the music while the music lasts: In a way underway

Mmm, seems I promised quite a bit of news last post, so I'll bring it about to deliver, in that most succint and fluid of forms: Pictures!

Okay, so Jess and I are all settled in our unbelievable home, the fourth floor

of an acting academy, with a roof top patio, and get this, a BURLESQUE club a floor below. It's called Cabaret Voltaire! Amazing! In honor of this dubious pleasure, and obvious affront to my work ethic, Jess and I are almost finished decorating the upstairs like a harem. It's quite stunning, here's a photo of it about 25% done, more to follow. The big top photo is the view from the patio by the way.

Now home is a pretty wonderful place to be, especially since our office, with a few minor upgrades since this photo, looks like this:

Melbourne, on the other hand, is

absolutely gorgeous, albeit very flat. Jess takes a second to pose down in Fitzroy:

Jess and I headed out on

Monday to Ballarat, a small town about 2 hours train ride northwest of Melbourne. That's right...I said trains! Weeee! Anywho, this is a very bad photo of the countryside from the train window. I will blame a particularily evil bottle of Jagermeister for that, and more about the bottle later, you guys are never gonna believe this...