Day Two Hundred and Forty One

A very un-exciting day at work, i just seem to be picking up all the rubbish jobs there.

Came home and had my dinner.

Went out and picked up Kate form Darlinghurst as she was at a work function til about 9pm.

Less rain today.

Day Two Hundred and Forty

Slept in a bit and we then both got up and hit the Wii Fit. Once all that was done we headed over to Willoughby and met Bill and Carol. I had to help Carol choose an Ipod Dock for the Glenwood Aged Care facility, we also invested in an Ipod to go with it.

We came back to Willoughby, Bill did some Ironing for us and we lazed around and had a salad dinner. Watched a bit of crap TV there and then headed home.

Seems the weekends just disappear now that we are both back to working 5 days a week.

Monday morning fun again tomorrow.

Still raining here...

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Nine

Can it rain anymore in Sydney....rain rain rain all day!

I walked up the local shops after getting up and then woke Kate up later on, once the morning was done we headed to Broadway for shopping and back home for a lazy day.

I cooked a monster Lasagne for dinner we then had Skype calls with all the people back in the UK.

Kate and I have been officially together 1000 days today. Funny to think a thousand days ago tonight we were out in Central London on our first official date, taking in some of the less desirable pubs around Leicester Square.

Anyhow I wouldn't change a single one of those 1000 days and look forward to thousands more!

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Eight

Friday

TFI Friday...

Had another day day at work and then headed home, Kate came home a bit later after a quick post work drink. We got ourselves ready and headed into Darling Harbour on the tram to meet our friend Pip. pip is up form Melbourne running a conference and so we had dinner with her.

We used to work together at Symbian in London. We went to the Blackbird, didn't rate the service too much bit food was OK.

We had a drink in The Watershed afterwards, Pip blagged us in by passing the 5 dollar entry by pulling the 'I'm running a conference for 3500 people next door, keep me sweet' line. We said our goo byes and came home.

Its muggy and wet here in Sydney.

In other exciting news, Dave kept his job... http://www.smh.com.au/business/dave-the-banker-keeps-his-job-20100205-ni0q.html?autostart=1

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Seven

Thursday

Another day at Caritas, much of the same. I have lined up another job interview for next Wednesday so watch this space.

Took ages to get home, well to Willoughby to see Kates folks, we had a Chinese which was all good.

Not much else to report, it's interesting to note what Symbian folks are up to nowadays in press today (cant see it really being a success myself but there you go)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8496263.stm

This is quite cool too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8493631.stm

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Six

Another exciting day at work!

Came home and had dinner and then had a good video call with folks, nice to catch up with news from home. Not much else to report, although the following is quite funny..


Only in Australia....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/8494854.stm

and the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RotaSnenNyQ&feature=popular

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Five

Another day at Caritas. Nothing too exciting to report from there.

Came home and when Kate got home we went for a walk, walked down past the dog track, around the park, under the tram tracks and home. Not a huge walk but a good start to try and get fit.

Cooked some dinner and now just reading book I bought in Melbourne when folks were here about the BA Dirty Tricks campaign against BA in the early nineties.

It's started raining heavily here, seems like ages since we had a big downpour and it's certainly freshened things up.

No big news to report on job front today.

This is stuff I'm supporting at work

http://www.caritas.org.au/blueprint/index.html

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Four

A fairly busy day at work, Mondays are never fun. Had a call from a recruitment agent about a job I applied for, they wanted to know dates I was at Symbian, so looks like they may put me forward for the role i applied for. More on that in due course.

Got home and waited for Kate, we then went out for the evening. We went to see Anthony and the Johnsons (well mainly Anthony tonight) with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House.

http://antonyandthejohnsons.com/news/news.html

We had a bit of a mare with dinner before hand with it arriving late and having to rush to get to the Opera House in time. We needn't have bothered as there was some Arthouse shite dancing thing as a support act. A quick break and then they were on, a superb gig, great seeing him play with an Orchestra.

Battled our way home and off to bed

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Three

Sunday

A quiet day around the house, we did a bit of shopping and generally had a lazy day. I washed the car and we had dinner. We watched the final of the Australian Open tennis which Andy Murray failed to win but he put in a good effort.

Had a Skype call with folks.

And happy birthday to one of my readers Karo!

Day Two Hundred and Thirty Two

We got up and drove to the Paddington markets. It was nice to see arts and crafts on sale. Grabbed a quick drink in local pub before heading back to Glebe for lunch. We then drove to Chatswood, looking at presents for various upcoming things and had success.

http://www.paddingtonmarkets.com.au/results.aspx?i=716

We then went to Willougby for dinner, had a superb barbecue and spent evening playing a game called compatibility followed by Trivial Pursuit. Kate and I won the Compatibility but lost the TP.

We made the mistake of thinking we had a Skype call with Alv and Crystal tonight, so Alv we can do it at original time of 9.30GMT Sunday as planned.

Just driven home and off to bed

Day Two Hundred and Thirty One

Up and out to work, easy day there.

Came home and waited for Kate and when she got home we went straight back out and met Marianne at The Helm Bar in Darling Harbour. Had a few drinks and then went for dinner at Chinta Ria which was nice.

http://www.chintaria.com/

It was good to catch up on all the news from London, we'll probably see here again before she heads back towards late February.

Still muggy here.

Day Two Hundred and Thirty

Another day at work, not much to report from there.

Had a call from Oxfam this evening asking me what I'm up to these days, I think there could be possible opportunities there down the line.

