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Property Investment Part 2

So we all piled into the car around 8:30 on Sunday morning. There was Deidre, Peter and Lucy, with me driving. We headed on up to Wollongong, about a 2.5 hour drive north-east of Canberra. You head up the freeway … Read more …

Property investment Part 1

As some of my long term readers would know, I’ve been very interested in property investment for quite a few years now, but have never been in the position to actually go out and get started. I’ve learnt a lot … Read more …

Today is NOT the anniversary of 9/11

The media here in Australia is going out of their way to sell news by starting the 9/11 anniversay a day early.  Very annoying.  Since it’s a ‘9/11 anniversary’ according to the US, it should be remembered according to the … Read more …

And so the packing begins

After only a couple of weeks of looking, and the third house we inspected, we found a new place to move into. It’s a little closer to the shopping areas that we usually frequent, and about 10 minutes closer to … Read more …

APEC security is awesome

Fake motorcade causes summit stir – CNN.com Members of an Australian TV comedy show [“The Chaser’s War on Everything,”], one of them dressed as Osama bin Laden, drove through two security checkpoints Thursday before being stopped near the Sydney hotel … Read more …

Being a Libertarian makes sense

When I discovered I was a Libertarian, everything made sense to me. “The Libertarian creed rests upon one central axiom: that no man or group of men may aggress against the person or property of anyone else. This may be … Read more …

Off to Sydney today

I woke up this morning with a splitting headache… not sure why, but it’s good to have the day off work today.  I think I needed it…. In two months of working I haven’t had a single day off (apart … Read more …

APEC in Sydney annoys me. A lot.

For anyone that doesn’t know, the leaders of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) countries are going to be in Sydney from 2nd September. Here’s a few of the things that are really annoying the hell out of me at the … Read more …

Eviction

Over the past few months we’ve been sorting out our furniture and household items.  This weekend just gone we finalised quite a few items we’ve been slowly paying off, and we were very happy that our house was finally as … Read more …

My new laptop

I bought myself a new laptop yesterday, a 17″ MacBook Pro. I was sick to death of Windows Vista. Yes, that’s right, it’s a dog, and everything good I’ve said about it in the past was simply due to an … Read more …

To the snow

I’m going to Thredbo on Saturday with some friends who are going to be skiing. That’s right, I won’t be skiing myself. But I will be taking photos. And driving in my fun new car. Peter, Chantal and Deidre are … Read more …