Stupid work!

I just wrote a proper long update and it got eatten by the web because of stupid work and it's internet quota time. So now I'm annoyed and can't be bothered re-writing everything, so here it is in very short form:

- QLD was fab, coming home sucked
- Xy has now moved to SA, wooooo!!!!!
- Have bought a block of land at Mt Barker
- Susannah is almost 10 months old, almost walking and very gorgeous
- Work sucks

Wow I should write all blog posts like that hahahaha.

Should have done this a long time ago

Okay, so an update by me has been long overdue, I had all these wonderful plans and photos prepared of my trip to the zoo and my niece's Baptism, but obviously none of that came to fruition and now too much time has passed.

At the moment I'm here in Queensland with Xy where I'm spending 6 weeks and 3 have almost passed already. I've been lucky enough to meet lots of people I know from online gaming and to go to a family wedding, and photos will ofcourse be posted when I get back to Adelaide (at least, that's the plan).

For now, though, I just wanted to let everyone know I was still okay and to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope you all had a nice Christmas :)

A little less slack

Ok so I promised some pictures from my trip but have not secured permission from my friend JP to post his pictures so shall refrain from doing so at this stage but might update later if I get the nod, Enjoy!

My niece Emily:

Sister, Lars and Emily:

Emily, Myself and Lars:

OMG Slack!

First and foremost, yes I have been very slack in updating the blog recently, secondly it isn't because I have had nothing to update about but rather because I am slack.

A while back now JP and Sarah came up to see sunny Brisbane and surrounds from NSW and were treated to one of our finest week long torrential down pours that just always seem to follow visitors that are seeking our sunny climbs.
It was awesome fun with one of my friends bringing around his Xbox360 and with a house full of gamers (at least 6) we had a great couple of days, I even managed to get out at one point and show them around the city and eat some delicious foods with them, twas good fun! :D.
I personally can't wait till they come back up again as they were great fun to have around (and considerate guests!)

Just this last weekend I decided to go and visit my sister and her new born bub (the second one now) he is my first and likely only nephew from my side of the family so for anyone counting that is one niece and one nephew, the likelihood for both being very spoiled by me in the future is likely high :p.
They are doing well despite the two children running my sister ragged and slowly driving her insane but I am pretty sure this is normal so I am not as worried as I would normally be.

The kids are adorable and I spent quite a lot of time colouring in with the niece and generally being silly and making faces for them and trying to communicate as best as possible with a three year old and a 7 week new born.
(p.s in my previous blog post I got my nieces age wrong by about a year!, yes I am a terrible uncle :/)
Anywho, they are great and I enjoyed my time there immensely.

This afternoon I am headed out to a long time friends place for his 29th birthday party.
Brett always throws awesome party's with much food and waaaarn and scotch available as well as always having an interesting tale or twenty to relate.
Today I have been let in on something he will be trying at the party to entertain us all, he will be "acquiring" a little liquid nitrogen from his university to bring home in the hopes of making some home made ice cream!
I can only imagine the crazy shenanigans that could take place should something go wrong in this process with people having body parts frozen and shattered 'ala' Terminator 2 styles.

Lets hope this evening doesn't boil down into a mass emergency room visit hmm?

I shall update with some piccy's of past doings and possibly some emergency room pics should something exciting happen tonight :D.

A Day in the Life

I swear these things can only happen to me...

This morning as I was getting ready for work, I was putting on my eyeshadow and dropped the eyeshadow wand. I watched it fall towards the sink, and plummet to its doom as it continued to fall, all the way down the drain. How it managed to fall so perfectly, so that it fell through the drain hole without even bouncing off the basin is beyond me.

Needless to say I am now short one eyeshadow wand...

Across the Great Divide

Well about the only really interesting thing that has happened to me of late is that my housemate and I went to the Across the Great Divide concert a couple of weeks ago to see silverchair and Powderfinger perform. And what else can I say but that it was FANTASTIC!! I'm so glad we decided to go and managed to get tickets to the second show!

A workmate of his and his wife were kind enough to drive us there on the Thursday night and in true concert tradition we went to The Gov beforehand for a quick bite to eat and a couple of rounds of drinks. The housemate and I had General Admission tickets and we managed to get around 20 metres back from the stage to see silverchair. I have only seen silverchair live once before at WaveAid and to be honest at that time I didn't think it was a great gig, but this time they went above and beyond my expectations. Daniel was fantastic with the crowd and they performed so well, I was really impressed.

