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Been up since about 6am or so, and went to bed about 1am. Not complaining about lack of sleep at all really. But I really can't sleep at the moment. Just having trouble relaxing. I don't need to be up until 11am or so. I went to bed again for about an hour. But I am too full of nervous energy.

It's going to be very hot again today, and I really need to start closing up the house in preparation. Today we have two more house inspections, both houses are a good two hours from the University, so aren't ideal. Four hours of round travel a day isn't fantastic, but then, neither is simply not having a house. So, we need to keep applying.

Yesterday I came across the Tom Baker "Hornets Nest" CD's in the city, it's good to actually see the CD's, the artwork actually looks much better printed out on a CD, rather than in glorious HD on my monitor. They are priced $20 here, I might wait and grab them when they are reduced to $5. All the fans will have downloaded/ pre-ordered them and 90% of the people here who are fans won't care. Sounds like a plan. I don't have any money, so I can't buy them anyway.

I finally got around to watching "Something, something, something Dark Side." Somehow I really enjoyed this a lot more than the first one. I think it benefited from an extra 10 minutes or so in the middle that the first production really missed. Perhaps.

Time for some breakfast and to lower the heat shields.

Colonel Barker

I know, I need to come up with a better title for my blogs. But I am trying to get a 'complete set' of times from across the week.

Today we went to some house inspections, found a very nice house that was badly listed. Rather than three bedroom it has four, and they are all very, very large. However the house is a good 90 minutes from the University. We are applying for it anyway.

Thanks to some exciting turn of events all the two bedroom places in our price range are now gone. So we now have to move in with our friend Jacqui. We have six more inspections this week, making for a total of eight possible houses. We hope that someone accepts us into one of them. Else we will be in a bit of trouble.

I should probably write in my blog about my view on something that might interest someone. But beyond feeling headachy, I don't have a huge amount to say. We have all come back feeling sick and with headaches, thanks to the weather being surprisingly hot. Not hot, hot. But as hot as a heatwave in the UK hot. Where you should drink quite a bit.

Somehow I almost managed to get the number of a Canadian barmaid. I think. Or she could have simply been very, very friendly indeed. I am sure Hannah won't mind me mentioning. As you will all know, I am very, very anti-social and will often go to extreme measures to avoid talking, seeing or having anything to do with people. So, ordering food and paying for it and getting along with the person is a whole new experience for me.

Also, I have been asked to write another 'Dapol Doctor Who' story, this time with some really good bits to get my writing teeth into. It's only 18 minutes of drama so will need to be packed. My only real problem with Brendan's style for the series is an over reliance of buttons / computers and science to fix things. That tend to end with everything exploding. Or big visual effect people. I think Doctor Who should always be much more than that.

I suppose as a format it always has a serious flaw. It's about a guy fighting guys with guns, when he is the guy who never carries or uses a gun. I can see how this would work for one or two stories, but 950 novels down the line and you begin strain things somewhat. I suppose that's the advantage of such a flexible format.

I need to get back on reading the New Adventures Novels, as I was really enjoying them, now they have been written at a consistent standard. I keep coming across ones I know I want to re-read, like Transit (now I know where it's going to, I want to place that context on the beginning) and White Darkness (Again, I spent too much time the first time around worrying about the plot rather than the story.)

In other news some Skeleton Warriors arrived in the post. This should be fun.

Colonel Barker

Went to our first inspection. We are having lunch at home then heading out to another inspection in a few minutes. The first place was crap. Total crap. I won't mention the address.

On the street there were four houses with boarded up windows. There was a guy knocking over bins and going through them for bottles. The two houses next to the flats were dumps, with full skips of rubbish and furniture spewed across the road.

We thought if the flat looked good inside we could deal with it. The whole unit was the size of our lounge room. The master bedroom was thinner than our bed, the spare room smaller again. The lounge wasn't wide or long enough to fit our couch. The "dining area" was two foot from the oven to some carpet where the "lounge" started.

