Photos from The Great Ocean Road from my 2007 trip to Victoria with Joe, Cicely and Brian. I still love the look of E-6 on a lightbox :)

I'm not sure if people here are usually glum and I don't notice because I'm usually in a good mood, but the ride home in the train was grim tonight. On my way home picking up the mX, which I usually look forward to, I felt dread about what was inevitably the main story. Every now and then I refresh my browser to confirm, yes, there are more confirmed victims. s-mart has promised to match employee donations to the Red Cross, so I threw some anonymous cash into the pot. If I find a ATM tomorrow, I plan on putting some more in tomorrow. The PM has compared it to mass murder on the (probably likely) speculation that at least some of the fires were deliberately set. None of my family lives in Victoria, and thankfully none of the fires in this state have had any fatalities, so I am thankful that none of my loved ones were affected.

• 5 February 2009 12:11pm: Quarterly update means free lunch after. Always nice food too.
• 5 February 2009 04:21pm: Allison is whining because we don't have any spare hard drives to give her. It's getting annoying.
• 5 February 2009 05:01pm: I was just thinking Allison's behaviour would be age appropriate for my little sister... seven years ago when she was six that is.
• 5 February 2009 10:21pm: It will be good to spend a few days at The Point and not have to commute all the way to/from Wyoming every day.
• 6 February 2009 08:37am: Standing room only on the train. Nose to stinky arm pit.
• 6 February 2009 10:18am: I started saying ko again. It's weird.
• 6 February 2009 03:54pm: Mail server migration went off pretty much without a hitch but the connection to muse dropped out and now I can't update the DNS! *sigh*
• 6 February 2009 04:12pm: Got to muse. nullslice is now nullray. Your local DNS server may take a while to update.
• 6 February 2009 10:38pm: of course I spoke too soon because there was stuff I forgot... :/
• Yesterday at 06:43pm: I am going to start saying "after now" again. It's like I pick up a camera and I turn into myself three years ago.
• Today at 05:56pm: 65 dead in Victoria. How much longer before they stop saying "..since Ash Wednesday" and just say "deadliest fires in Australian history" :(

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