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This is somewhat of a sad post. I just learned that an old friend who I went to primary and high school back in Australia died in an motorcycle accident last night. Although I didn’t keep in contact with Rob much since I started Univerisity, there are things that come to mind when his name is mentioned:

– Him not allowing me to play on the play equipment with the other people in my class back in early primary school. I don’t know why he did that, but I remember standing up to him one day and saying something like “I will play with my other friends because I want to!” We got along fine after that.

– His brother Brian elbowed Steve in the stomach during a (was it 300m?) lap around the oval on sports day in primary school. I was asked if this ever occurred and I said “no”. I could have said “I didn’t see it” or I could have actually stood up for Steve but I didn’t. I’m pretty sure I did see it happen, and told Steven I saw it happen, but I said the opposite anyway. What character I had back then!

– His ability to get on Damo’s nerves in highschool. Rob knew exactly how to pi$$ him off. Awesome.

– Him playing in our hockey team in the early days. Yes, that fantastic 1987 grand final picture of me with the big head. I’m pretty damn sure Rob was there.

– Him working at the winery.

– His 21st birthday party. I recall watching a Marilyn Manson concert or something like that there.

– The fact that he rode a motorbike.

– And last, but most certainly not least, his obsession with video games. I remember Chad and I went to visit him at his place but pretty much the whole time he was playing the Playstation 2 while we were talking to him. He loved his video games.

– Did I mention he liked video games?

This is the one thing bites the most about being all the way over here. Whatever happens to someone back home I feel so completely displaced. I would love to be back in Australia right now and just be with my friends to chat about Rob.

RIP mate.

I’ve been looking forward to this afternoon for a while now, for it is this afternoon that I fly off to Chicago to visit “Choza” and “da Boss“. I’ve got a list of places I want to see and a lot of things I want to do. Hopefully I can forget about the backlog of work I have to do at the moment. There is so much stuff I have to get done it’s incredible. Ahh well, such is life.

This is the first post from my new apartment in the US. My flatmate and I just got the wireless network up and running and everything seems to be working a-ok.

From the gap in the blog postings you may have thought that I had run out of steam. Not so. I’ve just come back from a long weekend of partying in Key West, frolicking with alligators and having an awesome sing-a-long/play-a-long session at a friend’s birthday party. Prior to that I very busy with work and trying to tie up loose ends over here in the US. To those of you I have promised things or have e-mails to reply to – you know who you are – you’ll be hearing from me in the near future.

I honestly could not think of anything more appropriate than the above title. Honestly.

Yes, Ft Lauderdale and surrounding areas got hit by hurricane Katrina last week, which meant we got Thursday and Friday off of work! Of course, that didn’t really mean you could do anything… it was too dangerous to go outside not only because of what might be lying around, but because a lot of traffic lights were out and that’s just scary.

Katrina grew up and is now going to turn New Orleans into the next Atlantis or something. I hope they hold out alright because that place is awesome.

Car. Stupid car. I still haven’t got my car. I have insurance for the car, but no car. There is a hold up in getting the leasing company for the previous owner to get up off their arses and cash the damn cheque so I can receive the title to the car. That may take over another week yet!

Apart from that I am settling into my new apartment and finding the joy that is a couple of hundred TV channels. Actually, I really only like a couple of them, they being the independent film channel and comedy central. There are a couple of others that have the odd interesting thing on here and there. My flatmate knows the channels off by heart pretty much. Convenient yet scary.

Well, it seems this week I’m actually gaining some of my energy back. I’ve been utterly exhausted recently as has been shown by the lack of posting, but that’s probably also in part due to the fact I have no internet connection at home yet.

Anyway this was just a quick post to prove that I am sort of still alive. And Goldberg, yes, at some point I will take a listen.