About Avondale

I’ve been in Avondale a week now (the ‘South Auckland of West Auckland’, as my old boss put it), so feel like I should say something about the new place/neighbourhood.

Firstly, there are only four types of shop in Avondale - fruiterers and greengrocers, Chinese-made crap stores, fast food outlets and pawnbrokers/loan sharks.

Secondly, the buses are fast. It’s like Avondale is the located at the extreme end of a pulled-back rubber band about to be let go. It took 15 minutes to get to work today from pick-up to drop-off - that’s how long it takes to drive! Seriously.

Thirdly, there’s a big fuck-off spider ’statue’ which all the local drunks and freaks hang out beneath. It’s so awesome, I think if I’m still here in a couple of albums’ time, I’m going to have to do one called ‘Arachnid-Upon-Avon’.

Fourthly, building code regulations stipulate bedrooms must have a natural light source, so there’s a massive skylight in the middle of both bedrooms. This is great at 6pm, not so much at 6am.

Fifthly, and I’ll make it lastly for now, one of the neighbours has an unsecured wireless internet connection. The upshot of this is not needing to pay for the big-ass bandwidth cap anymore.

Site relocated!

After spending all that time setting up the new Radio Over Moscow website, I was forced to relocate to another server… a few hours’ effort later, and here it is! Wooo. It does mean the posts I made before moving here aren’t here, but they can be found here and here, stored at good ol’ Livejournal.

Home sick from work after being stricken with a flu of sorts, probably resulting from the stress of moving and the crapness of food you tend to eat when things are packed and in the way.

Sister has been up mooching our bandwidth, Parker is good, house is large(r), nose is runny. Not much else to report at this stage…