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2 weeks until I wrap up work at my current location, subversive games. I’ll most likely stay on as a consultant afterwards, however no day to day and coding duties. Looking forward to some time off, we’ve been pushing really hard lately, but it has been paying off. On tuesday we’ll cross another deadline milestone so things will be sweet!

A shout out to adelaine for her birthday! We all did dinner at the observer hotel on friday night. Nice ambience there, and the food wasn’t too bad. They somehow forgot to put our ice cream cake in the fridge, so it came out quite melted. Adelaine is usually one to want to leave a generous tip but not in this case haha! The weather was shocking, heavy rain (catch phrase - that’s climate change for you), just bleh. We went to the summit after, which was a hike and a half in the weather. On a plus side, moving from undercover area to undercover area really felt like it was a stealth mission in a game - except we were hiding from the weather rather than.. snake’s adversaries (metal gear solid heh). So I cabbed it part the way, bugger the rain. The summit was fun - but I’m getting over those caffeine addicts! Back to the bourbon for me. After that some of us went back to jasons, and I totally anti-socialed it up and got back into desktop tower defence, really it was quite lame, I should have tried the wii game going heh. Anyhow regrets aside, fun night

Yesterday/today I was up in the blue mountains for a one night retreat hah. Awesome night out really, amazing how many different threads played into it. The drive up there was bugger difficult in the heavy heavy fog and rain, but debs and I survived! Stayed at the YHA in Katoombah; we had a rockin 8 bunk room that we were able to fit 9 into in the end. Lots of booze purchased before nightfell. The town itself is really nice - small, can walk where ever, and the mountain air is so super crisp and fresh! Awesome kind of get-a-way feel. For dinner we went to a local thai place that was super elegant with its live jazz music playing. Yeah, interesting mix.. jazz and thai! Went back to the hostel and hit up the drinks, fun times chilling and drinking. A few went off to see the game at a nearby pub, so the remainder of us hit up some pool downstairs in the common room, which was nicely empty for us to take over and make lots of noise haha. Only 2 noise complaints - not too shabby! Met some randoms also from out of town - so hi to Mim and Bron haha! Sleep was nigh on impossible with all the interruptions we had Thankfully everyone was alive, however perhaps not well, by the time we got up.. several hours later haha. Breakfast at a cafe, and I’d have to say probably the most I’ve ever eaten for breakfast. It was a shame we had to leave but alas, a nice break away. The drive home was chilled with mark, and only one wrong turn when dealing with the M7 heh. All in all a fun night off!

Life resumes soon, only a little more go go go left!