So in short. It was terrible. The price was slightly over our price range too. It's a little scary. We are looking at a three-bedroom place shortly, as really hope it's an improvement. Honestly, I would rather move to Mt Gambier and live in Angus's shed than that flat. (No offence to Angus intended.)

Tonight we have friends coming over to watch some movies. Without Alex, Jacqui or Angus we actually have a broad choice. I am rooting for Alien 3.

Colonel Barker

We have reached a stage now where all the houses/ units/ flats being listed are available after we need to be gone from this unit. So basically we NEED to get one of the places that we go to this week. Because any listed from here on in won't be free in time. There is the slight chance there will be one or two that will need someone within a day or two. But I am not counting on it.

Last night I watched the new BBC 'Day of the Trifids', really good series. I don't think it was a patch on the original TV series, however of course the show looked and sounded much better, the Trifids looked better and they really got to the heart of the story.

I have been so tired recently, and even after good 8 hour sleep last night I have found myself yawning the day away hoping to get to the point where I can go back to bed.

Unfortunately having limitless 20mb internet between 7pm and 7am really isn't helping matters.

Colonel Barker

It's Saturday night, and the 10th Doctor is gone. Exciting stuff. I am not going to write a review of the episode, I enjoyed it, and that's as much as I want to say. Having seen the Series 1 / 5 / 31 trailer, I think Moffat looks like he knows what he is doing.

I haven't slept for more than an hour in over three days now, and it's been a really strange day. Dizzy spells, loss of concentration, slurring of words, the feeling that there is something wrong with my tummy.

Tonight I intend to have a decent nights sleep, and I don't think I will wake for any man tomorrow. We have house inspections Monday and Tuesday, meanwhile I am basically waiting to see if I have been let into honours at Flinders.

I should be out looking for a job, however within a fortnight I will be living somewhere else, so don't want to start applying locally to prevent having to travel BACK here in three weeks time.

It looks like we will probably move in with Jacqui. I think it should go well. As long as I don't suggest Mathematics and Engineering are sciences at her I will be fine. I stick with my statement that they ARE sciences.

Time for cake or death.

Colonel Barker

It's raining in Mt Gambier, with a certain amount of irony.

Monday to Friday this week we have plenty of house inspections to go to, and the Regeneration is tomorrow morning, with less than 24 hours to go. All very exciting.

We are heading out from the Mount after lunch today, I am not sure if I should make an effort to see Joel (who I want to see) or just sit down and relax for a moment. Didn't sleep a wink last night unfortunately.

My parents house is strangely serene without my Cat here.

Welcome to the new decade.

Colonel Barker.

God it's hot.. still 34 degrees at 6:30am. I mean seriously. We are heading out in about an hour. Better pull myself together and wake Hannah up.


Colonel Barker.

2009 - A YEAR IN PICTURES

I'm sure I was probably asked
Before I was born, by someone from somewhere
"I will make it so you can see
Either the past or the future, so
Which do you want?"

And then I probably chose the past
So that I can become, so I may become,
A kind person rather than a strong person
So that I understand what "memories" are







Continuing, that somebody said to me
"Arms, legs, mouths, ears, eyes,
Hearts, breasts, and the holes in your nose,
I'll give you two of each,
So isn't that great?"

But I asked a favour
"I'm fine with just one mouth" I said
So that I don't fight with myself
So that I can only kiss one person









This kind of feeling that I want to forget, but can't
What do you call it?

That person with a slightly displeased face
He began to speak again, because he had to
"The heart, which is most important
I'll put one in each side of your chest, so
Isn't that great?"







Yet again I asked a favour
"I'm sorry, but as for me
I don't need the heart on my right side
Sorry for always saying selfish things"

That is so that when I meet an important person
And I hold her
I will understand for the first time
That our two beats sound on both sides of our chest.

The left is mine, and the right is yours
The left is yours, and the right is mine
So that when I am alone, there is something missing
So that I do not live on alone





This kind of feeling that I want to forget, but can't
What do you call it?

