Santa was very kind to me the Christmas. He bought me a PSP! Woohooin! So now I’m in the land of multimedia goodness.
I’m in sunny Perth at the moment and the weather is gorgeous. And very very hot. Perfect beach weather, although the beloved won’t go to the beach when it’s broiling so we go in the evening - I know there’s lots of grumbling about daylight saving but it really is fabulous! How can you complain about being able to go swimming at 7pm?
And the seafood! We’ve been gorging on prawns and crayfish and my new year’s resolution is a much-needed diet, but in the meantime I plan to enjoy myself!
We’re off fishing for two days from tomozza down south. I had no idea they had trout in WA, but they do. So I’m going to see if I can catch a couple.
And we’ve been hitting the post chrissy sales so I now have four more pairs of shoes than I flew over with! I kid you not. 
We’ve been staying in Jollimont, minutes walk from Subiaco which I have decided is my favourite Perth suburb. It’s classy, not too snobby and a bit hip, and the houses are simply devine. All out of my price range, of course (isn’t everything!) but just really well designed. And huge too.
Speaking of houses, you hear a lot of talk about median house prices in Perth and how they’re second only to Sydney’s, but what they don’t tell you is that in many cases that median house price gets you a mini mansion. Like everything in WA, houses are, in general, BIG. I love the open spaces here - and the sky is so blue - the kind of blue I remember, but haven’t seen for a while, what with all the pollution and humidity. It’s good for my soul.
If I didn’t have a job that I loved in Sydney, I’d move here in a second. It’s not all beer and skittles - every place has its pros and cons - but it makes me happy.
Have a wonderful new year and bring on 2007!
Don’t think about why an Emperor Penguin is living as a pet in Japan, just watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Nc1kvAF3A
Mostly because I’ve been up to my ears in work and haven’t had the will to put my lappy on the internet and write some stuff.
But I’m working at home at the moment and needed the web. So I turned on the wireless and finally got around to downloading a stable version of the latest iTunes. Now I’m sitting here on my Windows laptop wirelessly streaming music from the beloved’s Mac. Yes, folks…we have finally achieved home networking Nirvana! I’m so excited, I’m doing a little dance of glee. And, in a few months time, it might even be legal in Australia!
If you’re a fan of Iron Chef on SBS, (the original, not the lame American version), you’ll love this article by Tania Cammarano:
She got to meet Sakai! Tops stuff.
And that means so are the schlock Christmas albums! I am thinking about starting a collection of Christmas Schlock. It began with a copy of John Denver & The Muppets - A Christmas Together.
But then I found out that 80s rock tragics Twisted Sister (whom I’ve always had a soft spot for and still have on my iPod) have released A Twisted Christmas! And Billy Idol has released a holiday album too!
So I got to thinking: “What else is out there?”
And then I found this little gem of a site:
www.mistletunes.com/latest.html
It’s not all schlock, mind you, but there’s some great things for my collection in there!
My husband is gonna kill me 
Using concentrated sunlight, Spectrolab demonstrated the ability of a photovoltaic cell to convert 40.7 percent of the sun’s energy into electricity.
http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/6563/
The worst thing about an enormous email limit is that I canna bring myself to delete old emails. I just tried, and didn’t get past the first one which, as fate would have it, was from my beloved in the early days of our relationship.
So I’m engaging in digital hording.
