Where Did All The Time Go?

Tomorrow will be the last day of my tablets. Taking myself off of them (yes I tapered off, no I didn't talk to the doctor before doing it). No they haven't been bad, I felt OK on them, but I don't think I need them any more. Simple.

So why am I back here? I dunno. I am in the house alone as Haunt is off on nightshift, the kids are at their father's and the internet is capped. Seems as good a reason as any.

I have been working harder than I have worked in the last 5 years at where I am employed. 10-12 hour days, doing stuff I have no idea about, trying to swim my way through. I am currently also acting as boss of my old department, while my old boss is hiking in Peru. It's been hectic and exhilarating, rewarding and stressful as hell.

My inner voice went berserk and now wakes me up regularly at 4:30am to start talking at me about what I need to do that day. Inner voice is very lucid and has some awesome ideas for getting a head at work. Inner voice should shut the fuck up and let me sleep till 6:30am and THEN wake me up!

I have also been having some great ideas for stuff...again. One is a TV sitcom screenplay I am going to try and write. ... Hmm I might go off and start that now. I'll keep you posted!

Working Class Man

Working hard to make a living... seeking shelter from the rain..

That's the mood ive been in, you know why? 'cause im a working man now peoples.

Oh and about the rain thing, yeah it was fucking pissing down today.


So yeah, im a working man now. I got a job through electro-group and im working out with a company called DataTech (or CJ Grose) and we are out at the university of sydney for the time being.

It's been pretty good, i have to say. The money's not fantastic but its a great learning curve for me.

The guy im working for is this russian dude thats been living in Australia for something like 8 months. He knows fuck all enlish and i know fuckall Russian. So Some things are lost in translation. you know, 'i feel like coke'= 'i feel like cock' or something along the lines of that.

We've been installing all these new servers into a new server room and the boss there gave me permission to walk around the place and have a look at all the cool stuff.
I look in the back corner of the room and i see this box. A BIG box with HP written all over it. I open it up. BOOYA! about 300, 500gb harddrives... i was so tempted to take one. I didn't, and im happy i didnt, cause he counted them once he opened the box for himself.

What else happened? no fucking much but i've made some good friends and stuff at tech and im starting to understand the russian bloke (kinda) so some works getting done around the joint.

If anyone happens to be interested, theres some photos of the work ive been doing Here.

Cheers guys (and gals), and have a good one.
-Calabrese`

Been away...

...Far too long. Back for the mandatory update after such a sabbatical.

New job (at long last Centrelink cries) starting on 5-6th June. Data Integrity officer with DiData - I worked with them while at AAPT when we were upgrading routing software and they were great. Sounds like it will be interesting and being on a 6 month contract will make me work harder to get a permanent position, hopefully I can pull a move like I used at AAPT and make myself indispensable.

Family all seems well, except maybe my uncle who I have been giggling at. 4842 Plants! Personally I've been a bit down with everything but the prospect of a new workplace and new people has got me filled with that nervous excitement from top to toe.

I've taken some photos I'm happy with, wrote some things that haven't been finished and read a lot of books. My favourite would be Boston Terran's God is a bullet. This book imprinted itself heavily on my mind with it's graphic intensity and fast paced brutal story of love, loss and an alternate America bubbling away under the surface. A sure-fire five star recommendation, I can't really compare it to anything I've ever read before in terms of subject matter and style.

I finally picked up a pencil again about a month ago and started sketching, I still suck but I did get a great idea for a painting and broke out the oils and re-used some canvas from old. Worked pretty well and has pride of place in our second lounge now (photo to come shortly).

Well that's about it for me now, if I don't post again assume that I was devoured by some kind of divine femmemonster in my sleep or I have sunken back into sloth in blog updates.

Anyone Home

So, how is everyone? Does anybody ever check here anymore or am I all alone?