When you've got time for no-news, it's time to share. - July 31st

Okey Dokey,

So what's been going on down in Australia? Lots. Work has been a real devil, as the whole reason I was sent down here was to start a program that is finally getting up and running. Considerably, I'm spending sixty hours a week at work, and looking forward to planned weekends a month away.

I did get a lovely/crappy, new/used bike though, he's yellow, and his name is Sparky. I don't know why, these things just happen. And then you have to live with them.

Melbourne in the "winter" is great, it's like Vancouver but with half the rain and it's 10 degrees warmer. People are still bundled up in beanies and scarves, so we of the pale northern sun get to swagger down Flinder's Lane rugged and hardened. Word on the street though is that Australia tends to get quite hot in the summer, so I'm predicting less rugged, more sweaty. Oh man, do the ladies like sweaty.

Like I may have mentioned before, I barrack quite relentlessly for the Collingwod Magpies, the undisputed Team to Hate in the AFL, but also the sharpest looking in a jumper. Here is an idea of what makes footy so good:

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Have to run very soon, guess I'll just say I start work for Greenpeace tomorrow, and then this weekend seeing the Collingwood v. Carlton game, then catching a train to somewhere with a lovely Costa Rican girl. Needless to say, I started Spanish lessons last week. So it is.

Jonesing very hard for the old Hali-life right now, especially since you monkeys are decorating the web endlessly with your photos and summer bbqs and undying happiness.

Anyways, quite a spurious and useless posting, but sas I said, when there is no news, let the world hear.

Fair Dinkum,

Nick

Okay, actually bleeding from the eyes - July 28th

Just a quick note while I sit inside and watch the clouds scream across my painful, hungover vision. I can hear the branches on the window, seven blocks away.

Anyways, I mention this to note that captions aren't actually done on the photos, and it's not my fault, because I will get around to it when my brain stops trying to stab it's way out of my too-small skull.

For now, feel free to invent names, places, and explanations. That's pretty much what I end up doing anyways.

Peace- N

That happy time between "busy" and "bleeding from the eyes" - July 25th

G'Day all,

Wow it has been a long time since I've gotten around to posting, and for that I apologize.

Not that things have been slow, in fact, quite the opposite. The daily ebb and flow of work just cannot overcome the crashing tides of an exciting life here in Melbourne. I have been working full tilt during the week, but have dedicated my weekends to fleeing the city of Melbourne and into the outback. A pursuit that my heart and mind have cherished, by my koala-flu wracked body decries. Well too bad body! We're going to the mountains!

I have far more interesting and simple news than the daily run down of my run-down life, concisely that I have finished, finished, putting up my Australian photos since I arrived. They're all ordered and captioned, so don't waste any more time putsing around on this blog, go check 'em out!

N.

In Communicado - July 4th, 2007

Hey All,

Quick note about contacting me, should you wish, which I require.

My phone number is 0423 123 680, but if you're calling you have to dial 011, then 61 (country code), then 423 123 680 (skipping the zero). I am seven hours behind PST, and then a day ahead, so now I'm really in the future.

My home address is:

14 Raglan Street
North Melbourne
3051, VIC

Finally, posting comments on the blog, should the desire ever strike you, means a lot to me, so if you feel up to it, feel free.

Thanks all, I'll post something heftier tomorrow.

Nick.