Wake up!

So, the old "I haven't been blogging for a long time" blog post. Just so you guys know, I'm now in Taree, NSW, about 3 hours' drive north of Sydney, on another water project. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anywhere north of Sydney and south of Brisbane has enormous natural beauty and would heartily recommend a visit to anyone who's in earshot.

Anyway, why restart now? One because Brian pestered me to last Saturday when we met up over Eugene's wedding. Two, because I'm bored. Three, because I'm doing my tax and trying to resolve to manage my records better and I'm trying to record everything.

Things I want to put on the record:

• Macaroni and pasta sauce make a great, easy, energy filled meal. As a rare food-hater, this is ideal, along with high-fibre breakfast cereal.
  
• NSW drivers seem to have it in for Victorian number plates. I'm driving a different car every couple of weeks (thanks, company!) and driving through Sydney with Victorian number plates gets a lot more stares than NSW number plates. (Racists.)
  
• The Internet is slow here! I've got on Virgin Mobile Australia's 3G network at my apartment in Old Bar. I don't think it's to do with the phone-to-base-station link, I think I'm just far enough from civilisation to get decent speeds.
  
• Compiling tax returns is painful. Here's hoping the government delivers on their tick-and-flick tax returns they promised at the last election.
  
• Talking about elections, I'm currently living in Rob Oakshott's electorate. But you can't blame me for the hung parliament - I didn't vote here!
  

And there you go. That's enough of a scattergun range of topics for a welcome-back post.