May 27
Just a quick hi. Been uber busy with work every night (till 8am the other night, ick). Had a status update meeting friday which went well. Now its all guns blazing for a client presentation on tuesday. Still got a lot to get through, but somewhat running to time. Bang bang!
Tonight was Jo’s farewell, and we shall miss her! Keep up the blogging, I’m a super keen reader! Ducked out tonight for a little while away from work to say hi and bye to the gang. Good couple of hours of drinks, nice place too! Then hit up the old maisys, where our ever friendly waitress Winnie was once again (thanks to ladan for confirming the name there!)
Sleep time now. Uber busy next 2.5 days. Go go go!
May 23
-4 weeks of teaching left. Its been great
-Maybe teaching next sem. MMA2?
-Motivation presentation thing by matt church soon!
-Thought leaders, july retreat, again a matt church thing
-Cofa annual torch has been passed on. I’m now course writer and tech director and student overseer
-Rendering of the home extension occurs tomorrow, w00t, I love seeing building progress. Its a lot like coding really
-Guitar hero may have been an unsound investment
-Speaking of investments, I really need to invoice for the bling
-Heaps of freelance jobs cropping up now that word on the street is that I’ll be back to it soon. Alas, not just yet sonny
-Next friday will be rockin! Yay cant wait
-Bought a new phone for my sister today. SE Z310i. Looks hot in pink, alas she hinted black was the colour choice
-Adz has her bday coming up soon, I propose strippers and a visit to the cross. Those who agree say I!
-Ninjaman has recorded 22 million plays. Samurai sam (rebranded ninjaman to miniclip.com) counted 10 million before their counter died. Estimated to be ~20 million now. >40 million plays globally!
-I would love to do another ninjaman-esk team effort down the track. Good times
-Ninjaman was the most important thing I’ve done in my working life, and it’ll be hard to top it over the next few years
-I love cashing google cheques, it feels so good. “wow, why are google paying you?”. Still need to read the FAQ on how to use this to get the hunnies however
-I love the gym, and my trainer is awesome
-When someone says ‘whats up’ and you say ‘not much’, its not really true is it? See the above points.
May 23
So the next few weeks will be uber uber busy with work. Then I’m taking some time off! About a month or so until I go into my ‘next phase’ (research / ‘back to the lab’)
So time off. Things I want to do…
TV related
-OC marathons in the day. Damnit, someone has been recording OC episodes on our foxtel dvr and I have a craving to watch. Old skool ryan and marissa!
-24 marathons. I’ve been deliberately not watching season 5 as I want to see it all in one hit. I really want to do 24 in 24! Well more like 24 in 18hrs. But yeah, 24 marathons - maybe all 5 seasons in a week. How uber..
-More seinfeld! I’ve now seen seasons 6 7 8 9. 1-5 to go 
Games related
-Buy a 360!!! I’m going to cave. So yep, 360, graw2, and exploitation of eb ‘rentals’ I think
-Half want to play more online pc games but really cant be arsed. Since julian stole my steam account (I kid, I kid) I’ve wanted to play some CS:S again heh
Travel
-Wanna get out of town for a bit. Might stay with some family out in orange at the farm! Yes, a real farm (well more about trees and fruit, than livestock). It rocks. Country air > city air. So remote however there is no broadband (other than next-g), which suits me fine! 3 will rape me with roaming fees if I even consider hitting up the mobile internet
-The shepard might return to his duties and try and get the bdm folk out one weekend, yehaw!
Time to like stop and think!
Oh, and I want to hit the gym like.. lots. I had to skip the gym last night and I am craving it. Blah!
So thats my time off idea for now. Fighting the desire of the oc right this minute!!
Edit: OK lets add in play some old dreamcast games (all I want by the offspring is playaing atm - reminds me of crazy taxi! time to revisit that and the sonic adventure series! SHEN MUE FOR JULIAN!!), and deus ex (in my top 5 games of all time, for sure - just announced they are working on a third, excellent!)
May 19
At some point in time, you work out to whom your allegiance lies. You work out its not to work, or to commitment, but to those who are close to you. I’ve known this, but recently it has become more true. Ultimately, my allegiance lies with my friends and family. Really, I need to honour that, and carry forth. It’s a matter of priorities. Tonight was a night of harsh words to a few people - as much as I hate burning bridges tonight the flavour was letting my vision be known.
So in this rut that I’m in, the life lesson is to work out who I need to continue to trust and rely on, and get shit done for them. Without this, what are we?