Finally made it back late Saturday night (or by the time I got to Emi's place it was more like Sunday morning)



Got most of our testing out of the way, things are all working OK over in NSW.

I'm glad to be back. Back to work today, mood here is interesting. It's not as bad as I thought it'd be, which is good. But lots of dodgy things are going on that we're not supposed to know about. I'd been here about 5 minutes before I heard some of them. Werid.



Last night me and Emi found a really cool pasta place just up the road from my place. For $15 you get a huge take away Pasta meal. I ate half for tea last night and was full, and half for lunch today and was totally chockers. Pretty good value.



Anyway, that's all I wanted to say for...

I'm very sure I get to go home today. So sure that I checked out of my hotel this morning. Yaaaa.

I was up last night until 5am, and back up again this morning at 9am ready for more network testing. The cutin last night went pretty well after a number of stumbling blocks. But we got there in the end which is all that matters.



What's this? The New Zealand Herald had a good article? What's going on there? Pretty interesting too, I'm not sure how much longer I want to live in Auckland. But then I'm not really sure of a lot of things, so I guess I should shut up.



Did I mention I can't wait to go home? I'm so sick of being here. I am sick of sitting in Telephone exchanges with noisy aircon and being on my cellphone for hours and hours at...

I have just upgraded this website, if you notice anything funky please let me know.

The reason I have time to upgrade is because they can't figure out why my config doesn't work. Even the guys who wrote the software are having issues with it. Super stink. Anyway... It better get figured out soon before I go nuts!

Tim

This article has been replaced with this Dilbert comic, which I think says it all anyway.

I got stuck in the middle of all that yesterday. No power, no trains, total chaos. People fighting for taxis etc. Took me 30 minutes to get one train station.

I have too much work to do to write anymore. But I'm still stuck here and I want to go home!

Tim

We've just realised just now that our plan to manage stuff here in Sydney (from New Zeland) isn't going to work. And we're not quite sure what to do about that. It all sucks.

On a happier note, here (link fixed, whoops!) are a bunch of Photo taken by Richard (Sam's cousin) with his digital camera. They're from Saturday night and yesterday (Sunday) at Manly beach. Thanks Richard!

Tim

I (badly) decided to turn on the news this morning in my hotel room. What a mistake. It's so damn depressing. Everyone is dying or about to die or this or that. I don't think they even bother with good news anymore. I mean, there has to be some, right? It can't all be world death and oil spills and blah blah blah.

Saturday night was good, went to a party at Sol Brundles house (and David Brundles too, and his girlfriend.) Had a great time, good to catchup with Sol and Dave and Sam too.
Yesterday I went over to Manly where all the Brundles are staying and spent there day there. Did a bit of shopping and stuff.
And last night I went out for tea with Jason.

And that's about all I want to write at this time. Stupid news.

Tim

So I have this new hotel room that's all art deco and trippy. It's all black and white with bits of grey here and there. It's really cool in a tripped out, weird way. There's a little metal tray on the coffee table that has polish stones in it. Yea. Groovy baby or something.

I went out last night with Jeremy and some of his mates, all Navy boys pretty much, or at least ex Navy. It was a really good night too, though I'd avoid Carlton Draught. I seem to have a delicate head this morning after maybe one too many pots of that stuff. It was tasty though.

What else? Work is getting there, slowly. Might be finished by next year. I want to go home though. I miss home.

That's all. Time to go visit my friend Sam.

Tim

That's me. Mr Puppet to my friends.

We had a big meeting this morning with a fair bit of "What the fook is going on" and all that jazz. After the yelling and general unhappiness had subsided we've actually got a fair bit done today. Which means that I'm here until I fly back next Thursday.

Oh well. It's a crazy job. And I thought we'd been having network problems the last few days... I'm wrong. Read this and you'll see what I mean.

Tim

Now I think I'm staying here.

I've been told by the project manager that I'm wanted in Aussie still and I'm not going back to NZ.

So I'm confused.

I currently don't know which country I'll be in this time tomorrow.

Tim