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We’re all allowed our fair share of whinging and whining and complaining I think. You know, people have to get that stuff off their chest every now and then. But hell, the number of times I hear people complain about the weather around here. I actually like weather in general. I like its unpredictability. The day we can control the weather is the day I’ll start complaining about it. But seriously, I can’t even get people to sit outside when it’s slightly humid. They’d rather stay in the air conditioned building and when they leave work they get into to their air conditioned car and when they get home they get into their air conditioned house. I constantly hear about it being too humid, too rainy, too hot, and they hardly spend any time outside. ...

Recently something happened… I can’t remember what it was… nice one pk. P.S. Although I haven’t been making too many posts lately, I have been taking quite a few pictures. Like, the flickr badge to the right has been in a state of constant update, pretty much. Apart from that I’ve been pretty flat out. Some major stuff coming up in the next few months. Hope you’re having fun y’all. ...

Last Saturday was a pretty weird day, in that everything I had planned didn’t work out. The original plan was to: - go see Fiona Apple at Sunfest in West Palm beach. - drop in at a friend’s birthday party in Plantation. - have dinner at Thai Orchid in Coral Gables. - see Mimimal play at I/O lounge in downtown Miami. That plan was pretty damn ambitious, since it involved traversing three counties in one day. I like the ambitious plans though, so I was all for giving it a shot. Unfortunately, as the day wore on, I realised that I just wouldn’t be able to get to see Fiona Apple. I had to drive to Sunfest the next day anyway to shoot photos for another of Hilary’s concerts. I couldn’t be bothered. I also wanted to spend more time at the birthday party so I cancelled my dinner and told the people I’d meet up with them at the Minimal gig. No real drama. ...

And I’m bloody exhausted. I had accumulated about 2 hours of sleep when I arrived in Miami last night - I just can’t sleep upright. Period. Sleeping pills (which I tried this time around) made me feel very tired but then I couldn’t fall asleep. I watched some cool movies on the way over though - “House of flying daggers”, “Capote”, “Good luck and good night”, and my favourite of the flight, “Enron: The smartest guys in the room”. ...

I’m currently waiting in the Melbourne airport for the gate to open for my flight to Los Angeles. I’ve taken a quick picture of the plane I’ll be flying back in so here it is: Anyway, seeya to all the people I caught up with in Oz. To the people I didn’t catch up with, I’ll see you around sometime. I don’t know when I’ll be returning to Australia again, so I expect to see you overseas, ok? Good. ...

Back in Fort Lauderdale it’s currently 1:13am. This means that pretty soon I should be getting some sleep… yerr, that’s just not going to happen. A couple of more hours and then I catch this bastard economy flight to Melbourne. I arrive at 12:30pm in Adelaide to a spanking new airport! It is working now, right??? Last time they were having fuel problems or something and we had to use the old building. Well, whatever, I never really had anything to say for this post, I’m only writing something coz I was able to find a free wifi spot. ...

Monday started off like any other Monday. Check e-mails received over the weekend, catch up with other people to see what they got up to, think about what had to be done for the week. There was one thing in the back of my mind though: the flight to Australia. Now don’t get me wrong, I was sooooo looking forward to going back to Australia and meeting up with everyone I possibly can, but it’s that damn flight that I was worried about. If you read this mess of words often enough you’d know I got bitten by a red-back spider a couple of days before flying back to the US. The bite got completely mis-diagnosed, I thought I was ok to fly, but in the end I wasn’t. It’s the only time I really thought I was going to die, and I say that in all seriousness. Since then I’ve had dizzy spells and numbness like I had on the plane, but nowhere near the severity. They’ve pretty much gone *now*, but I was still scared of getting on the plane, whilst going through my Monday morning thought process. ...

It’s currently past 5am in the morning. I didn’t head out tonight, but I am at a mate’s place (some dodgy Nicaraguan) working out some music stuff. At this stage I have had a few beers - Sam Adams and Presidente. I am loving my new laptop. I know someone reading this laughed when I said that I *needed* to buy a laptop. Well, I probably could have done my music course back in Australia by borrowing people’s computers here and there, but that would be so damn inconvenient. Plus, now that I have a laptop, I am becoming a true geek. If I really want I could be one of those geeks who sits at Starbucks all day and surfs the net with their ultra-expensive T-Mobile access plan. There are two bad things about that - first, paying for the wifi access when many other coffee places have free wifi. The other one, oh so much more important, is that I still think that Starbucks’ coffee sucks. Their frappuccino is the only thing decent there and if I drank them all day I’d probably turn out to be a pretty fat bastard, for some reason. ...

Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sandy Tony Valerie William I’m going to be getting familiar with some of these names, I think. I should start a pool or something as to how many, and which hurricane/s is/are going to hit the east coast of Florida. I will bet on three hurricanes: Ernesto, Gordon and Patty. I think if a hurricane is getting close and dangerous this year I’ll head up to Canada - and probably have a snowstorm hit. Ah well, the powder will be good for snowboarding then I guess. ...

I’m heading back to Australia for nearly 2 weeks at the end of this month. I’ll be in Adelaide from the 22nd April till May 2nd. During the weekdays I’ll actually be working but my weeknights should be relatively free. On the weekends I have to fit in a bachelor party, wedding and probably a 21st and a 50th as well. It would still be awesome to catch up any friends back there! Let me know if you’ll be around by sending an e-mail to daecks@gmail.com. Due to me losing a lot of my contacts, it’s probably pretty likely I don’t have your number. ...