wow this place has changed

So I think I have been on here maybe 4 time since December, which is really slack for me. I don't even think I've seen the show in a few months, which is probably more due to not catching the bus and riding the bike everyday to work.

So in that time I have managed to do the following things.

Done a heap of remix work and I have a release coming out in March.
Pretty much left Project 2357 for dead, not that it wasn't going that way anyway I just let it slip
Graduated from the Australian National University (that only took 5 years)
Rebuilt my bike from scratch almost
Been on the first holiday I have had in at least 3 years
Had my Grandmothers funeral
and Finally over the last 2 weeks watched my home state burn to the ground.

So that's been me over the last 2 or so months.

However back to the weather here.

It's been fricking wierd. We had the worst head wave in living memory hit the east cost of Australia which triggered off the worst fire storm in Australia's history. So far personally my grandmother in Bendigo was a wind change away from losing her house of about 10 years, my Unkle lost his property to the north of Melbourne and my x girlfriend who is still one of my best friends was lucky in that her dad managed to save the family home and all their animals, the flames were up to the house so I have no idea how he managed to do it.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2490128.htm

I think the above video sums up what it was like on the ground last weekend. A lot of my overseas friends seem to have no idea of what an Australia Bush fire is like or just how fast these things move.
A friend even went as far as to think people were successfully able to defend their house from a fire like this with a fire extinguisher.

While those who live here know and have come to live with the danger of bush fires in summer it's still always a shock when something as violent and destructive as this happens. So many lives have been lost and many of my favorite little towns and holiday spots from my childhood are gone. It seems what the 2003 fires in the high country didn't destroy this one did.