Why? Why not?

Trang and I bought a car last night! It’s a 94 Corolla Seca CSI LT liftback. And it’s all ours! Schweeeet!

I guess it’s time to start paying back all that lift karma I’ve built up over the years…

Seems like I’m managing about one post per month… Unfortunate, that.

The wallpapers are back up in a testing gallery – the location is a bit fluid at the moment, so if you would really like to see the gallery, comment here or email me and I’ll send you the link. I’d like to keep the gallery off of google for the moment.

Well, Trang and I are back from Port Douglas – what a lovely holiday it was, except for the rain caused by stupid Tropical Cyclone Ingrid. Still, at least we didn’t get evacuated, we got lots of relaxing-by-the-pool time, and we got to see both the Daintree rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. Bit of a bummer that it was raining for both our tours, but it was still really cool. And verrrry relaxing.

Star Wars Episode III trailer is finally out – looks interesting, but not enough to make me excited enoguh to queue up for hours again. After the twin blows of Episodes 1 and 2, I don’t even know if I’ll be going on the first day – I might wait for later…

Well, it has been a horrendously busy week at work:

• Monday: The aircon breaks down in the comms room and fries our PABX. Which means no phones, all day. Which means big trouble at a company that deals with the sharemarket. Fixed eventually, but not until after a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
• Tuesday: Two visitors from the Helpdesk in Adelaide. Had heaps to show them, and was flat chat all day organising meetings and so on.
• Wednesday: The Board were in the Sydney Office for a board meeting. This meant waiting around with catlike readiness on the off chance that one of them might want to do something computer related. While waiting, I took one of the Helpdesk people and installed remote management on 25 PCs, at about a half an hour each. Luckily you can do concurrent installs.

But the good news is, Trang and I are going to Port Douglas for a week next week! Excitement, he wrote! All organised and booked in a two hour period yesterday. It’s going to be great!

In site stuff, I’ve added back the PDFs of essays from uni. Standard legal stuff applies – if I find someone claiming credit for my stuff, I chew their kneecaps off.

Yahoo! I finally got my Ps! I’m feeling very pleased with myself tonight!

yay me!

Had a fantastic, if very busy, weekend. Saturday was Halo 2 LAN at Murray’s place, which was excellent, and Sunday was deep-sea fishing for Peter Nghe and Steve’s birthdays.

It was my first time actually deep-sea fishing, and I was surprised by how big the swell was. Seriously, we’re talking 2.5-3m swell – taller than the roof of the boat we were on when we were in the troughs. And for the first time, like, ever, I actually caught something – a leatherjacket and a flathead. The biggest bugger about the whole trip was that we had to be at the dock at 7am. On Sunday. When I’d been out till midnight playing Halo 2. Needless to say, we all had a lovely nap that arvo.

Eve Online is great – I’ve recently been able to afford to buy a destroyer, which is one step up from the starting frigate class. Now, to equip it with good guns and go on a trip…

Oh, and the wushu website is now live. Check it out, if you like. The current version is an interim one until I can build a wordpress-based site.

Well, that didn’t take long. The website was up for a week, and I’ve already had to download a couple of commentspam purging plugins for Wordpress… Sucks to be you, stupid free poker site!

I failed my Ps test. Again. I’ve got another one booked soon.

Been to see heaps of exhibitions and concerts lately:

• Harry Connick Jr and the Sydney Symphony: Was very good, if a little bit less symphony-ish than I expected.
• Bugs Bunny on Broadway: Lots of fun, especially if you’re like me and have seen a fair percentage of all the Warner Bros cartoons ever made.
• Eye on Photography: A history of Australian photography. It was kinda cool.
• Egypt Exhibition at the Australian Museum: Awesome. I mean, what else could it be? It had mummies, and mummified heads as well!
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2004: Truly an awesome photography exhibit, with some truly amazing photos.

As you can see on the right, I’m playing Eve Online at the moment. It is very good. Think Massively Multiplayer Elite, and you’ve got an idea of where it starts.