travel diary — day 235

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day 231 — i went to garden city to do some shop­ping. whilst mess­ing about with my dual boot, i acci­dent­ally deleted the grub boot files, mean­ing that i couldn’t run either win­dows or ubuntu. my net­book doesn’t have a cd reader, so i thought i’d have to buy one to fix my com­puter. we bought one at garden city and then got some prices on a large print and a frame. i got a photo of craig and inyoung prin­ted from their wed­ding and had it framed. i planned to give it to craig’s par­ents as a thank you for all their help.

that night, we went to sun­corp sta­dium to watch the bris­bane roar vs cent­ral coast mar­iners (a-league soc­cer). we bought some food and lamen­ted as bris­bane lost 0–3 … lousy brisbane.

day 232 — i made a decision to aban­don win­dows com­pletely and only use linux. the decision was part of a long term strategy which would help me avoid the ridicu­lous re-installs required if win­dows went bung. linux is easy to install and runs faster on my netbook.

so, i decided to return the cd reader. in the morn­ing we picked up inyoung and her sis­ter from the air­port. on our way out we saw one of those massive lux­ury ocean liners docked near the city. we stopped and had a look around, mar­vel­ling at how immensely huge the damn things are. it was a very nice look­ing ship. after that we headed to garden city to return the cd reader. we had break­fast first and craig found a bug in his salad. we got a dis­count on the food (yay!).

when i returned the cd reader i told them it hadn’t even been opened (i lied, i did open it). at first the clerk wanted to give me a store credit, but he was nice enough to give me a full refund instead. we returned home and spent the after­noon laz­ing about.

day 233 — i spent the day at home doing work online.

day 234 — i spent the day at home, again.

day 235 — inyoung’s sis­ter was plan­ning to return to korea, so we organ­ised a barbe­que din­ner at craig’s par­ents’ house (to say farewell). we headed over after lunch and we spent the after­noon chat­ting. craig’s dad and i picked mac­ad­amia nuts in the back yard and when craig arrived, he and i washed the car.

i gave craig’s par­ents the photo, which they liked, and we star­ted the barbe­que. it’s been a long time since i’ve had a real aus­sie bbq. the food was great and we downed a lot of beer. a good time was had by all.

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