I'm going to Perth for two weeks. I'll be teaching a course for three days, then I'll be taking a holiday over Christmas. I'm coming back to Sydney for the New Year, because I want to (for once) take advantage of my father's offer to watch the bridge fireworks. (See an earlier entry for pictures of the view from my father's house.

Last time I did the Christmas in Perth thing, I told everybody that I was going to spend two weeks keeping off the net, and generally being inaccessible. This, of course, was nonsense, I spent quite a few hours every day on my mother's PC catching up on IRC, it was just less predictable as to when I'd be able to turn up. I'm not going to be incommunicado. Incoherent? Yes.

The problem is that satori, my wonderful, trusty server has decided that its power-supply fan is on the blink, and I really don't have time to get a new one before I leave. This at the time when it's really getting hot outside. I'm going to have to do something unnatural. I'm going to have to turn satori off.

The alternative seems to be coming home to find I've burned my apartment block down, which would be rather unfortunate, don't you think?

This means for two weeks, OurPlace will be down (no big loss, it wasn't seeing much use lately, everyone's moved to LJ). It also means that my email will start bouncing. Anyone who wants to contact me after tomorrow morning will have to email cmiller@ihug.com.au, or junk_fish@hotmail.com. Preferably the former, I detest hotmail.

Peace, Love and Mung Beans