BurbleChaz

We've been in Sydney for exactly a month. From arriving jobless and homeless, carrying all our worldly possesions on our backs (well, my back mostly), we've made good progress. We're no longer homeless. The flat (descibed here) is fantastic. We've had huge amounts of fun in and around Sydney. Mostly 'in', due to lack of a car. On the whole 'jobless' thing, I've had three interviews, two of which are fairly positive, and the other was caused by a keyword mismatch. Honestly, I could replace 95% of emplyment agents with a three-line shell-script. Including error-checking. Our biggest success, though, is ending the drought. For the last eight years, Queensland and New South Wales have been suffering a long, brutal dry spell. Since we arrived, it's rained. Continuously, enthusiastically and without intermission. The current shower has been going on for three days. It's quite warm, so it's not too depressing. Today, we had to do a bit of shopping, and Other People really, really needed coffee. We took the bus up the hill to the town centre. Due to poor planning on my part, we missed the bus down again. Rather than wait 29 minutes for the next bus, we decided to brave the 5-minute walk home. It wasn't really rain. More like an ocean with air slots in it.

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Hope it stops before opening time.