The Wizard of Aus

When you're talking about open source software there's two concepts you have to deal with; the definitions of free. The terms coined to help remember these are "Free as in Speech" and "Free as in Beer". Tonight I received something that was "Free as in Kebab". So here I am, filled to the brim with tasty Lebanese fast food, basking in the warm glow of the monitor with my feet resting against the computer to try to get some heat back into them.

I decided that this was as good a time as any to get back on the pony or, more accurately, to start posting to this blog again. It's time to start telling tall tales. I owe it to you; my adoring public. I also need to prove to Ciara and Clara that even the two of them put together can't ruin the buzz. Surprisingly, I'm still getting quite a high amount of traffic to this blog. Go figure!

In order to bring you up to date; here's what's going on right now. It's got cold. We don't have any central heating which sucks and I miss my slippers. In work I've been replaced by my replacement; a qualified chef from Egypt who was trained in a five-star Hilton Hotel [it sounds like a joke doesn't it? It's not]. He can essentially do prep work that would take me three days in a night. He's also the perfect example of what you can get away with saying if you don't speak very much English... It's enough to say that the word pussy comes up far more than is strictly necessary... There's even a song... [Groan!] By replaced, of course, I mean that I still work six nights a week but I've been relegated to directing work in the kitchen and answering phones to whack jobs. One guy threatened to burn down the shop because his pizza was late. It was very late but jeez, have a little perspective. I've saved enough money to go traveling and essentially I'm just passing time until the Redd machine arrives. I'm done with Perth. Don't get me wrong, I still like it but I need to get away before it makes me insane.

The plan as of right now [and by plan I mean a loose set of things we may do]. Is for Reddmondo to buy a camper van and drive me and Se across the country heading north to Broome and Darwin and then straight down the centre past Alice Springs, Adelaide and finally to Melbourne. I hope to be able to see Kangaroo Island too. You never know what you'll get on Kangaroo Island. Me and Reddy made some sort of stupid agreement. She said she'd go shark diving with me if I'd agree to jump out of a plane with her. She doesn't know that I'm going to back the hell out. I'll still go shark diving though. The idea of jumping out of a plane, parachute or no, is just men-tal

I don't have an Australian accent and I have no idea what's going on in Neighbours/Home and Away. I do however have a Canadian accent. I've mentioned it before but recently I've begun being accused of being Canadian again. People look at me strangely when I say that I'm Irish, as if I'm playing some weird Canadian joke on them that they don't quite get.

Oh yeah, and I'm thinking about coming home in August.

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