navitronic

2007 was a stupidly unbelievable year. Just like the last one, except I didn’t graduate or live in a hotel with Lemmy from Motorhead like I did in 2006. Ah well, lots and lots of good things happened…

1.) I spent the entire year in Australia on a working holiday…

2.) I got a job that filled the working part of that holiday that I really, really enjoyed…

3.) I got sponsored by that job, which means that I can stay in Australia until 2011 if I want (and be a good PHP code monkey of course) and keep the job.

4.) I lost every little piece of skateboard related coordination I had.

5.) I can’t be bother pontificating on here right now.

Anyway suffice to say I’ve had a great year and I’m going to be staying in Australia for the next couple of years so I’m happy. Not bad for a year that started with enforced agoraphobia, a steve martin film, a jewish shoe shop and a house full of weirdos.

On a sidenote, I’ve lived in too many places this year.

I haven’t done any christmas shopping yet.

I think this means I’m a bad person.

Photoshop experiment showing where I work… my desk is in the far right corner.

Friday morning boredom leads me to dig very deeply into my Music collection and up comes “The Spaghetti Incident?”, Guns and Roses’ interesting excursion into the world of doing bad covers of punks songs. I always thought it was meant to be the other way round, with punk bands doing bad covers of songs. Well I say songs, they generally do covers of bad 80’s cheese like 99 red ballons (or however you say it in German).

Anyway, the significance of this album is that it was the first album I ever bought for myself. I remember seeing the cassette sat there in the local shop with the ever so enticing “explicit lyrics” sticker on. No ten year old boy can resist advertising like that. I think I listened to the album to death and moved on after a month or two to Meatloaf or something equally crap, but its nice to revisit it…

(nb. it wasn’t the first album I ever listened to, I do have fond memories of stealing cassettes off of my Mum and Sister)

For the first time in well over a year, I got a film developed. There were some good shots and some bad. Below are a selection…

This morning a car crashed into my house and then into the postbox outside… not the best way to start the day…

Oh and this is the second car crash I’ve seen outside my house in less than a week…