Two Up - Australia's way of commemorating their veterans

Yesterday was ANZAC day. This being a holiday similar to Memorial Day, commemorating the first military action taking by Australian and New Zealand troops in Gallipoli. Every year, to celebrate this momentous event, Australians across the land and gather in pubs to play the game of Two-up. The basic gist of this game is flipping two coins in a circle and betting with random people in a pub. It's quite an interesting idea, that to celebrate those who have bought and died for their country they get drunk and bet on a coin toss. But no judgment here.

I ended up spending around 7 hours in a pub yesterday. Egads. I'm off.

Hanging in there

Week seven of classes have come and gone now. Life is still pretty much the same... Working at Thomson and FourFourTwo, writing another biography on Alex Rodriguez. I'm not permitting myself to have much of a social life until the semester is over. Being concerned over more than just my work. And since I don't want to spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen, I'm going to go.

Now I am old

I turned 23 on Friday, and for the first time, had a barbeque on the beach in celebration. It was a nice break after a busy week that was a preview for the next two months of my life: Thomson, FourFourTwo, classes, and Uni work. I need to work hard and squeeze writing my latest book in there, as the deadline for it is now less than a month away. I've really got nothing to say at the moment, as I'm waiting to get pictures that I can upload from Dave.

Of note this week, Thomson becomes ThomsonReuters. It won't affect me much now aside from changing my email address. However, I'm hoping that it pays off in the future and I can snag a job editing stuff at Reuters.

Jumping off of Ramps into Sydney Harbour is the thing to do

The past week has been pretty crazy so no posts. I've been busy with Uni work and Thomson. Making up 40 hours of work was tougher than I thought, but I managed to get it done. I went to FourFourTwo and have the internship up and running, and from here on out Thursday and Fridays will feature me heading up to North Sydney to work for Haymarket Media. It's pretty much my current dream at the moment so it's quite stunning to actually happen.

Over this past weekend I headed to the 1st Red Bull flugtag in Australia. For those unaware of what the Flugtag is (German for "flight day"), it is basically a competition where people build a contraption that is supposed to fly but can't be powered by machine and jump off of a ramp. They are scored by design, flight length, and a few other standards. Pretty weird? Yes. Awesome? Most definitely. I got there with Dave and a few others to watch the spectacle. That is probably the best way to describe it, as nothing can make this event logical. Part of the mystique of it, I guess.

Other than that, life is life. Questions, challenges, and all sorts of things make each and every day interesting. It will be nice to head back to America soon (four months or so), but not too soon.