More festival stuff

Damien and I have had another weekend of arts festival fun :) Friday after work we went to a Adelaide United football club BBQ (not exactly part of the Fringe) but it was for supporters and players, so it was cool. We were there with Oli (who works with Damien) and Oli's wife, Bron. Oli is a huge United fan and he spent a lot of time on the field kicking around a ball with some kids :) After that we all went to a pub over the road for 'Best of the Edinburgh Fest'. We saw 3 standup comics and they were all really good!

Last night we met up with Oli and Bron again at the banks of the Torrens river to watch "The Dancing Sky". Basically it was an open-air theatre, with classical music, ballet dancers suspended from cables above the river, a lot moving lights and best of all Giant helium balloons painted in a baroque-style with more dancers suspended underneath. It was very very cool!! One balloon was being held down by three guys on the ground and they ran through the crowd with it, lowering it occassionally so that the dancer was so very close to the audience (she even touched hands with some people). We tried taking some photos with my phone, but they didn't really work out :) This is an article about the show on the festival site http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/program/cielodanza.aspx

And finally, today were in the mall and had our photo taken at a booth, which was then displayed on a giant screen! There's also screens in NY, Beijing, Seoul and somewhere in Austria, and all of the screens display the same photos simultaneously :)

More pics from me..

I've had a rather relaxing weekend..

haven't really unpacked many boxes (i'll get to them eventually.. *grin*) but i've been playing with photos (both real and digi) and have put up another set.

This time i've put up the ones from my trips across to Sydney. Click the picture to see the whole set.

Enjoy...

give me some advice, tech-heads.. ;)

i'm thinking about buying a new mp3 player (yes, i know i've just paid off my credit card and i don't want to go back into debt.. however, if i know what i'm saving for, i'm sure i can manage. *grin*).

anmyway.. i'm really not sure what i should be looking for. my little old one is a 256 kB (expandable by SD card - but my 256 kB card died a week or so ago). i found the 512 kB was not quite enough space (especially since my SD card was frequently stupid and wouldn't play tracks that were supposedly there..). i have between 2 - 3 GB music.. so i'm thinking of either a tiny 1 GB one (like the iRiver T20) or a slightly larger 4 - 8 GB one (i saw the Sony "Aura" NW-A1000 today). However, looking at the reviews for the Sony, the computer interface is not good. This is something else that annoys me about my current player - the interface is dodgy and doesn't always work - in fact, it frequently has 'issues'.

so, basically i want:

• something that is at least 1 GB
• something convenient (that i can easily carry around)
• a good interface (or just a 'copy files across')
• good battery life (or takes AAAs since i've got quite a few rechargables - for my old one)
• preferrably something that can play WMA (since that's what all my music is currently saved as)
• preferrably something with a voice record (cos my current one has it - but it's being dodgy right now too..)

suggestions??

*hugz*

IQ test

ok, i am probably a glutton for punishment, i know you are all smarter than me, but i thought i would post this anyway...it was a bit fun...there's 40 questions, so you know (i kept thinking "how many more can there be" lol)
http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/?test=uiqogt
anyway, i scored 127, making my Intellectual Type - Insightful Linguist. "This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind."
see, that sounds ok, right lol

No hair!

There's something glorious about the extreme sport of random hair cuts on a whim. With that in mind, i decided it was time to shave my head. It's so much breezier and easier to deal with this way. Call it my summer style :)

busy busy busy

this is just a quick one.. it's late and i've got to catch a bus at 8 am tomorrow morning..

i've been working pretty long hours lately - the team head off this weekend, so it's been go go go.. and i've not been at home for the weekends either.. like i think i said, i've headed to Sydney three out of the last four weekends. *grin* ahh, lots of bus trips (it takes about 3 and a quarter hours to get there).. but it's been good (apart from the fact that i still have lots of boxes in the box room.. o well.. next weekend)..

tomorrow i'm off to Bateman's Bay for the start of my management course - a three day residential. there are 20 people on the course, so i should at least get to meet some people.. there's even another Daina on the course (okay, spelt different - but i met her at the opening last week, and found it really really strange to have people saying my name and not be talking to me!)

anyway.. i'd best go pack and then get some sleep before tomorrow..

*grin*

The Fringe Festival

The Fringe began on Friday. We headed into the city after work to see what was going on.. there was a parade which ended at Rymill Park in the city, where there were tents and stalls and stuff going on. The Garden of Unearthly Delights was a collection of such tents and stalls, but it was fitted out in a fantastic carnivale style.. Cheryl took some photos with her phone, so i'll post them at the end of the message. While there we watched a trapeze artist, and saw a guy who, blindfolded, named specifics about objects people pulled out of their pockets. There was also street performers, and people walking around in costume for the fun of it. It was a great night.

Then Saturday evening we headed into the city with Josh for drinks (he's going to Korea and China on Wednesday) , and while at the Belgian Beer Cafe were offered complimentary tickets to see a comedian upstairs. So that was excellent too, although it meant by Sunday night we were pretty tired :)

On Thursday we're off to see Adam Hills, another comedian. And next weekend we'll probably have a bit more of a look around.. there's a lot of free entertainment and galleries and the like to see. And there's regular two for one specials to the paid shows, so hopefully we'll catch a few more acts before it's over.

