I have a pretty busy month of November this year. I’ll be in Melbourne for a week and also to drop my parents+brother off to a holiday to QLD. It will be good for them to have time to relax. I’ve been hitting tennis pretty regularly again since working full time. Feels good to get out on the courts often just like when Dylan and I used to play practically every day. Dylan and Kristen leave Aussie land pretty soon. I think I’ll only see them for a week when they’re back in Albury and then gone for good (well at least for a long time). I’ll miss those guys terribly. They were my only contact to a country I will always love (besides Australia of course). Don’t you think life moves too fast? Only when we were kids we only could ever dream of growing old and getting into the real world! It would be good to stay at 21 for ever, or at least a decent amount of time. Anyway, another week ahead of me - struggles, difficulties, triumphs, happiness….ergh.

Random photo ahah. Taken at Zed after a night out for dinner.

So recently I had the time to set up a VPN connection to my home computer over the last week. I used the community edition of SSL Explorer. It is really handy for when you need to access your data from anywhere in the world, as long as you have an internet connection. The site here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/27644/111/ is definitely the best guide I have come across.

I thought I’d write this post up because I found it hard to find information on it. On another note, if the SSL Explorer Agent fails to sync, make sure you set proxy settings in another profile. Quite annoying if you have proxies at home and at other locations (hence the need for different profiles). Good luck!

It seems that the trend with my posts is towards the end of the month. It’s just coincidence. So what’s new? Um I recently got contact lenses. Originally I had planned to only use them for tennis, but it’s comfortable wearing them all the time - except when my eyes get dry looking at the computer screen. The maintenance of them aren’t too bad either. So aside from my new look, I played terribly at pennant today. So bad. I guess I haven’t been hitting nearly as much as I used to (every day). Next week I plan to hit heaps. It seems that when something goes wrong, something always comes up. Today during my singles match I was thinking to myself “Why am I so out of breath? I wasn’t like this a couple of months ago” Fitness right? Well I opened all my mail sitting on my desk and this SSA flyer was in one of them, “Personal Training Packages”. I wish I didn’t read it because I get sucked into that type of marketing ploy real bad!

Well, tonight is going to be relatively quiet. A change since the last 3 months…haha. Just got to mix it up a bit otherwise I’ll get bored.

This week work has sent me down to Melbourne to gain some much needed knowledge in the Microsoft environment. I quite like the course as it’s very much practical and real world. I’m trying to spend some of the nights I’m here with long lost friends. Yesterday I caught up with Victor (briefly) and Tanner! We managed to squeeze a game of bowling in Prahran and I probably played my best game ever. I was telling Tanner…who would of thought, 4 years ago we’d be walking down Prahran - wouldn’t it be funny if we saw someone we both knew? Chances were pretty low, he said, but as we walked out I was like NO WAY! It was Jeff Robinson hahaha! Small world I say. The place I’m staying at is very nice. I can see the city and all the lights I still enjoy Sydney better though, probably because I don’t know my way around here. I just wish it wasn’t so far away. Anyways, I’m waiting for Sli and Leah to hurry up and come get me so we can have dinner. Also on a random note, I’m listening to Christmas music (reminds us just how close it is already)…

Clearly I didn’t know how to position myself to get the best view

Still the same Tanner from years ago

The last week has been pretty hectic. As usual, we had the usual get together with friends but this time Pia, Jeff and Liz were in town to visit! Jeff and I had lunch with Liz and family during the day and towards the night, Jeff, Pia and I went out to Paddys before heading to One. On the Monday, Renee and Sam had their engagement party. It was quite fun and I had a lot of wine. Congrats on those two!!! The highlight of this weekend was the Wagga Wagga Tennis Tournament. I did feel I played a lot better than Griffith this time - probably because I’ve been playing a bit more. Andrew had a tough open draw and lost in 3 sets. We did however get to the semi’s of the A grade doubles which was pretty cool! The highlight of the tournament was Andrew winning the 16’s boys singles draw.

Out of towners!

Sam and Renee awwww

Chris Letcher - dominated the tournament