I haven't blogged in a while, because nearly each time that I've been in front of a computer i've been a too busy, or so very tired that I couldn't have put sentence a properly together.

Anyway, this week I've applied for my passport. It cost me 172 bucks just to apply, which is the biggest rip out. In my opinion, every citizen of this country should be entitled to a passport free of charge. I'm a full Australian citizen born here, i pay may taxes and such, and I shouldn't have to fork out another $172 just to be … Read more →

As a staunch Arsenal supporter, it is a very rare occasion that I support Manchester United going into a game, let alone celebrate when they win one. However on the weekend I did both. Why? Because they played, and subsequently beat Chelsea.

I was beginning to get worried that Chelsea might break Arsenal's superb records from two seasons ago: firstly going 49 games unbeaten in the premiership, and secondly and most important of all, going a whole season unbeaten, which hadn't happened since the 19th century before Arsenal did it.

Chelsea was on 40 games unbeaten in the Premiership, and … Read more →

The high amount of views for this blog continues. Judging from the amount of people that posted comments on the last post (thanks to all who did btw), I have ~20 readers (9 distinct people who posted comments x ~2 for the people who viewed and didn't post, and rounded off). To be honest that's a bit more than I expected, but that still doesn't count for, at the time of writing, around 170 views, especially considering people having access to an RSS feed and all.

Anywho, I thought today i might devote a blog entry to the topic of … Read more →

In the last week I have gathered and done so much that is blog-worthy, I'm a little aghast at how to fit it all in and still get to sleep at a sane hour, so I'll probably spread it out over the next few entries.

Probably the biggest highlight of this week so far, is getting Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith on DVD. Needless to say I've been waiting for this since May. Buying the DVD was a story in itself, but for the sake of not rambling, let's say that I ended up with the DVD … Read more →

Today was the Grand Final of the indoor football season. Surprisingly, today I was able to play. As mentioned before i probably wasn't going to play because I hadn't played 5 games for the team in the normal season because of me braking my foot, and thus couldn't play in the finals. However it turned out that we were playing Nick's brother's team (who I broke my foot playing against), who consented for me to play.

We lost the game 7-4 after throwing the game away twice. They got up two goals before we came back to be level 3-3. … Read more →

The biggest (geeky) news of today was that Apple have finally opened the Australian iTunes Music Store, an online store using the iTunes program that allows Australians to legally purchase and download music. It's about darn time, as we have been devoid of such a store for too long. A single track is priced at $1.69 and most albums at $16.99, which is far, far cheaper than buying most CDs.

However, it seems that the Sony-BMG record label is still holding out putting their catalogue and their artists on iTunes. It'll only be a matter of time though, after they … Read more →

I've just had a very busy weekend. I've barely had time to sit down and do nothing. On Saturday I was up early to go shopping for invitations for the wedding, and then to show a few relatives through our recently acquired unit. After that we went and had lunch, and then went to Despina's to do a few tax returns.

I came home, got changed, and then went to Church. After Church we went out to a Vietnamese place in West End, in which the food was quite nice. However I didn't enjoy some of the conversation that took … Read more →

Today was the settlement date for the unit we were purchasing. After a few hiccups and surprises in the morning, everything went all cool, and we are now owners of our very own unit (and the accompanying massive debt to the bank). Now that this mini-saga is over, now starts the saga of preparing the place for when we move into it after we get married, including fixing it up etc.

In the last few days I also got my Homestar order that i did a fair bit back. The DVD is awesome as expected, and the poster will really … Read more →

I was thinking about doing a blog entry today to make it 5 blog entries in a row in order make up for my recent blog-laziness, but I decided against it.

Wait a minute...… Read more →

Today is the feast-day of the Saint that I am named after. The particular Saint in question, is Saint Luke the Evangelist. I was going to upload an image of an icon of him, but the disk is full on the server my website is on, so I can't do it at the moment (you will probably be lucky if you see this post). Hope later in the week i'll be able to upload the image.
EDIT 11:23pm: Disc space freed up, image now here (duh!)

Anywho, below is both Luke's (Loukas in Greek, hence Lucas) Apolytikion and a short … Read more →