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The past week, I’ve had some time to reflect on past events.

I haven’t been achieving my goals, and a few days of time out haven’t helped the cause. As this world won’t stop for me, I’ve definately decided drastic action must be taken.

To start with, I’ve begun to priorotise everything, and I of all people hate having a time tabled life, but somethings definately needs to change. I’m moving back to my home town temporarily, and hopefully save some money.

I intend to find a place somewhere between Geelong and Melbourne, but possibly close to my main sources of income. A tall order, but I’m sure I will find something suitable to my requirements. I’d also like to dedicate more time seeing people that I miss the most. I think that in essence bothers me the most. Ideally I’d like to get a nice balance between work and play, and I honestly don’t know how I can go about this.

I played tennis last night, and loved it, however there are times I’d much rather be with my regular circle of family and friends in Geelong. I miss ‘em heaps. So hopefully I will find work closer to my home town, and continue to fulfill my work obligations in Melbourne for the time being.

I have some big learning opportunities coming up, and I sure hope I do these jobs well.

My shared household has today given me notice of eviction. I’m required to be vacated from the premisis by July 3, 2004. I ain’t too concerned about it, as I’ve known about it for a while. My beloved housemates are having a baby, and need to prepare their house accordingly.

I must admit, I haven’t been in the mood to blog recently, but I told someone by email that I would, and hence here I am writing away again.

Had pretty bad imsomnia last night… I managed to do a months worth of laundry, make my bed, have a shave, and polish my leather shoes. Its amazing what you can do when you dead tired, but can’t sleep. Missed work today too, as I was feeling very drained after 2 hours of unquality sleep. Hopefully I will sleep much better tonight.

Well come to think of it.. I’ve had a very social last few days.

Last night I caught up with my cousin Alistair, and we made a night of it. He also had a few friends with him, by the names of Jodie, Jen, and Sophie. I’ve met Sophie and Jen before, and they haven’t changed at all. Sophie is still her usual self, and I remember the days she and her housemate ganged up on Alistair, just because they could. Jen is still very outspoken, and a few of her Sri Lankan friends arrived on the scene later on.

We had dinner in China town in Melbourne city, which was sensational, and went to a pub with its own micro brewery, and enjoyed a various selections of Ales. We also headed down to Elephant Wheelburrow afterwards, and enjoyed a few Irish Ales.

I crashed at my other cousins place in Collingwood, and I must say, drunk and all, I had a very fine night indeed.

Yesterday I did manager to build my Dad a new computer, (as it is close to end of financial year) and everything appears to be running smoothly. My old housemate Stefan, was very helpful indeed, as I had experienced much pain just mounting the CPU on the mainboard. But all is good. I never knew that a Hyperthreading Pentium IV operated like a second processor - but it certainly looks that way. Anyway.. time for bed.. I’m expecting an instant message sometime today from an old High School friend — Doug. So Sleep must call me to attention.

Today I turned up to my regular job. Working only four days there in the last ten weeks, it was a bit of a culture shock. I going to have to work there pretty much full time for a few months just to build some capital, however my goal is to be self sufficient as a Sole Trader to quit. I look forward to that day. Its amazing how I’ve reassessed my goals, however as this is now semi-permanently written on my SQL database, I better strive towards it.

I’d like to see I would resign my job in three months time, but to be realistic, I think I will probably end up resigning just before Christmas.

New staff finished they’re training today, so I am sure Telstra ADSL Technical Support will have some much needed staff. I’m wrapped I’m not in the ADSL Technical Support call centre area, as I think with the current growth of Broadband in Australia, it be a job that would continue be flatout for years to come. Telstra seem to have a way of promoting themselves, and I think maybe just maybe they use Coca-Cola marketing techniques.

Time for bed… going to work in Middle Park tommorrow.

Last night, I saw the movie Troy. I thought the whole movie was very well done. Too bad I didn’t like the outcome, however it was inevitable. I am sure most of us know the story of the Trojan Horse.

I’ll have to remember if push comes to shove, never take the advice of a Greek Priest. Your bound to loose everytime.

It still didn’t stop me eating a souvlaki last night. I am almost certain that the movie had subliminal messages saying, “Eat Souvlaki, Eat Souvlaki”.

Well today, I got the most evil of evil of Spyware I’ve ever come across.

I went out to do what I thought would be a relatively simple job - a worm removal, however I got more than I bargained for.

After running through virus scans, adaware/spybot, the problem had not been resolved. Finding a cool program called BHOD, enabled me to find one of the offending process, however the other one just wouldn’t go away. After pulling out the remainder of my hair, the Immortal Tech Support services was consulted. He pointed me to a web site about the curse of lop.com software. Voila, it was it.

This software works and operates like a virus. It replicates itself, spawns itself with different names, etc… so after much stuffing around, the curse has finally been removed….. 5 hours later.

Now I wish Adaware/Spybot could have least shown me this, but along came Spy Sweeper, which was my saving grace. I’d also like to thanks Miles the Immortal, for giving me light in this dark tunnel.

I’m back in Melbourne, still tired as, even after a good nights sleep.

I will definately go to bed early… however I wasn’t expecting to feel so tired. I will begin the FTP of files… and my total tally of pictures should increase from 168 to possibly 300+.

Yesterday Jason and I went to Manly and back by ferry, walked around Circular Quay/The Rocks, got a bus to Wooloomooloo, and walked back to Central Station via Kings Cross. Maybe I haven’t recovered from it all.. but it was definately a good pie I ate at Wooloomooloo. Well worth trying.

Mixed gallery is once again online at: http://sydney.phillparker.com/

This may take a little while for the thumbnails to preview, however it should all come up. I will divide it up pretty soon. Not sure if I will divide it by places, days, or something else. Any suggestions most welcome.