The best chocolate cookies in the whole wide world are TimTams!
Definitely life savers when I was traveling in Australia and New-Zealand. These Arnott's cookies made up for my breakfast, lunch and often late night snack as well.

Very difficult to find outside Oz but colleague Niels found a link to a US webstore who have them:
http://www.simplyoz.com/

A note of warning; many people who have tasted TimTams have become addicted to them and even have fights on the Internet about the similarity to the British Penguin cookies.

Anyway, feel free to get that well-known Christmas spirit and send me some TimTams...

I fear I did something wrong this year: no Sinterklaas presents whatsoever.

Instead a water flooding at the University's server so we couldn't do anything on the network today. I went back home and worked there.
I tried to warm up some donuts for breakfast but they turned out black and very smelly.
Lastly, the VM server seems down as well.

Do we need more bad omens?? I think Sint and his Zwarte Pieten will kidnap me to Spain....
That's actually not a bad prospect ha!

So if you won't hear from me again after tonight's Thai dinner I'll be scuba diving in Spain...

There's not much which can compete with a lazy Saturday afternoon, drinking tea while listening to Nick Cave.


Yeah I downloaded the B-sides album since I missed it too much.
I just close my eyes hearing Nick croon at his best and I'm back on the vast Australian roads and highways of the Great Ocean Road...

Time is surely flying, just a few weeks left before the Christmas vacation. There's something else up the road too but I'm successfully blocking that out of my mind ha!

One of my fave songs on the 3-CD B-sides is "Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum".
Mesmerizing...

http://www.kongkicksass.com/
Bloody brilliant haha!

So another December commences.
How I loathe this month.