Inventing words in my sleep

Don't ask me what I was dreaming about, cause I can't remember, but i woke up this morning with this word stuck in my head.

Volatics

Politics in a volatile environment that keeps breaking into Violence.

Now I have to get it included in 100 books within the year, so it gets into the collins dictionairy.

Want!

Yes please, toy with real use!!! If I can program this to pour a pint, then even katherine will be happy with it!

Sicky bad no good.

Today I stayed at home and made the house smell of "sick man".

So if any of you are wondering why my internet presence spiked for a day... well it's nearly like being unemployed again.

Firstly, I'm incredibly proud of my Bro, who received his diploma in Popular Music today! Yeah! I've got a pop musician in the family!

So aside from ickey snot head, I did actually have a good week. K and I were out with some of my workmates at the Austrian Schnitzel house. Very tasty indeed. Infact, I would say the food was better than in Germany. Although K pointed out that this may have been due to looking forward to it so much. And the beer mmmm. I love a Weizen!
If you ever want to kill your desire for German food, then eat in a German work canteen.

Just another bank holiday!

The Aussies know what they like.

And outside of sport, their next favourite, is bludging it.
This is the latest theory in how to get some good Barbie time.

Vis-a-o-rama

Today K and I went into the City to talk to Mr Chung from the Australian Immigration department. He told us, that our application was quite comprehensive.
So I should have my visa within a month, quite a relief, as we were under the impression it could take upto 8 months.
Now I must state one thing clearly! This is a temporary Visa which entitles me to remain in Australia as K's partner. After 2 years, I can then apply for a permenant residency Visa, assuming K hasn't gotten fed up with me yet! ;-)
So this is very good news! Now we can get on with living, instead of waiting in Limbo!

A long weekend.

So it would seem we have arrived.
I promised several people I would write them a postcard when we arrived in Sydney. Now, three months later, I've finally gotten around to it. Although, who know's when I'll manage to get them to the postbox. I've written many letters in my time, however only about half ever made it to their destination.

K and myself haven't been well this weekend, partner flu. K first, and two days later I fell ill too. So I've had a running prediction of what condition I'll be in, in 48 hours.
We still had a busy weekend,

on friday, we met L_, a long time friend of K's and I suppose, an Internet friend of mine. L_ was visiting sydney from the far north, for family reasons, but still managed to find timeout to see us. It was fun, anything that ends with late night coffee's normally is!
Saturday was a hectic day of shopping, refunds, baking, flat reorganisation and cleaning. Sunday was our first housewarming lunch! Alot of work, but well worth the effort. There was only one pregnant visitor when they arrived, but two when they left! And houses were bought! And... oh my god.. that shit's all so grown up!
Infact, everyone's preggers, my mate Andre from Germany just had a kid! So cute too! Who would've thought such a grumpy bastard could spawn such a cute kid!

Anyway, it's sunday night, it's raining heavily, i've been drinking since midday and I digress.

Let's just concentrate on getting a visa!

Rugby in the middle ages

I honestly believe that my dear ingolstadt baboons were born in the wrong century!
Way to go baboons! I bet you managed to win this tournament too! Especially the Beer Cup!



There's a short one here

blogging from ann I phone is not easy!

Where's my Popemobile

So it's world youth day, and sydney is full of pilgrims.
I havn't seen the popemobile yet, but then I haven't been looking.
On the weekend K and me visited K's parents in Goulburn. K's mum had pilgrims too. They're bloody everywhere, and K_ and myself enjoyed tormenting them over a lovely sunday lunch.

So I haven't had much of a chance to post in the last week. I've been happily working away, doing at least 10 hours a day. Basically, I've had to do alot of catching up, I managed to forget alot of what I learned in Uni while I was getting comfortable with working in Germany. I got complacent, and it was evident when I was looking for work that I wasn't looking after my skills over the last few years.
So now I'm very happy to do overtime to get my programming skills (C# & .Net) upto speed, while I have an employer that's willing to let me try.
So although I don't have much time, it's all smiles.

Now if only I can get work, and working out, to work together. Then I can get back to playing Rugby! I NEED THE SOCIAL!

In the meantime, it looks like we'll be brewing some Munich Helles. Unfortunatly, it won't be ready in time for our partial housewarming this Sunday. (I say partial, 'cause it's only 3 rooms)

And in other news, K's friend L is down from the far north, and I can finally meet one of the people that keeps K sain!

Mmmm Beer

Hi folks, all right as rain here.
Indeed, there's plenty of rain here.
Today, work consisted of learning how to wash my hands properly. Don't you love health and safety.

On another note.. I've had a splendid idea.
Infact, Katherine and myself have been missing our dose of German beer for a while now. So we've decided to brew some beer ourselves! Of course I'm too lazy to do homebrew properly, thank god for the beer factory. Getting a place like this to do the hard work is affectionately called putting down a brew.

Unfortunately, we can't decide which one! Help us out, and choose one for us - vote now.
Here are the details.
http://www.thebeerfactory.com.au/brewersreserve.html
And the price... that's for 50 litres.

Mmmm Beer!

New Job Ok

So the new job would seem to be much more my sort of thing. Definately alot more of what I want to be doing. Testing, Programming and plenty of Nerdy Tech details.

Katherine's officially allowed to breath out, not having to support both of us will definately take a weight off.

And I got told twice today to take my tie off! Score! ;-)

Another new start

So, yesterday, I quit my job.

I start the next one on Monday for these guys. Which is actually where I wanted to work in the first place.

why exactly

One of those typical oddities that pops up once in a while.

Who invented the rotating train seat.

A genius stroke, well made, and durable design.
It MUST be from the days of investment in the future. When public works were not measures in revenue, but rather of benifit to the public.
Still, it's odd that such a well designed feature never caught on anywhere else.
It's a basic need for alot of people to face in the direction of travel, I don't understand it.