My chest is a flutter, but this kind of feeling
Tis so nostalgic, what do you call it?





"By the way, There's just one more thing
Should I add 'tears' as an option?
Even without it, there is no impediment, but
Some people don't add it, because it's a pain.
What will you do?"

And then, I asked for it
So that I can become, so I may become
A kind person rather than a strong person
So that I understand what "importance" is



"So, by the way, as for the flavour of the tears
Choose a flavour you like
They're sour, salty,
Hot, sweet,
Choose any one you like
Which one do you want?"

Has everything been granted
The way you hoped?
So show me your face
That is always crying
Well, show me proudly"



"Thank you very much
Sorry to have troubled you with so much
May I ask just one last thing -
Have we met somewhere before?"
-Radwimps, 'Ordermade'

Hannah xx

I suppose the hard thing about this time of year is not to begin to write depressing blogs. At the moment there seems to be quite a lot "ending."

University has ended, my cat has died (a few months back), I just came off Error's Escape, the decade is ending, the 10th Doctor is regenerating, we have to move house, so a lot of things are being wrapped up here, power being cut off, organising for the internet to end, Big Finish have lost their short trips license, Lucie Miller has left the 8th Doctor, Charlie Pollard has left the 6th Doctor, it's the end of the year, I have to format my computer, I have packed up my books.

You get the idea. Everything seems to be coming to some kind of close. The end of my education, the end of my bank account.

But only a few things seem very "new", there isn't very much I am looking forward too. I mean YES it's the beginning of a new decade, we get to start living in a new house and I have to find a job somewhere. But none of that feels particularly exciting or new.

I also must appologise, I promised five people who replied to my blog would get a present, Caz, Hannah, Lauren & Hutchy. But I haven't gotten to this. I started, but haven't finished. I feel like I need to finish this off.

To farewell this decade I am going to Mt Gambier tomorrow morning. We are leaving around 7:30am, so there won't be a chance for any kind of blog then. So this could potentially be the last post of 2009. Of the whole decade. The blog started November 2005, with some slightly excited posts posts about the Christmas Invasion coming up. I am a little annoyed, as I would prefer to have had it from around Sept 03. All the important stuff happened around there really.

It's been a busy decade, I have started and finished High School, had sex with far too many people, went to TAFE for a Certificate IV, worked at a television station, met Hannah, had my first television commercial finished, animated a missing episode of Doctor Who, moved to Adelaide and away from my parents, completed an Advanced Diploma of CGI and Visual Effects, worked on the Dr Who DVD's and gotten my name in the credits, gotten engaged, gone to University and gotten a degree, lectured at University, worked on feature films, short films, celebrated my 5th Anniversary with Hannah... and where to next?

Where will I be December 2019? Probably laughing at the arrogance I have now. Looking at these posts and wondering why I didn't bother checking for basic spelling and grammatical errors. Wondering where it all went wrong? Or right? Or regretting not doing something. Or saying something. Or regretting doing or saying something. Knowing my past mistakes the later is far more likely.

I would like to have a house and a cat by then, I would hope to be married before then, and would love to have a job. My grandmother will probably have died at some point. I haven't had anyone close to me die so far, so I am still very nonchalant at the moment. At some point this will change, and will probably result in me changing.

So, a house, a wife and some money will do me really. Some excitement and death, life changing revelations. I suspect I probably won't know most of the people I know now, as I tend to race through friends quickly depending on what interests me. It's a bad habit. I suspect I will know my Dr Who friends still. They tend to stick around.

Fandom is a bit like addiction to something really. More like a disease in the way that is controls your life. If there is anything that will tear Hannah and I apart it will probably be that. And I hope it doesn't come to that. My profile picture has a Cyberman in it, that's all I need to say.

