The Coffee Time Blues

The Pandemic Studios Coffee is legendary. We are provided the biggest, best-est, shiniest coffee maker I have ever seen at a studio. When the going gets tough, the tough get coffee...

Eat your hearts out.

First Surf On the Way

Yeah!!! Just solidified my plans for the weekend. I will be heading out with a group of guys from the studio for my first surf in Australia. We're heading to the legendary Snapper Rocks in Coolangatta. It is a place that I have seen magazines for years and never dreamed that I would ever get to surf it, and even better is that it is going to be my inaugural session in Australia. Crowded it will be but the boys tell me that there are plenty of waves to go around, lots of open beach and getting waves is never a problem.

According to Coastal Watch, we should have a nice little SE swell working for some 3-4 backs with fine weather to boot.

Before heading over we will be stopping by The Board Room for choosing a fresh new board for yours truly.


Hoot-Hoot...

Dinner and a Show

I am longing for home just a little bit. I am not at all regretting the move but i am finding that everything has changed in my life in just a week and I mean everything. Aside from the location change, the weather is different, job is different, accents, driving, you even walk on the other side of the sidewalk.
This morning I did my weekly shopping and picked up some stuff for a familiar meal that would try and remind me of my wife, the cats, and anything else that was once familiar to me.
I cooked up some good ol' Pasta Puttanesca, it was not as good as when my wife makes it but it put a smile on my face. Pasta, wine, bread and salad and more wine and, everything is right with the world.
As I started to eat, a storm started to roll through and I had a awesome show of mother nature at its Australian best. Lightning, thunder, rain, the whole show. My place is sheltered from the wind from the south west and I can sit through the worst of it with nary a drop...


Sorry for the poor focus...

To my wife...

The hardest thing about being in Australia is that I am here without my wife. Mariana is the best thing that has ever come into my life and I miss her terribly. She is my other half and the rock that the whole house sits on...

I will you soon...

Everything Wild 2...

You know your in Australia when...


One of the guys here found this outside is flat yesterday...


For those not in the know, it is a Koala...



I love this place!!!

Everything Wild...

One other thing that amazes me is the variety and size of the wild life and that is abundant in the city center...

The lizard just about ran over my foot. The picture is deceiving as he was about two foot long.

This bird was in a tree right above me and was about a two foot from beak to tail...

The Australians are great when i comes to the environment. At work there are multiple recycle stations by every cube set and everyone uses them. The last studio I worked at, the recycle bins would be empty and the organic can would be full of plastic. It is very refreshing. We are encouraged to be clean, turn off lights when not in use and to use public transport when possible. Here there is no debate about the validity of global warming and everyone does their part.

Mostly the city is very clean and tidy. There is some litter here and there but nothing compared to SF and LA. I am glad to be somewhere that makes such an effort to be clean and green and conservation minded...

I love this place!!!

Walkabout

Saturday...

Today is another beautiful Queensland day. I got out of beddy and decided on a long, long walk. From my apartment in New Farm I walked the river walk through botanical gardens, around the CBD then on to South Bank. I crossed the river and made it to the Maritime Museum when I thought I would just about melt and I think I started to have the initial symptoms of heat exhaustion.
It is hot here. Hotter than a monkeys butt in the Congo to be exact and I have learned the most valuable lesson of an Australian walkabout; drink lots of water. Luckily, at most points there are drinking fountains. I was avoiding them at first, in the States they tend to be nasty, here the water is cold and pure. After some re-hydration I made back to the Story Bridge and back to my side of the river...