The old room is empty. (gotta love the horrible brown carpet)

For my day job I am fortunate enough to work outside the Sydney CBD. Every day I spend 25-30 minutes driving to work in south Sydney. One of the nice things about working outside the CBD is that you get to know the other businesses in the area - like the bread shop, the supermarket, the Chinese Restaurants, the computer shop, and the chicken take away. Over time you get to watch them change too....

If you ever want to really clean/pack your room I recommend getting some trusted friends to help. Not only does it get done much much faster, but having people who aren’t emotionally invested in your stuff means that you will finally chuck out that really scrappy toy you’ve had lying around in your room for 13 years. For me the experience was quite surreal. I basically stood in the middle of the room with Sophie, James and Glenda going through all my stuff, catching anything they tried to throw out that I thought I should keep, or that could be sold in a garage sale....

Well I just went out and got a Wii. I didn’t pre-order it, because I was in two minds about when I would get one. In the end, in a spur of the moment decision, I went to the shops for the midnight launch and hung around with all the Nintendo fanboys and geeks. Amusingly enough EB Games, my original choice for my place of purchase, was pretty packed. But fortunately the Games Wizards I passed on the way in had a much more pleasantly sized crowd, so I went back there to await the arrival of Thursday....

For those of you who think talking like a pirate is a bit lame because you think ninjas are way cooler than pirates, then you’d probably prefer day of the ninja, which incidentally is tomorrow, the 5th of December.

So after getting a blood test back I discover I have rather high cholesterol levels, which means for the next 3 months I can no longer eat dairy - especially cheese, or pork or fatty stuff in general. So much for my regular diet of ham and cheese sandwiches. Now what am I going to eat?

This is a about a year old, but I only just saw it.

Finally I have moved my blog from blogger to drupal. I still have to add tags and clean up the comments, but otherwise its functional. Enjoy

While we wait for google to get their act together for Australian mapping, I reckon ZoomIn is a worthy substitute.

I am so buying this with my next ThinkGeek order.