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 having tried to post this three times now and each time failing due to one reason or another, here I am typing a summary.

1. Had a great night with a Heineken mini-keg. Lots of fun, the same value for money as a case, and less rubbish to throw away later
As a result of that night of drunken fun, I I’ve realized a few things.
Teriyaki chicken medallions are probably the worlds best drunken food. They were incredibly tastey, and very easy to defrost/cook. (Igham brand, in case anyone was wondering)
And that Better off Ted is a great show. I’m sure there were more, but as I say i was drunk, and it’s been a few days

Second topic on discussion today would be the fact I’m writing this in a bank que (sitting down these days, awesome!) waiting to close out my final payment on my car loan Wooo! No more fortnightly repayments of $272!!! That’s an extra $136 a week I’ll have for something else! (saving I spose)
I seriously cannot wait

And the last topic I’ll mention is that I’m moving to Brisbane in a week!! I can’t wait until I get to stay in one city for longer than 5 days

So I’m sitting in the crystal car wash cafe, chilling with a friend as my car gets washed. There’s almost no feeling better than having 10 people all paying their utmost attention to making sure your car is clean

That said, it’ll likely be dirty again by the time I get it to Canberra and back, though I’ll be happy until then

Today was a day full of audiovisual “fun”

Beginning with a few episodes of QI, then some Borderlands with Chris, followed by a trip to the mall to buy nerf guns (Which don’t seem to be available anywhere at the moment ) we found ourselves inside a tv/av repair store picking up a fixed HD recorder.

Shortly afterwards Faith came around and Chris and I installed her headunit.

First of all, if you’re to install a new wiring harness in any car, PLEASE PLEASE use the stock coloured wires! It just makes a lot more sense to the person installing the new one! Aside from that hiccough it went quite well, everything’s plugged in and working well (including an iPod adapter the glove box) and Faith‘ll come and pick the car up, hopefully overjoyed

After an hour of Borderlands (getting quite into it again) we’ve gone and partially installed the DVD/TV/HDD recorder at Chris‘ dad’s place.

Now Jamison (pulling in now) for dinner then home for more games

Oh and my Car is ready and waiting to be picked up. I’ll do so tomorrow morning

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.

So I haven’t posted for a while, and thought I had some time now as I sit next to two mates, kept up by the incessant copying of their own music and film, with their written permission.

So. I’ve still been doing the back and forth from Canberra to Sydney still.

I’ve had some issues with my car. Or actually not the car itself, pretty much the RTA. The garage in which I passed my registration test got audited. The RTA came around and checked stuff on the car and found, lo and behold, my engine had grown 400cc in the last couple of days. Fancy that! So yeah, more expense, yay!

Not a good week financially

There are very few cars I’d have over my MR2. Price aside (thus excluding the old “I’ll sell this Ferrari and get my MR2 back” work-around) my MR2 stands in a very select group of cars I’d have.

If you understood the above, read on. Otherwise, go to school, or read slowly and phonetically until you do.

The FD RX7 (pictured) and a Honda NSX are the other two