Since my Permanent Residency will hopefully be awarded soon, I’ve been thinking about getting my Australian driver’s license. According to the RTA site, I only have to take a written knowledge test (since I have a valid overseas license). That’s pretty sweet. I have to prove how long I’ve had my US license though if I want to skip over the probationary levels here. There’s only one problem that I can see:

Since it is a legal requirement that only one licence can be used for driving in Australia, before your NSW licence will be issued, you must present your overseas licence to be made invalid in Australia. The overseas licence will be returned to you after holepunching plastic or laminated licences or endorsing paper licences. The holepunch or endorsement will be done at a blank area of the licence so that no licence details will be removed.

WHAT? What if I want to use my license when I travel back to the US? Does anybody know if holepunching your US license invalidates it?

I just learned today that Miss Elizabeth died last year. That probably won’t mean anything to those of you who didn’t have little brothers growing up in the 80’s. Miss Elizabeth was the manager/wife of Randy “Macho Man” Savage in the World Wrestling Federation back then. She was really pretty and nice, and though I thought she often overplayed the whole “damsel-in-distress” thing, I infinitely preferred her as my female wrestling role model to the scary and unattractive Fabulous Moolah.

Ooh, here’s one for the birthday wish list: “I’m blogging this.”

Wow. Billy Corgan is a blogger. I knew the Pumpkins were from Chicago but I didn’t realize he was that big of a Cubs fan. (Link courtesy of Tricia.)

The Cat Protection Society of NSW. That’s probably where we’ll get our kitty from. It sounds like a great organization. You can even see pictures of cats they have to adopt (Snookums likes “Soxy”) but that was back in December, so I bet those are all gone by now.

I tried to read through Orson Scott Card’s thoughts on same-sex marriage and I couldn’t even get through it. The sheer stupidity… He honestly tries to argue that gays who marry are stealing something from his own marriage. He thinks that loving couples who want to get married are somehow weakening the institution (along with divorce and single parents). It made me feel ill. You know, I loved Ender’s Game and all, but his personal views are really starting to color my opinion of his work – and not in a good way.

A Californian’s Conception of the United States. Heh.

Don’t forget, ladies! This Sunday is the one day every four years when tradition says you can propose to your man. If he says no, he still has to give you a kiss, a rose, and a pair of gloves. Pretty sweet, huh? I may just try it – my recent irritation with the institution notwithstanding – just to score some free swag from the Snook. 🙂

The 10 Strangest Toys of 2004. I actually think that “Root-Vue Farm” thing is kinda cool. Oh no, I’ve become a gardening geek!