I just noticed that my Dahl site has finally appeared on the Website of the Day page for BBC Radio Suffolk. I’m guessing that means the interview aired yesterday. I hope they remember to send me a tape of it!
Month: March 2004
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Driver’s License issues…
Since my Permanent Residency will hopefully be awarded soon, I’ve been thinking about getting my Australian driver’s license. According to the RTA site, I only have to take a written knowledge test (since I have a valid overseas license). That’s pretty sweet. I have to prove how long I’ve had my US license though if I want to skip over the probationary levels here. There’s only one problem that I can see:
Since it is a legal requirement that only one licence can be used for driving in Australia, before your NSW licence will be issued, you must present your overseas licence to be made invalid in Australia. The overseas licence will be returned to you after holepunching plastic or laminated licences or endorsing paper licences. The holepunch or endorsement will be done at a blank area of the licence so that no licence details will be removed.
WHAT? What if I want to use my license when I travel back to the US? Does anybody know if holepunching your US license invalidates it?
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Miss Elizabeth DIED?
I just learned today that Miss Elizabeth died last year. That probably won’t mean anything to those of you who didn’t have little brothers growing up in the 80’s. Miss Elizabeth was the manager/wife of Randy “Macho Man” Savage in the World Wrestling Federation back then. She was really pretty and nice, and though I thought she often overplayed the whole “damsel-in-distress” thing, I infinitely preferred her as my female wrestling role model to the scary and unattractive Fabulous Moolah.
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I’m blogging this.
Ooh, here’s one for the birthday wish list: “I’m blogging this.”
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XXX Crafts for Kids
Somebody on Glitter linked to this clay project for kids. *snort*
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Mini Sydney Blogger Meet-Up
We had a mini Sydney blogger meetup tonight as the Snook and I met Andrew and Kathleen out at a Surry Hills pub. (Andrew, you’ll recall, is the bloke that recognized me on the bus a few weeks ago.) A good time was had by all. It’s just a little weird to meet people that you know “on paper” but have never really spoken to…
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Billy Corgan is a blogger.
Wow. Billy Corgan is a blogger. I knew the Pumpkins were from Chicago but I didn’t realize he was that big of a Cubs fan. (Link courtesy of Tricia.)
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Not a single damn upset.
Shocking, isn’t it? But good on Peter Jackson and the LOTR crew for cleaning up. We ended up with a 13-way tie for first place consisting of: Adanma Onyedike, Carol LuBien, Carrie Murphy, Christen, Colin Bunnell, Denise, Emily, julie, Mark Schoppe, Mary Jo Brown, Mike, Pat, and Tim Reid. The tiebreaker, you’ll remember, consisted of guessing how many dead people would feature in the annual obituary tribute reel. The total was 30, which means that with a guess of 31, the winner is…
*drum roll*
Christen! I don’t actually know him/her, but a sock monkey will soon be heading off to his new owner.
In second and third places were two people that guessed the same number (25), thus the double-tie was broken on the basis of who entered earlier. Therefore in second place is Mark Schoppe, and in third place is Carol LuBien. (Carrie Murphy missed out on third by a mere hour!)
And lastly, with the wooden spoon, is poor ramanan, who got zero correct. Better luck next year!
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Cat Protection Society
The Cat Protection Society of NSW. That’s probably where we’ll get our kitty from. It sounds like a great organization. You can even see pictures of cats they have to adopt (Snookums likes “Soxy”) but that was back in December, so I bet those are all gone by now.
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Contest is closed!
The contest is closed! Stay tuned for the winners.