Cooked a Jamie Oliver Risotto this evening, have to say it was pukka...

Spoke to Adelaide gang on phone.

Just watched the tennis, Andy Murray goes through to the final on Sunday...should be a great match to watch, we might even get a Brit winning it...

Really muggy here today, was a storm this evening but it hasn't cleared the air much.

Roll on Friday, tomorrow we catch up with Sully from Symbian who is back in town..

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Nine

Another day at work, not really much to report, weird being back in meetings in an office.

Picked up Kate after work at Central and we went shopping.

Tonight we've chilled out at home.

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Eight

A quiet day at home, we got up late having gone to bed late!

Australia day today, my first one here. Was great to see all the Aussies wondering round with Aussie flag clothing on etc. We failed to catch any of the events around the harbour such as ferry racing etc, we just wanted to chill out at home.

We had lunch and dinner etc, did a load of washing and watched a lot of the Australian Open tennis, just seen Andy Murray go through to the semi's, should be another good match.

Had a cool chat to folks on Skype.

Back to work tomorrow.

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Seven

Ah Monday mornings, what fun....

Drove to work and had a fairly easy day doing nothing too strenuous at Caritas. Came home just after 5 and waited for Kate to get home.

We got ready and then headed over to Michael's 30th Birthday celebrations at The Supper Club on Oxford St. Was a really good night and was certainly very busy. We left there at about 2.30am and grabbed a taxi home. Got to bed at about 3am.

Tomorrow is Australia Day so a national day off.

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Six

Sunday

A late start after just chilling out for a lazy Sunday morning. We then went over to Willoughby for Sunday lunch which was nice. We hung out there most of afternoon before heading home via Woolies at Northbridge for a big food shop.

In the evening we had a light dinner, watched a bit of the Australian Open on the tele and off to bed in order to have that joyous Monday morning back to work tomorrow.

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Five

The Big Day Out 2010

Today we went to the Big Day Out at the Sydney Showground. It was super hot on the train there and hot when we arrived. after an hour or though the breeze picked up and the cool change arrived. It would have been unbearable otherwise.

We caught some of Eskimo Joe and Kasabian. We checked out the silent disco for a while before meeting Mike and the others. We took them back to the silent disco and then met Caroline.

We saw Lily Allen (second time in 2 days) and then grabbed some food. In the evening we saw Powderfinger and Muse before battling home on the train and tram.

Not a bad festival, didn't feel like the festie 's I'm used to and I'm not a fan of the two stage set up.


The main arena


Silent Disco fun

More Silent Disco'ers

Muse

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Four

Friday

Back to work...

Started at CARITAS today, a short term role supporting some of their events and back filling for someone who is moving into more of the event side of things.

It's good easy money which will be handy. Spent most of morning being inducted into the CARITAS way.

Finished up at 5 and met Kate at Central on her way home and we took tram home together.

Had dinner up the pub and then had a good Skype call with folks.

Looks like me might have finally rented flat in Colliers Wood after 3 false starts. Watch this space until its sign sealed and delivered.

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Three

A manic day...

Got up and after breakfast drove to Alexandria and had a brief meeting with CARITAS. I start there tomorrow doing some project administration work. It's a temp role and actually ideal as we are clear on both sides its 4-6 weeks for them and from my side if I get a proper job I can walk out of the door. Gets some money coming in.

Drove back to Glebe again.

Cancer Council Chilled briefly, I then drove to Wooloomaloo in the east and interviewed for a job with theNSW. This was an interesting role and I think the interview went well. I'll find out in a few weeks.

Drove back to Glebe again.

Then drove to Willoughby to see Bill briefly (to drop of some ironing to be honest, lucked out with a future father in law who loves to iron). Drove from there to St.Leonards to pick up Kate.

Drove back to Glebe again

We had some dinner then we drove over to the Horden Pavillion to see Lily Allen. Have to say was a really good gig and a pretty good venue too.

Took us best part of an hour to get out of the multistory car park though and we drove Caroline who we met there back to Newtown

Drove back to Glebe again

Just got home, trying to sort out rental issues with the flat in London and now off to bed before up early to go to work.

Day Two Hundred and Twenty Two

Sad news, overnight the excellent cafe in Glebe we ate in on just Sunday, burnt to the ground

http://www.smh.com.au/national/popular-cafe-totally-destroyed-by-fire-20100120-mjg2.html

Got up as Kate went to work and jumped on the bike and cycled round the par, across the Anzac bridge and back past the fish markets. Took me about half an hour. Will try and get another one of these trips in this week and start to build them up.

Came home and showered and started on job search again. Starting to get some fruition tot he previous efforts.

Tomorrow I'm going to see CARITAS about some work. It's not directly event work yet, more back filling for someone who is now running an event (who it sounds like is less experienced than me) so more admin at this stage but it is work and its casual so gives flexibility, will bring some money in and could lead to a proper event role. I could be in work by Friday...

In the afternoon tomorrow I also have a job interview at The Cancer Council of New South Wales, this role is event co-ordinating their Relay for Life events in NSW, although might only be par time.

In addition this afternoon I talked with a recruitment agent about another job I applied for, she wanted a slightly revised CV which I sent through so more may come of that tomorrow. That's another interesting looking role.

Watch this space.

Picked Kate up from work and we came over to Willoughby for dinner with Carol. We usually do this on a Thursday but tomorrow night we are going to see Lily Allen in town.

Links

http://www.caritas.org.au/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home1

http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/