Rob poked me me earlier today with some suggestions for the infamous Cairo -> Melbourne route, which got me looking into it a bit more. Long story short, I did actually find a route, via Singapore Airlines, for something like $850. Much more reasonable. However, when I add all this up, I’m still looking at… Read more
I’ve just realised I actually have a non-trivial bank balance. Nothing that would be categorised as well-off – heck, in this area I’m still practically destitute – but my point being that, when I was trying to pay off my car, every fortnight seemed so long… I was counting the dollars, estimating dates, trying to… Read more
Urrgh, just when I was thinking I could go one year without doing the laborious pack-move-dump cycle again, my landlady announces, on Monday, that she’s selling the place. While she’s not kicking me out directly, odds are the new owners, whomever they end up being, won’t be interested in taking me on as part of… Read more
Sara Bareilles was very good. The place was full, mostly of people around my age – looks like I finally fell into an appropriate slice of popular culture – though skewed towards women, I guess not surprisingly. Of the guys there, it seemed divided between those dragged out by their girlfriends and willing to stand… Read more
No news of note to report. I’m still considering travel options… Egypt would be great except I can’t find any way to get to Melbourne from there that isn’t ridiculously expensive (cheapest thus far is $3,600, for that single, one-way leg of the trip). Which sucks, because it’d otherwise be perfect. :( So anyway, still… Read more
Huzzah! According to this random blog entry: The least useful profile elements in helping people get other people (in increasing order of utility) were: • Profile picture was a non-person… This amuses me greatly as my Facebook profile picture has been, since I signed up, a picture of Stitch. I think this actually conveys a… Read more
So, I’ve been pretty studiously not facebook-stalking my ex, despite it being so in vogue, but I heard anyway – presumably from Bobo and/or Sket, though I can’t recall… way back in November, I think – that they were finally getting hitched, in Fiji of all places. And that happened last week or so apparently,… Read more