Connected..at last!

Finally, I have broadband, and I feel like I'm back.
Talk about first-world problems! I've only had a mobile broadband dongle since I got here and the signal has been so bad. It drops out all the time, or down to dial-up speed. Imagine that...dial-up internet. So 1999. Can't survive with that.
Now I'm back on Skype and I can see you (except SG) so I don't feel so isolated any more.

Skype me, skype me now.

Trouble is, this work laptop has a partition, if I'm doing work, I have to remote into the office and I can't Skype. I have to log out of work and reboot to my private partition. More first-world problems.
To get broadband, I had to get a landline, but the bonus with that is I can make free calls to Australian landlines, so if I don't have your number drop me an email here.

God, I need botox or something. It's all the stress, or the shitty weather.
What else has been happening? Just work, work and more work. And lots of driving to get there. Its what I thought it would be like, so no surprises. The project managers are still disorganised, so I'm subtly taking over to get things done.

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I've been catching up with my friends on weekends, last weekend I went down to Charmaine & Ian's in Hampshire for a dinner party on Saturday night. Lots of fine wine and intellectual conversations. Not sure that my republican sympathies and anti-monarchy stance were overly appreciated by the Tory locals, but hey, I'm still Australian. Actually I think I'm becoming more patriotic here. I got Sky TV with ESPN in time for the AFL finals (classic GF) and I'll have to upgrade Sky again to get the Aussie cricket. I record Grand Designs Australia.

I've never really been into golf on TV, but the Ryder Cup was nuts.
Back to London next weekend, so this weekend is at home, shopping most likely. I need some warm clothes now, its autumn which means rain....as if there hasn't been enough of that. Also should do some real food shopping, I've gotta get some of my new obsession...turkey bacon (or turcon as I call it) the halal substitute. I had a TLT the other day. Crispy turkey...mmmmm
6 pm now...pub time, down to The Packet for a few pints with the weird Welsh locals. They still won't teach me any swear words in Welsh, so they'll have to put up with my foul Aussie language.