So apparently I’ve been neglecting my blog. I have a perfectly valid reason for this (when I think up one I’ll modify this post and noone will be any the wiser; or maybe I’ll just leave this here as a thinly disguised attempt at humour…).

My holidays are drawing to a close; they’ve definitely been too short, but in some ways I’m almost eager to get back to work. I think it’s more along the lines of passing time so that I can get some paycheques and buy my car. Mmm… car.

On a similar issue, my bike is not safe to ride. This is due to a delightful puddle of oil sitting under my bike. My forks seem to be spraying oil everywhere; this has a two-fold effect: first my suspension is now shot, due to the lack of fork oil (the oil controls the speed of compression and rebound by moving the oil between two pistons through a valve), and the second is that oil is oil, so getting any on my tyre in a corner is a recipe for disaster.

So today I had to do my license on my sisters bike, which I’m completely unfamiliar with. In the end I passed — I’m not entirely sure how (I had a few scares), because my precision and control over that bike is extremely bad, the difference between my sisters bike and my own is like night and day.

On to other things: gym is going good, I’ve put on 9kg since I started (that was mid October). Though I’ve pretty much taken a break for the last 3 weeks due to holidays and haven’t gained any weight. This is mainly because I’m sleeping longer and missing out on an extra meal or two.

My sisters fiancé is a biker, so that’s pretty cool. He does insurance, and financing and other stuff so thats also pretty cool. I’m saving money on my new insurance and will probably get a slightly cheaper deal on finance when I finally do get my car.

And, there’s a few lines of whatever is going on at the moment; though I could easily expand each of those into a blog entry, maybe I’ll do that next week when I’m back at work :).

Oh yah, new years was awesome, cheers Mike, Lu, Matt, Tyrone and Peter… and Nick you suck for missing it and killing our phonecalls.

That’s all for now—