mazzanet's Lair

Since I haven't posted for so long I thought I'd break the silence.

Just thought I'd take the time to make another post.
More to follow...

Sitting at my desk here at work I thought "Hey, I think it's time for a blog post". And thus a blog post began.

A long time ago, in a land far away, was the month of January. In fact, it was a month ago. Not many exciting events occurred in January but it still existed.

January started with a number of fireworks launched soon after the clock struck midnight, followed by a large amount of alcohol consumption, inebriated dancing and a stumble in the general direction of home.

Public holidays came and gone and life continued to revolve once again around the lovable working life. Like night shifts.

Then came a barbeque! On the sunny shores of the Yarra... No wait I lie, it was quite overcast and was close to raining. Anyway, aside from the bit-less-than-usual turn out, much food and drink was consumed. Afterwards, I paid a visit to the Australian Open to watch a bit of Lleyton play and in the process got a cool little tennis ball dude. Whilst wandering back into the city towards the train station to return back up er here *cough*, I stumbled across a cool little Sunday market underneath the Arts Centre and got me some funky little cactii fridge magnets among various other knickknacs. One missed train later and I was sitting at a restaurant by the Yarra at Southbank. After some rampaging around the city for a while afterwards for a mobile charger, eventually I arrived home at a stunning 1am.

The working life continued to revolve and another public holiday came. Australia Day. The day marking the anniversary of the first landing on this country, though not many people really care about that fact any more. I spent said holiday working down at works little community education trailer which kept falling apart, yay.

Just to top it all off, first semester started. Though, we get a kitchen :D. I quickly christened the frying pan and prepared and cooked some damn yummy chicken kievs with honey soy stirfry veggies. Later plans in the year include a roast.

A weekend or so later I was down in Melbourne again, this time at the cricket, courtesy of a free double pass from work (donated by Cricket Australia for our fantastic work on the fires the past few weeks). In typical me-style, I missed one of the trains home by a fraction of a minute. I even allowed travel time! Anyhow, that rather not-so-fun wasted sprint required recovery, so I visited my now favourite restaurant on Southbank. Oh how I want to go on another starlight cruise down the Yarra.

Back in Bendiland, study (argh weird calculus magic) and work continued to revolve and rotate around each other. Somewhere back up there ^^^, the wee month of January ran away into the moonlight and February came along. Back in the present, Valentines Day was yesterday. How I regret not abusing works corporate account with Roses Only...

On a parting note, if you're ever confused, just think 'Achtung!'.

Well I thought it might be time for at another post after this incredibly long 'break' (...or laziness).
*rewinds the mental clock*
From my memory, or lack thereof, I shall try to piece together the last few months of my life into a short array of words that hopefully won't sound too boring or emo.
In regards to the previous 'real' post, it appears a certain unnamed hire company has finally given up and realised they are idiots, yay. Also on a similar topic, the mast on Discovery has fallen over twice in the past month or so.
Note to self: Masts held together with gaffer don't last forever (though 5 months is pretty good)... BeWiFi is also now an incorporated association so we can now slap people to give us free stuff :D. The next planned mayhem for us is to put a node up on top of the multistorey carpark in the centre of town.
Early November was the time of the VCE 3/4 exams, so hopefully I did well in them amongst all the vague, stupid and even dodgy where-was-this-on-the-course?!-head-explode-scream questions. I'm getting my results SMSed to me next Monday morning at supposedly 7am which, going on previous years, will probably end up being 7pm.
At some point in November I also went to see Dr Karl when he came up here to do a little talk, very funny man.
A couple of weeks ago I got my new CFA EAS pager, which are apparently worth about $800, in preparation for our move to Ballarat for dispatching and other comms stuff. Speaking of CFA, I might be going away for a few days up to the North East fires soon on a strike team.
Which kinda brings us to the last couple of days, school has finished for the year at last which the annual speech night last night. So many things got broken it wasn't funny, except for the purdy $10,000 per box (there was 6) line array we were using.
And now it's holiday time which will probably involve the usual work, work and more - work amongst escaping work to go to fire calls.

Oh and watch out for a pink flyer near you.