Nocturnal Nick

Righto. First of all, I live in Brisbane now. It was one hell of a trek if I’m honest, punctuated with a bell curve of instances of country-ness culminating in an illuminated “Jesus Saves” sign, next to KFC. While I have no specific problem with religion or Jesus in particular, it just seems to correlate with the distance from any major city center.

That aside, the trip was fairly uneventful. Mostly because the hilly terrain prevented the truck from being able to speed up past the point where anything eventful happens . A slight hill meant I was overtaken by truckers, and a downhill meant putting the gearbox into eco mode.

Upon arrival, I’ve immediately applied for and waited (without patience) for my DSL2+ to kick in. When telstra finally gave into TPG’s requests for activation, it was like ingesting 16 red bulls in 20 minutes; unhealthy but EVER SO EXCITING!! I’ve now set up remote uTorrent access so even sitting here, at Bubbles cafe in Brisbane city, I can ad, remove, or generall manage my torrents. All completely legal, of course, just nice to be able to start your home server PC downloading something from the other side of the world.

As for transport, seeing as my bike is still having issues (or at least I presume it is, given I haven’t actually started it in several weeks) and my car isn’t the cheapest thing to park mid-city, I’ve been using the public transport. Initial observations suggest it is significantly cheaper and faster than Sydney’s, but then I live a good deal closer to uni, and there’s not a river from Matraville to Qantm.

What else, what else… I was paid back by a number of people through the bond returned t my former hosuemates. Saved my ass, though I don’t have a job yet! I’m fairly confident I’ll at least get an interview at a JB that’s looking for workers, and I’ve distributed my resume to a number of places around various convenient centers, though nothing has arisen yet.

And finally, I’m sorry this post isn’t accompanied by any images, video, or links. Like I say, I’m at a cafe and my steak just arrived, so I’ll sign off now.

Edit: It was friggin delicious

So apparently my “long time since posts” post was a little stupid. ESPECIALLY since I’m about to leave this post and play a board game with some friends. Ok fine there will be a quick post.

1. I’m still going back and forth from Canberra to Sydney (Canberra at the moment) for work

2. The girlfriend has moved into my place in Sydney, so I’m pretty much doing “1″ for work.

3. Both my car and my bike are off the road the moment, between them costing me about $3000 in the last 4 weeks. Ouch.

4. I’m moving to Brisbane ’cause I’ve just bought a house in Taringa.

5. People are calling me for the board game. I’ll post more later as I’m determined to.

Right, well as I sit in my class paying the utmost attention I find myself hearing things that that I’ve heard before.

And so here I am folks. Reason for no posts has been a combination of illness and addiction to Left 4 Dead and Supreme Commander.

I know that its been a while since either game was released (L4D 2 is out almost everywhere and SupCom has a sequel in development with Square Enix ) but they are part of the set of games I missed out on because I was concentrating more on cars etc.

I bought some Shift jeans (kevlar infused thread) which mean that riding my bike in anything warmer than 20 degrees is now comfortable. I’m wearing them now, in fact, and I recommend them to anyone on two wheels (Draggin Jeans are another, more expensive, option)

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve co-bought a couple more vehicles too, Jared’s Bug Jive scooter, and Richard’s Yamaha Virago (currently in QLD). Both are a bit of a relief .cause it means they’re now self sufficient in transport. Speak of the devil, Jared’s just arrived complaining of hitting every red light. Unfortunately he can’t quite GET to 80 km/h, so he can’t really use the Eastern Distributer (the more efficient/less lights route).

I’m writing this as I sit on the bus to Canberra, bored out of my mind. Usually these buses are almost empty, or at least empty enough that I get two seats to myself, meaning I can spread out a little.
Not this one.
There’s only one seat free, the middle back aisle seat, meaning I have to keep my legs straight and shoulders in for the whole trip. It’s not all bad though, the weather’s really nice, clear skies and sunshine

Kinda thinking I should have just brought my bike. Sure, I’d have to concentrate the whole way, but at 110 on two wheels you’re too scared NOT to concentrate

Anyway, I think I’ll grab my eeePC out and watch/do something on that for a bit!