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[Jun. 29th, 2009|09:21 am] |
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Well, today is an improvement. Slept through the night, woke capable of breathing, and the first thing I did after consciousness was not cough my lungs up. My brain is also mostly functional (and any lack of function could probably be better blamed on the previous couple of nights' lack of sleep than today's level of sickness or lack thereof) - mostly.
However, I probably will give it one last day, see how it goes. (From what I remember of the last couple of times I was ill, I went straight back to everything the minute I was on the mend - which meant that a mild malaise stayed for an extended period. Trying to avoid that this time...)
Of course, the bonus with staying home today is that I can get some stuff done for Photography, so I don't have to rush around trying to accomplish it all on Wednesday. Only some of it, though. What needs to be done:
* Print off / photocopy photos that I think would be good "samples"
* Write up half a page on what I plan to do
* Shoot a roll of film
* Develop the roll of film
* Proof the roll of film
* Print at least two prints
I can't do the last three, but assuming I can whip my brain into action, I hopefully should be able to get the first three accomplished today.
...Oh, and I probably need to remote in to do some work work this afternoon.
Sleep?
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[Jun. 28th, 2009|03:17 am] |
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Yay, apparently these cold meds don't really work - or at least, the night ones don't seem to; the day ones are okay. I'm still waking up in the middle of the night to nightmares, unable to get back to sleep. (Tonight's dream of fun and glory: I accidentally erased vital parts of work's database. I'd taken a backup, but still. It was probably inspired by this.)
Meanwhile, I'm trying to find "middle-of-the-night totally spacey and unable to concentrate" entertainments. I've been working through the ICHC sites - I tried skimming FailBlog, but found it a bit too Australia's Funniest Home Videos for my liking. "Oh, look! Someone fell over! Hahahaha!"
I then switched to GraphJam, which was much more my style. I think I read through 130-odd pages. :S. It was interesting to note that a lot of them got repeated, though hardly unexpected.
Those were last night.
Tonight, it's the classics: LOLCats and LOLDogs.
...I want my next cake to look like this.
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|04:47 pm] |
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| | sick | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Adelaide, Old 97s | ] |
Skype's help is made of fail.
I've been told to set up call forwarding to my mobile while Fabian's away. Which I don't know how to do. So, I went to the help files.
Start with http://www.skype.com/intl/en/allfeatures/callforwarding/, Click "How do I activate call forwarding?", get redirected to https://support.skype.com/.
...Gee, thanks guys.
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|02:31 am] |
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| | sick | ] |
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| | Secret Asian Man, Da Vinci's Notebook | ] |
Gragh. I just had a "Oh my god, I've missed my exam and am now going to fail!" dream that woke me up. It was set at school, despite being my last semester's subjects.
The weird thing was that I never had those dreams in high school, particularly after exams had finished. ...At least I wasn't naked.
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[Jun. 25th, 2009|06:33 am] |
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BRB, dying.
*collapses*
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EDIT: 7am work phone call from a New Zealand woman who didn't realise there was a time difference. Grargah. |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2009|09:51 pm] |
Chris and I went to see Wil Anderson live last night. So awesome. :D.
About ten minutes before we walked in the door, I had to explain to him that we were not seeing Adam Hills.
Some snippets:
* He found a 14 year old audience member and was like, "Are you a boy or a girl?"
* I don't understand how Skype works. We have video phones! We're in the future! Why aren't people more amazed? Where is my jet pack?!?
* This Wil Anderson character sucks. He's not half as good as Adam Hills, and that guy only has one foot!
* I had seven a half months last year where I was single and didn't have sex. I found myself getting angry at people who were having sex that I felt were less deserving than I was. The 15 year old from Ballarat who got an American woman to fly out to sleep with him! Everyone was outraged. I was outraged too. "I'm on TV!"
* I love people from Mount Druitt. Be sure to laugh hard, Mt Druitt people, when you get these jokes tomorrow.
* Ballarat is the kind of place where people from Mt Druitt people can look at them and say "You're a fucking bogan".
* They're all so worried about the financial crisis. "It affects you, too, Wil. Your house is worth 20% less than it was this time last year!" "Dude, I rent."
* No, I do own my house. And I spent a little bit of time going "Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod my house is worth 20% less than it was this time last year!" But then I realised that that's only a problem if I want to sell my house. I just want to live in it. They aren't curtaining off sections of it: "Sorry, man, can't let you into the bathroom. Global financial crisis."
* I did have a brief moment of interest in the economic report, when I discovered that the Vietnamese currency was called the Dong. I'd sit there, going, "Wait for it, wait for it..." "The Dong rose sharply today..." "YES!"
