Hooray! It’s a miracle. Tomorrow is my first real income earning opportunity since returning to the lucky country. I’m donning the overalls to slave my guts out come 9am tomorrow. In a warehouse in Little Bourke Street you’ll feel the earth move as this machine begins turning once again. At the end of the day, I may have earned enough to buy a loaf of bread and perhaps a carton of milk. I’m joining the unskilled labour force for some fast cash, believe me when I say I need it!

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In other news today, my new digital video camera arrived by courier. Great! Where’s the tape? How dodgy is that? Even when you buy any digital still camera you get a pathetic memory card to at least play with. I’m sure back in the old days you might have won a free 35mm film or two after shelling out your hard earned for the old school contraptions.

Somehow I will find a way to make a movie and when I do, look out Spielberg!

My housemate shouted me a ticket to join him and another of his workmates to see The Audreys play at the Northcote Social Club. What a great band! Such a fantastic variety of instruments and talented musicians. The Audreys sound is excellent and somewhat like an Australian blend of, say Cowboy Junkies. You a fan of Weddings, Parties, Anything? Then imagine a more country than folk sound and you will enjoy it.

As well as their own material, they also performed a few ’80s covers, one being a superb version of Don’t Change from the Michael Hutchence days of INXS. Yay, go the ’80s! Interested to sample, get your ears around to http://www.theaudreys.com.au/listen.html

Okay, I haven’t lost everything. After Japan, and there are dozens of other words we could use to describe that chapter of my life, I find myself starting over. Largely from scratch, partially from residual stuff from the Japan chapter, and some treasures from a former self, but also some new goodies.

Good friends have taken me in, so I now have a home. A giant queen size bed has been loaned to me. It’s the biggest bed I have ever had use of, I get lost in it some mornings.

My insurance claim from the Niseko ski disaster has finally come through. Now I am in a position to get my hands on a hot little digital video camera, I am considering the Canon MV920. I’m still keen to hear about the claim for my busted ski though… Read the rest of this entry »