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I’ve suspected that a mouse was living under our oven for a few weeks now but until last week I’d never had proof enough to act.

Then the sounds started…

The only logical thing to do..would be to kill it using minimal effort.
A sealed room + flee bombs should have killed anything dammit.

Assuming there was a mouse.

I saw in dart under there two days ago. Visual confirmation = party time.
So I did what any other rational adult would do in this situation.

Spray it with oven cleaner until it dies.
Thats what was supposed to happen, in reality it ran across the room and hid under a shelf…..which I then saturated with chemicals.

Naturally then it ran under the closed kitchen door (GAH! Wont happen again) and into my bedroom.
The cat chased it around all day and made sure I’d not be able to sleep.

Asshole.

So today I set traps…
Got you fucko.

You go to a better place.

Goodbye little buddy.

Hmmmm having some trouble it seems.

Nothing mr poo brush can handle though.

* Plane tickets paid for in full.
Fucking $300 more than advertised…..tax and such.

* Went to the doctor today.
Hep A & Typhoid shot – Owch, still hurts 12 hours later.
malaria tablets.

$150AU for Tablets and an injection

* Needed new shoes. (Amazing update today)
$140AUMoving my leave. Fucking Jizzspot for three months I’ve been telling him the first week or so of november.

Ticket day:
JS – When are we going ?
ME – First week of November.
JS – I have exams.

Asspirate.

Starting to work out what we want to do and see.

Going again in Novenber with Jizz-spot. Looking at spending most of our time in Cambodia, Bangkok does not require a visa so its a better gateway than Vietnam.

The easy way would be to take a place direct from Bangkok to either PP or SR. This however is fairly expensive.

Easy but expensive. The overland route seems like it would be much more interesting (and scary) at about 20% of the cost.

Edit 17-09-2005

Looking at something like this depending on flight availability.

1. – Arrive Bangkok (Thailand)
2. – Travel to Siem reap (Cambodia)
3. – Siem reap (Cambodia)
4. – Siem reap – Travel to Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
5. – Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
6. – Phnom Penh – Travel to BK (Thailand)
7. – BK (Thailand)
8. – Travel home (Australia)

I’ll try and get morning and night flights to max our stay. Regardless I expect it to be quite challenging…with all the constant drinking and travel.

I’m actually kinda proud of this one. November is almost the ideal time to go, its the very start of their dry season, it’ll be about 10 degrees cooler and I’d expect less rain.

I really want to go to the Cambodian Army shooting range.

This would be my second ever sci-fi convention. I went to one of the Aus-trek ones in Melbourne in 1998.

Scary as hell. My friend and I walked around for a bit, watched a MST3k episode and wandered off after I (accidentally) broke their Star Trek: Next generation pinball machine.
Broke as in metal ball meets glass cover.This one was a bit different. For a start it was free. Secondly I would be working there as part of the video crew.

Oh and it was an Andromeda convention.
This photo pretty much sums it up for me:

On stage we have Kevin Sorbo & Laura Bertram against the majestic foreground of some guys head. I spent probably twenty minutes looking at his head.
Looking a little closer….applying artistic talent and we have THIS!

It was strange, it would be arrogant for me to claim that I was superior to the attendees, even so these guys were mutants.

Aren’t sci-fi nerds supposed to be smart ?
The had such interesting questions for the guests as:
“hurgh what was your favorite episode?”

I cant express it very well but this was the largest group of funny looking people I’ve even been around, fatties (seriously obese) baldies, old women in spock tee-shirts.
I spent hours working a remote video camera and wandering around. There were stalls of really pricey things:

Autographed photo: $100+
Wall hanging thing: $1500+
Books from this strange author guy: $30
Autographs fromt he guests: $30
Photos with them: $40

There was an auction. I watched in amazement as a dodgy cd-calender from 1999 went for $100 everything was $100+ and most of it was crap.
No props or anything really exciting like that. Andromeda boxer shorts ahoy.

But the really special one was the old lady that stalked me.
In the 12 hours we spent there she would have come up to me 8-9 times, sure that does not sound like much but every one was kinda weird.

OL: What are you doing here?
Me: Hi.
OL: What are you doing here?
Me: Hi.
OL: THAT IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION! (Storms off)

From that it escalated to touching. At one point she sort of head butted me.
She massaged a fleeing Sorbo as he tried to leave the lame “after party”
all very frightening.

New toys make me happy. This one possibly more than most.

* Takes up to 2gb of memory stick. (Comes with 64)
* 2MP camera behind a cool shutter to keep it clean.
* Plays java games.
* Radio (I’ve missed this)

and all the other usual stuff that comes with modern phones.

The camera is damned good for a phone. Look we built a castle at work the other night:

This is all cake though. The icing is the fact that it can play movies.
I’ve been playing around with encoding content with some success, a 8min music video takes about 3.4mb….

Thus 64mb should easily hold one or more full length movies. I’ve had some success with tv shows but occasionally lose sync.
Once I work it out its going to be so good. I’ll get a large memory stick and put a few things as insurance against boredom.