Oh God, first day back.

Morning All,

I'm back at work... At least the holidays were nice while they lasted....

I've been booked for an 8:30 onsite at a customer, would have been nice to know a bit early, as I've only just finished checking all the urgent emails...  oh well... guess it straight back to the grindstone.

The Fish Tank - Day 5

So we've been on holidays for a few days and I wasn't sure how the new fish bowl would go but turns out it all went swimmingly :)

The Snails seem to be happy in their new home and have a done a great job of cleaning the inside of the tank for me. I tried to get the fish today but my local shop was out of fighting fish so the snails will have to battle on alone for a little longer.

Back from Holidays!!!

We made it back from holidays!!! It was a great trip away. Made it to the beach at least one ever day despite the nasty surf conditions. One of main reason for the trip was to get back into the surf after last years mishap at Tugan in the calmer waters of Noosa beach. Turns out there were some big swells off the coast. Still was heaps of fun to get back in the water.

On the way up we stopped at Underwater World to check out some of the fish and the Giant Squid they've got on display... Got some nice shots of the fish etc.

The trip home wasn't quite as much fun as we would have hoped... The red car decided it didn't need a bolt any more and decided to drop it on the sunshine motorway at about 100km/h yesterday... Didn't seem to do any major damage on a inspection but today shortly after we'd left we lost the speedo. So I spent the trip home without any idea how fast I was going... Anyway home now just got to have it fixed now.

Holidays!!!

A little later thank planned, but we're heading off on our Holiday to noosa!!!!

I'm taking limited technology so I'll post up photos when I get back!

The Fish Tank - Day 1

For Christmas Ness got me an awesome Wall mounting fish tank from Go-Home.

Yesterday, I mounted it on the wall and filled it with water as a test for the mounting..

Today I went and got Ness and My first official Pets! A pair of mystery snails. I got gravel and a plant for the tank and treated the water ready for a fighting fish in the near future... I had a couple of goes getting the gravel(Here are some photos)

The ultimate accessory...

The Wii has become an essential item when ever I go to someone's place. I think the key in gauging it's success is that even when it's getting late in the evening the cries of "Just one more game" are always heard. Parent's are always the most resistant but the first to ask for one more game after they get the Wiimote in their hands. Tom goes down as the most easily addicted though, putting in a Mammoth 6 hour Boxing session despite being at my place for some Xbox time.

The tiny little device (I say tiny because it's dwarfed by every other piece of equipment in my entertainment unit, even my power board in bigger) is now the most used bit of gear I have. Here's a few reasons why it's come to the for front :-

• Browsing the Web
• Watching You tube vids on my TV (through the wii)
• Google Reader from the Couch
  
• Being able to use the wii as a Media Centre
• Weather Channel
  
• Virtual Console (with arcade sticks)
• Playing my iTunes Library from the Wii
• The whole Gamecube back catalog
• Homebrew community taking the console and running with it....

All that and I haven't even started on Wii sports!

Annual DVD audit complete

It's usually over the Christmas break I finally get time to sit in front of the DVD library and take stock.

I've done pretty well this year in terms of loans, there are only about 16 titles not on the shelves, some of them have been missing for a while (I lost Sneakers about 5 years ago). Also got a chance to put all the new ones I'd managed to miss. The total retail value was a bit of a worry at the end though...

First post of the New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!
I'm quite astonished how quiet it is as I sit out on the balcony early in the morning of the new year. I've been here about 30 mins and the first car has just gone past. Normally I wouldn't be up this early (on any day let alone the new year) but a combination of Asthma and allergies forced me from my slumber so I'm taking in the fresh air (and some breakfast cherries) to break in the new year. Considering the amount of sleep, I'm surprisingly awake and with a lack of blogging over the Festive season I thought I'd start the year off in the right way (at least where th blog is concerned). With all the parties and outings there just hasn't been the motivation to sit down and post.

All the best for 2007!