Today is Luke’s 18th Birthday which was exciting for him. To celebrate we went to Castlefield’s musical “High School Musical”, anyway a riveting time was had by all especially Bosko who at the end announced that he hated me for forcing him to go. I ended up spending most of the day at Southland which was not really that exciting as I was looking for a birthday present for Luke (and got sidetracked by the food court), in the end I ended up getting him an iTunes voucher as its the only thing he’ll actually use. So all in all Castlefield was relatively exciting and was a swell way to spend Luke’s birthday.

Today I finally cracked it with my iRiver and it’s constant turning off and shaking. So this afternoon I went up to JB Hi-Fi at Chadstone, I ended up walking out with a 30 GB iPod as well as some AV accessories. All in all my excursion up to JB cost me over $600 as I also bought some DVD’s and some CD’s (haven’t quite adopted iTunes yet). However my iTunes library has synced and I’m listening to my new iPod in all its glory and I must say I think it sounds way better than my old iRiver and the video quality is much better as well. I also like the dock, which seems to fit with the iPod much better than my iRiver dock ever did with the H340. Well I’m off now to rip some of my new cd’s to iTunes.

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.

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

Well it has been an exciting and tiring long weekend so far. Yesterday after going to school in the morning I headed into the city to spend 4 hours walking around with Luke listening to him complaining about how he hadn’t bought anything yet. In the end he ended up buying some DVD thing. Overall it was a fairly good day, and I got to visit some stores that I had never (and will never again) step foot in, including some comic book store and minotaur (I hope I spelt it right). James Lescohier managed to piss me off buy eating all my KFC chips which are my favourite part of the meal.

After my city adventure I was then dragged along to my grandmothers to have dinner, what really pissed me off is the fact that I went all the way home and then had to head into Toorak which was really annoying (I only live in Murrumbeena but it was still an inconvenience). Today I have done absolutely nothing, but my parents did go to some small country town I have never heard of to visit some market that “rivals Red Hill market” (what ever the hell that means).

Also tomorrow I will be heading down to school to take photos of the Year 10 play (they don’t even give me long weekends) which sucks but then again it’s not like I have a life (at least according to the school).

Well Time magazine has announced the winner of its person of the year, and it is you. Apparently no one person stood out this year so they decided that everyone deserved to be person of the year.

In other news I went up to Chadstone to buy some Borders vouchers, and tickets to the Australian Open, I then headed in to South Yarra to buy Gold Pass tickets to the movies, and being on Chapel Street I decided to do some shopping at JB Hi-Fi and ended up walking out with the Indiana Jones box set which was only $39.98 (was $88.95) so I felt like I got a bargain.

Today I went and saw the new James Bond film, Casino Royale up at Hoyts. I thought it was pretty good (I’m a sucker for James Bond films) and was much better than some of the previous James Bond films (the modern ones, not the old ones which I think are good). In other news I’ve bought a new wireless modem which is much better than our old one (the new one is made by CISCO). Well it’s now only a week until Christmas, and people are running around like mad trying to finish their Christmas shopping which is annoying for people like me whom are picking things up like magazines from Borders.

Tomorrow I will be running around Chadstone, and the City, picking up things like tennis tickets, and gift vouchers (I seem to be doing all my families Christmas shopping for them). Hope your all having a great break, study hard and don’t do drugs.

Heres an update as to how my weekend has been:

On Saturday I headed down to school to take photos of Girls Touch and Softball, so after spending two hours at school I headed home, and then decided to walk up to Chadstone to pick up the bi-monthly Foreign Policy magazine. I of course forgot the fact that it is a little over a month before Christmas, so I was expecting to be in and out in 10 minutes, well of course I had the usual idiots in the queue whom were asking the advantages of a Gift Card over Cash (answer; none, give them cash). So after half an hour in line I finally got served and was bombarded with the usual questions, would you like to join our email membership full of exciting offers? (answer: already a member), could I please have your postcode (answer: foreign visitor don’t have one - I find this answer more amusing than the usual 3163) and the final question, would you like a bag? (answer: yes, but only if its a made of a class 4 recyclable material).

Also if you aren’t a Victorian resident (46.7% of my blog readers are interstate or overseas) Steve Bracks won the election, now hopefully he can do what he has promised to do, or will he conveniently forget what he promised like last time.

Krispy Kreme has come to Chadstone, which will be a welcome addition to my favourite and closest shopping center. In other news, I am now moderating all comments left on my blog, as I had to spend ten minutes today removing comments that were inappropriate and/or critical of me. So anyway your comments will not appear straight away, however they will appear (after I have approved them of course).

An update about whats been happening recently:

Last Night’s Spring Sports Presentation Night went off without too many hitches, anyway none of them were our/my fault, although Luke came awfully close to not turning on a microphone when Stefan went to speak. Mr. Twist looked really pissed off after some students got a little too personal with the lady presenting the awards.

Today I woke up late (as usual on Saturdays) and helped the Foxtel guy fix our Foxtel cause someone had to change the menu settings while he played around with the cable, I then went out for lunch down at Zanubas (Toorak Place), they took ages and substituted Tomato, for Cheese on my Toasted BLT which was rather strange. After that we went home and I then walked up to Chadstone and bought Citizen Kane (I didn’t buy it on the book list cause it was a ripoff, I got my copy for $22.95), and I also bought a couple of CD’s from JB Hi-Fi.

On the Editorial front everything is looking good, however Mr. Lawson keeps calling me Andrew (Ms. Fanhauser calls me Andrew as well so obviously I look like an Andrew that went to Haileybury), 0ur new camera has arrived, its a Canon EOS 400D which is pretty good, so hopefully I get to use that over the next few weeks.

Also if you didn’t notice I have run out of ideas for titles for my posts, any suggestions would be welcome.

One Last thing, Don’t forget to turn your clocks forward by one hour at 2:00 am Sunday (thats tonight)