The end is Nigh (tm)

Well, soon I shifting all my work crap - From UQ (Ipswich) to UQ (St Lucia), resetting my employment situation from 2+ years ago. Those who know me will understand how happy I will be when I don't have to battle the Ipswich Motorway, and eat from a refectory that has psychotic opening hours. The down side of this is that I probably won't have a public IP address; therefore no website. I'm not too sad: mostly my site has just been a place I can point Vet students to so they can see the latest photos of themselves in various states of unconsciousness…

(Besides which, I'm pretty sure no-one reads this Blog, and I totally understand - even my verbal conversations tend toward random, indecipherable stream-of-consciousness ramblings).

But I’ll lose a hobby – at least for a while. I’ll investigate hosting options for finding a (legit) commercial web hosting service… but I doubt I’ll find one cheap enough to host my ~7 gigabytes of photos!

As kind of a side note: I’ll be losing one of my babies, come June 30. I will be car-less, and will become one of the great, unwashed, public-transport-using masses for a while.

This will give me time to appreciate owning a car, time to contemplate the nature of “being” – and of course time to pay off my many, accumulated debts: which I painstakingly collected over the course of three overseas holidays, too many night's pubbing and clubbing, two computers, and one surprisingly expensive Xbox infatuation.

After that (a period I’m thinking will last 3-6 months) I’ll just go ahead and lease a new “baby.” The frontrunners are: exactly the same car, an Astra, or a Corolla Sportivo. I love window (web) shopping for toys...

Ah.... The idea of a small car, and a 6-speed transmission mated to a 141kW engine speaks to me on a very intimate level.

Summing up:

• UQ is moving me back to St Lucia soon
• The website's going down the toilet (probably)
• the Camry is going to the great Government-auction in the sky (...and I will be bumming lifts off you all very shortly after that)

I'll see you all at the Red Room!