Anyway, that's our news. Here's the photos from the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

why we haven't seen mum and dad online lately

Just thought I would write this for mum and dad, so everyone knows. Last week their computer had a problem, it was only recognising 48kb of 512mb of RAM...so they called 'on site computers' and a guy came out to look at it. Of course, because it only thought it had 48kb of RAM it was SSSOOOOO slow, and the guy took the computer away so he could get online and see if he could solve the problem. After having the computer for a week he was no closer to fixing it, so mum and dad got it back...call it an expensive learning experience...now adam has the computer, and while he cannot seem to fix the problem at the moment , he won't charge them $77 an hour to save all of their data (especially photos), burn it to disk, and install XP.

Hi Lisa

How are you going?

(It's new. It's not much, but it's new. *tee hee*)

iPod

Hey, just a quick post to say I've bought an iPod. I've been wanting to get a new mp3 player for a while (my old 64MB brick just doesn't cut it any more) and the Smartmoves work from Dayna gave me the extra money to do so. It's a 30 gig iPod video.. i've ordered it and a case (they scratch really easy apparently) so now i've just got to wait for it to arrive. It was cheaper to order it from Melbourne and have it posted then walk into a store in Adelaide and buy it :)

Decision made

Offer Accepted
I have decided to go with JP Morgan in Glasgow, I accepted the offer yesterday, although the commute is longer, the career opportunity is far greater with them. Soooo I start Feb 20th. Yaaaa, I get to play with other kid's! :) Thanks to everyone for your congrat messages. :) Now Glenn and I should be able to start doing some fun stuff. I think first thing on the list, well first two things will be pay off the credit card, then find a bigger flat, a bigger flat that has a shower with some decent water pressure. :) (Even gravity doesnt seem to help out with the water pressure in our current place!)
As always the ink isnt even dry on the contract and we are thinking of ways to spend the money! LOL
Hope everyone is well and happy, Dayna have you heard anything new about the training course???

JOB!!!

Heya Guys!
Well I finally have something to blog about. After many interviews with no result I have finally hit the jackpot..... twice, when it rains it pours, I have 2 offers from 2 different companies, so I have untill 12 noon tommorrow to decide. yikes! and yaaaaa of course! :)
One company is in Glasgow, its called JP Morgan, very big American firm, although the commute is an hour it is so far my personal favourite. The other company is called Sykes, it is in Edinburgh but out of the city so it is about a 30 minute commute. Plus the IT Director is freaky which is why I am not too convinced about it. Sooo I will post again soon to let you know how it goes.
Dayna I love the hair!! I think it looks great, and yes I completely agree that you can never get your hair to look as it did when you left that salon! Love to all!

dee xox

new look..

hey all..

it's been a while - i've been pretty flat out with work, but i think it all seems on track (yay!).

had a great weekend at Coffs Harbour a couple of weeks ago.. I've posted some piccys from the holiday on Flickr.

whilst i was away, i decided to take Damien's postcard into a random hairdresser in Coffs and get them to see what they could do. Not sure what i think about it just yet.. i think it's okay..it's pretty short though. it is long enough to tie up - just. *grin*





Let me know what you think.. remember that this is the hairdresser version (you know, the way it looks when you walk out of the salon - that style you can rarely get again.) hehe. *grin*

take care and have fun..

one at home, one at primary school, one at high school

ok, first of all...Carolynn's first day of High School - she had a great day, "it was so fun", she says, "and Friday will be even better!" She has music twice on Friday!! She has all her classes with her best friend too, which is fantastic.
I already said that Jared had a good first day yesterday.
And finally, I took Trinity to the health centre today, and she weighs 8750g, up 44og since last month. (19lb 4.5oz) She is 67.5cms long and her head is 47cms...everything is progressing on time, rolling, eating solids, liking to play peek-a-boo...

Hi to all

Hope everyone is well. We haven't heard from Glenn and Danielle for a while. Have you frozen?
Dayna I hope you had a lovely long weekend in Coffs Harbour. The Roche's rang for a chat last Sunday and I meant to email you their number. Belinda is moving back to Coffs Harbour in March.
Today we ordered a new computer for Nana. Should be ready by the end of the week. We got one from Prototech. They offered better service than the other shop.
On Sunday we ordered our new stove and that should also be here at the end of the week. Dad got tired of building so he's been painting. Today he feels worn out so he's having a day off.( apart from going shopping)
and dancing practice tonight.
Tomorrow Nana and I go to Spinners so he can have another slack day if he wants. It will be wonderful when the kitchen is finished. I'm not deciding on vinyl until the benchtops are done.
I'm also going to do a taxation course with H&R block. The salvos will pay for it.
W e've decided to go on the Probus trip to Victor Harbour in April. Nana will come too. Hopefully the kitchen will be finished before then.
Jared I hope you had a great first day back at school.
Carolynn, I know you'll enjoy starting secondary school tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you both.
Lisa, I hope the air conditioner is working well. Tell Adam to really appreciate how cool it is, he needs to go outside.
Damien and Cheryl, how did all the visitors go? Did we send the pump for the air bed with the air bed? I couldn't find it for Carolynn and if it's in Adelaide, I'll stop looking.
Love to all
Looking forward to hearing from you all.