* I have three flatscreen TVs in my house. Last year I got stoned and sat there watching the football on my three flatscreens, with my three cats, crying as the Canterbury Bulldogs lost. Then I ordered pizza. The pizza boy saw my arcade machine and asked if he could have a go, so I was playing an arcade cabinet with the pizza boy, sharing the pizza that I'd paid for. "I'm on TV!"
* My grandfather had cancer, and told me that he just wanted to die with dignity. Of course, I later found out that Dignity was a stripper at the local club. ...Don't you hate it when you think up an awesome joke on the last night? Now I want to call up all the people that saw this show before and say "My grandfather died with Dignity, the stripper!".
* I haven't seen Baz Luhrmann's Australia. I'm 35, and at 35, there's nothing you want to do for three hours than sleep. I said that one night, and a woman yelled out, "What about sex?" If it's taking you three hours, you're doing wrong. It would have to chafe...
Anyway, I haven't seen Australia as a protest against focus groups ruining art. It was originally supposed to have a sad ending where Hugh Jackman's character died... But the focus groups said they wanted a happy ending, so the executives made them change it. If focus groups decided the content of movies, Jaws would not have been a shark! He'd have been a happy dolphin that solved mysteries!
There is one film I think would have benefited from a focus group, though, and that's Titanic. I have an admission to make: I saw Titanic the other day and I didn't hate it as much as I thought I was going to. It's a good movie! Action, suspense, a love story... But the ending sucked! You know when she's lying on that door, there's plenty of room! Why couldn't she move over and let him on as well? It's like, "You didn't mind being cramped when we were in that carriage..."
*bounces* *bounces* *bounces*
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[Jun. 22nd, 2009|03:25 pm] |
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| | The King Of Wishful Thinking, New Found Glory | ] |
Amusement! I was checking the syntax of VBA's constants, and this was the first link to come up:
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=285380
"Is there any way that I can change a constant in VBA?"
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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[Jun. 19th, 2009|09:38 pm] |
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Well, I don't think anyone could have classed that as having gone well.
There were four questions, at ten marks each.
One of them I had no idea what the question was about (as in, I knew the name of it, and pretty much nothing else). I wrote something for it, but I'd be surprised if it garnered any marks at all.
One of them I was reasonably proud of the answer for, but my abysmal performance on the previously mentioned one means that I'm now paranoid that I didn't answer that one correctly.
The other two were sort of in the middle, I knew what the item was, but I'm not sure whether I actually answered the question in context (and he was big on IN CONTEXT, from what I recall).
I'm sort of hoping that between the three I actually answered with something relating to the question, there are enough marks to pass me so I don't have to do the subject again.
I think I'll go cry in the corner now.
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[Jun. 19th, 2009|11:54 am] |
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| |  frustrated | ] |
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| | Gravity Fails Us, Her Space Holiday | ] |
I hate my vision! I can't even look through a camera lens without needing my glasses!
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[Jun. 19th, 2009|08:38 am] |
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| |  irritated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ready, The Starting Line | ] |
Mostly, I like Virgin Mobile. Their ads are a little cheesy, but the rates are half-decent (though getting less so over time, admittedly) - when I went around price-matching, theirs was pretty much the best for what I wanted (especially since it meant that I didn't have the hassle of switching between carriers).
On the other hand, the ability of the customer service reps occasionally leaves something to be desired.
Back in March, when I was switching from prepaid to a plan, I went to the Virgin stall at Burwood to ask to fill out the forms. The guy couldn't find them, and went rifling through every drawer trying to locate them. Eventually his higher-up turned up and borrowed a form from some other mobile shop down the hall. Then forgot that I was entitled to $10 extra credit because I wasn't getting an included phone.
While I was setting up the switch, I also filled out a direct debit form. Of course, I'd just topped up my prepaid credit, so it was going to use that up until I ran out.
Cut to today. (Well, yesterday.) The prepaid credit's finally run out, so I actually owe money this time. Problems?
1) The bill was for two months, when as far as I know, I was going to be billed monthly.
2) No direct debit occurred.
So, I call up. (Admittedly, at 10:45 when the line closes at 11; probably not the wisest move.) The guy can answer #1 (if there's less than $10 owing, they rollover the bill to save paper), but swears blind that I have to contact the bank to answer #2.
Thus, this morning I call the bank. Once I get through the succession of automated answering machines, I finally reach a real person. She says that there hasn't even been an attempt to debit from the account. Yay.
So, I call Virgin up again. I spent quite some time on hold, and again, finally got through to a real person. She tells me that the money, instead of being debited on the day of the bill, is debited on the due date. Which means that if it isn't, I'm screwed. But oh, well, I guess there isn't much she could do about it. Before I hung up, I asked her to flame the previous guy for not simply telling me that and instead sending me on a pointless run-around. No idea whether she'll actually do so.
