Wet 'n' Wild was on the cards yesterday, but postponed with weather. We went to the Gold Coast instead and trawled Pacific Fair for a while. If you're ever around Surfers Paradise at lunchtime, consider eating at the Beach Club at the Q1 tower. Their steak and fish and chips are second to none; their sauces, elegance and satisfaction. Good eating ( Read more... )

In Sydney, avoid the Ibis Hotel at Darling Harbour. It earned its stars playing Mario.

Here we are in the deep south for TechEd 2008, which is a junket (claims A) for he and jelashke to further dissect What This SharePoint Stuff Is Anyway. On their review, the talks seem pretty bland, especially when compared with the pre-conference training, but there ( Read more... )

We have tickets for The Mikado on the 16th. Their function is particularly vital (hee hee ( Read more... )

I'm glad it's a slow, wet day, because my response time is very poor. It's been a half-week of huge meals, one after the other, mostly due to birthdays, mostly due to mine. The Ice Bar has a kilogram steak meal, which is inexplicably eligible for their grill deal on Thursdays. I managed only 850g of it but shrugged off just enough to have a family ( Read more... )

There's a Cibo's in New Farm here at the Coles complex on Merthyr. When our QA lead took coffee orders one day when we were working over Christmas, I asked for a tea, but something exotic. She returned with a Power Chai, a chai tea made from a milk infusion ( Read more... )

jelashke brought me lunch! Duck and pork and ginger and rice. There's duck for dinner, too! (I think if I'm really lucky, there may also be a mushroom surprise..)

Mmmm...

We ate in fine style at Southern Spice on Logan Rd, with iainrobertson and nandi.

Curry tasty. I am very. Woozy.

Good times.

I only drank three cokes this morning after that particularly frightening meeting with my new overlord and still felt the need for a drink. The chance that the true depths of my situation might settle in and cause me to instantaneously divest myself of all fluids was a remote one but a tauntingly fluffy cloud on my mental horizon nonetheless. ( ( Read more... )

It claimed it was "Closing session 1", but it made noises like a head being shaved. It burned the disc slowly and gave me a coaster for Easter, but misatokitty stepped to the plate just in time and handed me more anime to fill the void. Merçi.

jelashke and I spent the weekend on the Gold Coast, driving back early on Easter day. The Radisson Resort is sprawled around ( Read more... )

Last night was a flurry of schoolkid mayhem at the Chapel sleepover for the youth group jelashke co-ordinates. We watched Robots, staged a Mario Kart Double Dash tournament and played Spotlight around the pews with a dastardly torch of blindingBreakfast was a bacon and egg extravaganza but I've since retired to the Coffee Club in Springwood, where I'm ( Read more... )