Actually, rather than disease, I would suggest fandom is a form of unhealthy obsession. I am sure there are books published somewhere talking about certain people being more.. likely be driven by that obsession than other people. I am looking at you Gary Russell. Who will probably become the producer of Doctor Who at some point. I hope.

Next year? I want to start writing prose again. Serious prose. Not gimmicky playing with narrative things. Structured genre pieces with characters and locations. Straightforward things. Ideally not Doctor Who things, but they don't drive me to write, and I am sure most people wouldn't be written to read them. It's only through my obsession and repetition of talking about Cybermen that keeps people coming back here. Rather than any particular love of me. Except Hannah, Caz and Lauren.

People I am glad I have met this decade (in Chronological order).. Carrisa, Joel, Hutchy, Hannah, Jacqui, Angus, Alex, Anthony, Brendan, Courtney.

People who I wish I had kept in contact with (in no real order).. Lauren, both Jacobs, Adam Taylor.. actually. I will end that one now. Because they are all still about. With the exception of x-girlfriends I can probably contact them again really.

Must stop writing crap. It's too hot to move or really pick up the mouse. Before I go however.. what about... now?

Hannah is out getting her hair striped. I think she is feeling quite bad about that. The cost of colouring it and cutting it has become too high for us to comfortably maintain. I hope she enjoys looking like herself again. I don't think you should be ashamed of what you actually look like. In reality. As people so often tend to be. Even the advertisement on the side of this window seems to be re-enforcing "Get ripped in 4 weeks."

I also think a lot of people read this blog in spite of me. Hello to them.

Colonel Barker

The follow post contains spoilers. If you don't want to know, look away now.



Got that?


The Master has changed every human on the planet into a copy of himself. Except the Doctor, Donna, Wilf, the two Green Aliens and we can assume Captain Jack who is currently off screen. The Masters begin to run after Donna.

Opening titles.

The Time Lords in Gallifrey at the end of the Time War enquire about the whereabouts of the Doctor. The president has gone mad, and the Seer suggests a way they can survive the great Time War. Clearly the president and the Seer survives somehow. We have only scene scenes of them in the past, and all the clips of them with "current" characters take places in a white background place. Could this be inside someone's head or the Matrix.

Back in the "present" the Doctor makes a run for it, leaving Wilf trapped. The Masters follow the Doctor. It's at this point outside the barn that the Doctor finds out the Time Lords are returning. I can only assume it has something to do with the TARDIS being a second in the future. Perhaps the President comes from it. It's an event that drives the rest of the plot quickly. Perhaps a warning from someone?

The Master attacks the Doctor, and bruises and scratches him etc. This needs to be something epic. Perhaps even in the TARDIS?

Meanwhile Donna is captured by the Masters and begins to "burn up".

The Doctor is brought back to the estate and the Master sets the Immortality Gate to turn the Doctor into the Master. The Doctor resists changing, as the Master laughs. However as the Doctor begins to take on the Masters appearance, he points out that the "Locked" machinery that could previously only be activated by the Master can now be operated by him. The Doctor then uses machine to reverse the affect and turns the humans back into humans.

However this has SOME effect on the Master. Perhaps it turns him in to an ordinary human or a Monster? Either way I think the Master's story ends quite early on here. I think the Doctor needs to be tipped too far again here in front of Wilf.

I am not sure how Donna's story can be tied up here at this point. I suspect this is when the Time Lords will make their first real appearance, perhaps through the Doctor touching the Master in the forehead, seeing the figures against white.

For some reason I think the story takes a different turn from here, as the Doctor is healed in all the other scenes following this. Perhaps he is healed when he used the Immortality Gate to "fix" everyone. Either way I think the Doctor does a runner. Perhaps followed by the Time Lords? I think he needs to leave Wilf at this point at pick him later up in the story.

From here we know the Doctor visits the publishing of "The Journal of Impossible Things" and breaks the rules by visiting Rose Tyler before they met. At some point after that he meets up with Wilf again, or perhaps the Doctor brings Wilf in the TARDIS the whole time? Either way the "WOMAN" needs to speak to Wilf again that makes him deicide WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO.

