Author: Kristian Golding

I’m currently waiting in the Melbourne airport for the gate to open for my flight to Los Angeles. I’ve taken a quick picture of the plane I’ll be flying back in so here it is:

Anyway, seeya to all the people I caught up with in Oz. To the people I didn’t catch up with, I’ll see you around sometime. I don’t know when I’ll be returning to Australia again, so I expect to see you overseas, ok? Good.

Back in Fort Lauderdale it’s currently 1:13am. This means that pretty soon I should be getting some sleep… yerr, that’s just not going to happen. A couple of more hours and then I catch this bastard economy flight to Melbourne. I arrive at 12:30pm in Adelaide to a spanking new airport! It is working now, right??? Last time they were having fuel problems or something and we had to use the old building. Well, whatever, I never really had anything to say for this post, I’m only writing something coz I was able to find a free wifi spot.

Monday started off like any other Monday. Check e-mails received over the weekend, catch up with other people to see what they got up to, think about what had to be done for the week. There was one thing in the back of my mind though: the flight to Australia. Now don’t get me wrong, I was sooooo looking forward to going back to Australia and meeting up with everyone I possibly can, but it’s that damn flight that I was worried about. If you read this mess of words often enough you’d know I got bitten by a red-back spider a couple of days before flying back to the US. The bite got completely mis-diagnosed, I thought I was ok to fly, but in the end I wasn’t. It’s the only time I really thought I was going to die, and I say that in all seriousness. Since then I’ve had dizzy spells and numbness like I had on the plane, but nowhere near the severity. They’ve pretty much gone *now*, but I was still scared of getting on the plane, whilst going through my Monday morning thought process.

I mentioned this to my friend at work and said that it would have really been good to go on a couple of rollercoaster rides before I left, just to test if I was fit to fly. What happened next was amazing. He looked up the weather for Orlando – awesome day predicted. Orlando of course has all the major theme parks, “Islands of Adventure” being one of them. “The Hulk”, one of my favourite rollercoaster rides, is also there. Orlando is also 3 hours drive away from Ft Lauderdale. It was 11am. The park closed at 10pm. We decided to leave work for the rest of the day and ride on rollercoasters instead. Totally random. Totally impromptu.

We went on “the Hulk” three times. We went on “Dueling Dragons” four times. We also went on the “Spiderman” and “The Mummy” rides. It was an awesome day, full of adrenalin. At the end of the night, while on the “Dueling Dragons” ride, fireworks were setting an awesome backdrop to an awesome ride.

I am fit to fly.

It’s currently past 5am in the morning. I didn’t head out tonight, but I am at a mate’s place (some dodgy Nicaraguan) working out some music stuff. At this stage I have had a few beers – Sam Adams and Presidente. I am loving my new laptop. I know someone reading this laughed when I said that I *needed* to buy a laptop. Well, I probably could have done my music course back in Australia by borrowing people’s computers here and there, but that would be so damn inconvenient. Plus, now that I have a laptop, I am becoming a true geek. If I really want I could be one of those geeks who sits at Starbucks all day and surfs the net with their ultra-expensive T-Mobile access plan. There are two bad things about that – first, paying for the wifi access when many other coffee places have free wifi. The other one, oh so much more important, is that I still think that Starbucks’ coffee sucks. Their frappuccino is the only thing decent there and if I drank them all day I’d probably turn out to be a pretty fat bastard, for some reason.

I try to adhere to a policy of not making blog entries when I’m tired and especially when I’m emotional or slightly drunk (I haven’t been adhering to that lately, obviously), but what the hey. This site needed an update.