Not much has occurred since my last post, although my mood has somewhat turned back to relatively “normal.” Last Sunday, the cult..er, Religion, the Church of Scientology tried to recruit me, for lack of a better word.

Since I had a spare twenty minutes, I allowed them to pitch Scientology to me, did the fabled Stress Test, and watched them them perform auditing, and there’s a ridiculuos use of psychology involved. Afterwards, it made me giggle, but hey, better understanding of how they run.

Went to Newcastle on Sunday Night with a friend as he was going home, and I was bored and curious, as I’ve never been north past Gosford in Australia previously. It was interesting in some respects, and a much more scenic area then Sydney, really gives me the jibe of a country town similar to Golburn and Albury. Thanks to Will spending his lunch break on Monday showing me around Newcastle, the tour was ace.

Got home on Monday Afternoon, 3-4 hour train trip from Civic Station to Warwick Farm, and yeah, interesting. I also went to Supernova, and it was alright, although admittingly, it wasn’t anything spectacular, which was the reason I stopped going to it years ago but hey, watching the Emperor’s Royal Guard do a striptease is rather different… Going to Atomic Live this Saturday, should be fun, seeing Will and a few others there so yeah, certainly looking forward to that.

I hate Cyclothymia so much. I should be medicated for it, but I don’t want to be drugged up. It’s just this has been the longest period of dysthymia I’ve suffered in years, I’ve been feeling down for over a week and it’s sad. Normally it passes after a few days, but this seems to have set in.

As a few of you may know, a few months ago I purchased an Aviary for a sum of $250, second-hand from a neighbour. Moving it was fun, it consisted of me and three friends getting inside it and walking it down the street, while cars were going pass. As my grandfather so correctly mentioned, we were pretty much the Flintstones Moving Company.

Anyway, It was moved around the back, and stayed like that for a few months. Recently, I got the both the time and the resolve to actually do something with it, so first, I decided to dig the foundations of the Aviary.

On Tuesday, I went to Flower Power, a place which sells landscaping and Plants in Australia and purchased 4 cubic metres of Pavers and 5 cubic metres of Paving Sand (Average scoop), bundled with delivery which was actually pretty cheap. It was set to come on Wednesday Afternoon, and I managed to convince a friend in helping me put everything together on the following day.

Wednesday came, friend came over to help, and as the hours passed, there was no sign of them. They rang at 5:20PM stating that they forgot to deliver it since it was one of the last deliveries to make. This irritated me, but being the nice guy I am, I agreed for them to deliver it first thing tomorrow. My friend went home, and Wednesday grew to a close.

Thursday, I awoke at 6am with my phone continiously beeping due to having a message on my phone. I laid in bed until I got up to check it around 6:50AM, and it was from Will via Twitter. As I read the message, I looked out the window and saw a truck and made out the words Flower Power on it, not an easy feat when I wasn’t wearing glasses, I then muttered “Holy shit, aren’t they suppose to ring before they get here?!” and ran out of my room putting on a pair of pants, got out there, greeted the Truck Driver and helped unload all 152 Pavers, and the Sand while still half asleep.

As we finished, I then thought, I’m awake and I can’t be bothered going back to bed or going on my Computer, I might as well get this Aviary thing done before the heat turns on, so I spent 7:20AM to 12:30PM working non-stop to finish the Aviary, and I did so, putting in the sand, pavers, and other Bird accessories and proofing it enough that Finches couldn’t get out of any small openings.

It’s pretty good, at least I think so, but I’m glad it’s finished. I have Quails as well, but I’m waiting to take a picture of when the Finches are right next to them eating.