At this point we need to go back to the planet of the Ood. They reveal a TWIST.

At some point the Judoon and the Shadow Proclamation need to fit in here. We have seen Wilf firing a cannon from a gun, and the Doctor and Wilf in a space shuttle of some kind. So I can assume they are making an attack, raid, investigation of SOMETHING.

So perhaps the Doctor finds the new location of Gallifrey and goes to the shadow proclamation, we finally get the scene of all the alien races being pissed off (Including the baby Slitheen) As they decide to go to War against Gallifrey. I can't think of a really fantastic reason why they would. But we know it's something Davies really wants to do, have an army of all the ships seen in the show so far making an attack.

I suspect the Time Lords will capture the Doctor and put right his meddling from the last few episodes. I don't think there will be a trial, however a scene between Wilf and the Doctor as "old soldiers" in a Gallifrey cell somewhere seems to be almost assured.

The Time Lords meanwhile have decided to do something BAD. Perhaps turn back time before the Time War? Something Wilf finds horrible, but the Doctor feels like he needs to agree to.

However if there IS a Trial, the Time Lords will demand a reason why he used "The Moment" to end the Time War. I suspect there will be a scene about it, I would love a clip/ picture of McGann at this point, but I don't think it's going to happen. I suspect this is when Wilf does whatever he needs to do. Probably involving the brief return of the Master in a "demon" form.

I *hope* There is a scene here with the dying Doctor travels to the 13th Century and defeats the "Demon". I suspect this is the dying Master. At this point the Doctor needs to set up the "Woman", perhaps through a secret sect set up after Pompeii?

From here onwards I have no thoughts on at all. The Doctor needs to die, as does Wilf. I think the Seers on Gallifrey need to end up in Ancient Pompeii.

I think the Doctor makes a trip back to Ood Sphere before the end. In something very much like the end of Planet of the Spiders. I hope we get a laying down alone regeneration. But given the Doctor has a last line in his last scene, it needs to be too someone. However, when the TARDIS next arrives he is alone.


So.. those are my ravings. I hope I am completely wrong. I suspect somethings are creepily close. I am sure I will change my mind between now and Saturday.

Colonel Barker

This blog is now on Facebooks blog network. So I expect an influx of readers. So time for a 'typical' blog to show them what they are in for.

"Ahhhh no. I had sex, and my poos have gone runny. I want to die and cut my wrists."

Right. There and done.

But seriously. Hannah and I changed over our internet connection today to a limitless plan between 8pm and 8am, with 20Gb's during the day. We are locked into this for 24 months, so basically we really hope Jacqui likes it, because we are stuck with it, or slightly bigger plan for the next year or two.

Fortunately there was no "change over" cost, however we need to pay a bill a month in advance that is costing a fortune. I am feeling really bad about that, as we really don't have that kind of money laying about at the moment.

On the plus side, I can download WHATEVER I LIKE for 12 hours a day. For the next TWO YEARS. So while I am poor and feeling bad I can download at 20mbps for 12 hours. So practically I could download 30gb of porn a day. With a running time of around 35-30 hours worth of material. I wouldn't do that. But I feel like I have some kind of power knowing I COULD DO IT.

Also I sold Catherines Big Day Out ticket on ebay. That was fun, and made quite a bit of money (sadly none of it for me) and today I posted it. In the boredom of walking to the post office I read the back of the ticket. Apparently if it's resold at all, or resold for more money than it's retail price then they can 'deactivate' the ticket rendering it useless. I really hope this isn't the case.

Hannah has also listed a lot of her spare clothes on ebay, ebay listings can be quite expensive when you have enough of them. And with four days to go, somehow we only have four watchers. It's distressing me somewhat.

I currently have 68 K9 Dapol shells here that I bought from ebay, and I am seriously considering selling a handful of them on ebay. I will never need that many, and I am sure there are people out there that would love such things.

