Well I officially got the jobs at Safeway Liquor, which will provide a much needed boost in income. So pretty much I have induction tomorrow and then some more training next week. I was suprised when they said “so can you can come to induction tomorrow at 8:00am” at about 4:30 this afternoon, luckily I am free meaning I will paid as early as Wednesday.

Well my holiday down at Sorrento has finally ended and it marks pretty much the end of my ‘transitional’ break. I will over the next few weeks begin to get back into work mode and I will find myself down at Haileybury over the next couple of weeks finishing of the Year 12 magazine as well as some other little things. Well that’s all for now since my non air conditioned room will soon be approaching the 40 degree mark if my computer remains on, so I think I’ll go sit in front of the air conditioner for a while.

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

Sorry about the lack of posts this week but it has been really busy, with work taking up most of my time. I managed to visit my new cousin, Elizabeth on Friday before work, and then after work I headed to Perri’s for his 18th which was awesome (I saw Derrick Ha drink beer!!!). Today I went and got some new pants and shirts for school, I couldn’t believe how busy the uniform shop was. I’ve uploaded some photos of Elizabeth into the gallery, and there are more on Flickr in case your interested. Anyway hopefully I will see most of you at school on Monday.

It seems the start of school is on the horizon. Unfortunately at the end of last year I seemed to put everything off until the start of this year, which I’m now really regretting. Not much happened over the weekend which was a welcome relief, however this week I have a few things to do.

Also there is now a Profile page on my blog, and I’ve added a lot more pictures to my Gallery, which now contains about a quarter of the photos that are on my Flickr account. I also fixed the screenshots on the About page, so that they now display properly. I promise I will add more things to my blog, however at the moment I’m really short on time.

Well it’s been a very hectic two days, for my non Victorian, non-Australian readers the temperature has barely got below 35 Degrees (C) in the past two days and only this afternoon has it dipped below thirty. These two days of hot weather have been accompanied by power blackouts, caused by a bushfire in the north east of the state taking out a major transmission line between Victorian and New South Wales. Luckily we were only partially affected by this brownout and lost power for about an hour.

In other news, my Auntie gave birth to a baby girl yesterday, the babies name is Elizabeth Rainsford. I was planning to visit them on Friday however I have been called into work so I will probably have to go next week or on the weekend.

I’m also still waiting for a phone call from Optus, whom were meant to ring me back within 24 hours, however as long as the problem gets fixed I’m not too fussed about the phone call.

Finally I’m bloody competent in VET IT 3 & 4, which means that I can do my Final Exam. Anyway it wasn’t actually that hard and the only reason that it took me so long is that I was lazy and kept mucking around in class.

Also Today many people (Luke, James, & Alistair) have been asking me why I quit my job so here’s a quick run through,
-They wanted to pay me less
-I would be doing more work
-The hours weren’t as flexible
-They were getting me to help some rather objectionable websites get more visitors
-The company will be closing down its Australian operations over the next 3 years (starting with Brisbane, then moving down to Melbourne before finally closing Sydney)

Also on Thursday I will be at Graduation to take photos, which will be fun. I will also be at Athletics on Saturday and I urge you all to come, I think Haileybury will be chartering a bus (or two) so that you can go support the team, if not Olympic Park is extremely easy to get to as it’s on the Pakenham, Cranbourne, Frankston, Sandringham, Alamein, Glen Waverley, Belgrave and Lilydale train lines (Richmond Station is the closest station to Olympic Park, simply walk down Swan St) Anyway I hope to see you there.

I’ve finished all of my IT work finally, so now I just have to get it assessed, and yesterday I quit my job, I had this planned for a number of weeks and it was certainly no suprise to my boss. So I am now in the hunt for a new job, however I have resigned to the fact that I will not be able to get a job that was as flexible or paid as much as my old one. Anyway just thought I’d let everyone (by which I mean Luke) know.

Sorry about the lack of posts recently but I have simply been too busy! Here’s what has been happening during the last couple of weeks,

I have of course been working which has been fun, however going home on the train every night has been extremely painful as the trains are packed with both business people, and noisy kids whom had been to the Royal Melbourne Show, the latter being extremely annoying as it seems every showbag contains something that is big, noisy and painful. Also it looks like we (work) are going to be bought out by a large American company (can’t tell you who) so that will prove to be interesting.

This last week however I only worked two days and had the rest off, in which I went shopping at Chadstone to get some new shoes, clothes etc and today I spent an hour at the ANZ bank in Chadstone sorting out my bank account as they keep charging me these ATM card replacement fees however amazingly I have never requested or received a new ATM card, so anyway they wiped those charges as they believed me when I said that I had no need for 7 new ATM cards that I had supposedly ordered.

In the computer world I have gotten into “The Movies” game, and have spent many hours attempting to make a 5 star movie (3 is the highest I’ve gotten), I also borrowed the game Hearts of Iron II from work (it is a WWII strategic game), the graphics aren’t great (its like a board game type layout) however the actual strategy is extremely in depth and challenging. Well I have nothing interesting to say, except go the Swans in the AFL Grand Final (I have adopted them because they were once Sth. Melbourne) and go the Storm in the other, crappier grand final.