I remember sitting around in the kitchen in Dynnyrne, which was where I was living with some friends, talking about buying a domain name. I put it off because I did not know how it would work with the server and email. Then, it happened. Someone out there bought bahuma.com. Crap! In retalliation, I bought bahuma.net and bahuma.org. I have been the holders of those two domain names since then.

I have watched bahuma.com change a few times. It initially pointed to a graphic design website.  Over the last 5 years, the domain has been with cybersquatters. They purchased the domain with the hope of selling it to someone. That someone would be me. I was not prepared to part with $200-$300. I have kept an eye on the whois of the domain and this year it did not get renewed. I raise an eyebrow. I watch the domain go through the expiry stages….. REDEMPTIONPERIOD….. then PENDINGDELETE…

This morning sometime, the domain dropped. I had GoDaddy Backorder there to pick up the pieces. I am now the owner of bahuma.com.

You may ask “What am I going to do with it?”… Nothing (for now) is the answer to that… it just redirects back to this site

http://cp.id.au/social/

The work week is now over and the weekend begins. A few things have happened this week to make things interesting. Today I put down the initial deposit on a place of my own to rent. It is close to work (around 2 miles!) and is in a nice area. I am planning to sign the lease on and start the move in process on Tuesday!

Ian left for Australia today. He is going back for around a month to get his Visa sorted out. I also learnt today that in order to obtain a drivers licence in PA, I have to get a learners permit. So I will have to go and do the written test to obtain that and then a few days later I will try for my real licence – what a pain in the bum!

My social security number still hasn’t arrived (not that it should have come by now) so I still don’t have a bank or anything yet so hopefully it comes next week!

It looks like I will have at least one day in the field next week using the TM-6 to look for drums about 2 hours away from here.

Anyways, thats it for now, cu!

The international leg was as good as it could be. The plane was pretty much booked out but somehow 1out of the 3 free seats, there was one spare between me and the guy next to me. After dosing up on Benadryl, it was off to the land of nod. I got a fair bit of sleep on the plane.

Brisbane was good. I caught up with the people from Gap as well as Kev and Emma. Geni and the kids were also well. I can’t believe how much they have grown up!!!(!!)
The flight into Tassie was lumpy with the pilot all over the place on final approach. It was obvious why after we landed with the menacing storm clouds and associated winds.

Anyways, hope to catch up with everyone while I am down tata

The weather change has been great. It has been in the 20′s most days which is a big improvement over Hershey. We are currently due to fly out tomorrow evening so back to the office on Monday…

This year has been a strange one for me. I have spent 9 months here in the USA working which has been challenging and rewarding at the same time.

This will be my first White Christmas. I call it white but it is more an off-white to grey slush now as we have had warmer (3-6 degrees! ) in the last week or so.

Anyway, stay safe and all the best for 2006!

  
  

I took some pictures on Sunday morning and I have uploaded them to gallery. I also took some video and I will put that up shortly I am now very happy with my new down jacket I bought last week.