Well it’s been quite a while since I posted anything, but things are starting to settle down now. Myself and Jacqui finally found an apartment to rent, five weeks after arriving back from Canada! We moved in two weeks ago and the place is slowly starting to take shape. It’s quite a bit smaller than our previous place in Vaucluse, so we still have to get rid of some stuff that we don’t really have any room far. Once that’s done all will be well, as the place is still a bit cluttered at the moment.

I had hoped to get iiNet’s Naked DSL installed, but it turns out that our apartment doesn’t have a phone line connected to it! In 2008!! Anyway, we could get the landlord to pay $300 to get a line installed, and then wait another 2-3 weeks to resubmit a new Naked DSL application, but since both myself and Jacqui are working from home at the moment, waiting 4-6 weeks to have internet wasn’t practical, so I signed up with BigPond’s Cable Internet instead. We should have that up and running later this week.

Also, I nearly burnt the place down a few days ago. I’d got the gas connected, so I decided to make a coffee with my stovetop coffee pot, but I forgot all about it and went off to the supermarket to meet Jacqui and do a grocery shop. I wandered around, filling up the trolley until I got to the coffee aisle and remembered “Fuck, I left the coffee pot on the gas”. Ran all the way home (just as well our new place is close to the shops, eh?) to discover coffee pot on fire. Thankfully it’s almost all metal so there wasn’t enough flammable material to cause anything serious, so all I had to do was open the windows to let the smell out and reassure the cat that things were OK.