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Australia / October 26, 2006 / John / 0
Oh God, make it end soon. We’ve been packing for what seems like days. We have a baggage allowance of 20Kg each. There are five of us. That’s a tenth of a metric ton of luggage. No problem, right? Wrong – we seem to have twice that amount of rubbish kicking around. We’re filling case
Ramblings / October 24, 2006 / John / 0
I’m posting this entry using Deepest Sender, an add-on for firefox which gives a nice little mini-blog-posting thingy. It’s really very nice. The only thing I’ve found that it doesn’t allow me to do via the gui is to change a link property to open in a new window, but I can do that via
Australia / October 23, 2006 / John / 0
I hate packing. This is a well documented fact. It’s also why I’m sitting here writing about packing instead of actually doing it. So far, my morning has been spent dismantling Bionicle models after being nagged into photographing them from every conceivable angle to aid in their reconstitution. As if they’re going to have time
Australia / October 22, 2006 / John / 2
Well, it’s been done. The flights are booked for the 31st of October, so we’re off to Oz. We’re spending the coming week doing all our pre-departure visiting, as well as fun things like setting up bank accounts and packing. It’s all going to be a bit of an adventure really!
Game Diary / October 22, 2006 / John / 1
What an Ace little cartridge! It has card games, board games, bowling, darts – it’s just ace! I forgot how much I like Rummy 🙂 It’s also multiplayer with a single cart and even has 7-player online multiplayer. Not only that, but it’s only twenty quid. That’s forty-odd P a game – not to be
Game Diary / October 21, 2006 / John / 0
I have too many characters. It’s official. I’ve been having a blast with ol’ Pooky recently. I got him over the horrible hump of the early twenties. It seems to be a bit of a rough spot with mages – not enough damage to attack anything higher than green and groups are hard to come
Australia / October 20, 2006 / John / 0
Woo and indeed hoo! The courier is on his way to take the passports off for evidencing. This usually takes five working days. We’re booking flights for the 31st of October. It’s cutting it fine, but then the prices skyrocket in November so it’s worth the risk. I think. AAAARGH! [0] Too many badly translated
Australia / October 19, 2006 / John / 0
….although we kinda expected it would be. Our sponsor called DIMA last night to ask for an update on timescales, as they need to arrange time off work. Our case officer assured him she’d be working on our application on Wednesday or Thursday, meaning we should have heard this morning. Never mind – maybe tomorrow.
Australia / October 16, 2006 / John / 0
We discovered, purely by accident, on Thursday night, that our case officer was on holiday on Thursday on Friday. So nothing was done those two days. That’s alright though – everyone is allowed holidays. Over the weekend, we had a lot of opportunities to think about whether or not the migration agents provided value for
Australia / October 4, 2006 / John / 0
And it has been. Our assurer lodged the bond at the bank today and took the resulting documentation into Centrelink who pretty much processed it on the spot and sent it all off to Adelaide. Hopefully this means that we’ll hear something back from the case officer in the next day or two. That’s the