A bunch of people in front of us then left the area to get drinks or whatever after their set so we managed to get further ahead for the Powderfinger set and I'm not sure how far from the stage we were then - somewhere between 5 and 10 metres I think, with a perfect view.

They also didn't disappoint with a fantastic set and the band seemed to have a great time too. The crowd was also great with no pushing or nastiness, with everyone just enjoying the show and letting everyone else enjoy it too. At the end the two bands came on stage together and performed "Substitute", a cover of the song by The Who and it was a great end to a great night.

The concert finished at around 11:15pm and we got a cab easily and headed home, stopping off to buy more drinks on the way, because ofcourse after such a great gig you can't just go home and go straight to bed. We put on some CDs and stayed up until around 2am, which made work the next day a little difficult but was a great wind-down for a great night.

Did I mention it was great? I can't stress this enough!

Aside from that one night the rest of the last few weeks has just been the usual stuff - working, studying, seeing family, not much else. Will hopefully have more to write about again soon.

Moving on and moving out

So much has happened in recent times I am not really sure what to include in the Blog. I guess I'll include the big things for now and flesh things out another time.

Ivan and I have cancelled our holiday to Japan and NYC. On the one hand I am bummed because it was my dream trip and also we lost a fair bit of money not thinking of not going before we'd paid for everything. On the other hand it is good we're not going for many reasons. I think I will keep my time off work though and am looking at going to Queensland for a few weeks instead, to not only visit my family and go to my cousin's wedding but also to go and see Glen for a bit. It gives me something to still look forward to over Christmas, even if it is closer to home.

Ivan on a whim last Thursday morning woke up and decided to fly to Okinawa for a few days to meet a girl. Things went really well for him and he is really happy at the moment, for which I am glad. I'm actually looking forward to meeting her as she sounds really nice.

Also at around that time I moved out and now have a new housemate. This being the second week and I am feeling more at home than I did last week. It's a pretty cool arrangement and my housemate is pretty easy to live with so I really can't complain.

Work has been extremely busy of late and for a time there it was stressing me out greatly due to everything else going on in my life but things are starting to return to normal in that regard too.

Normal - an interesting choice of word. Nothing actually feels "normal" anymore but rather, it is back into a routine I suppose you could say, and that is probably a good thing.

As a closing, I have [foolishly] signed up for Bootcamp with the gym which starts at the end of this month. It'll be very hard I'm sure but it'll be good to focus on something healthy. I am drinking far too many beers of late...

What I've learned

Wearing a flowing skirt on a windy day is a very bad idea.

Wow, post 351!

Yep, I'm at home from work today doing some study and after a big sleep-in. I had a big night on Friday night and unfortunately it seems the rest of the weekend flew past as a result. There was a [very small] Neverwinter Nights gathering at The Griffins Head on Friday night and I felt like going out drinking, so after convincing a couple of friends to come along I made a big night of it. Most people left pretty early but then a few of us went to The Austral (too loud) and then onto the Exeter (which is a dive) before stumbling into a cab and me crashing elsewhere and not getting home until 11am the next day. Ugh. Was a great night, but I felt so craptastic on Saturday. Could have been worse though - I could have lost my purse *chuckles at the inside joke*

I was supposed to go to the gym but there was no way that was gonna happen, so instead I went to see Susanna like I promised Maria I would, had lunch at their place and then came home at around 5 and was asleep by 8pm. Ugh.

Sunday I had to do some study as I have 4 assignments due this week so I got two done and am hoping to get the other two done during the weeknights, which shouldn't be a problem.

This weekend should be a much quieter one, at least at this stage. On Sunday afternoon I have Natasha's engagement party which I'll be going to solo and because of that I'm not quite sure whether I'll enjoy myself or not (considering her whole family will be there and Natasha doesn't even know what's happened between Ivan and I beyond an SMS) but I'm sure I'll cope.

In other news a date has been set for my moving out with it being in early September, so I'll have to start packing some things into boxes and getting myself organised. I don't think I have a great deal of gear here but I think I might be underestimating things too. But the big problem will be the incessant badgering from my parents about how I should just be moving back home until the new year. I told Mum today I'm moving thinking she'd be the easy parent to tell as she understands my independence but she surprised me by saying the things I expected Dad to say. Oh well, a few more weeks of that to go I suppose, but it wasn't unexpected.

