Listening To: Going Insane : Warp Brothers

What a difference a few days makes, eh kids ?

Feeling much better today – things are frikkin finally starting to look up a bit this week (about time … I’ve had good karma owed me a long bloody while now !!!) Sure, it didn’t start off all that grandly ; I went to my first ‘event’ organised by a certain dating website which shall remain nameless on Sunday (something I swore I’d never do) with Samantha my drinking buddy. The event mostly sucked, considering there were bugger all people there. We actually had to sod off in the middle of it to go see a movie ( = BAD SANTA : not a bad flick at all), we were that bored !

Nonetheless, I did manage to score some digits from a nice young Malaysian Indian lass that was there in a pseudo-official capacity, trying to flog some stick-on-body-jewelry and fake-tatoos. No, she isn’t a member of the site (thankgod really), but yes she’s single. And it’s not a fakey number either – have already confirmed this via SMS :)

Upshot being that Sunday wasn’t a complete waste, at least in my mind !

The week continued to improve on Monday on the 4 day temp-job I’d been initially dreading when one of my agencies had called to offer it to me last Thursday. It appears my fears were groundless, as the company in question has actually turned out to be a good bunch of people to work for, and the project was a piece of piss basically. Easy money is always the best money, innit ?

On top of that, out of our ‘team’ of 5 contractors hired for the 3 day duration of the project, one is a woman who will probably want a website done (more money for moi … yay !), and two are a pair of English backpackers called Dave and Liz that I ‘clicked’ with pretty much straight away.

Why is the latter such a good thing, apart from the obvious reason of it’s always good to have more friends ?

For one thing, we’ve already gone out for drinks to a few different ‘backpacker’ pubs, and will probably be seeing a few more together before they piss off up the coast after Xmas. Given the overwhelmingly high quality of the ‘talent’ at these pubs (haven’t seen that many nice looking birds in one place since the last time I was in Europe, not even that day at Randwick races), plus the ability to win things like free holidays relatively easily (e.g. crab racing at one particular place) – I think I’m going to be making some of the places they’ve shown me semi-regular haunts even after they bugger off !!!

Trust a back-packer to be clued in to the ‘hidden secrets’ of your own town :)

The other good thing about these two is … well … Liz hehehe

Don’t get me wrong – Dave’s a nice bloke, and I’m not using irony for once. But he is a bloke, whereas Liz of course is a nice, young, tanned bit ‘o English crumpet. Not only that, but it was safely ascertained at our final ‘after work’ drinks today (we actually had free drinks after our first day last Friday as well … now how many companies do you know would do THAT for their temps ?) that her and Dave aren’t a ‘couple’. Proceeded to text her after I’d left them all at the pub with a bunch of meaningless, flirtatious crap … and she batted the ball right back. Woohoo …. it’s always great when they do that :) So yers, catching up with the lovely Liz at some point soon. My tongue has been itching to go in someone’s mouth again for a little while now ;P

After that of course I went to to Triv @ PJ’s (the old General Bourke … should never have been made an Irish pub .. but I digress) in Parra with Bennie & Co. as I always do on Wednesday, and that was OK though we didn’t win this week. Bloody Brian … ‘Giapetto’ always seem to win whenever he runs it … dodgey eh ? The next bit of good news this week is I managed to finally negotiate a decent contract rate with ######### today. Looked like they were going to try screw me over on that as I mentioned in my last post, but after a bit of yours truly playing hardball and telling them “sorry, but I won’t settle for less than 10% more than my old perm rate, given you won’t be paying holiday loading or sick-leave on my contract”, they’ve buckled and given me what I want. So I start back there on Friday …. so you can expect much more frequent blog posting from then I imagine ;-)

On a final note … I’ve seen a few promising, decently priced apartments this week, and seeing at least a few more which look good on paper before the week is out. So hopefully something good will happen on that front soon too !

Life is looking up … I’m so SODDING relieved !