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Well, the blogs are back online, so perhaps time to do some catching up with the significant happenings in my life of late...

Smoking Buddy:
Well, my smoking buddy started in a new position at another campus last week [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img] After applying for several jobs in the past 12 months she finally landed one that gave her a 2 level pay rise. So, I am very happy for her, and happy that her application for the position needed little editing, ...

Wow, today I made it - I am now a .com&#33;&#33;&#33; [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/woot.gif[/img]

AND it only cost me AU&#036;118.80&#33; [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banana.gif[/img]

Why so excited? Well, because this is what &quot;Learn the Net.com&quot; has to say about .com registrations:

&quot;.com--For businesses, commercial enterprises, or online services like America Online. Most companies use this extension. ...

Well it didn&#39;t start that well and didn&#39;t get any better, so I suppose I shouldn&#39;t complain, but:

1. Couldn&#39;t get to sleep last night until well after 01:30 am after spending 2 to 3 hours tossing and turning in bed

2. Alarm goes off at 06:30 - this was a surprise as I had only just felt like I had gotten to sleep

3. Ride to work with no dramas and no cages trying to annihilate me (probably the best part of the day) and notice ...

What a farkin top day&#33; [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

1 The bikini wash:
The bikini wash was great - very relaxed and pleasant down by the sea. The weather was superb with a light cloud cover and fresh breeze - not at all hot.

But the bikini girls were hot [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif[/img] This is what they did to my bike [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/woot.gif[/img]

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I don&#39;t like spiders.

I think it stems from an experience when I was about 6 or 7 years of age when I was woken by my parents and told not to look behind me. Of course I did look and on the wall above where my head would have been was one hell huge black spider...

So from that moment I think a developed an irrational fear of the 8 legged critters. The fact that my father didn&#39;t kill the monster but instead put it out through the bedroom window didn&#39;t ...