Okay, some one explain why crisps depend on whether it's Summer or Winter. I just don't get it.

Bought a laptop bag. I love my laptop bag. I will sleep with it tonight.

I found this fabulous popup map of Sydney. So fabulous that I spent the next 4 hours searching around Dublin for one on Brisbane. Sadly, it was nowhere to be seen.

I have a broken shoe. This makes me sad because I am so attached to this shoe.

I've been reading 'Xernophobe's guide to the Aussies'. It's remarkable stuff that will hold me in good stead I think. Apparently I'm a 'bluey' and that the most ominous gesture you could get from an Aussie is a smile. How disturbing. Aussies, I salut you.

I went to the asian food market today. Bought this seafood cocktail. I guess this picture is just another attempt to gross you out. It was yummy though.

People are so two faced sometimes. It just gets me so down.

I wonder if there is a society for prevention of cruelty to humans? I think sometimes I am guilty of that.

So I've had 2 songs consistanly going off in my head. I've been playing my friend by Alex Lloyd on my minidisc continously for the past month now. I just really like it a lot. And on my laptop I've been playing tell him by Suzanna Smith [suz on irc.gnome.org]. I dunno what the point of this is, I just like them in completely different ways.

...because other shower gels would decrease your performance!?

One other reason for going home every now and again...electric blankets.

"To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity." - Georg Simmel

"I have never turned back in my life ; I shall not do so today." - Emile Rey

It's not just climbing...it's life.

"If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk." - Alvarez

I have no muse...no inspiration...so for now, just climbing.

I went for a 4/5 mile run today. I know it's gonna hurt like hell tommorrow but today I am going to savour the moment. It was wonderful.

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road. That's where I'll always be.
Oh, every stop I make, I make a new friend
Can't stay for long. Just turn around, and I'm gone again.

Everytime I pass the fridge, I see this certificate and wonder 'How is the little tree doing today?'.

I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

The portrait of an artist as a young man. [Notice that I refrained from saying 'Mirror, Mirror on the wall...'].

Today, my toenail felt a little hollow and much to my surprise I found out that another toenail was growing at the back of it to replace it. I had damaged it about 3 months ago when I was climbing, but it didn't go black or anything. Isn't nature a marvel?

This pretty much says it all. Evolution, you have let me down. I feel unloved. Fortunately there are other mailers to remove the offending mail or whatever gremlin it was.

So I finally booked my accomodation in Brisbane. It's probably not going to be the conference I had originally thought it would. Still, it will be a nice opportunity to see more of the country than just Sydney. I've pretty much figured out what climbing is there anyway...

But, when you look back on these days, you'll realise that these were the best days...and you know, maybe they aren't so scarey afterall. This is scarey person number three.

It's so obvious to identify a climber. Fleeces, thermal jackets come with the term 'climber'....oh and beards it seems. This is scarey person number two.

So you decide to share your New Years up in the mountains, where the pipes are frozen and your company is full, from first impressions, of the most scariest of people. This is scarey person number one.

Let's go fly a kite.

So finally Apple decided it was time for me to have my iBook and I'm sleeping with it beside me with its gentle pulsating glow inducing me to a deep sleep.

Ugh. Back to work. Or tried to. Everyone was so caught up in the Millenium Bug that they forgot to prepare for the 2002 Bicycle Bug which has decided to attack. One broken back akle. We are not amused.

Start of a new year. Start of a new colour.