I should be working today. But it feels very WRONG to be working at home in the gap between Christmas and New Years. I am really hoping to get back in to the swing of things next week after Doctor Who has aired, and we are in the "Waiting Zone" for a fortnight before we move.

Yesterday I did a lot of reading up on Machinema. Looks like there have been significant improvements to what can be done in the last year or so. Unfortunately "At the movies" the one game specifically made to make Machinema seems to be one of the most limited ones out there. Frustrating. However the easiest to use, and the only one that easily allows you to lip sync.

Right. Time for some lunch!

Welcome to the new people on the Blog. And a shout out to Alex who will be arriving on THE ISLAND. Soon.

Colonel Barker

Managed to miss out blogging almost again. I went to IKEA, ate a hotdog and read rather too much on the Sims 3 Machinema. Work has stopped. It seems to have overed quickly.

For Christmas Hannah got me a copy of the Troughton "About Time" book. Thoroughly recommended to every fan of the era. Although it will probably ruin your enjoyment of the stories forever. No change there then.

Five sleeps until the regeneration from Tennant to Smith. I am really looking forward to it. Then I can hibernate for three months.

Colonel Barker

I love the festive season. I really do - at no other point does emigration sound so tempting. Needless to say, Christmas this year did not go well and I fully plan on leaving the state before the next one.

The next couple of months look to be interesting anyway. And by interesting I mean strange.

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Stolen apples taste the sweetest
See them hanging in the pale moonlight
You won’t feel those cuts and grazes
As you reach out for your prize in the night
And pluck it down and take that very first bite

“Don’t tell anyone our secrets”
Said the farmer to his darling wife
“There are some here in the district
Not so happy with their lot in this mean, old life.
Now, sweetheart, won’t you pass me the paring knife”

Stolen apples, plucked down in their prime
Stolen apples, hanging heavy on my mind

Eve called Adam in the garden
“Hey Ad, come over here and look at these, won’t you try some?”
“Oh, no” said Adam “That’s forbidden!”
“Come on now, baby” said Eve, “What could be wrong with just one little one?”
So Adam bit and cried out “That’s the bomb! That’s the bomb!”

Stolen apples taste the sweetest
Stolen apples taste the sweetest
- Paul Kelly, 'Stolen Apples'



Hannah xx

Somehow I managed to miss writing anything in here today.

Basically today I have watched Yo-Gi-Oh Abridged, went for a walk and listed things on ebay. Not really that exciting. I got most of a good nights sleep.

Most of the day I spent going over houses and prices and bonds. Really dull stuff. However there are some sexy places out there. I think we are going to move in with Jacqui now. We have talked it over between ourselves, with her and I think it looks like the best option.

I think largely because you can rely on her to sit in her room, go to work, be quiet, fun or otherwise leave me alone and not bother me while I am working.

That's about it really. I am going to Mt Gambier on Thursday (new years Eve) and coming back the following day. I feel like I should be doing some work.

Colonel Barker

I really despise a lot of fandom.

You can go and watch something and love it. And think that there is nothing wrong with it, that it's the best work the production team have made. The biggest, most exiting television epic committed to the small screen.

And come away feeling genuinely proud of the production team, the actors, Russell T Davies and all the crew.

Then you look for a second in the forum, or on youtube at all the BILE that people have responded to it. You would think it's a four hour transmission of mayonnaise. People suggesting that the production team, the writers, the actors aren't putting in any effort and that it's the end of the show. And that whatever episode it is marks a decline in this that or the other.

Like every scene is written directly to vomit bile on to you personally. Rather than telling an exciting Dr Who story about a space man travelling in a flying box fighting his arch nemesis.

So you know what. I liked it. 10 million other people liked it. So, fuck you fandom. I am going to go with my own point of view. I loved it and I don't care what you think. I would much rather love something and enjoy it than hate it and detest it. Except musicians.

I am off to bed now. I have been awake for 43 hours straight now, and there is this drumming in my head.

