I am sitting in my massage chair at the moment wearing my freshly arrived SONY fleece jacket and baseball cap. I've been selected to be an ambassador to help showcase the new GPS-CS1KA GPS Unit in the next few months during my travels Down Under. Additionally I have been given a Cybershot camera and Net Sharing video camera, which will make my love for story telling all the more effortless.

Truly I don't know what to expect from the coming months and this blog project. Some of my friends are excited to see what will come. One of them has already dismissed my blog idea as self absorbed. One thing is for certain, I promise I will improve on the focus and content my last project: www.igotlifemother.blogspot.com (scroll down to Nov 2006 for triathlon related stuff)

Now if you got that far, you know a bit more about me.

My name is Sammy Rodriguez and I am from San Francisco. I am moving to Australia in 10 days. I got my work visa (good for four years!) in the mail last week, thanks to my life partner Brian. He's gotten work as a nurse in an ER in Sydney, and thanks to their progressive domestic partner laws, I get to go with him! Leaving work, family and friends behind for an unkown future in a continent I've never visited is, well... terrifying as much as it is exhilarating.

I am currently feeling inspired while reading "In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. It was recommended by two separate friends so I ascertain that there is something worthwhile about it. I hope so, since my reading material for the past couple of years has been limited to a few political blogs, The New Yorker, and occasional celebrity ****. Oh and there are the vacuous gay rags with pretty boys and articles about so called gay culture that Brian perpetually subscribes to. God I love that man.

Lastly, I need to come to a decision very soon in the next few days. Do I sell my road bike (my first triathlon training bike, a Trek 2100 carbon frame) to lighten my load and get more cash in pocket, or do I ship it to Australia? I will eventually need something to use for my training once I arrive so it would be a good idea, on the other hand maybe it is time to upgrade- and do I really want to haul this thing around the hostels our first few weeks. So much to think about, and I've just about reached my limit tonight- ouch, the brain is screaming, ice cream give me ice cream. I must submit. Until later.