Hullo,

Well, with less than a month to go you’d think Pat’d be spending as much time relaxing and preparing himself for the crazy months ahead, wouldn’t you?

However, he’s been at work doing 8 hours of overtime. On a Saturday.

Fortunately it’s not required too much brain power (Pat’s not used to having to think on Saturdays) and has almost acted as a gym session for him: it’s PC renewal time at work and Pat’s one of the “lucky” few who’s been carting CRT monitors and PCs around the building today.

Unfortunately Pat decided that bringing his camera with him today would be a great idea. It would’ve been, had he not kept it in his jeans pocket and managed to break the screen through exerting a bit too much pressure leaning on desks:

Oh well, what’s another couple of hundred quid when you’re desperately trying to save money (that, of course, being the only reason Pat came to work today)?

Damn.

Squage

Wow, time sure is slipping away quickly.

Normally I’d be annoyed at this, largely because it would be creeping dangerously close to those rubbish winter months where you leave home in the dark and get home in the dark – and the only daylight you see is through blinds from your office desk.

Fortunately, just as that time creeps in I’ll be swanning off to somewhere that’s about to enter Summertime.

Life’s a bitch, eh?

Anyway, with only 31 days to go before I set off (and 25 days before I leave work), I thought it’d be a nice idea to start doing daily updates.

Let’s start with how far we’re along now:

• Flights sorted
• Travel insurance sorted
• Visa sorted
• Photo driving license sorted
• Hostel booked for week in New York
• Hotel booked for night in LA
• Hostel booked for first two nights in Aukland
• Kiwi Experience “Zephyr” trip booked (open date)
• Hostel booked for Melbourne from 18th December to 2nd January

Various other bits have been sorted but they’re too dull to list even on that list. I’m getting vaccinations on Monday… should be “fun”. I’m getting quite excited… but more on how things are tomorrow.

Finally, I’m doing a daily photo prior to leaving too. Here’s the first:

A potential design for the Big Adventure blog header (and other things requiring a logo). Quite like this one… will probably go with it.

Anyway I’d best get back to work (and staring at the rain thrashing down outside the office window (oh how I’ll miss this…)) – speak tomorrow!

Pat