Hello there LiveJournal, old buddy.

You've had a shitty year, haven't you? Poor friend. It's been a withering death for you out here in the English speaking world. I'm noticing a little flicker of new life, as if your brief absence really did make the heart grow fonder. I've missed you, I know that much. I have maybe three or four people who post ( Read more... )

So, I'm off to Melbourne for Junket in about three hours. Wretched early flights ( Read more... )

Gong Xi Fa Cai, everybody. It turned out I didn't need to restart 2008 after all, but just hold out to the Chinese new year. You think that would have occured to this little pagan that a lunar refresh would clear things up a spell, but no ( Read more... )

This morning I washed my hair, and managed to get a pea-sized blob of medicated anti-dandruff shampoo in my right eye. Stupid Lizard Brain made me blink, and Lo! There was much wailing, as the blob dissolved into my eye juices and started medicating my corneas. It took me a good twenty minutes to coax Lizard Brain into letting me open the eye to ( Read more... )

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So, you know how my 2IC quit last Sunday? Well, I'm looking for a new one. We've been running an ad in the Courier, and the quality of the applicants is middling to bad ( Read more... )

Oooh, I almost forgot. The guys at Annerley are looking for someone to do my Wednesday close and the Sunday open. It works out to be no more than about 14 hours a week, maybe more coming into Christmas and Valentines. The Sunday is standard Sunday rates and the bonus structure over there kicks the balls off the one at the Val. I was regularly ( Read more... )

Between the shop at the Valley and the one at Annerley, I've done about 56 hours this week. That's also not counting the travel, including four hours to get to and from a training session on Tuesday. If you add that in, I've spent about 62 hours doing workness ( Read more... )

I got promoted ( Read more... )

Went To Dr. Sketchy's on Saturday. I took me some cider, and it was a Good Thing. In fact, the whole damn thing is a Good Thing. I heartily recommend it to all my artier-fartier type buddies. Speaking of which, for the fellow Art Monkies that were there on Saturday, the Dr. Sketchy forums are here and the LJ community is hereI made some shinies, ( Read more... )