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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
12:50 pm	PC pt XII Twas bad power supply. Just got it back for the 3rd time with newer bigger power supply so HOPEFULLY it will stay running for more then 12 mins and I can FINALLY go binge gaming :D (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
3:54 pm	random Was out at shops early today, as you do when you are in the need or mood to buy stuff and in the butchers getting some stuff for my Christmas Curry(tm). Now being that time of the year they have extra staff on and one of the 'extras' who I have occasionally seen in their before and who vaguely reminded me of someone comes up to see if I had been served, then pauses, looks again, goes 'Craig? Craig Simms?' Turns out this was Jess, one of my dance teachers from last century who I hadn't actually seen for about 11 years. WOW! So that was cool :D (and also a very impressive memory as back when we had last met I wasn't shaving my head and did look SLIGHTLY different!) (Comment on this)
11:22 am	Fat Camp Hey Kids, I WAS at one stage going to try and do something semi challenging for this Xmas Holidays. Since I on one crab like claw have a lot more free time to goto the gym during the day while on holidays I MAY actually improve my fitness. On the other claw it is also the time to party, drink and stuff your face full of food like a heckler outside the Climate Change Fast tent and I MAY actually get fatter. So, my plan WAS to messure at the start of the 2 week period my mass as well as the puffed fully out and sucked fully in size around my gut. Then i could do the same just before I went back to work and compare. And I WAS going to post it online here for all to see and monitor.... Except when I did the messurements and then, being offline, jotted the findings down in my Moleskine, I found similar records from about 18 months ago. Which were lower. MUCH lower. Bugger. (Comment on this)
11:14 am	Non PC stuff Happy gossip here kiddies that doesn't involve PC failure :) Last Thursday we had our site comms meeting slash site lunch BBQ (or, it was a roast but lets not digress). For reasons that were never completely explained, some time in the past we donated pieces of aluminum offcuts to one of the primary schools (forget which, SOMEBODY wasn't paying attention :D ) for their music dept to make stuff from, and now, as a thank you they were coming to visit us to preform their funky music stuff. Hmmmmm.... we muse.... this could be... 'interesting'. So up comes the roller door and in backs a truck. In comes a collection of musical toys the size of small offices. There is our alumimium offcuts made into a Xylophone (opps, Glockenspiel cause it has metal bars...) about 2.5m long, a percusion thingy looking like a set of multi launch rocket tubes and a second percusion thingy with massive lengths of that 4in black plastic pipe snaking down across the floor. So then these kids with their music teachers gather around these toys and start thumping the drokk out of these things with these massive rubber hitty sticks. IT WAS REALLY COOL :) But then the bit that really cracked me up. At the start they are still setting up and the rest of us are lining up for our food. Being rude and inconsiderate types we are making jokes. "Do they do requests? How about 'Holy Grail'? That's always a crowd favourite. Or 'Smoke on the Water'? Or 'Blister in the Sun'?" (we laughed, cause poking fun at 8 year olds is always funny) About 12 mins later, we are eating our lunch and chatting away to the people from other departments we don't normally talk with, and, BAA BAA BAA, BA ba ba BAR ba, BAA BAA BAA, barrr BA BARRRR!!!! SMOKE ON THE WATER!!! These kids played Smoke on the Water... or at least the first couple of bars! How cool was that? :) (never got 'Blister in the Sun' but...) (Comment on this)
10:56 am	PC... part Next Hmmmm.... sort answer? IT DON'T WORK. When it falls over it crashes completely - as in BANG RESTART. It seems happy enough to do low level stuff, (I mean I am using it now for this) but the moment you want to use it for something you actually brought it for - ie playing recent release games with the graphics turned up to 11, it falls over like a drunk in a bouncy castle. (yes I have done all the things like update to latest drivers and been on all the forums) Going to talk to supplier - maybe reinstall windows or something. (Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
11:30 pm	well that was a waste got new PC PC blue screens when I try to install NOT HAPPY semi educated money says I have bad memory so slightly annoyed as I only picked it up this arvo after work. On the plus side the new monitor I got with it IS rather funky :D (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
