Holiday Update

March 31, 2005

Well its been a while since I made a post, that is due to my recent holiday. I'm not ready to post the trip report just yet, as its going to be a LONG one, but thought I'd put up a couple of my favorite pictures from the trip. These are just a few of the short list of 150!!

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MY FIRST DATE

March 19, 2005

Yes, finally the builder has given me a date!

We have planned a walk through on April 4th, with a potential hand over date of April 11th!! Whoooohoooo!!

We also got to take a walk around yesterday while the painter was there, we had to twise his arm to let us in ;) The place looks great. They still have the electrical work to finish, but the bathrooms are tiled, walls painted and its all looking good!

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Alarming Sounds

March 17, 2005

Several months ago, my car was broken into on my driveway during the night. I dont blame myself for the event, but I do think I left the car unlocked.

Last night, at 4am, I was woken by the sound of a car alarm going off and thought "geez that sounds close"! When I looked out the window I realised that it was MY car alarm! I quickly went outside and switched it off, checked it was all ok, and went back to bed. Sleep came very hard from there! A lot of people in the area work unusual hours, so there was people getting up and going to work, and everyone of them woke me up!

I didnt think too much of it and although the alarm has never gone off before, I didnt think too much of it. But when I got home this afternoon, the neighbour came up and had a chat to me. Apparently, they SAW a guy running down the street and into a "getaway" car when my alarm went off!! So yes, my car was a target of thieves, again, and this time, my $200 car alarm saved me a big insurance claim!

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Let the party begin

Well Katherine has left her safe haven of Missouri, and is on her way to the not so dry shores of Australia. It is a little unfortunate that the last ten days here have seen blue skies and high temps, but now she's in the air, the forecast has turned to cool, grey and wet for the next week! Oh well, those forecasters are never right anyway!

Flight arrival is scheduled for early tomorrow morning, that will be friday, and just so happens to coincide with my Parents flying out to New Zealand. I didnt tell Katherine this, didn't want to freak her out with the fact that she might be welcomed at the airport by more people than just me! Anyway, I think I have volunteered to go to the airport via my parents place so I can give them a lift. Means levaing home about 5:30am mind you, and a round trip of nearly 300km, but thats what only sons do ;)

So only a day for me to wait for this party to start. I'm hoping that things go smoothly as we have a huge itinerary planned for the visit.

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Birthday Weekend

March 14, 2005

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Yes this weekend was my birthday. I'm not sure which one it is these days, but it is the one after last year, and the one before next year! Anyway, I had a pretty relaxing weekend with nothing too energetic planned. I'd already been out for celebratory dinners during the week, so the weekend was to rest and recover.

Fortuantely the sun shone, so I could spend some time at the beach on Saturday, then sunday I headed up to the mountains to visit Sam and her family. Its a long way to drive for a few hours visiting, but worth it on a day like Sunday.

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Tiles Tiles Tiles

March 10, 2005

Its been very difficult to take pictures of the house progress for a while, since the house is locked up, and its hard to peer in through the windows! But I did get a call from the builder this morning to tell me that the tiling has started for the bathrooms and kitchen. Should take 3-4 days he said, and if I want to go have a look, just to give him a call!

Unfortunately, he's not planning on working the weekend so its going to be tough to check out his work! At least there is still progress :)

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Foosball Champions

March 05, 2005

More pictures.

Since we were told that our office was going to be closing in June, and we were all likely to be out of work, productivity has fallen quite dramatically! Unfortunately, they still want us to deliver the product we are working on in the time frame we had previously committed to, but without some sort of incentive scheme, its proving difficult to motivate the staff!

One such attempt at motivating and keeping up spirits was a lab wide foosball competition. It has had one good result, that of bouying the spirits of people. But as you can expect, has done very little for getting the job done!

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