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Pfft, I really don’t know what to write for this post. My mind is absolutely fried and I warn you I’ll probably dribble on a bit. So far this week my shortest work day was 13 hours. I’ve been getting home just in time to watch the Daily Show and then I’ll fall asleep until, say, 6 or 7 the next morning and then get up and get ready for work again because I’m worried that I’ll get deported or something… well, not really. I just don’t want to let the team down. But I was pretty chuffed that I got the private call functionality, which normally operates only on a trunking system, to operate in conventional mode too! Like anyone would know what that means! What I mean is, I HACKED code like I did in uni. Thing is, now that code has to be inspected by a group of people who know far more than I do and I reckon it will provide them with comedy for weeks and weeks to come.

So Saturday morning I was up early waiting outside the West Palm beach auditorium office thing-a-me-jig to get some Coldplay tickets. Ooh yeah, I can’t wait until September now. The last time I saw them I was in Melbourne. That was an awesome show – sorta weird though coz I went to see them with my ex at the time and she’d only just given me the flick… but whatever.

So anyway I’m killing time now. I can’t code any more today. I’m waiting for a colleague to finish an inspection with some guys in Penang so we can go play some foosball. I’m still really crap at it… but god damn, I will beat him someday!!!

*sigh* signing out. Time to listen to more Radio One. Actually feeling a little sick but I’ll blame the Tim Tams for that. Now I’m trying to think of why I called this post “New territory”. Whatever and ever amen.

I’ve posted some of the pics from New Orleans up on flickr. You can check them out here.

At some point I’ll post up what I got up to. Perhaps tonight.

I have been listening to BBC’s Radio One today, like I do every other day when I’m at work now, and god damn the new Coldplay album sounds good. It’s so good that I when I preordered the album on Amazon I got the fastest delivery method I could (in hindsight, I probably could have just gone to a CD store. It seems I’m so addicted to Amazon it’s not funny). Tickets go on sale here this Friday and there is a growing group of people I’m going with. Hopefully we’ll all be able to get tickets to the concert. That’d be just friggin’ awesome, know what I mean?

There isn’t a heck of a lot else going on at the moment. I’m probably comparing to Bourbon street in New Orleans though… I’m still trying to recover from the long weekend. Things that don’t make this easy are getting the latest computer music magazine and finding some great tutorials on the various types of sound synthesis that exist (additive, subtractive, FM, granular, ooh, I’m going weak at the knees now) and then testing out some sounds on the computer till the wee hours of the morning. Some things I’m now stoked about are the fact that the right channel monitor for my home studio set up has mysteriously repaired itself. For a while there the treble wasn’t working at all. Plus, the plugpack that I’d hacked into to get my Kawai digital piano to work over here went on strike a couple of weeks back, something to do with voltage shortages or whatever. A replacement arrived today that wasn’t complaining about the voltage and other working conditions and I’m oh so happy about that. Stick that one up you, you power converter union you!

Right, anyway, I’m obviously suffering from bad coffee overdose with a combination of artifical sweetener overload and whatever is in the water over here.

You know, I thought my post last night regarding this actually made it into the blogger brain… but obviously not. Pity that, actually. It was full of wit and humour that would have left even the most discerning critic wondering why I spend my time monkeying about with code rather than writing jaw-dropping literature.

Illusionary world aside, yes I’m back from New Orleans, Nawlins, the Crescent City, Big Easy, whatever you feel like confusing people with. After driving 1850 miles this is a quick-arse summary of my thoughts of my extended long weekend of travel:

1) New Orleans is a pretty effing cool city.
2) New Orleans actually looks better during the day than at night. Contrast this with Miami, which is a pretty city at night but not too pretty during the day.
3) Florida actually has undulations in its terrain up around the panhandle.
4) Miles don’t click over quickly enough.
5) Aquaplaning for about 20 metres during a big arse thunder storm on the way back is “interesting”.