Knock, Knock

Only that's the problem! Due to the design of the houses in our estate/cul de sac we don't have door knockers but a buzzer intercom thingy. You can only hear the buzzer intercom thingy when you are downstairs and due to the design of the house you are never far away from the front door when you are downstairs. There are no corridors and it's all open plan. The only doors down stairs apart from the obvious front door are - back door, door to garage, door to downstairs toilet and from there is the door to the laundry. The front door leads straight into the front room and the buzzer intercom thingy handset is on the wall to the left of the sofa, if you are downstairs you can hear it just fine. We also have a buzzer thingy handset upstairs on the landing but that one doesn't make any noise and I don't know if it was ever supposed to and it's broke or whether it has never made a noise.

Door knockers are much easier! Anyway, I realised this afternoon when I looked at the tracking of my parcel, that I had missed them this morning and I blame the stupid intercom thingy. It wouldn't have happened with a proper door knocker!
I should have been installing my 1GB of RAM today had I heard the door. Thought I probably would have chickened out of installing it my own and waited until tomorrow and got Mr M to help/actually fit it LOL But instead I know have to wait until they re-deliver it on Monday, I don't even get an option to call them and go to their depot to pick it up, I just have to wait until Monday. I'm so gutted that I didn't hear the door this morning :-(

My Adobe Creative Suite software has been sat on the floor for a about a month while I sorted out getting my Mac to the correct spec to install it and all I want to do is have a play with it. I'm hoping that once installed and I've had a good go at it that I will become more inspired to get on with my photography studies, which have come to a grinding halt. I'm hoping to go out over the weekend and get some night shots of Sydney for my assignment. This will probably have to take place on Sunday though as tomorrow night we have Earth Hour where everyone is supposed to turn their lights off, though it may make for interesting photos! I wonder if Luna Park will turn all of it's lights off? Weird!

When I was first told of Earth Hour, it was said that it was happening tonight and I didn't get the lights bit, I thought you had to turn everyting off. This of course led me to shout "I'm not turning everything off! Don't the realise that there's footy on!" I was then reassured that it was only the lights and not everything so I could still watch the Friday night footy. Of course it helps that it's happening on Saturday instead of tonight. I'm not too sure what to make of the idea, I appreciate that we need to help the environment but I don't think turning off the lights for an hour will make that much difference in the grand scheme of things. It would be much more beneficially if the Aussie government signed up to the Kyoto agreement, I don't understand why they don't.

I have also often wondered why the governments weren't interested in the planet years ago, why the change of heart all of a sudden? I also don't think that countries make the most of solar power, hydro and wind power. Though, I must say, the last time I was in Leichardt I noticed that some of the street lights had solar panels on them and that Leichardt Council are trying to use more solar power. Good on 'em! It's about time it was looked at more seriously, now all we need is for other local councils to catch on.


Anyway, in other news...... I went to Woolies this afternoon to buy stuff for tonights dinner and I was so happy to find Italian Parmesan! Proper imported Italian Parmesan! Hoorah! This may seem very bizarre to some of you but I love Italian Parmesan and I usually have to travel to Leichardt to buy it due to supermarkets usually only stocking cheese made in Australia. Oh, and if you love cheese as much as I do and you want to know the best State for tasty Aussie cheese - Tasmania! YUM! :-)