10:41 pm	Rule #1 - Cardio Saw Zombieland today. It was... alright... On my binary scale of yes/no it gets a yes but only just. Does have some really piss funny bits (the zombie kill of the week) but in other bits you are just going through the motions a little bit. Speaking of Zombies I have thrown my body clock. I had Friday and Sat nights as 5am finishes and that includes a 0900 start Saturday to get my fat bum to gym class. So today I wussed out and went back to bed and got up about 1pm. Hence it is now 1030 sunday night and I still feel jumpy jumpy drinky drinky. Me bad. Not as bad as some of my mates it seems. I had my 'weird' Friday night which, verbally at least, seemed to spend a lot of time in the gutter (and no, NO details will be published on LJ under the 'Too Much Information Act' ..... okay... just one quote for you, "Look, she is wearing knee socks.... I'm Horny!"). However it seems that all my shallowness was pushed aside when I got up next morning found 4am txt messages from my mate from Melbourne describing his 'I have no idea where I am' random hotel room adventures. These were then pushed aside aside when I spoke to my mate from FNQ who described his night out with some of his work crowd and his ex-girlfriend who was in town visiting. So... yes... sound like i need to lift my game a bit here :P (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
10:59 pm	ooooo....stolen Meme thingy :) (Stolen from MissHelen :) ) 1. What is your salad dressing of choice? dunno actually. Depends if it is something like a potato salad or just garden salad sort of stuff in a side bowl. If it is garden salad I normally pick out the bits I like and leave the cuccumber and most of the lettice 2. What is your favourite sit-down restaurant? dunno - Thai? 3. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? curry 4. What are your pizza toppings of choice? sun dried tomatos? 5.What do you like to put on your toast? normally just butter. ***********TECHNOLOGY*************** 1. How many televisions are in your house? two 2. What colour mobile phone do you have? black 3. Have any idea how many Megahertz your computer has? not enough ***************BIOLOGY****************** 1. Are you right-handed or left-handed? right 2. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? I had my heart ripped out brutally once - so I brought a huge honking sub woofer for the home sterio :D Tonsils, some teeth, a mole cut out my leg once. 3. What is the last heavy item you lifted? dunno... been reasonably slack, even allowing for gym. Maybe the bookcase last weekend when I moved stuff in the lounge. 4. Have you ever been knocked unconscious? no ************BULLCRAPOLOGY************** 1. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? no 2. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? well I already answer to MudCrab so it might be amusing to be legally known as that 3. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for £1000? probably do it for less. I like spicy stuff and my definition of 'hot' is a bit different to other peoples ************DUMBOLOGY****************** 1. How many pairs of flip flops do you own? none 2. Last time you had a run-in with the cops? prefer not to say :P 3. Last person you talked to? probably the girl, Sarah, at the small goods shop. She was sweaping the floor near the bread shelf and I teased her that she was a dangerous broom welding person and I wasn't going near her 4. Last person you hugged? Laken, about 2 or 3 in the morning when she left the pub **************FAVORITOLOGY**************** 1. Season? dunno - I like them all, but for different reasons. Remember Australian winters are reasonably mild all my overseas fans. Start of summer when you get the first hot days and everyone starts showing off their legs again... hehe :) 2. Holiday? Some of the mid year long weekends as you just need that break. Christmas/New Year gets too long and sometimes depresses me as I think I have wasted my entire year. Since I am not a practicing christian type I find Easter an annoying time when the pubs are shut. 3. Day of the week? Thursday maybe - Friday is the end of week but a bad Friday can disappoint. A Thursday means you always have that Friday to look forward to. A bit less expectation with a Thursday. 4. Month? lets say... October... if only for the start of hot girlie people starting to dress 'summer' in public :D ***********CURRENTOLOGY***************** 1. Missing someone? but my aim is improving... :D 2. Mood? tired - coming off 4 hours sleep and really SHOULD be going out about... 