Anyway, back to the studies I suppose...

Ok, time to tell

Obviously something's been going on for a while now and I never wanted to really put it down in the Blog. At first it seemed too painful, then it seemed like too much closure, but now I believe I am ready to say that Ivan and I have decided to go our separate ways. Yes, I am fine now. The first few weeks would have been a bad time to ask me how I was (me once bursting into tears one day at work when being asked that very thing). Even now when I think about certain things I can get teary, but overall I know it's what's best for both of us. We just want different things out of life I suppose, and it's better that we're both honest about that now rather than later. Anyway, it was very amicable, and so the trip overseas is still going ahead (thank goodness, it being all paid for and so forth). I was going to wait until after the holiday to move out but I think I will do so in a few weeks time now.

Now, onto happier events. Last Friday night I went to The Elephant Walk with Michelle and a friend I haven't seen for over 10 years I think, Nicola, and her sister Tracy. It was awesome!! Didn't help the new healthy thing too much, it being a dessert bar and all but we all got high on sugar and then laughed and laughed and laughed! I had such a nice time :D

Anyway, it's life as usual otherwise. Work, study, see the family, go to the gym, rinse and repeat. But at least I've now written in my blog something that I've been putting off.

An uplate update

Well TAFE has started again and with assignments due soon I thought I might take some time out from homework to do a quick update. The workouts are going well still, which is good. I've only missed one day so far, due to me falling arse over tit after twisting my ankle last Wednesday night and landing on my knees. The knee I have previously dislocated caught the brunt of it but thank goodness there was only some mild tenderness and a big graze, and no dislocating. Phew! The graze is all that hurts now, so all is well. I wish there was a more graceful way of falling though, I am sure it wasn't a good look.

Work has been crazy busy due to it being the time we raise thousands of invoices for the state, and tomorrow I should finish things off so I'm glad that it's behind me for another year.

My niece Susanna is doing well, she's healthy and getting bigger. Saw the family on the weekend for Dad's birthday and it was nigh impossible to pry her out of Dad's arms. I suppose, being the birthday boy, we had to let him hold her for a while.

Hmm let's see, what else... Have seen a few movies lately, such as Transformers, Knocked Up and The Simpson's Movie. I recommend them ALL.

Anyway, I'll leave you with this little piece of YouTube...

Click me!

Family Visits

Hi there *waves*

Well recently my sister, brother in law and niece traveled a couple hundred kilometres to come see me and do some other things which was pretty cool since I havn't seen any of them in close to nine months now.
I used to live with them up in Bundaberg (most boring town ever if your not into rum and fighting) before moving down to Brisbane, our ancestral home (well in recent history anyway :p).

Sis is getting pretty big with her second child now and I imagine it won't be long now untill I get the news of a healthy boy or girl since they do not like to find out the sex before the child is born at which time I will be an uncle x 2 WOOO! \o/.

Emily, my niece is a little cutey and very entertaining and chatty, despite not remembering me due to still being so very young she was talking my ear off about anything and everything.
It was with great difficulty that I tried to keep up with her nebulous conversations which incoporated a great deal of words I couldn't understand but for a todler of a year and a half she has a remarkable grasp of the english language and can generally get her point across in a very cute fassion.

I managed to snap a shot of her when she stole dads "Dudes", which is what she calls his sunglasses, likely because of my sister calling him dude whenever he wears them, some in joke there for sure.
I am sure everyone is going to enjoy this :D.

Blackle

Hey there sports fans.

I know for a fact that Mel is a massive supporter of many good causes for saving our natural environment through many forms including the saving of electricity so as to reduce our greenhouse emissions, extend out our natural fossil fuel resources and such so I would like to take this opportunity to introduce those readers of this blog whom do not already know about Google's new search engine, "Blackle".

For those worried about energy consumption and all its downsides ... When your screen is white, whether it be an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts.
Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.

http://www.blackle.com

I am now personally using the new Blackle engine and will do so into the future since I spend a great deal of time on this energy hungry beast every single day.
Be friendly to the planet that supports your life and the lives of your children and in turn perhaps even lower your electricity bill some as a reward for your dedication.

