: this is austin's blog :

Man, when all the old blogging crowd is gone, it's really hard to keep this up.

It's been too long, again. What have I done since? Who knows!

Well I do know. I've been off work for what will be over 2 weeks now. My boss decided to go to a friend's wedding in South Africa for about that length of time and didn't arrange for any work for me or my co-workers so it's temporary unemployment for me I guess.

I guess the break has been nice? Actually, I feel god-awful. My wife and I are saving up to move out of my parents basement and into our own place and this time off is a big setback to that. I really don't like feeling this inactive. I feel so incredibly guilty. I've tried to get some other jobs painting in the mean time but nothing has panned out. The only thing I've done in that respect has been a tiny one-day job for "free" (a tax-free receipt).

At least I haven't been totally inactive. Actually I've been teaching myself Objective-C. That's right, I'm programming an iPhone app. I'd talk about the details of it on here, but it's not done yet and I don't want to give anything away. :) It's almost done though... once I try and make my tiny head through all the legal-ese of selling something on the App Store...

I've also listed my website, as in, www.austincooper.com for sale on e-bay. I just did that about an hour ago. Why? Why now? Well, like I said before, Jo and I need a place of our own to live in. Here's the link to it. Too low? Too high? Hey man, it's MY NAME. Maybe I'll try e-mailing the people at Mini...

Well, that's that I guess. Tomorrow I'm going to fill out an EI application. Why not? I am unemployed. I pay into that every pay-cheque for a reason.

see ya all latez.