1 hour ago 3. What are you listening to? There was a big open air music gig thingy in one of the parklands this afternoon. Could hear that from here. But nothing now, just the fridge noise. (and NO bloody neighbour yelling at her kids... :D) 4. Watching? my weight... :D ***************RANDOMOLOGY***************** 1. First place you went this morning? considing I was still up and out 'this morning' it would probably be into the band room to watch the second act ram their guitar into the ceiling and leave it hanging there. COOL AS! Pity someone wasn't getting paid that night :P (if you mean first thing after I got out of bed? Bathroom then off to gym) 2. What's the last movie you saw? As in paid to go and see? Surragates - Bruce Willis. It was AVERAGE at best 3. Do you smile often? a reasonable amount ***************OTHER-OLOGY***************** 1. Do you always answer your phone? I tend to ignore my land line these days - it is only telemarketers. I have a number display so anything that comes up as 'overseas' I just let ring out. 2. Its four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? one of my mates from Melb saying 'Up Parascope' That is a long running in joke that to be honest I really don't know the punch line for (and don't want to think too hard about :P ) 3. If you could change your eye color what would it be? mine are okay now 4. What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic? What's Sonic? 5. Do you own a digital camera? Pentax K-7 brought to replace my Pentax K-10D that I got two years ago to replace my Pentax *ist/D. Me camera geek and at the moment should REALLY be burning photos to CD to give to the people I should be going out to see 1 hour ago :P 6. Have you ever had a pet fish? not since I was about 10 7. Favorite Christmas song: Kevin Bloody Wilson has a very rude Christmas song with LOTS of swearing :D (Santa Clause you **** Where's me ******* bike I've opened all this other **** and there's nothing here I like) hehe - I a bad man :D 8. What's on your wish list for your birthday? a few people... :D HAHAHHAHA :D 9. Can you do push ups? no - much to my macho embrassesment. From a sporting injury I managed to REALLY screw over my right a/c joint and rotater cuff muscles. Did this about 4 years ago and since then have not been able to support my body weight in the push up position. I USED to have enough strength to do clap push ups but now can't even do one. Still have the build of someone who does a lot of push ups and still get away with playing Lacrosse put move my shoulder in the wrong direction and I am completely stuffed. 10. Can you do a chin up? no idea anymore - haven't tried in ages. Due to the shoulder I probably can't 11. Does the future make you more nervous or excited? medically they are the same thing. The question should be more does the future worry you? overall - no 12. Do you have any saved texts? masses of them - so much so that I keep getting incoming new text blocked by lack of memory 13. Ever been in a car wreck? yes - ran into the side of a semi trailer and basically had the entire front of my car removed. Walked out of hospital with only a minor muscle strain and a burn on my hand from the airbag 2 hours later but the consensus from everyone who saw my car was HOLY SHIT!!!! Counts as the second time I have nearly been killed I think. 14. Do you have an accent? apparently I have an english one 15. What is the last song to make you cry? don't cry to songs. Movies yes, songs no 16.Plans tonight? should of been out band slutting an hour ago but got distracted... :P 17. Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? yes 18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday? Hmmmm... Friday... SFX magazine, 2000ADs, baked potato 19. Have you ever been given roses? don't think so. I may have been given flowers when I was in hospital when I was 15 but can't remember 20. Current worry? I will never get off my lazy arse and clean this unit up and every woman I MIGHT have a chance of a good relationship with will take one look and run. (looks at mess... decides to put it off longer) 21. Current hate right now? this vague feeling that I had a prefect chance to date a VERY attractive and intelligent girl (or at least get a phone number and a 'lets catch up sometime' sort of thing) but missed the hints and gave her the (polite) blush off instead. I seem to be on a one hour delay when I am out socialising and then look back and think 'hang on! She was hitting onto you then!' 22. Met someone who changed your life? yes - but if you asked me to name one of them at the moment... 23. How will you bring in the New Year? Out, pissed and lonely. (I have a love/hate with New Years. You are legally required to go out and have a really REALLY good time and snog anyone within 30 metres and if you can't pick up you are a failure. Plus end of year makes me look back and realise all the things I had promised to do this year and didn't) 24. What song represents you? Fear and Loathing 'I kill Hippies' (which is not completely true and FaL are REALLY nice guys but it is just such a fully on fun rock/punk song with a catchy chorus :D ) 25. Name three people who might complete this? dunno - I went through my LJ friends list and most of my old regulars seem to have dropped off 26. Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? yes - but only so I could remember to take photos this time around :D 27. Have you ever dated someone longer than a year? no. I seem to drift into long term 'you are a really nice guy' sort of things. I think if I had to pick my formally longest then it would be 4 months. 28. Do you have any tattoos/piercings? no. Scars yes 30. Does anyone love you? (discounting family of course...) yes, but she 'loves me' but is not 'in love with' me which means we are just friends and will probably never sleep together - or even snog for that matter. 31. Ever had someone sing to you? Yes 32. When did you last cry? Funeral 33. Do you like to cuddle? yes 34. Have you held hands with anyone today? No 36. Are most of the friends in your life new or old? I think the word is 'current' 37. Do you like pulpy orange juice? not really - there is a certain amount of pulp but too much is not good (Comment on this)
10:02 pm	Cricket... "(insert team name) must take early wickets tomorrow if they are to stay in this match..." Just once I would like to see a team captain when faced by the interviewing media at the end of a days play come out with something like, "No, we are not actually hoping for early wickets. We instead would like to field in the hot sun for another day and a half before being forced to try and score quickly on a last day pitch. Attempting to bowl out the other team for a low score is exactly what they would be expecting so we are going to attempt a different tactic." Journalism must be where the bleeding obvious go to die. What next? "Staving Man Must Eat in order to maintain health"? "Prime Minister must win election to stay in power"? "Rescue must succeed in order to save life"? "LJ author must type in order to fill page with words"? So I might go to the cricket tomorrow. Australia v West Indies, Day 3. After all, the Indies must take quick wickets and I wouldn't want to miss seeing that :) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
9:59 pm	The Neighbour's New Curtains Hi Kids, lets assume you lived next to someone. Lets assume, that inside their own little home, they decided to put up new curtains that they rather liked. Lets assume you hated them. Lets assume you decided to publicly and loudly complain about said curtains and insisted that neighbour was a complete disgrace and should instead put up curtains you like. Let us assume you are a complete twot. Now, where are you going with this Mister Muddy I hear you ask? Have you been fighting with your neighbours? Me? Fight with the loud disfunctional single mother who seems to do nothing but yell at her two young children and smoke outside my bathroom window? Not at all actually :D No, let us digress a bit into the government landscape of Australia. ( Long long LONG post about politics ) (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
2:48 pm	cleaning Hi Kids, I am currently cleaning the Crab Cave and/or rearranging the longue room. Or to put it another way, my floor is now completely covered with DVDs and books I took off the shelf to make moving it easier. Seriously, I own so much absolute rubbish. Even allowing for the fact I am a complusive book buyer (book reader less so... With non fiction you can half get away with saying you haven't fully read the book you own as it is still a reference and you can never have too big a libary, but with some fiction I own I am SOOOOOOOO slack. Although being given some weird fantasy that is fully not my thing by the book group I am in doesn't really help either :P), and have a healthy sized DVD collection I still seem to own/keep a huge amount of crap. I also need to rehang some of my pictures. I have some nice band promo posters (back from the day when bands regularly made good A1 sized promo posters) mounted but those little stick on picture hooks fall off my walls after 6 months so most of my collection seems to live at floor level these days. One of these days I am just going to stuff the bond and my landlady and drill into the walls for proper hooks in a massive orgy of power tools and hang the lot. Went out last night and Friday. I think I can further support my 'looks good in a suit' theory. Friday and Saturday were both jeans and t-shirt nights and apart from a hug from two existing girlie mates last night, not a wimper of interested from the assembled female masses. Pool Playing Girl was there last night actually. Not seen her for about 4 months. We both did the little 'hello how are you' wave thing but she was playing pool with some friends and I wanted to watch the bands in the other room. So I did :P Hmmm... guess these books aren't going to restack themselves... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
