What’s stressing me today: That my dad isn’t very well. That I ran into my ex-girlfriend on the street this morning and she was charming, rather than matching the sadistic bitch image I keep trying to paint of her in my mind so that I’ll miss her less. The deadlines at work from two distinct ... [More]
Mr Howard said he believed many Australians were "not feeling strongly either way at the moment" about potential war against Iraq. – The Age, 24/1/2003 Well I think if that were ever true, it’s changed in the last few weeks. In what could be a first, police and organisers were *not* an order of magnitude ... [More]
My anti-terrorism brochure and magnet arrived in the mail yesterday. I have stuck the magnet to my fridge, and now feel alert, but not alarmed. Terrorists will have to go elsewhere if they want to steal any milk. It’s meant to go with the TV adverts – you know, the ones that sound like John ... [More]
Josh and I rest on a couple of handily placed bollards, midway through a slightly exhausting hike in the Brisbane Ranges National Park. This morning I woke up disgustingly early, to meet up withJosh, Cathy and Pete to go hiking. I met up with them around 7:30 and we squeezed into Pete’s car for the ... [More]
I had a couple of vivid dreams the other night. My dreams are pretty far and few between, so here goes a description. One was that I was house hunting, and to do this, was riding through my neighbourhood on a kind of go-kart thing. No motor, just powered by pedals. The terrain was much ... [More]
The ever-deepening money-pit that is my car has struck again. This time, it was rear brake pads. The guy at the service place said they needed to be replaced pronto, before the next service. I happen to think that working brakes are an extremely useful thing to have on a car, so I felt I ... [More]
During the week I discovered why my bank account seemed so low in December, when my credit card bill arrived. Because I paid last month’s credit card bill twice. Ah, the dangers of Internet banking. Apparently I paid it in mid-December, but failed to write down (as I usually do) the payment details on the ... [More]
Outside it got up to 40.2°C today – for you in the undeveloped world, that’s 104.4°F. But I was inside, working in an air-conditioned building. And I actually got cold. That’s just silly!
To me, the year has rushed by. Probably because I’ve been so busy for most of it. There’s no shortage of work, and during the rest of the time I’ve been juggling all the other aspects of my life – kids, girlfriend, friends, parents, voluntary work, and trying to keep my home from falling into ... [More]
After enduring many months of my spare computer playing up regularly – crashing, losing time, losing its CMOS settings – I finally decided to take a look under the hood yesterday. And found an obsolete video capture card in there, one I haven’t used in years. I don’t think I even have any drivers for ... [More]
The telemarketers and their predictive dialler seem to have given up on me. Wimps! Maybe it’s an early Christmas present. Speaking of Christmas presents, I can proudly proclaim to have completed all my Christmas shopping. It was a Sunday afternoon trip into the city that did it. Perhaps surprisingly, it wasn’t too painful.
A predictive dialler is stalking me. It’s been ringing for a couple of weeks now. If the phone rings and the caller ID says "Private Number" and there’s silence on the other end, then hold music, I just hang up. Honestly, what a nerve – them ringing you up to put you on hold until ... [More]