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Bent Over the Turnstile
If you are ever considering taking Virgin Blue airlines as a connection off an international flight, don’t, unless you travel lightly. Yolanda’s Blog” target=”_blank”>Yolanda finally got to Adelaide, but she got raped at the ticket counter because they have a silly 20kg limit on baggage, and she had 2 bags, both over 20kg each, so she got charged $110AUD to get them on the plane, essentially nullifying the price advantage of taking VB in the first place. GAH! So much for spending money for the next couple weeks. I think it’s idiotic for them to screw over international travelers like that; domestics, sure, but…*sigh* It was my fault for misreading the information — I thought it would be 20kg per bag, not total, and so I screwed it up. Lovely.
It sounds like she’s making the rounds of everyone so far, catching up with our friends Mel and Dale and their cute little daughter, Lara, and she also saw Simon and Lou and their two kids, Geordie and Taevey, so I’m a bit jealous about that, because we’ve been watching these kids through pictures and webcam for the past three years and now they get to meet up. All in good time! I’ll get my chance in awhile. The only frustrating part is that her family seems to have gone into high gear and want to see her all at the same time and it’s overwhelming her right now, as she just needs some time to recover from the jetlag and needs to get to everyone on her own time. It’s not like she’s going to ignore them while she’s there, but they seem pretty insistent to see her as soon as possible, no matter how she’s feeling.
Crossings of Postage
I have a bunch more postcards to send out for Postcrossing. I haven’t done this in a long time, but I picked it back up again about 2 weeks ago and since have been sending cards fast and furious; as soon as one is registered and I’m allowed to send another, off it goes. My theory is that I can stop in about a week and then get postcards from others for about a month or so, give or take.
Today’s postcards (if I get stamps and get them going) are going to Ayumi Oda in Japan, Paola Papen in The Netherlands, Pip Wilson in New Zealand, and Kirsten Schauble in Germany. All of the cards are the same one — the custom-made cards I had made at VistaPrint with our house and our picture on the front. I figured if I was sending so many cards, they might as well be personalized, and it keeps me from having to find stores selling cards. Plus, they were 100 cards for $10 total — who can beat that? Not with a stick this side of the Mississip’, by gum.
Code Mania
I have a lot to write about with programming and coding but haven’t yet found the time to congeal my thoughts about it and put it down in some sort of concretized fashion. I’ve been working steadily on HooDaHek, improving it as I go and debugging things that go wrong. I really feel like a schmuck about it, because I wrote this program, released it to the open-source community, and then got too damned busy to keep it up. Now it’s sorely out of date and my next version will kick some serious ass, but I have to get the features done and out there.
I have also recently purchased a copy of AJAX for Dummies and PHP 5 and MySQL 5, so I need to get reading on those for my next personal project (yet to be revealed to the breath of the baited world). Essentially, the only way I can learn programming languages is to make a project and then do that project in that language, so I have created a project that I think will benefit a lot of people in the world and am going to force myself to write it in these technologies so I learn them. I may very well end up taking both tomes to Australia, either as in-flight entertainment or as something to read on the back porch whilst I listen to the birds chirp and the spiders inject horse-killing poisons into the local ant population.
So much to do…so little time left to think to sort it all out. I’ll get there, one way or another, by gum.
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