Colonel Barker

The End of Time Part One has finished airing. Thanks to a friend I watched about 80% of it streamed from the UK. I started watching at 4:20am and we went to bed about midnight. I really, really couldn't sleep for the four hours I went to bed.

I am not going to fill this with spoilers. But wow. Just wow. I am looking forward to seeing the other 20% of the episode in a few hours when my friend Ian downloads it. Sadly I don't know anyone streaming BBC3. So no Confidential for me.

Kind of want to message Alex. But had better not.

Colonel Barker

I know I should have other things to worry about. But as the 24 hour period until End of Time airs is a trail behind us and we are down to the 18 hour mark I am beginning to worry. I blame Alex. As it's something I wasn't previously worried about.

I spent all morning on the phone to my ISP (APPT) who tell me my deal with them no longer exists, and the one that replaced it (that I can get my deal changed to.. for free) includes limitless downloads. I can have it changed to that deal and it will magically reset my cap.

However their service is closed until Monday it will take 24/48 hours to have it changed over. So between Tuesday and Wednesday next week. All very good for End of Time Part Two. And I know that will be very important to me next week. However with tomorrow rapidly approaching I have put out a call to everyone I know within an 18 hour radius to come help.

I have had a few really nice offers over the next two days, a few people offering to try and drive past in the afternoon. Worst case I will take them up on it. Best person at the moment looks like Ian Kennedy who lives nearby and has a lovely ADSL2 connection. I have written him a huge begging letter asking for his help tomorrow.

It's amazing how unhelpful people can be for getting you one episode of a TV show when you ask them.

I must relax and enjoy today. But tomorrow is stressing me. FUCK YOU RTD. FUCK YOU.

Colonel Barker

I am not going to have enough internet to get End of Time the day its broadcast. My nets will be shaped and slow.

I can describe how frustrating boxing day is going to be. I really can't.

CB

Today has been quite fun. Hannah and I went to 'the Parade' (a street of shops nearby) looking for fuse wire. Surprisingly none of the electrical stores, service stations, or supermarkets had any. However we ended up finding some in a furniture warehouse.

On the way home I got a call from MonkeyStack saying I didn't get the incubator position. Steve Sexton did get it, and I am happy for him. I think to go from 50 odd people down to around the last 10 or so isn't too bad.

In the world of creative arts you will always, always get more knock backs than commissions, especially when starting out. So I am not going to let me bother me. There are other projects and teams out there. I am going to improve in the areas I need to improve in and keep going at the areas I am happy with. A big thank you to Shane from MonkeyStack for being so supportive.

However, I think Colin(?) who works there gave himself away by only going into the interviews with people who he was keen on getting the position. Probably. Or it could have been a lunch break.

Alex was coming over this morning to watch Muppets Christmas Carol with us this morning, however has delayed to this afternoon. I suspect he has other things on. But that's okay. Mean I can drink tea and eat croissants in my own time.

I have to say I am feeling a little down due to a few things, largely because I don't know where I will be living or what I will be doing in a months time. But I think rather than worrying about it, a numbness has replaced it.

Yesterday, I believe I mention I bought some Games Workshop figures called "Tomb Kings". Over the next two or three months I hope to collect

x1 Tomb King
x3 Liche High Priest (two mounted, two on foot)
x40 Skeleton Warriors (have bought x16)
x16 Skeleton Light Horsemen (have bought x4)
x5 Tomb Swarms
x16 Skeleton Heavy Horsemen (have bought x4)
x12 Chariots (have bought x1)

So I am well on my way to getting there. It's going to take a while, but it's just something to spend a few dollars on every few weeks to keep me entertained for bit.

We are also currently organising to move into a house with Jacqui at Ascot Park that will be free the exact week we need to move out, and is a good $80 a fortnight cheaper than where we are. There is an inspection early Janurary I am looking forward to getting too.

I really need to do some animation week, the last week things have come to a complete standstill.

Colonel Barker