2010 began rather inauspiciously, with both Krista and me shaking off colds we'd picked up at Christmas. Still, we were in our own apartment and the visa application had been put through, so it wasn't a bad result overall ( Read more... )

Christmas this year was a bit more disjointed than last year, which is a good thing from an energy perspective.

Christmas EveUnlike last year, when we submitted Krista's visa application, this Christmas Eve was a normal work day. Well, I say "normal", but we had a big Christmas lunch with the team and there were hardly any customers ( Read more... )

Why is it that people post things in travel communities which essentially run "I've got a hotel booked and flight tickets to [Location]. Now, what do you recommend I do while I'm there ( Read more... )

In typical fashion, the "chat with the girl in Operations" never quite came off. Initially, she'd got her calendar round the wrong way (how does that happen?) and it had to be the next week. Then she managed to lose her calendar to a computer crash and go out for lunch instead ( Read more... )

So after the disappointment of the Call Quality fiasco - and also not getting Level B either - it took a fair while for me to bounce back to my best ( Read more... )

Iceland is phenomenally cheap to travel around these days, courtesy of the fact that the country went pretty much bankrupt last year ( Read more... )

The first weekend of November saw us in Melbourne, as a result of the Local Hero award I'd won back in May. We'd decided that the best use of my prize was to get a night's accommodation at the Park Hyatt there and spend a long weekend enjoying the city. Best. Idea. Ever ( Read more... )

Last Friday, being the workday before Halloween (which I still maintain Australians shouldn't have to celebrate), was a dressup day to look terrifying at work. I have photos, which I'll eventually get around to uploading somewhere, but the number of people who really get into it is incredible ( Read more... )

We haven't done an awful lot of late, since the weather's been quite bad. It's improving now, but wandering around in the rain isn't exactly high on my to-do list ( Read more... )

A news reporter on Sky News this morning, talking about the death of a man who was tasered ( Read more... )