Well, it's happened... It wasn't as painful as I'd believed, but I still claim that I will age as ungracefully as humanly possible. I am 30 years old in decimal. Don't even ask what I am in octal... In Hex I am 1E (I know - just doesn't look right), so my base of choice is 13. That makes me 24. Old enough to drink in the US, not yet 25 (when everything starts creaking and grey hairs start appearing). I'll review base of choice every two years until such a time as I reach 21 in hex - then I may consider sticking with hex a while.

I had a wonderful weekend mostly in Melbourne... Caught up with a few wonderful friends who I have not seen in a while, and spent lots of money. It would be redundant to list everything we did here, seeing as you can read it all on Chris's blog

One good thing that came out of the weekend was finally being able to give my brother his birthday present! It's been harder to catch up with him since he moved to Auckland a few months back. I've been holding onto some super hot (Spontaneous Combustion is the brand) chilli sauce and a few CDs that I purchased while in the US. The main attraction was a CD by a band called Spookie Daly Pride. Dan sure seems to appreciate the lyrics (available for viewing on the website, I believe).

On a side note, Gizzy had another vet visit yesterday for what we thought was an infection from playing a bit rough with Pipe and getting munched... Turns out my boy has typical teenage acne (about right - we worked out he would be about 19 now with the conversion from human to cat years)! So now he's on another round of antibiotics along with some anti-bacterial cream to rub under his little kitty-cat chin =)