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You know how you get music that is so bad it’s good again? Wesley Willis is one of those people who has created such music. I heard one of his songs when I was watching “Supersize Me” and thought “I know him!” The guy is dead now unfortunately, but he did leave a treasure-trove of interesting ramblings. This website has the “Chicken Cow” mp3 that you can download of Wesley’s, as well as some other rather twisted, spaced out musak from other various “artists”. Here are some of the lyrics for “The Chicken Cow” ...

Well, this is sort of weird. I’ve actually got to the point where I have now booked my flights to both the consulate in Melbourne for my visa and for the actual trip to the US. The visa interview is on the 27th July and the day I fly out is the 30th July. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for all the stuff I want to get done, but we’ll see how it goes. I’ve organised transport of my guitar, amp, computer and extra clothes via air freight to the US but I still have to organise a place to live as well as a rental car. Most of this is handled by other people though, so it should be ok. ...

I’ve added all the (sort of) non-incriminating pics from my farewell to my webshots account, which you can find here. Yeah, I felt compelled to write comments for each photograph, and I really was running out of ideas.

Holy crap I had a great time at my farewell party last night! Thanks to all of you who came along (you know who you are!) One of my mates got some pics from the night so when I get access to them I’ll post some of them. My rollerskating party farewell was held at the St Clair recreation centre in Woodville - which turned out to be an awesome venue. Parking turned out to be a bit difficult because 500 or so nerds were also having a LAN party in another part of the building. Actually, calling them nerds is a bit tongue-in-cheek really because since I’m an engineer/programmer of sorts you could probably technically claim that I am a nerd as well. Ahh well. Put it this way though - I’d prefer to fall on my arse ten times more than I did at rollerskating last night than go to something like that. The whole LAN party thing just doesn’t appeal to me. ...

What witty words will I write for my first weblog post? Hmmm, I can’t think of anything now (nice alliteration for the first bit of that sentence though). Luckily I can come back later and edit it if I feel inspired. I decided to start blogging because, well, maybe I like jumping on bandwagons. No. I have always wanted to do something like this but the thing is I seldom say what is really on my mind. I guess it’s because the whole idea of letting everyone know what I am thinking was a bit, well, scary. It shouldn’t be, but that’s me. Also, my fingers are much better at getting wit out of my head than my mouth is (thanks to all that extra thinking time) so this seems the perfect forum to do it. ...

It seems that yet again my application for an L-1 Visa has been delayed. I got my application package back just after lunch today with a big fat yellow Visa rejection slip on the front. The application was rejected because they could not fit me in for an interview before I was due to leave - I think I’m about to set a record for my company in that I’ll have the longest Visa application time ever! My interview has been scheduled for the end of July now, which bites even more considering the interview is supposed to take all of a minute. Eh, I guess I should be happy enough that I will eventually get there. ...