It’s too late for me, because I went to one last night and it was a horrible experience, but take it from me that they aren’t worth the effort. I think I was inspired by a movie that I watched in my own home and thus rather enjoyed, Peddle Without a Clause, that movie about …
So…you start off as a basic residential electrician, at the apprentice level. That’s after you do the mandatory education of course, and that’s all fine. But after that there are only four levels, which doesn’t bear any resemblance to real life. You go from apprentice to qualified, qualified to expert, and expert to master level. …
By the way, it’s not really an entirely Over-Botch apartment block, although the professional players do take up a good chunk of the middle with apartments. It’s close to the Over-Botch stadium, so it works. But I feel like lately we’d been bringing down the vibe of the whole place, what with all the intense …
So Alana is off at Con-Con, the biggest gaming convention ever supposedly, and I’m at another convention: SteelCon. It’s a convention, all about steel. I’m not a marine stainless steel welder, but I’m seriously considering a qualification because they’ve got some amazing things going on there. I can’t describe them, really, because…it’s all to do …
As my mother used to tell me, “Andrew, wear more jumpers.” I never listened, but we lived in Vietnam and jumpers aren’t necessary for about 95% of the year. Maybe more than that, actually. Now I’m in Melbourne, and several years later I still don’t think I’ve learned that lesson. It’s SUPPOSED to be summer, …
There, I just solved the issue of how to explain to an alien race what we’re like, or at least how to effectively begin the conversation. Then the aliens would ask about these ‘offices’, and maybe I’d go into explaining all the ins and outs of office politics. I could even use examples of clever office …
Anyway, place was an icy cold as the frost maiden’s cavern in the depths of the earth, which I was told was because it was summer and they keep everyone cool with air conditioning. Brighton has a lot of that, apparently, as does…Australia in general. When i said I didn’t know what air conditioning was, …
Also, I have air conditioning, which is GREAT because I was about to call the Canberra air conditioning repair team, and now I don’t have to. Yeah, one day about four years ago I hung some sheets up (it was an unusually-productive day) and then I realised that I didn’t have anything to hang them …
Last time we were there she’d had a walk-in fridge installed. That sounds a little odd, considering there are only two of them, but Aunt Tilda said that finding a space for it was a bit of a challenge. Ah, yep. More of a challenge means it takes up more time. It’s really quite swish …
In those first few days, we tried to plan how we would survive, and we came to the conclusion that the automotive industry was our best bet. Fortunately, we found ourselves in Bentleigh. Auto electrical services were more prominent here than anywhere else in Melbourne, and so we set about integrating ourselves into this business. …