I'm 25 today! :-)

As per my previous post, I'm in Perth, or more specifically Cottesloe, having departed San Francisco on Feb 25th, arrived here Feb 27th, and recovered from jetlag a few days after that.

This is nicolerego's first trip to Australia; in fact, her first trip requiring a passport (until very recently, visits by citizens of the USA to Canada and Mexico did not ( Read more... )

Well, actually it just likes to bathe in alcohol.

After a bottle of 95% alcohol (Polish Spirytus), it is back in action.  Hopefully Midnite doesn't throw up in it again before we work out a deterrent to stop her spending so much time sitting on top of it.

nicolerego and I are heading to Perth on Wednesday (February 25th) and will be there until March 22nd.  It will be the first time I've left the USA since arriving here on January 13th, 2007 (unless you count hopping through Texas airport on the way back from Florida - Texas is virtually another country).  That's over two years in the one country - the ( Read more... )

nicolerego bought me an iPhone 3G (black, 16G) as an early birthday present, since we'll be in Australia for my birthday, and she wanted to buy the present before we went.

Which, of course, means I now have a developer G1 (aka Google phone), a Windows Mobile device (AT&T 8525), a Nokia 9300 (Communicator) and an iPhone - all I'm missing is a Palm, really :-)

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Forecast for next Monday in San Jose:

• Max 43F/6C
  
• Min 36F/2C
  

Reminds me of when I first arrived in California and started this livejournal, with -3C overnight minimum.

I can has darkness?

Recently, I purchased a Canon Pixma MX310 multifunction device. The motivation for this was for Nicole to be able to send some faxes for her work, however I of course had to find a well-reviewed device, and as most fax machines were pretty poorly reviewed, that led to the choice of the multifunction device ( Read more... )

It has been reported quite a bit in the media that a concession which UAW are discussing with respect to attempting to secure an auto industry bailout is cutting back the jobs bank ( Read more... )

2-for-1 return flights US to Australia (and other routes). Sale ends in 36 hours.

I'm heading back Feb 25-Mar 22 next year.