Forgive my extreme lack of activity on BYOND lately. Today I just finished my eight straight working day. If tomorrow wasn't a public holiday, I'd be working then as well.

To the point of why I'm so jolly after three 6am starts in a row: I'm getting paid $1000.00 (before tax) for the work I've done this week. This whole not being unemployed thing is probably one of the better life changing decisions I've ever made. I also cancelled my Newstart Allowance, so I don't have to worry about declaring amounts earned, or filling in tedious paperwork or attending pointless interviews with my Employment Access agency who, from what I can tell, did absolutely nothing for me while I was dealing with them.

Also, I've come to a conclusion when using Amazon.com. Never use expedient international courier. The programming books I ordered off Amazon should have arrived a few days ago now. Instead, it's taking as long (longer if they don't get here today) as standard expedient international shipping, which is $30.00 less than I paid for the courier. So not cool. They're impeding my learning process by denying me the resources I paid good money for. =(