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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 →

Just finished watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire and saw a 36 year old graphic artist win the million bucks, the first in Australia. Apparently a clairvoyant told him he was going to win a lot of money five years ago, maybe that's why he was so reckless answering the last two questions he didn't have much of an idea on. Very lucky.

This win was still not as good as the American guy a few years back who used his phone-a-friend lifeline on the million-dollar question to tell his dad: "Um, I don't really need your help, I … Read more →

Man am I loving this rain, and now the much cooler weather that has come along with it. This rain is what we desperately need here in Brisbane. For those who don't know, we have been going through a serious drought with dam water at critical levels, we are currently under stage 2 water restrictions.

Then again if we have solid rain for a while there could be flooding! hehe, be careful what you wish for i suppose.

Played indoor football this arvo, where we atrociously lost 6-0. We were all not really 100%, and through a combination of flat … Read more →

It seems as though Apple has released another iPod. I think this now makes 2 in the last three weeks. The new iPod replaces the previous Photo colour version of the iPod and now has video playback support. I don't see why they couldn't have enabled video playback in the now-older model with a firmware update as it did have a colour screen and all. I guess it's their way of making money...

Although the past week hasn't been that busy at work I haven't really had the time or energy to type out an entry in the last week, … Read more →

I finished off the working week without any major dramas on Friday. I can't really remember what we did on Friday night so it mustn't have been too eventful.

On Saturday we lazed around after sorting through some more unit-purchasing garbage. I can't wait until we can just forget about all that stuff. The inset photo is something I took on my phone on Saturday afternoon. I find it amazing how every now-and-then you get these spectacular displays of rays of sunshine shining through breaks in the clouds. It really stirs up the faith in you seeing the wonder of … Read more →