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And it's bulletproof.  (Well probably not literally, but you never know.)

My suit arrived from Hong Kong this morning.  Two weeks ago I was measured, and today I have a custom made suit that fits perfectly.



I can now retire my old blue suit that has seen better days (and that is an inch narrower across the shoulders and bigger in the waist.)

This kind of shopping I don't mind.

I am very pleased to hold Aurora Energy, an Australian company pumping oil in Texas.  It's now up about 75% from when I bought it less than two months ago, and there seems to be plenty of upside left.

Nexbis, on the other hand, dropped again today.  I bought it nearly a year ago, and as of yesterday I had lost about 75% of my money.  It fell again with the announcement that they didn't get a $1 million contract in Vietnam.  The market tore $15 million out of the share price, which I think was an overreaction.  Also, the company if sold off piece by piece might well be worth more than the market value of all the shares, so I'm looking at getting in cheap to take advantage of the current conditions.  It's a frustrating, and some would say rubbish company, but I don't think it's as rubbish as the market is treating it today.

I'm also looking at Jindalee Resources, which recently declared that it will be paying a huge dividend (about 44% from a sale of a subsidiary to a Chinese outfit) in less than a month.  Another one to keep an eye on.

Tomorrow I'm going to a 30th birthday that will have an 80s fancy dress theme.  I considered a number of options on this.  I could wear my grey suit and be Rain Man (I'm an excellent driver.  We're counting cards.  Gotta fly Qantas.  Qantas never crashed.)  I could put some red on my forehead and go as Gorbachev.  Or I could work on my Austrian accent and go as the Terminator.  I'm leaning towards that at the moment.

My impending job interview (for a job I may not taking if offered) and the overall search seems to have inspired a desire to look professional.  Today that manifested itself by be being fitted for a suit.  There is an father/son team who travel around and take your measurements and your choice of fabric and your requests of what you like in a suit, and then the suit is custom made in Hong Kong.  So today I spent about $5000 on a suit.  (Hong Kong $ that is.)  It will be posted to me soon.  It's worth it.  I got a suit from them last year and I've been very happy with it, in that it fits perfectly and makes me feel that much more bulletproof.  (That kevlar wool is wonderful stuff!)

TW: 20 pull ups, 30 dips, 40 sit ups, 50 pushups, run 1km as fast as possible, 50 pushups, 40 sit ups, 30 dips, 20 pull ups.  Then 20 dumbbell swings just to round things up.  Bulletproof!

After the gym I went to the RUC (where the sound was off during the Sea Eagles-Eels match) and had a bit of wine and a steak with Dr Daz and two friends of his who are also navy officers.  Overall it was fine, but towards the end one of them was pontificating about how the navy has a better culture than the army and I went into screen saver mode as she spoke.  There was even some rocking.  I recovered pretty quickly though.  Sometimes if I know what's going on or I can remove myself from the source of aspie stress, I'm fine in the blink of an eye.
Dr Daz is better from the collision between his face and the back of my head, though his nose is being reset on Friday.