On Friday I went and saw the school play, Inheritance. I must say It was brilliant, a big improvement over last year’s Romeo & Juliet (which just went on and on and on). On the technical side everything went off without a hitch (to the best of the audiences knowledge). Overall it was a brilliant night, however I did have to stand up during the second act as those damn black chairs are impossible to sit in for more than an hour.

On Saturday I had the usual job of taking photos of sport which was pretty boring. However we have now covered Boys and Girls Firsts Soccer as well as Boys Hockey and Martial Arts. After sport I headed home, and then went up to Chadstone. I ended up buying Frasier Season 5 on DVD (I already had 1-4) and picked up a couple of politics and foreign policy magazines from Borders.

On another note it is my brothers 26th birthday today, he’s enjoying his new job up at Sydney and says it’s much better than his boring, stressful one in Melbourne. He ended up getting a gift voucher from Mum to buy some furniture for his new house, and managed to win $7 on a scratchie I put in his card (He usually never wins a thing). Anyway I’m now sitting here watching National Lampoons European Vacation on Foxtel.

It never surprises me how much paperwork is required to get things done at our school. Basically to get this Year 12 magazine done, I’m going to require around 400 pieces of paperwork, from 4 precincts, and in over 5 departments. Why do you ask? well simply because it seems we need everyones approval before we even put pen to paper.

I’ve finished sending most of the emails I needed to and have now decided to update my blog in order to get rid of those pesky people that follow me around asking me to update my blog, Well anyway on Saturday night apparently the whole Optus mobile network went down in inner Melbourne, which explained the unusual “can I borrow your phone” requests from strangers. But that was back up early Sunday morning, and no doubt many people’s Saturday night plans had gone astray due to the outage. I have gotten even more frustrated with Telstra, and spent most of today figuring out exactly how we are going to pay for everything we want. Anyway I have nothing else to report, except for the fact that channel Ten have taken like an hour and a half of TV away from me and replaced it with this stupid show full of idiots in a house. Well at least I have my Lateshow with Letterman, oh wait…no I don’t cause they moved that to an hour in order to make room for bimbo’s in a house.

I was on the train this morning when Pat abruptely told me that this would most likely be his last week on the train. I obviously asked why and he informed me that he would be moving to Blairgowrie. I then spent a large portion of my day to point out Blairgowrie’s distance from… well everything!! Here are some quick facts about it’s distance from some places, they are all “as the crow flies” (and measured using Google Earth).

• 62Km from Melbourne
• 52 Km from Haileybury
• 58 Km from Murrumbeena

So in order to make Pat feel just a little better I have decided to quote some distance figures from my house to some places.

• 13 Km from Melbourne
• 12 Km from Haileybury
• 58 Km from Blairgowrie
• 40 Km from Gembrook

And to make Pat feel that little bit worse, here are some figures from our “country” property out in Gembrook

• 51 Km from Melbourne
• 34 Km from Haileybury
• 81 Km from Blairgowrie
• 40 Km from Murrumbeena

So pretty much I have concluded that he will be living extremely far away. We were working out exactly how he will get to school and he will get a lift to Cranbourne with his mum who works there (travel time* approx : 50 min), he will then catch a train to Springvale (approx: 20 min), bus to Haileybury (approx: 15 min). So all in all he will spend 1 hour and 25 minutes travelling, this doesn’t count the approx 5-10 minute wait for the train, and the 20 minute wait for the bus (which brings it close to 2 hours).

*Travel time taken from Whereis.com

Yes thats right, my 100th post is officially the biggest event of 2007. Forget about the release of the Nokia N95, Windows Vista and a federal election. This tops them all. Satwick suggested I look at my blog in retrospect, and I have decided I will at least highlight the moments of this blogs life that have made your lives so fulfilling. Last July xD was born on the blogger service, it was changed and adapted and moved over to wordpress. Since then it has grown, a large array of ‘extras’ have appeared and I have been able to fulfill my original goal of this blog. That is to establish, operate and maintain a website (albeit a small one).

I have to mention a couple of individuals that have of course made the blog what it is today, Luke Hawley (who gave me the whole idea), Satwick (loyal reader), Bosko (loyal reader), James Lescohier (fellow blogger), Chris Boughdady (I’m only putting him up here cause he asked) and of course James Panther, who’s own blog has proved invaluable, insightful (the features, not the actual posts) and has taught me a lot about intellectual property laws (All my ideas are original, I swear ).

Now enough with the champagne and celebrations is time to get down to what this blog is about; my life.

