guy $51 too much over a year or so. Lets get our money! Some work experience kid was forced to clean out an old dusty filing cabinet in the basement of a centrelink office.
