Hmmm.....I'm all full after having dinner at Sara. Thanks heaps Sara! And I forgot to check out your Europe photos......next time though.

Ritchie, congratulations on completing AND handing in your dissertation early. Huge relief!

Rudi, all the best with your marathon. :)

Phil......where are you? :P

Very very tired. I've been trying to fix up my home network so I can get all my computers to share one modem. And it isn't working. Well....it was running when I was using the old style modem and running cables around the house (mum wasn't happy with my blue cables trailing on the carpet). But now that I got the house properly networked and got ADSL installed.....it's definately an experience. Not quite on the same level as our Abu Dhabi experience but I'm learning ;) Anyway, it's 12.20am, time to head to bed as I got church tomorrow/today.

keep smiling.... :)

Kids say the funniest things! Thanks for sharing that bit of history with me Sara. Now I know why I should eventually learn Spanish....cause it'll seem really cool to all the Aussies, then we'll start a trend where EVERYONE will speak Spanish. Oh hold on...aren't we meant to get everyone to speak Aussie? Yes, mate, that's a great idea. It's part of our plan to take over the world ;)

The night before Mother's Day, I was slogging away on my assignment. I decided to take a break at midnite and got a fright when I saw my little sister outside my door! She looks at me with her big eyes and says "I'm making mum a present". She had woken up *just* to make a present for our mum. I think that's sweet :P Anyway, I hope you all had a great Mother's Day. We had one of our HUGE family gatherings with lots of food. The Ellison gatherings are something to see.....we all represent so many races within the family and so many different kinds of food! *chuckles* One of my favourites are my Swedish uncle's desserts....yumm.....

By the way Rudi, how hot is hot? And I'm glad there's sun.....I hear all these stories about Europe and it's sun-less state. Ok, I'm exaggerating. I know there's sun...just not quite as much as the Aussie sun....where you get sun burnt just driving your car around (yes, I have car tan. Check out my right arm....it's darker then my left!) and going to the beach without suncream is like trying to do rockclimbing without clothes. Hmm.....yes it's silly, just like what I did in 1998. I fell asleep on the beach without suncream....and I still have those tan lines until today *grins* Whoo hoo.

Anyway it's time to go. I've been procrastinating here as long as I could. Time to head back to writing up reports on business strategies. Extremely fun. I recommend it....not.

farewell from
The Procrastinator

(deep terminator voice: "I'll be back")