So let's start by answering the question you've all been wondering. I have survived the first week living in suburban Australia without encountering any massive snakes or grotesque spiders. You can all sleep easy.

Now that we're clear on that, we can do a few real updates.

Highlights:
-Settled in to home and the new office space nicely.
-Got downtown a few times to explore some of the city.
-Caught up with my Canadian contacts in the city.

Lowlights:
-No progress on commandeering a bicycle yet. Got a few leads though, will follow up this weekend.
-Took two sick days this week. Likely my bodies way of punishing me for neglecting it over the past month. I spent a full 36 hours in bed (but I have recovered nicely thanks to a binge on Hungry Jacks - that's Australian for Burger King).
-Missed celebrating St Patrick's day and had to experience Allison's birthday via snapchat.

Back to full power now and ready to take on the world. Easter is coming up so going to be making some plans on how to spend that. Will have more details after the weekend.

Stay tuned and stay weird.