Raining!

Yes, that favourite topic of conversation! Its raining heavily enough to discourage me from leaving the house, so I'm probably just going to plan and research things for my impending future.

Got a few options:
Travel to Torquay, a a surfing town SW of Melbourne. Could do this via a tour operator, which would take me to see places off the beaten track that an average punter wouldn't see, at least not me on public main-route transports.
Then there's Philip Island, home to the 'Penguin Parade', where tiny penguins make a mad rush up a beach like clockwork a few minutes after sundown. I'd like to do this under my own steam instead of bundling around on a tour, so I can enjoy the island in my own time, but its a difficult island yo get around, it seems.
Then theres work issues! Got my tax File Number, which means I would get a reduced tax rate from 49.5% to a miniscule 29.5% (!!). Should I get a month or so of harvest work whilst there's plenty of work? I think there's a better season in New South Wales forthcoming, so once I get to Sydney, I'll think about this again.

Meeting up with Tom Anderson (a friend from school who's around in Oz) next week, so it'll be good to do some of this stuff with him.

Brilliant day yesterday - an exhibition had opened in Melbourne called 'Game On', where I found myself playing scores of video games from old school Pong to new school Halo3 LAN games (which I won, of course. Even though I haven't ever played it before :D). My little face lit up when I saw so many buttons and flashes and sounds! Looked at my watch and realised I'd spent 7 hours in there, forgetting about eating even. Got a Subway's and went back to play a little bit of Doom, Mario 64 and a Japanese Train Simulation Game.