9:31 pm	jacket and tie I somehow managed to go out every day last weekend. Had a cocktail/awards night thing on Friday, then a normalish pub night Saturday and then a winery bus tour Sunday before our branch dinner Monday night. Sat was normal casual slob night with jeans and t-shirt but Monday and Friday and suited up with the jacket and tie and Sunday I had a nice shirt on. On all for occasions I had attractive young women, well, not as much flirt, but smile coyly at me a lot. On Saturday night when I was jeans and t-shirted I didn't. Conclusion? I look DAMM HOT in a suit :D hehe no phone numbers but :( (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
6:48 pm	Well that was foolish... Last weekend I decided that it might be night to have an entire alcohol free week. Now since I very rarely drink mid week, that meant if I didn't drink Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and then also resisted the urge to drop into the pub on Sunday arvo, then I could make 12 days in a row without drinking. Few reasons behind it. Mainly to see if I could but also I was beginning to fear I was spending WAY too much $$ each time I went out and also as a brief, non scientific, experiment to see if it would directly relate to a small gut size. So yeah, this was last Sunday, 6 days ago... Now is Saturday arvo... AND I WANT TO GO OUT ON THE PISS GRUD DAMMIT!!! Got away with last night by just feeling really stuffed after a working week and decided to be boring and stay home. But tonight I want to go out and the act of saying 'glass of coke please' or 'just a water thanks' for the entire night is starting to scare me. On the plus side I guess I AM spending less. Not sure if the no alcohol is effecting my fat levels as I seem to be drinking a lot more sugar filled soft drinks instead. Also trying to motivate myself to do some serious cleaning in the Crab Cave. I have decided if I get ride of this stupid push bike I have never ridden I can shift a small book case into the spot that takes up and the get a larger one to go on the wall that used to be against. Then I will have no real excuse not to get some of the piles of books and DVDs off the floor where they seem to have collected just in front of the DVD player... So far in my cunning plan I have managed to... ummm.... write about it here in LJ.... :P I suck :P I blame it on the lack of ALCOHOL!!!!!! :P (ps - Saturday morning gym class without a hangover actually hurts more! With a hangover you can just blame the pain on the night before and keep pushing yourself to exercise more. With no hangover you realise that each bit of pain is actually DIRECTLY from the exercise. ARRRRRRRRRRR!!) (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
6:53 pm	Overthrowing the government? Pool Cleaning? Same thing really Hi Kids, as some of you may know I am currently trying to overthrow the government for my own selfish ends. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! One day all this will be mine!! MINE I TELL YOU!!! MINE!!!! So anyway, was out today on this warm and sunny Adelaide day doorknocking with one of my fellow plotters. Basically going around warning people that come the revolution they are invited to the after party. BYO chairs and a plate of salad. Soft drinks provided. Now, in this street there were a number of houses that had separate upstairs and downstairs with small gates leading to the front door down the side of the house. So I get to this new house and go down this little path looking for the front door only to end up in the backyard where this 20ish blonde girl is sunbathing in either her mis matched two piece swimsuit or her underware. Ummmm.... Hi?? Didn't know whether to try and sneak out again or give her my phone number :P In non porn star type news I went to Melbourne last week. Can't remember if I told you people or not. Maybe I should actually read my posts from time to time and check :) (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
1:46 pm	Team TV 2009 - Big Melbourne Adventures Hey Kids, The Muddy is currently in sunny Melbourne to catch up with his Team TV lacrosse sidekicks and watch the two NLL All Stars games. NLL is box lacrosse and this is the first time they have had All Star games in Oz since 1976. Being held at the Docklands stadium (sorta next to the MCG and the Rod Lather tennis arena area) and we had the first game last night. And... well... it's all right. Not the best game of Lacrosse I have ever seen - that was the USA v Canada minor round game in the U19 Worlds last year - or even the best game I have seen this year. That was the U13 Boys GF. So, considering I have both flown over here, taken a days annual leave and paid for two nights tickets I am 'slightly' yeah whatever. True there has been some excellent pay and skills on show. (also some mildly average skills as they shuffled into the game during the first quarter half awake). But at this level the game does actually seem slower then Field. (this is Box - played indoors in an ice hockey sized area. 6 a side. I play Field, which is played on a full field and 10 a side.) Still, if you never go to these things you don't know if they are going to be cool or not and this was a good excuse to catch up with the boys. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
