The Jenkster, in his infinite wisdom, has seen fit to interrupt the travel-log with his request for me to join in with a meme. Being the obliging fellow that I am, I have opted to conform with this request.

Four Jobs I've Had

1. Lifeguard: Being paid to sit next to a swimming pool.
2. Bar-assistant: Working with booze and drunk students.
3. Sales office clerk: notably a summer's secondment to Scotland and living in a hotel, which was quite fun.
4. Software engineer: Playing with computers to pay the mortgage!

Four Places I've Lived

1. London: Specifically Hendon. I don't remember much about my life in London, which is probably for the best.
2. Aylesbury: Once described by a former colleague as Satan's Armpit, but I called it home. This is where I met most of my friends for the first time.
3. Birmingham: Not only middle of the UK, but, quite frankly, centre of the Universe. Where I met my charming wife.
4. Abingdon: Home of the MG and former county town of Berkshire, apparently.

Four Places I'd Like to be Right Now

Given that I am currently in New South Wales out of choice and given that not a lot of people get the opportunity to do what I'm doing, it feels wrong to answer this question. However, I said I would conform with Kris' request, so conform I shall. I hope he appreciates it.

1. Mildura: This would mean that we wouldn't be travelling on Hume Highway in the baking sun all day.
2. "The Arms": Then I could buy my Dad a pint for his birthday.
3. Derby: K & I are both looking forward to meeting our niece.
4. In the passenger seat of The Beast with the stereo cranked up exploring Australia: which is good, because that's what I'm doing.

Four Things I've Done to Impress a Member of the Opposiite Sex

Oh please! I've racked my brains and I really cannot think of anything I have ever done to deliberately impress anyone. I try to be myself at all times. Perhaps sometimes that impresses someone. In which case, I shall let that someone answer. I hope you don't mind if I turn this question around and list four things that a member of the opposite sex has done that have impressed me, whether they meant to or not...

1. Cooked lemon meringue pie: A wonderful birthday treat.
2. Played wonderful music on violin: I hope K starts playing in concerts again soon.
3. Looked after me when I've been ill: even when it's been self-inflicted!
4. Packed up and moved across the globe with me: And then got good job seemly without even trying!

Four films I could watch again and again

Funnily enough, these probably aren't my top four films, but that wasn't the question, was it?

1. Groundhog Day: I was going to list this four times for comedy effect, but I really could watch it again and again.
2. The Life of Brian: If I still had the DVD, but it always makes me laugh.
3. The Shawshank Redemption: I just find this film more and more amazing each time.
4. The Sixth Sense: The first time I saw it I watched it over and over on DVD, amazed by how clever it was.

Four things I'm on the verge of learning

1. Java: It's hard to believe that I haven't done this yet.
2. Ruby on Rails: I think this may come in useful.
3. C#: And maybe some other chords to play on gigantic guitars.
4. PeppersCapsicums: And other bizzare Australianisms.

Four nationalities I've been mistaken for

1. Australian: By Americans, mostly.
2. Err... I think that's all. Sorry folks.

Four websites I visit daily

It's been a while since I've accessed the three double-us on a daily basis, but when I was office-based, four tabs I'd open when I started Firefox would be...

1. GameKnot: Internet chess games
2. The Daily Dilbert
3. The Hunger Site: Give Free Food to those Who Need it Most
4. B3ta is a constant source of amusement.

Incidentally, and I know this will interest Kris if nobody else, In times of no broadband connection, I have found that I can monitor my email using an application called MidpSSH, which I stuck on my phone when I first got it, but have only just started using. It works quite well and I can use Mutt and Vim inside a screen session just nicely (albeit using 31 columns and 16 rows), of course I can only use this where Telstra provide me with coverage, which isn't everywhere. That was all, now to finish the meme...

Four people I'd like to continue this meme

I'm tempted to list four people who don't have blogs (yet) as I'd like to see more of my friends blogging. Being away from home and doing stuff with my life has made me really value not only my friends' blogs but my own. In short: Blogging rocks. Blog more, people!

1. Steve
2. Pinky
3. Pete
4. Theo

Is that it? Are we done, here? Normal service resumes shortly...