Cheers
Xy

Testing testing 1,2,3

All right, I have been keeping myself entertained with a few stand out from the crowd vids i've seen recently and thought it would be good to serve a dual purpose in testing out embedding code and entertaining you the reader by sharing a very cool one here.

Picture yourselves and co-workers for those of you whom read this blog while at work in a similar situation and have a little giggle.
It's relatively work safe and would be better with sound if at all possible, Enjoy.

No more late nights

After letting my weight balloon out and my self esteem deflate, after constantly feeling like somebody twice my age, I decided late last week to join a gym near work, and for 3 mornings now I have been getting up at 5:30am so that I can get to the gym before work and leave enough time to get ready in the morning and still make it to work on time.

So far I am really enjoying it, and I hope the motivation stays with me. I've been leaving the workout feeling really refreshed and haven't been getting tired until bedtime. It's a strange feeling though to leave the house while it's still dark and to see the city in the morning before other people have woken up. It's very surreal. The staff are very friendly which can also seem a little too much first thing in the morning. I'm not a morning person so when someone is overly bubbly or chatty I don't really respond well, hehe. The early mornings also mean that I can no longer stay up until midnight playing Lord Of The Rings Online so naturally, I am having withdrawls.

I am also, ofcourse, trying to watch what I eat. So then it's typical that today I have a major craving for some Fruchocs. Bah.

Anyway aside from that we had my sister's birthday on the weekend so went to their place for lunch on Sunday where I proceeded to hold Susanna for as many hours as possible. I swear she's grown in the week since I saw her last. Other than that it has just been work as usual, nothing exciting at all really.

And now, a funny quote I overheard in the office:
"If you were a piece of work I was halfway through working on, where would you hide?"

A beginning and an end

Truth is I've been in no mood to write. Those that know me will know why, those who are passing by here will have no idea. In time no doubt I'll write about recent events, but things are just too raw at the moment to do so.

However, there is some good news, and that is that on 2 July 2007, my niece entered this world. I am ofcourse biased, but I think she's beautiful. See for yourself. (Thanks for the piccies, Michelle).

Downtime needed

I just can't seem to get into the habit of updating weekly so again I am just gonna do a general update of the last 2 and a bit weeks in no specific format. Things have just been so busy lately! As the end of June approaches we head into our busiest time of the year at work so I've been doing extra hours again in an effort to catch up but I just feel like I'm not getting anywhere quickly.

Aside from work, things are busy at home, too. Ivan and I finished our Japanese for Fun and Travel course but have decided to sign up for Japanese 1, which runs for 30 weeks! We went to our first class last week and it looks like a big and lively class so it will no doubt be enjoyable! We've also been going to the Pancake Kitchen every Tuesday night for the J Club, which is a Japanese language/social club with most people from Uni SA but a couple of ringins (like us) and has been fun for the last few weeks.

On top of that it was Grandma's 81st birthday a couple of weekends ago and with Mother's Day last weekend we've been seeing my family a bit. Also, as a followup to my last update I got in touch with an old high school/Uni friend and we went out for lunch and a catchup. It was really great actually, and I'll endeavour to keep in touch with her in the future. With emails being so easy there's no excuse really.

In other news I have my own new gaming addiction I must confess to. Darren gave me the buddy key he got with his Lord of the Rings Online game which meant I had a 10 day trial. Well, after day 1 I was addicted and on the second day of my 10 days Ivan had bought both of us the game so, although time to play it has been limited, it's very addictive once I start and several hours can easily pass.

Anyway, had better get back to work now :(

Wow, just wow ...

I just took yet another walk down to my local Aust post branch to look in on a package Mel and her Duckman sent me over four weeks ago now through normal post and FINALY it was there waiting for me.
Strangely enough though it would seem it was there all along...

Yes it had been sitting there since the 19th of april apparently but despite going down there twice, citing my name, the names of the senders and where it was from somehow it was over looked both times.

The first notice I recieved in the mail sending me down for the third time today to finally get it apparently was the third written up before it was in only a few days to be returned to the senders.
I know it all seems incredible but it is all true *shakes head in bafflement*.

The lady today was very helpful and apologetic though and it was the first time she had served me so I think in future I know who I will be waiting in line for to serve me since the other two ladies there must be blind or incompetant or both :-/.

