When the Lights go Down on Penola

I just happen to be listening to the Journey song "Lights" and it kind of made me miss working and living in Cali (give it a listen if you haven't heard it (Video Posted at the end of page). It's about the bay area which is why I mention the Cali thing. Oh and the blog title is a line from the song...I'll let you guess which word doesn't belong).

Anyway, here's some more fun stuff I've noticed while here:

-The plugs for higher amp equipment at the winery uncannily resemble the Southern Cross constellation. I'm pretty sure it's not a coincidence (see below).

-Beer is almost like a precious commodity; it's crazy expensive (apparently cause it's taxed at like 50% to stop people from drinking too much....yeah, looks like it's working really well). If there is a mercantile exchange here, I hoep beer is on it and I want to buy futures in it....then drink the profits.

I spent $56 on a case of this. A 6 pack was $20 so do the math.

-The $2 coin is the smallest coin....wtf???? I mean seriously, it's like the size of a dime. I think I'm out $10 cause these things are so easy to lose. But either way, I refuse to carry around change so I currently have a ziplock bag with like $70 of change sitting in it.
-March madness means nothing out here. For all they know it's some fall induced schizophrenia.
-Toilets don't really go clockwise, much to my chagrin. They are more like a waterfall and supposedly that whole counter clockwise/clockwise thing is a sham (never thought the Simpsons would lie to me. So sad.)
-Australians love butter. Seriously. It's on all sandwiches, loaded up on toast, smothered on hot-cross buns. Name a food, some Aussie has probably spread butter all over it, ha, which reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. "Butter, Kramer, butter, Kramer..."

"Hey Buddy"

-They say "how ya going" instead of "how's it going"...I'm currently thinking of adopting this and bringing it back to the states and forcing it upon the population.
-Crickets outnumber millipedes, which outnumber spiders, which outnumber Kangaroos, which outnumber animals that could easily kill you, which outnumber people. (On a sidenote, New Zealand apparently has no poisonous spiders...what did theydo,  ship all them to Australia???WTF mate?
-Working long hours really isn't that bad when you have nothing better to do than spend your free time writing a stupid blog.