I’m trying really hard to restrain myself from publishing my “Things About Australia That Piss Me Off” post. But if you’ll indulge me just one – it takes nearly a month to get a home phone and internet. It wouldn’t be so bad, but they keep teasing us. Giving us dates and then changing them. Sending us hardware but not hooking us the fuck up. I’m pretty sure I could have had broadband in Kazakhstan by now. For now, I’m still a pirate of the cyber seas – arrgh, mateys.

There are good things. Lots of good things. I’m trying to focus on those on a daily basis. One of them is a beautiful night sky with stars and constellations that I don’t have a clue what to call. I sit looking up into the night sky humming that Eagles’ song “Seven Bridges Road” that Dolly Parton did better. There are stars in the Southern sky…

We also had the unique pleasure of meeting up in real life with a blogging friend. We spent a couple of hours with Arizaphale and her family up in the house in the hills. It was a bit strange (surreal as Arizaphale put it) to sit down with someone that you’ve only “met” on the internet, but she’s as engaging and entertaining in real-life as she is on her blog.

See, not all bad at all.

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