It has been some time since I updated last and now i have that particular rant off my chest I shall explain why.

Final Fantasy 12

To those who are fans of the series or fairly serious gamers that short line alone will probably have you nodding your heads in understanding but for the uneducated I shall explain a little.

So far I have sunk aproximately eighty five hours into this game and still havn't been everywhere, talked to everyone worth talking to or seen and fought all the extra sidequesty things there are yet to do in this spawling sandbox fantasy soap opera of sorts.

These games although decidedly foreign in design (the final fantasy series) being produced in japan have an amazing depth of play that only few western role playing computer games can hope to rival. (A few off the top of my head would be the Fallout series, Planescape Torment and the Baldurs Gate series).

If you have ever been umming and arring about getting into these console master pieces (as opposed to the PC master pieces I also listed) 12 is possibly not the game I would suggest as entry level as it is quite complex and doesn't have the best storyline out of the series I have played, I suggest starting with 10 for a story you will develop a connection with the characters in.

Despite this though its the gameplay in 12 that takes the cake, free flowing, non random battles with customisable party AI to allow you to tweak every fine deatil of how your party members react to many different types of enemies right from start to finish of the battle is what makes this game amazing.

I am still working my way through to the tougher rare and hidden away monsters at this time and loving every second of it as the challenge rating gets sooo much harder.
It's been well worth the time I have put into it so far though I do look forward to talking to estranged friends once more when its claws finally pry loose from my flesh *waves to people who thought he had died*, sorry for being so distant lately, I love you all :D.

Format be damned

Yes yes, I realise I haven't done a weekly update in the correct format again. This time my excuse is it's been 3 weeks and so it would simply be too difficult. Also I didn't know what to say after Xy's last spooky post. Needless to say, I am concerned for my co-author's mental state. Just kidding, ofcourse Xy *giggles*.

Well as you can see by the time of my posting this, my sleeping patterns are very much out of whack. And who can we blame? Big Brother. The Up Late show is a hoot. I don't know what it is about Mike Goldman but he cracks me up and so I've been watching it, which means waking up with the alarm clock and cursing myself for staying up so late. In fact, I should be watching it right now, but after working on an assignment until around 11pm I got caught up checking my MySpace and then searching for people I knew in a past life (i.e. from school) and thus, I figured I should update my Blog finally, too. Seeing as how updating my Blog takes priority over watching Big Brother Up Late, which takes priority over sleeping, you can see I'm very poor at prioritising.

So anywho, I haven't been up to exciting things at all, I regret to inform you. We went out to Eric's a couple of weekends ago for dinner and some DVDs, it was Ivan's birthday last Friday so I had the day off work and showed him around a couple of Japanese stores in the city, but aside from that it's been business as usual. In other words, work, Japanese studies, reading, and TV shows. Yes, my life can be summarised into four broad categories it seems.

Now, a tangent.

It's strange, but for some reason lately I've been thinking a lot about the past. Like, one of my TAFE lecturers was talking about customers who may be lonely and so go into extended conversations with staff members and I remembered back in the day of working at Bi-Lo, there was this guy around 55, 60 years old who used to come down from the country every weekend and do his shopping with us and come through my checkout. But one day, he gave me a letter and a gift (I can't remember what it was, postcards from his town I think) and I got a little freaked. In hindsight the guy was probably just lonely, but at the time it troubled me. Anyway, I hadn't thought about him in years but that one TAFE lecture brought that old memory flooding back.

When we were at Eric's, when he'd finished fast forwarding The Big Lebowski, we flicked over to Rage who were playing a '20 years of Rage' special, and the 1997 songs really jogged my memory. I think, looking back, that time between the end of year 12 and the end of my first year of Uni was probably the most fun year of my life. Anyway, got to thinking about friends I don't speak to anymore and how I'd like to get back in touch with them, that kind of thing. Funny how the memory works...

Well, on that note I should stop putting off going to sleep I guess and perhaps go do it. Or catch the end of BB Up Late, either or.

Two spooky weeks ...

What happened to Xy this week?

Well to be accurate this is about what has been going on, on and off for the last two weeks now.
I noticed one night the week before last that while I was listening to music through my headphones I was hearing voices intermittently.

