I’ve actually been living here for about a month now, and it is just one of the reasons I have been so abysmal at updating lately (ie moving tends to disrupt everything). It’s a very nice free-standing wooden house, with polished floors and such. Very homey, gets quite a lot of light and the deck looks onto a pokey private yard full of overgrown trees. For the first time in years I have a separate study, so I have no really good excuse to not be very productive anymore. When I first moved in it was unfurnished, and my plan was to just get the bare essentials, but that plan pretty much flew out the window within the first week… so now I own a new bed, washing machine, dryer, HD TV, PS3, fridge, lounge suite etc— more "stuff" than I’ve ever owned before. Almost everything was bought via TradeMe, the extremely popular NZ version of eBay (which until now I haven’t made much use of) so although I spent a fair bit most of it was only a fraction of what it would have cost to buy new.

I did end up getting Little Big Planet, and although it is quite lovely I fear I just don’t have the attention to dedicate to console games. More interesting to me is trying to work out a decent media center setup… currently I am playing stuff from my iMac on the PS3 with the help of Nullsoft’s Medialink server, although it is a little light on features and doesn’t do transcoding (PS3 is surprisingly picky about codec support).

After the US elections I think I ran out of steam a little (like a lot of people)… it was such a relief but now the race is finally over I suddenly seem to have less to read about/post about. Probably a good thing to get away from politics for a while anyway. Sadly we just voted in a conservative government in NZ so that was a bit of a let-down after the world-wide euphoria of Obama’s win. At least our conservatives aren’t as fucked up as those in the US… I don’t think any of them are even rapture-ready ;)

So now the end of the year is fast approaching, as are some nasty deadlines at work, and I am really really looking forward to a break. My energy levels are just so damn low at the moment, I never feel like I’ve had enough sleep.