Catching up

It's been a while since I posted, so here's a quick catch up on what's new:

I finished work on 21 January - I'm free!! They gave a me farewell card signed by everyone at the Cape Town office as well as a bunch of flowers, which was touching; they also made me stay late my last two nights to update the production server, which wasn't so touching. But it's all good :-)

Then, as I posted before, I was considering getting a tattoo - a friend sent me an incredible design, and I fell in love with it immediately even though it was totally different to what I was thinking of. So I had it done last Friday - and no, I'm not going to say what, where, or post a picture :P It was surprisingly not painful - more of a tickly, tingling type sensation; at least, that's true for the outline. The filling in was a bit more sore, and it's a been a bit painful while it's healing, but it looks awesome so it was definitely worth the tiny bit of pain! If anyone reading this is in Cape Town, and wants a tattoo, I highly recommend Tattoo Coral in Plumstead.

I'm still really looking forward to moving to London - things like no sunburn, a decent internet connection, the ability to actually buy music online *gasp*!, and a ton of other stuff make it rather more attractive than Cape Town right now. I'm busy trying to get things organised - making dentist and optician appointments, backing up my PC & laptop, that kind of thing - but I'm going to have to start packing in earnest soon (I'm putting some stuff in storage, the rest I'm going to have sell/give away/throw away - the trick is figuring out what falls into which category).

The other thing I'm currently working is getting my big bike licence - as I've mentioned before, I currently have an A1 licence, which is for bikes <>125cc bike, which I don't have - the test is exactly the same, btw; what licence you get depends purely on what size bike you ride for the test). I went for the pre-test training today, where we worked through the entire test, and I'm going for the actual test tomorrow - hopefully it works out okay. The problem is, you can be a good rider and fail the test, or pass the test and be a really bad rider - it doesn't actually measure your ability to ride. But hopefully I'll pass.

Hmm... what else? I bought a new watch, a Casio Baby-G, which is really cool, although some of the button assignments are bit... unique. And my current favourite song is 'Push the Button', by Sugababes - the lyrics are great, and the tune is incredibly catchy. Now if only I could actually get it without having to buy an entire CD, or comply with Musica's ridiculous DRM :-( Oh, no, wait - sorry, I can't buy it from Musica, ridiculous DRM notwithstanding, since it isn't available from them. I'm not advocating piracy - but surely they can see why it happens?! Or maybe little old countries like us just won't make them enough money anyway, so we're just not worth it. Typical.

Update: I passed! Yay! Now I can get an international licence, which means I can ride in the UK if I want.