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Not a bad $25 souvenir

UPDATE: I was looking at this post again and was thinking “Wow, you got a parking ticket. That’s. . . exciting”. Well this is my very first parking ticket either over here or in Australia. I left my car overnight in some open space car park and apparently it ‘closed’ at 2am, which to me seemed rather stupid. Any signs indicating this in the carpark weren’t very noticeable. Maybe I should have contacted one of those companies that specialises in trying to get your parking ticket revoked? It’s not like there is a shortage of them over here.

Mind you though, this isn’t my first car-related offense. Over in Australia I’ve been caught twice for speeding – one for rushing to a soccer game and the other for coasting down a hill in a stupid 50 km/h zone (and probably listening to DnB at the time), just after those zones got introduced. Over here, even though I regularly go 10 miles/h over the speed limit, I’m pretty safe because there are still people passing me. I was a bit worried that I’d get caught again when I went back to Oz recently as I was still driving like I would be on the I-95.

I heard that BBC was broadcasting the new Dr Who series over in the UK. I was a big, big fan of Dr Who as a kid. I’ve seen four episodes of the new series so far and what can I say – it’s bloody awesome! It’s got lots and lots of British humour which I just can’t get enough of. I can’t wait to see the next one. Oh, having Billie Piper co-star is also a help.

Stuff seems to be finally trickling in from the many people who have been hoarding the pictures on their cameras. This is one of them taken in front of a Giant Sequoia tree in Yosemite national park late last year that I’ve stitched together. You can see us standing there way, way down the bottom.

Big tree

I’m also in the process of moving photos from stupid Webshots to flickr so you’ll see my flickr bar on the right of this page being updated as I find time.

I’ve been invited to a hat party in a couple of weeks and I immediately thought “cork hat”. I couldn’t be bothered making one myself so I looked around for one on the net. I happened to stumble across this site: http://www.stickcricket.com/game.php and I’ve been playing it for the past 1/2 hour (at work). After working a lot of hours in the past week, I don’t care if anyone sees me playing this.