Given that I’m not a Christian, I still have no problem celebrating both Christmas and Easter.

In that vein, yesterday was Easter Sunday. Justine’s Dad’s family came over at around lunch time and we picnicked in our back yard (that’s the most attention our back yard’s seen in 12 months) for lunch.

A bit later, my Dad came over with his shiny new Canon EOS 300d camera, which is pretty fancy indeed. Nice unit, and I’d personally love to have one myself.

Not really much else to speak of, so that’s all I’m going to write.

At the moment, at work, it seems like everyone but me is having some sort of holidays. From May to July, I’d say around half of the Melbourne office is going away (at least it seems like it). Many of them are going overseas — and most to warmer climates — while a few are still hanging around Australia.

One lady recently returned from Malaysia, another is off to Queensland, a couple of guys are off to Thailand (not together), yet another guy is going to New Orleans via a cruise, another lady is going to Hawaii, one has simply left (i.e. going to another job) but is going to have a holiday somewhere first.

Maybe I’m not getting paid enough or something, maybe I just can’t save. I don’t know. It’s annoying to see all these people going off having these fantastic holidays, and me sitting here slaving away at my desk (well, not now, I’m not at work) day-in, day-out. I’d love to go away, I just can’t spare the money at the moment.

On Saturday afternoon, we installed a new car stereo into Justine’s car. How romantic. Ideal for Valentine’s Day.

The stereo is a Sony CDX-MP50 unit, which not only plays regular (pressed or burned) CDs, but mp3 CDs as well! I’m a little bit jealous, as my player doesn’t do that.

Still, I have the comfort that my head unit is quite a lot better, despite me owning it for 5-6 years and the design being 7-8 years old. Of course it cost me a lot more so I suppose it evens out.

Thanks to Wayne for the assistance with installing the unit. I know what to do with the exception of wiring looms. Though I think I know what to do now in their regards. I’m not particularly good at soldering but I think I’ll have a little practice next time a car stereo install comes my way.

Thanks also to Damien for the use of his car port and general comic relief. Thanks also to Damien (again), Trav and Justine for generally doing nothing else to help.

Later on Saturday evening we played 4-player Halo which was a real blast. I’d love to see 8 (or even 16) players! I’m not really a fan of Halo on the PC, it’s rather average compared to most 3D shooters. However, on the Xbox I had a lot of fun. I doubt the game’s much better, but with other players it was enjoyable.