Hunsbeck gazette

Loitering with intensity

I've been back in Australia for four whole days now and it seems like much longer.

I never used to suffer from jetlag but apart from when we first moved to Australia, this (four year) stint in California is the longest and biggest time shift of my life.

I've been waking up at 2 am and checking the US stock market and massively plonking huge chunks of my 401K cash into the latest earnings winner. The Santa Claus rally better keep going a few more weeks for me to meet my financial goal for 2004 (I'll tell you what it was in January 2005, that way I can look like a genius).

Yesterday was about 12C cooler than Saturday and we firedup the brand new barbie. It's a four-burner with a side burner which Linda insists is a wok burner. I just think it's a side burner, since we don't have a wok to burn.

I also fired up my old IBM Thinkpad 365 XD yesterday after we managed to blow up the old IBM 286 which was set for US 110V and once again forgot to flick the switch to 240V and poof! ANOTHER dead computer.

Why play with this old technology. Haha, as if you are in slightest bit interested.

I'll just say CICS COBOL.

Time to polish up the California Cruiser, pump the tyres and go for a bike ride.

tata

posted by Wayne @ 4:06 PM