Hi Gang!

Well… We’ve moved!.
The hosue hunting and subsequent move was a stressful PITA, as I’m sure many can relate to, but now it’s mostly done.

Adam and I have signed a lease on a nice big house in Ryde, complete with 3 bedrooms, a study (Gussy’s geeky computer nook I think of it), gas cooking and hot water (one of those Rinnai Infinity ones that heat on demand… big selling point for me!), timber floors and air conditioninng… mmmm. Most importantly, it has both Telstra and Optus cable to the house, so I will be getting Foxtel hooked up at home (for free, naturally!). It’s got a nice big backyard and an undercover timber deck, perfect for BBQ’s and the puppy that Adam is insisting we get. I have managed to convince him to get a Labrador instead of the wussy King Charles Cavalier Spaniel that he was originally going to get.

So it’s finally happened…. Gussy has moved back to the suburbs. *sighs*. Y’know, I always swore I would never let it happen to me. I was enjoying my inner-city metropolitan existance and swore I would never end up back in the kind of situation I grew up in i.e. a North Shore white-picket-fence sterile Soccer Mum hell-hole. I keep telling myself that it’s not happening to me, and I have sworn that I will never ever move further north than I already am.

That being said, the location isn’t that bad. It’s probably the closest and safest place close to the city that we can get a decent house on our budget. It’s only 20-30 minutes to the city and 5 minutes away from work. So that’s what I’m telling myself!

I’m really hoping that this semester shapes up to be more of a success than last semester… I’ve started work on my thesis, developing a VOIP application for Avaya to work on Microsoft Vista. I don’t know who else out there has used Vista before, but unless Microsft changes something soon, we will see Macs take over the world. It is truly a disaster, comparable to their Windows ME release. Oh well.. will have to make it work somehow :-)

I have a few posts to write in time… have been doing some pondering on Life, the Universe and Everything and think I should air it to see what kind of response it gets…

Until then… take care!