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So there we were.. 5 of us in total at maisys. I had the car, and the mission was to drop everyone home and use lots of toll roads (free preferably). So..

Start at maisys (cremorne) -> northbridge -> *maisys gateway/military road onramp toll (free for now)* -> maisys (long ass return trip, just wanted to use the 40 meters of toll road)

-> *harbour tunnel* -> *ed* -> jasons

-> dover heights (jo anne)

-> *harbour bridge* -> *lane cove tunnel north* -> hoojs

-> debs

-> my home

All in all we got 2 uses of the new lane cove tunnel (free for a month). Quite a cool tunnel; lot of road for your money. Plus we got to use the ‘maisys gateway’ as stephen named it And the usual harbour tunnel/bridge/ed

Tune in next time for some cross city tunnel, m2 m4 m5 m7 action I bags not driving next time, as my bludgy road trip crew were asleep for all of it after the second stop

The weather in Sydney these past few weeks has been so whack. Rain, sun, hot, freezing, all in the turn of half a day. Whenever anyone bitches about the weather now, I just respond ‘climate change’. Doing my thing to raise awareness haha.

This past week has been pretty huge. I concluded my 2 months of physical rehab; I didn’t really want it to end! It’s been a great time there.. I’ve improved, met a lot of awesome people there, and you always feel great after it. Now it’s up to me to keep my program running at the gym (my second home these days) - definitely looking long term. If I keep this up for the rest of the year, I should see solid improvements. But yeah, I’m sad to leave the folks up at lady davidson. Whenever sunday hit, I would be so looking forward to monday morning - best way to start the week. Kat and Duncs particularly, you guys are awesome! Huge help to me, and I feel really lucky for having crossed paths with ya. Hope to see you again some day.

Finally confirmed my longer-term plans and told the boss - I’m going to be moving on from my current place of work in a few months, and will be going ‘back to the lab’ to bone up on ultra cool geeky things. I plan on sinking my teeth into php and mysql for what I see my line of work for the next year or two; web apps (how web 2.0!). Server side coding is crucial for rounding out what I do; going from ‘flash developer’ to being independently able to make the whole web app widget. Not sure if I’ll touch on AS3 yet as it wont be until later next year I’ll be able to use it for projects realistically; when flash 9 reaches a decent installed userbase. So, in a few months I’ll be off the work grid and doing my own thing. Can’t wait!

Still on the health craze, and enjoying it. Got a plan for where I want to be in 6 months, so there is something to aim for. Next year increasingly looks like I might be working overseas (Marky and Dagra will be over London way, would be much awesomeness to stay with them there!). Who knows, maybe I’ll get around to organising that 21+1 sometime….

I said maybe

Been a while since my last blog post!

The renovations are going well. Cement base has been laid, bricking starts shortly. Still, 4 months to go! Thanks to all those who have offered for me to crash at theirs, appreciated, gunna go a little insane in a couple of months..

Completed my month session of back rehab last week. Its been fantastic - new outlook on life - back into putting health as my top focus. Have been doing that twice a week, hitting the gym many nights a week, and my physio has a bunch of stuff for me to do at home as well. In short, as Jason put it, I spent more hours last week on health/gym than actually doing work.. lol.. kinda true. Anyhow, it was all very successful, so I’m going to do another month of it. Technically its more about overall fitness and mobility than ‘back’ rehab, but yeah, I’ll stay as long as they’ll have me haha

I’ve taken on another semester of teaching at cofa. We’re about to begin week 2, and I think I’ll enjoy it. Plus, I dont mind droning on for an hour or two about flash, especially if it helps. My teaching feedback from last semester was awesome, so its very encouraging to be back at it. Had a really good class last year, looking forward to repeating that!

These last couple of weeks have been pretty trying, managing everything at once, but we’ll get there. Gotta try and settle into a sustainable routine.

Storms coming. I love the rain! Catch ya all later