January 25, 2006 – 10:11 pm

As I sit here in my peaceful bed, writing this from the familiar territory of Cathedral City, CA, on a laptop which I have devoted an entire day to repairing, I’m inspired to make up an adage. Yes, make up:

Every great endeavor in man’s history sees its success or faiure through preparation.

Thank goodness this is no great endeavor, right? I mean, here I am fixing up a blimey laptop when if had to make a list of the things I still have to do, well… don’t make me list them. Don’t. Ok, since you asked so politely then:

• apply for a tax file number
• open account with Aussie Credit Union
• exchange and transfer money to said account
• pack up everything that I’m taking
• figure out what the heck I’m taking first
• pack up my room of everything else
• buy a journal, and a towel, maybe an iPod
• pay some parking ticket I got
• write a 7-month check for my student loans
• finish two books
• encrypt flash drive (nerd necklace, to the rest of you)
• clean a load of movies (35) off hard drive
• encode another load of minidiscs onto the computer
• burn the ones already on there
• fix old laptop - Ha! Got that one!

Wow that is—indeed—a list. I should probably get started on that.