Today was nothing hugely special, the first day of school was largely uneventful. I got to send a couple of whingeing emails (to our junior precincts) and also sent a complaint email to James in IT (I think he’s pretty used to ‘em by now). I hope you have all enjoyed my first 100 posts and there will be many more to come.

I must say this is always the worst time of holidays, the day before they end. It has been nice to actually be able to have some free time as I don’t seem to be able to get much during the Term. My holidays overall have been fairly non-eventful, just tinkering with my blog, catching up with people and of course turning up to school and pretending to be useful. I hope everyone has had a good holiday and I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow (well nearly all of you, my loyal reader from Spain will unfortunately not be able to attend tomorrow).

Also post # 99

Today was an extremely busy day, as I needed to see some people about work which was pretty boring and overall pointless (at least I get paid ). I then spent about 30 minutes on hold for Telstra’s business support to fix up a billing issue, they tried to blame me and it was only when I challenged this they admitted that it was their fault. After my Telstra dose I headed down to school to offer my moral support to all the technical crew (I didn’t actually do anything technical related), but I managed to speak to Ms. Hill which was good. After “helping” at school I then headed into JB Hi-Fi to pick up a MiniSD card for my phone, I managed to get a 1Gb Sandisk for $29 (got it reduced from $33 ). After reveling in my awesome bargaining power and the $4 I saved I then made my way to Caulfield and had lunch (at 3:30pm). I then spent the rest of the afternoon getting prices for the Nokia N95 (for my boss), anyway it will cost a small fortune (about $1250) but that’s the phone he wants so that’s the phone he will get (he reminds me of a certain principal I know ). I’m now sitting down watching the football (Collingwood Vs Richmond), I was going to go but decided that I really can’t be bothered.

Also another note to a certain Connex cynic who shall remain nameless (his blog can be found at http://www.jamesx.net), I caught 5 trains today, and they were all on time (one was 2 minutes late to be accurate). The buses however were a different story (both of them more than 10 minutes late).

Also this is post #98

Today I headed out to a family BBQ at Cardinia Reservoir Park, which is only a few kilometres south of Emerald in the suburb of Narre Warren East to be exact. Overall it was a enjoyable day with brilliant weather. I managed to snare a few wickets at the game of cricket we held (not a hugely difficult task) and spent the rest of the day betting on the horses at the Emirates Doncaster Handicap (held at Randwick) and the Victoria Handicap at Caulfield. I didn’t manage to actually win anything above my initial investment. The rest of the week will be fairly quite, however I do have something on Wednesday (cannot for the life of me remember what it is) and I will be heading to the inheritance rehearsals on Friday (I have to show up at least once ).

I’ve recently noticed a substantial increases in the number of blogs appearing, so I have decided to offer all my readers the ability to sign up to xD via email. I of course will not be actually sending you the emails myself, I have outsourced this to a service called Feedburner. Pretty much if you sign up you will receive an email every morning provided I make a post the previous day. So if I make a post at 11:00pm on Tuesday night, you will receive an email Wednesday morning. This prevents you from getting numerous emails if I make numerous posts in a day. You will not receive an email if I don’t make a post the previous day.

I have tested the service out and it works pretty well, so if your interested sign up and if your not then don’t bother but I’m basically offering it because the RSS feed can be unreliable (it has constant errors) and you wont actually have to do anything to receive posts (except sign up of course). To register for these emails click on the register link at the top of the page and follow the links.

Today we celebrated Good Friday by having lunch with our family, which included my Grandmother, Auntie, Uncle and cousins. Apart from the lunch (which was some chicken and salad) nothing interesting happened today. However over the last few days I have been playing Neverwinter Nights 2 which I borrowed from Alastair like 2 months ago, anyway I’ve decided I’ll finish it before the end of the holidays so I can give it back to him. So far I’m doing well and I must admit despite being disappointed by the original, the second one is definitely living up to expectations. My next week of holidays looks boring, however I do have something on Wednesday but can’t remember what it is, I’m sure if it was going to be something exciting I would have remembered. Also I’ve put some more Year 12 Formal photos in the gallery.

As you are now probably aware, I changed the layout of this humble blog. The reason behind this change was the fact that the old one was very bland and boring so I’ve now got one with a bit of colour.

Also Bosko, I will seriously start blocking iPhone comments (that joke is so old) also another quick comment to those that leave comments on the blog. Don’t bother making the damn comment if you disagree with something I have said because I’m just gonna delete it. This is a dictatorship not some piss weak democracy.