… life can return to normal. I’m not going back to work until the 3rd of Jan, so i’m taking it easy for the next couple of days.
I got a Canon IXUS 50 from my family this Christmas which was nice. My Dad did some research on the internet for me about digital cameras and was pretty impressed with this one, so he was pretty surprised to get one himself 
It’s been pretty crazy around the city the last couple of days with everybody finishing off their last minute christmas shopping. Jezza and I were walking down Bourke Street yesterday, and it was just a sea of people.
Christmas time at Bourke St, Melbourne
Things I like about Christmas:
The things I hate about Christmas are:
It’ll no doubt be a half day at work today, then I’m off work until the 3rd of Jan. I think that plenty of BBQ’s are in order over this time. On the topic of BBQ’s, we went to Shane and Kel’s place for one the other night, with Simmo and Nicole.
When Shane sends me the photo, it’s going here.
Beer, BBQ and some Cold Chisel in the background. It just doesn’t get any better than this.
Went to Stretch’s organised Sunday Session at the Belgium Beer Cafe on St. Kilda Road. I had invited a heaps of guys from Big T, but none of them showed which was kinda dissapointing.
Anyway, we started at 12pm and had 2 rounds, between four of us before Shane, Adam, Simmo and I pushed on to Transport for some horses
Then off to David and Camy’s noodle house which Shane has blogged about before.
I just had to take a photo of the VB Beel sign, which has cracked us up for ages
I haven’t been doing much apart from work, sleep and playing with my new powerbook for over a week now, but I had to blog about this.
The weekend before last, we had Gab-fest ‘05 (being Mick’s bucks weekend). On Friday, Tim, Tom and myself kidnapped Mick from work and we started driving, not telling him anything! Muhahahah
Mick, we’re coming to get you!
Jen had packed his bags for us, so we were set. We jumped on a plane to Sydney, and after some HUGE delays we finally made it. Had a big night walking around the CBD and Darling Harbour and setting in at the casino for some heavy drinking.
The next day we ate at the Meat and Wine Co.
The boys at the Meat and Wine Co.
…and ate the greatest steak ever.
The meat, oh the meat
We went to the PowerHouse museum and rode the monorail around the city. Monorails are cool. We even checked out the bridge and the Opera House.
Mick, Tom and Andy at the Opera House
before making our way back to Melbourne to meet the rest of the crew at Manchester Lane, to enjoy some jazz and some REAL beer (Carlton Draught, not that Tooheys shit!). After going to Red Silks for dinner, we met up with everyone back at the Pub at Crown.
I went home afterwards, but the Ballarat crew drove home and got up to some more mischief. Have a read of
Tim’s, Tom’s and Mick’s accounts of the weekend. Do it!
My Powerbook is here!
For reference for anybody else, when ordering stuff from Apple, you can track the delivery of your goods by using the Apple Delivery Number as quoted in your email confirming that your stuff has been shipped.
Apple uses StarTrack Express for their deliveries, and you can use your Apple Delivery Number as the Reference Number on the StarTrack Express site to trace the delivery of your package.
I’m going to get off work early to drive to Lara to go pick it up. So exciting
Shane and Kel came over last night and we walked down to the Queen Vic market, to test-drive their summer Night Market. I heard good stuff about it from Stretch, but it wasn’t really that good.
Most of the market is roped off, because they have stalls where you can buy beer and food (which is cool) but the whole place was kinda expensive. There were heaps of different types of food, but it lacked that good quality food at a cheap price that the market generally offers. Everything was expensive and kinda dodgy.
Later, we installed the new Xbox Media Center on Shane’s newly bought and chipped Xbox. Let me just say for the record, Xbox Media Centre is tha shit. It has the most awesome interface, plays just about every media format you can think of, will play files from network shares and can even play shoutcast streams. This thing is incredible. Apparently you can also grab the MythTV plugin for it, and hook it up to a MythTV backend (running on a remote computer) and schedule TV recording and playback pre-recorded streams.
XBOX Media Center - Main Menu
Check out Jon’s Thoughts On Everything: Xbox Media Center for a heap of awesome looking screenshots to give you an idea
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