Check out, Move in

Monday Sept 22
18:50 Sydney

I feel poor. I’ve just moved into the place on Pitt St. It’s a Regis Tower, managed, I assume, by a Regis corporation of some sort. Just paid a 3 week bond, so my cash supply is quickly running low. I can’t wait till I get my bank card, so I can have access to the money in the bank. Pretty sure it’ll be alright, but it’d just be nice to finally have that card physically in my hand.

Am a big dodo. Left half a loaf of bread at the hostel. I hope somebody enjoys it. On the upside, also just had a free weiner bun. Apparently, a frend of Julie works at the bakery, and brought some over. What comes around goes around, eh?

I am a bit worried that the mattress is going to be too soft. When my weight is undisbributed, the area sinks like there’s no tomorrow. However, it is a spring mattress, so it’ll likely be ok when I’m sleeping. In any case, I’m just gonna hafta live with it. It’s not like my foam mattress at home is any better. Loud neighbourhood. It’s a good thing I’m used to noise, living on 41st. There are currently 2 other guys living here. I’m assuming that they got the room for 2. Just goes to show how quickly places get snatched up in this part of town, eh? Julie’s receipt book is nearly full. I wonder how much she makes over a year.

Nearly called it quits last night. (ok, so maybe ‘nearly’ is a bit of an exaggeration, but the thought definitely crossed my mind.) After installing some updates onto my laptop, I had to restart it. When I tried to log on, IT COULDN’T FIND MY ACCOUNT. So I frantically reboot several times, and when that didn’t fix the problem, I got online (was still at the netcafe), and looked for solutions. All of them assumed that I could still get into my computer, so none of it was helpful. Janett suggested I take it to a repair shop, but seeing how it was Sunday, nothing’s open. Now, I have a lot of memories as well as sweat and tears in this machine, in the form of pictures, practicum stuff and practical stuff that I had not backed up onto disks yet. So I started to panic, even as I was looking for repair shops. Luckily, Will came home just as I was breaking down, and I called him over msn. He, in turn, got a hold of BJ, who is actually in IT, and he walked me through a system recovery and now all is good *knocks on wood*.

Windows got me to do yet another update today, and so I did, with much trepidation. But, things seem fine…I’ll keep crossing my fingers that it remains this way. I’d end up with a major breakdown, similar to the one I had in Japan if I couldn’t (cheaply) connect with everyone in Vancouver.

On a slightly more amusing note, I went to Coles to pick up Gatorade, and as I walk in, I see that the Chiller Bags, the cloth bags that have an insulating lining in them, were on sale, 2 for 3 bucks. They conveniently zip close, so guess what! I’m gonna use them as a way to transport my extra luggage home. Most likely clothes, as they are uncrushable. If I have enough stuff to fill two of them, then I’ll tape em together or something, and check em in as 1 piece =P. Actually, I needed them to move my food to the flat, but hey, multipurpose is good!