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Was mums bday today, went and saw the lion king with here down at the capitol theatre. Very cool! Havent been to a stage production like that in years, so it felt very new to me heh. The costumes were great, but for me it was the lighting that was so fantastic, and really brought the set alive. All in all extremely highly recommended, its only in Sydney for a few more weeks so go go go! hehe.

Professional practice has consumed a fair portion of the weekend too… what a pain in the ass that project was! So glad its all over Printed it today, hand in tmr and its all good. Shit subject really. On the upside, writing a press release and doing a budget were useful. Shame the other 90% of it was pretty crappy

What else has been up. Hmmm. Car buying has risen to the surface lately. This was all spurred on by a chat with friends down the street, who were saying their next door neighbours car was now for sale. I casually said yeah its a nice car, I don’t think I’d have the money for it, but if I did I’d be interested. Turns out that went a little further than I thought… had another chat tonight, and it seems that if their car doesnt sell privately in the next two weeks they may ask if I want to buy it for a few grand less (!). So.. what is it? A 96 Honda Integra, manual, electric everything, only 84,000 on the clock, sunroof, dark metallic blue (looks nice), great shape, well serviced. Turns out the price they’d sell it to me for… would end up with me making a few grand profit. Interesting hmmm. Downsides? well first its 6 years older than my car, its no longer under warranty, its going to have a higher chance of needing parts, it lacks modern safety designs/systems (abs, airbags etc). Upsides? it looks hot, and it fits my ‘next car’ criteria (coupe). Misc? its a manual, which is good and bad – going to be a pain with work, but great fun general driving heh.

The later advice I got was dont go for it, and I probably wont, but its started my mind thinking about it all. Really I’d rather a 2002 integra (when they moved to the newer design), but they are priced way out of my reach.

So its back to the ‘in 2 years and with another 10-12k, what can I get’ line of thought, heh..