South Sea Holiday

Looks like we’ll have to cancel this year’s trip to the South Seas. We’ll have to leave all the canoes and outriders at home, with the sun tan lotion and hunting spears. We’ve got an assignment due right in the middle of our break; so it’s goodbye Hawaii; goodbye crowded airport terminals; goodbye volcano; goodbye salt-water crocodiles; goodbye sun-swept beaches; goodbye ladies; goodbye to all that South Seas tucker and cuisine; goodbye to eating with sticky fingers on banana leaves.

Oh, and I could use a holiday just at the moment – but at least I’m not going to get separated from my baggage; that stuff always seems to hang around. Maybe I could take the canoes down to Henley Beach again - down the white-water Torrens, but there won’t be any crocodiles, not even fresh-water ones. Feral cats in abundance though. Farewell. Adieu.

I spent most of the weekend working, lugging speaker boxes and mic stands around. On Sunday I came across a beautiful electric guitar player, playing with some indigenous lads at Semaphore’s Federal Hotel. He played some really ’slow’ notes with heaps of emotion and expression in them. I’ll have to find out his name.

My car has broken down, some sort of electrical problem. I’ve been slowly replacing everything- but it still won’t start. This is getting to be a real nuisance, especially as I’m not going down to the South Sea Islands now. Perhaps I could paddle one of my canoes around, metaphorically speaking.

I bought a new printer last week. That makes four printers I own now. This one works though; really well. The printer I left at my sister’s house works too, but it’s no good to me there. I want to get a new battery and some more memory for my laptop, as soon as I can get my car going.

I’ve hit a little glitch getting my AUS-Study payments transferred from my NewStart payments and as I’m not actually getting any benefit until they’ve finished processing my application then they’ve decided to suspend my famiily payments as well. I love the government. That’s why I won’t vote for them. There was some movement on the broadband front last week when the government announced a closing date for tenders to construct our new ‘fast’ broadband network – so we might get to see that in a year, or two, doh.

I’ve just walked up the street and purchased a new ignition coil and a little white thing Now I have to think about replacing them without getting my hands too dirty. I guess if the car won’t start I should get back to reading my new textbooks and catching up with all the stuff that I must have missed. I could have done that in the South Seas, lazing under a huge tropical sun.