At first I thought it was just part of the music tracks and didn't really think anything of it but after a bit decided to go back and listen to the tracks again and noticed there was no talking in them whatsoever.
The voices when I did hear them were muffled so I couldn't really work out what was being said but endeavoured to try and listen a bit more attentively and see if anything would stand out.

So I have spent about a week and a half now listening hard when I start to hear something abnormal "fuzz and crackle" for lack of a better term from my headphones (turning off my music hurriedly to listen to it better).

So far this is what I have managed to make out (as best as I can reckon):

*A young mans voice*
"I need you ....(missing words), I have to get ... to you."
I don't know if he is saying a name or if there is a pause and the second part sounds something like "my heart" but I can't tell for sure.
This one has repeated several times now over the last week and a half and I have had to try and piece it together from different parts of it being heard and re heard.
It is most definitely the same young mans voice every time.

*A woman's sobbing voice*
"Why did they *several garbled words* take it (away?)"
I have struggled with making this one out and have a few theories floating around about what she says but cant definitively say what she says in the middle.
I "believe" she is talking about her baby, maybe something to do with an indication of stillbirth :/.
It's really sad sounding with sobs and such through it that make her voice even harder to understand but if I hear it again I will try to find out if why I think she is so sad is correct.

*An older mans voice in a threatening tone*
"... last time ... will get to do that! *section garbled*"
This voice is very hard to make out and garbles a lot, I actually spent most of my time trying to work out what this one said and replay it in my mind from the two occurrences in which I heard it.
It could be a name or just linking words but the garbled second section I cannot make out at all just yet, maybe I will hear him again soon and get another try? :)
(P.S this is by far the most aggressive and scary voice I have heard yet)

Unfortunately these are the most legible and complete phrases I have heard so far but will continue to listen as long as they continue to talk and try to piece it together to write here and maybe make sense of it all.

Aside from all of that spookiness I managed to get my hands on Final Fantasy 12 for two glorious days and gave it a solid thrashing in which time and space seemed to disappear before having to take it back to video store :/.
I now pine for it's tender caresses as I wait to have a budget that will allow for the purchase of this wonderful artifact to add it to my collection in the series.

I can foresee with it's semi MMORPG approach to game play and looting system many many more hours being wasted as I farm for the best loot in the game in preparation for more battles with impossibly strong, godlike creatures.
(And the cycle continues *chuckles*).

Amusing/Obscure Conversations:

My roommate and I were out driving to do some food shopping and I looked around not the first time since moving to this part of Brisbane and realised I had no idea where the hell it is in relationship to the areas I have lived before that I am now at.
I have been here for a few months now and since the bus stop to the CBD is only several metres up the road passed the next house and the train station only a couple of blocks away so I have barely explored this region at all.

I said as much to him at which he laughed and decided to take me for a tour so that I could get my bearings, it was pretty embarrassing to be quite so lost in the city of my birth and where I have lived the majority of my life but finally after about 25 minutes I got my bearings on how to at least get to somewhere fairly nearby that I recognise without having to rely on someone else or public transport in the future.

Colourful moods:

Well spooked out would definitely have to find a place in here over the last two weeks what with spectral voices talking to me (although some people seem to like using this evidence to say that I have finally cracked).
I can't say it's a normal thing for me to hear voices and I am "pretty sure" it's not all in my own head so in this case it leads to some perhaps worrisome alternatives.

I shall be using my night light and hiding under my safety blanky for a bit as yet I think *whimpers*.

Hobbies and Interests Pursued:

Gaming! Yay!
Haha likely this section should just be a cut and paste affair for me with the names of games cycled as I get to them because seriously, it's the thing I love to do in all the world the best.

I know I should be spending more time writing but I really haven't felt like doing so recently for one reason or another.

Oh yes, I was also asked to do some online research for my roommates mum into some very interesting artwork that she recently uncovered in a change of residence piled away under a bunch of old junk so I have been keeping my eyes peeled for any and all information regarding it.
I mention this but have been asked not to hand out details about the artist because she would prefer to keep everything private for now until we have compiled the info we deem necessary to look into making a sale of it.
Tis a shame really or I would perhaps recruit the aid of those who read this site for finding info for me and make my job a whole lot easier :D.

Look before you leap:

Make sure you really want to spend a couple of weeks doing online research for other people before volunteering your services *sighs* ~_~.