2:06 pm	wasted Hi Kids, wasted last night. Not as in got completely drunk and forgot where I was, but as in got really dressed up for a formal black tie event, looked REALLY sharp in a dinner suit and then, mainly due to complete slackness from my SUPPOSED partner in black tied crime, completely failed to kick on and do that entire 'hi girls, I'm in a dinner suit' he-slut thing you really need to do to justify the cost of dry cleaning you will have to do anyway. so yes... wasted Good night though up till that part, just didn't kick on to the 'great night' part :P Oh, and good news and bad news. Reading a book at the moment that in a lighthearted way points out how completely wussy us modern males are compared to our forebearers. There is some semi random quote that the average modern males bicep is only 29cm (this important data is part of the scientific proof that the average Neanderthal WOMAN could trash ANYONE in an arm wrestle... important science this :D ). So, getting ready to go out and spied the tape measure and ran it around the arms... So flexed I am 37 and relaxed about 31. Bigger then average! Yeah baby Yeah Baby (then I put the tape around my gut....) Bigger then average!!! :( (and bigger then about 18 months ago!! ) CRY :( (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
4:00 am	picture this The room is full of zombies. You have left the doctor with the leather gloves and welding goggles and moved into the band room. Two pandas block your view of the stage. Despite this the band sings on. 'Lay me down. Lay me down.' (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
7:11 pm	WTF?? I believe Sima Samar is a tireless person who deserves international praise, recognition and thanks for her work. I believe BHO is a man with a teleprompt and a good speech writer. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
12:26 am	Life without Crankers Hey Kids, got a vague idea I spend too much time at the Cranker. Or maybe not enough. Long weekend just past here in sunny Adelaide and I managed basically to be there Friday night, Saturday arvo, Saturday night and then Sunday as well. YA for variety! :) Still, I had an excuse, there was a 'Cranker Fest' music sort of gig on that weekend and 17 bands over the two days. Took the K7 (yes, I got another new camera :D ) out for it's first gig on the Saturday. Bit weird. You would expect a camera the same brand as your old one to play out pretty similar but it was slightly tricky. The auto white light balance is a MASSIVE amount better then the K10D which is a GOOD THING. Anyway, since the Black Eyed Peas were in town, two of the techies came out to catch some live music or more to the point, God God Dammit Dammit. They were pretty impressed as it is not everywhere you get to see some rolling 12 piece rock band. I have a vague memory of dribbling absolute shit to one of them and blow so much smoke up GGDD's arse to this guy that he asked if I was their manager :) I also seem to have this weird thing going with one of the barmaids who's name I really have NO idea. Was saying goodbye to her on the Saturday night and said something about going home to sleep. She said 'yes, that is because you are old, OH no I don't mean it like that!' Now considering this is the sort of girl who I would never actually describe as 'sweet' I found it sorta of cute that she backed down mid sentence on her joke in case she had offended me. This IS after all, when I was talking to her while she was outside on her break Friday night who had described the tasks she had to do on the remainder of her shift as 'serving drinks to c**ts' after all. Hmmmm... Off to Melb in a few weeks for the Lacrosse All Stars game. Hang out with my Team TV mates and drink too much :D (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
3:15 am	Important notice to the rest of the world Hey Kids, just so you all know, when Uncle MudCrab drops into a bar late on a Friday night... or maybe early on a Saturday morning, depending on how you look at it, there are a few things you can take for granted that he wants to do. - drink - listen to the music - flirt with chiccies He is highly likely to want to NOT do some other things. - have a conversation when he is clearly trying to enjoy some early 90s music flashback - listen to you tell him about your upcoming court case for supplying dope or whatever trouble the 18 plants you were growing has got you into - listen to your hero worship about your grandfather, even if he was sorta cool and a war hero - listen to your theories on buying limited edition coins as an investment - have you offer to buy you a drink In fact he may even actually want you to FUCK OFF!!!!!! Oh yeah, paid for my airfare for my July 2010 adventure today :) (Comment on this)