Now, time to get bathed, dressed and out. I have an exam this evening, and I've barely studied thus far. Chris is scolding me for it.
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[Jun. 16th, 2009|10:00 pm] |
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| | okay | ] |
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| | Telling Everybody, Human Nature | ] |
Aww, Human Nature were so cute before they became a Motown cover band!
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PS: You do kind of have to wonder about the lyrics, though:
I'm tellin' everybody
Tellin' everybody what we did last night
Tellin' everybody
You're the reason why I had a good time
The response that keeps running through my head? A quote by Bette Davis:
"There goes the good time that was had by all." |
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[Jun. 14th, 2009|12:34 am] |
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| | Konstantine, Something Corporate | ] |
Um, oops?
I sent Chris to bed around 11, and was planning on heading to bed not too long after him.
I just realised it's hit 12:34. Sigh...
-Mmaster
EDIT: Something I meant to post sometime before late, but oh well.
I crashed at Chris et al's new place last night. The following morning I wandered out to encounter Liz tidying the kitchen. Justin later emerged and we chatted a little.
When Calsanne finally got up, the following conversation occurred.
Calsanne: I wake up alone, and come out to find you with two other women! What is this?!?
Justin: I probably shouldn't tell you I got a massage from one of them, then, should I?
Calsanne: What?!? Was it a naked massage?!?
*Justin waggles his eyebrows
Calsanne: How did this come about?
Justin: I said that my shoulder hurt, and then I wasn't given a choice.
Calsanne: There is always a choice, my love. Does your shoulder feel any better for it?
Justin: It feels a little better... |
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[Jun. 11th, 2009|02:44 pm] |
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| | Khe Sanh, Cold Chisel | ] |
I'm pretty sure that the initial reaction from most people upon obtaining a copy of Guess Who? is not to try to solve it.
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(Incidentally: My solution for twenty people maxxed out a five or six deep. I'm sure it's possible to do better.) |
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| Google's bid: 8 degrees. Again. It might be a little warmer, but not much. |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|08:59 am] |
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| |  cold | ] |
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| | Laugh In Their Faces, The Whitlams | ] |
It's too cold to get up!
...Mind you, it's now 9am, and I have things to do today. Also, minimal dinner == now getting on for starving.
Butbutbut colllld....
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[Jun. 10th, 2009|09:55 pm] |
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| | The Fear, Lily Allen | ] |
One exam down, one to go.
It was okay. Not brilliant (insofar as an exam could ever be 'brilliant'), but not terrible either - I got at least something down for most of the questions, even though some of the answers were guesswork. I took up the entire time (including my extra time), but I didn't really want to rush it anyway. I actually spent a little time making sure it was formatted properly that might have been better spent answering things, but it was at the "I can't think of anything more to say, but don't want to leave in case inspiration strikes" stage. (It didn't. But at least it meets a slightly higher standard now - I believe typed exam answers tend to be held to a slightly higher standard than handwritten ones, because they subconciously think you should be able to check your answers. Which really sucked in Year 12 when we were writing with Wordpad and thus didn't have spellcheck.)
Question: How soon can I be bothered going home to my empty house? Parents left for the UK this afternoon. I haven't eaten dinner, but I'm not particularly hungry, but I've probably just missed the 10 o'clock bus, and according to Google, it's currently 8 degrees outside. Oh, and I stubbed my toe this afternoon and am unable to walk comfortably. On the other hand, I really need sleep.
Whee...
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[Jun. 8th, 2009|08:10 pm] |
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Q: How many Margarets does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Just me.
It's amazing how much difference a single 60W globe makes; I've been sitting here for a while, thinking how dim my room is. Then I actually looked up at the light fitting and realised that one of the light globes had blown.
Replacing it, I can suddenly see again. ...Well, in so far as I can ever see, anyway.
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[Jun. 7th, 2009|11:13 am] |
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| | frustrated | ] |
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| | Greg's Last Day, The Starting Line | ] |
Why can't Laurie even create sample code that compiles?!?
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[Jun. 6th, 2009|11:18 pm] |
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Dammit, I'm on my third bout of hiccups for the day!
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PS: My bed has two quilts and two blankets on it... Warm... :D. (Mum thinks I'm going to get heat rash.) |
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| Bed! |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|04:49 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | The Longest Time, Billy Joel | ] |
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[Jun. 5th, 2009|03:26 pm] |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sunshine, Evermore | ] |
Whoo, my numbers now agree with each other.
They may or may not be the right numbers, but at least they're now the same numbers!
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