Well now that summer is over and I've officially been back at uni a month, I found myself reflecting over my summer and what I actually did. Here goes:

• Managed to go to the beach at least once a week, even pushing it to three one week.
  • Benji, Jess, Yeatsie and Kyle were the normal crew with a few special guests including Cameron, Yank, Amy and Adam.
  • We discovered that there is nothing like going to the beach early (ie. 7am).
  • Main Beach the most solid beach, North Burleigh produces the biggest waves and North Surfers occasionally good for a paddle. Coast
  • Coastwatch is a good guide to swells and conditions, but not bulletproof
• I was introduced to the game of poker.
  • To date, I'm $32 ahead
• I started to play guitar
  • I'm still terrible
  • In time your fingers really do stretch though so stringing some notes together now isn't as hard as it once was, but I'm still no Mustaine.
• I went to Sydney with Mel and Benji to watch Tool play and have a holiday
  • I'm glad it happened. I now know that it's about $500 to see a band in Sydney
  • I went to a strip club, no cover charge
  • I don't think Benji, Mel and I has 0 BAC the entire time we were there
  • We learnt that cask wine is terrible
  • I randomly hooked up (unsure?) with a 26yo British backpacker
  • The Empire Hotel was awesome
  • Benji and Mel learnt not to doubt my navigator ways
  • Mel and Benji loved to bicker about money that one fateful night
  • Mel and I were ready to destroy Benji if he said one more quote
  • Bondi Beach isn't all that great
  • Return tickets on transport doesn't exist in Sydney
  • The Harbour Bridge is well, a bridge. The Opera House is, well, put it this way, if she was a girl a club, you'd call her a DDW
  • The Tool show was great!
  • Utopia is CD heaven (sorry Mel and Benji)
  • The Cambridge Quality Comfort Inn wasn't what we expected.
• I managed to continue and then stop my CD collection at the magical 199 mark. Megadeth's new album (United Abominations, May 15th) will be my 200th.
  • I have saved alot of money by abstaining from CD's!
  • I have rediscovered some bands that had been forgotten in my CD buying spree, aka Dungeon, Pantera and Lacuna Coil.
• I completed a Bar Course and obtained my RSA
  • I still haven't got a job to utilise it yet
• I discovered a range of different bourbons, from McK, Southern Comfort, Woodstock, Jim Beam/Black, Black Douglas, Cougar and Wild Turkey
  • Black Douglas and Cougar are terrible
  • Southern Comfort isn't much better
  • McK is a nice smooth drop, along with Jim Beam Black
  • Woodstocks are dead cheap, go down easy and sofar I've had a 100% happy drunk success rate with them
  • Jim Beam has a nice taste, just below Woodstock for me
• Eating out is fun
  • Hogs Breath gets two thumbs up
  • Need to do it more often!
• The Shack maintenance and improvements kept me busy every other week
• The Group website and various web projects entertained me until midway through December.
  • Don't worry, I've started getting back into it, a new version will be released this year, in fact, I'm using an alpha version to type this blog.
  • The most frequent bloggers would have to be Amy and Benji .
  • Mel , Kyle and Yank take the cake for laziness, I'm not far behind.
  • Danman's blogs were entertaining 100% of the time.
  • One of Amy's articles was discovered by Google and has since had discussion by randoms
• Enjoyed many weekends out on the town clubbing
  • Yeats, Kyle and Benji were the normal crew.
  • I tagged along every so often, Adam even less so and Yank even less then that
• I got myself a 30GB Ipod, it's pretty cool
• I discovered a bunch of random TV now that the OC is gone (tear)
  
  • My Name is Earl is a great show, watch it.
  • The Biggest Loser keeps Cameron and I entertained every weeknight
  • LOST confuses me, but I'm interested enough that I'll probably rent the first two seasons so I have some clue
  • Bondi Rescue isn't a bad show
  • Rewatching That 70's Show is definitely worth it
• I joined two websites that I think people could benefit from, 43things and last.fm
  • Amy , Kyle and Cameron agree with me.

That's about it, I'll add to it as I remember. OaO