Just a couple of the movies I took in Japan that I YouTubed tonight.. :)
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- work was very unsettling this week
- had to go in to rebuild a server last night.. was very sleepie, but at least the overtime money will be good
- on call again. One week in three is too often IMHO
- watched STIV: The Voyage Home tonight. One of my favourite Star Trek movies. It was more similar to the book than the other movies had been, but there was still more detail about some things in the book
- house is a mess, hope to clean it up somewhat this weekend
- cooked a yummy pasta dinner tonight with these scrummy portabella mushrooms
- we need a real server that we can attach the skype phone to and have decent storage
- Stu needs new batteries for his UPS
2008 was certainly a momentous year in the life of Kazza.
The first big news story of the year was that I got married to Stu in April. I spent several months planning the thing, and planned pretty much everything myself. In the end, the day went pretty successfully and everyone seemed to have a nice time. I got the wedding I wanted for the most part, although I did get very stressed out by the reception venue, and they ruined the enjoyment of the reception for me.
Following the wedding we took off on our honeymoon, spending a night in Japan, then a month touring Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Took six and a half thousand photos between us and generally had a blast. Lots of places we'd like to go back to!
The other really big news story of the year is that we bought a house here in Canberra. And seemingly at just the right time - right in the midst of the world financial crisis which was very scary, but the subsequent drop in interest rates will save us something like $12000 per year!!! We still have a couple of messy rooms, but are very much enjoying the house and we've had several groups of people stay with us.
Work has been a bit variable. The first couple of months of the year I was still feeling very overwhelmed by the place, yet didn't have too much to do so was very lost. After the honeymoon I was put on call, which meant learning a lot of things by being thrown in the deep end. I was also dumped on severely with work, and found it very stressful from time to time. Can't see any sign of letup any time soon :( After a particularly crap day one night in July, I starting drinking with the guys earlier than usual and finished relatively late, which really launched the weekly drinking sessions (which up until that time had been a lot shorter and quieter).
Other travelling included the trip over new years last year to visit Chay and David, a weekend at the coast with Scott and Kerry, a weekend in Sydney in March and another in July to attend my Nana's 80th birthday party, visit James and George, and see Stu's grandmother and aunties. Two days and ten hours of driving was pretty tiring. Chay and David came down just after Christmas to stay, which meant we spent two new years in a row with them which would have been cooler had I not collapsed in a grumpy/depressed heap.
In fish news, we cut the number of tanks from fourteen down to seven. Fourteen was far too much work and fish were getting severly neglected. Seven is a bit more manageable but we may still cull further. Moving all the tanks to our new house was definitely not fun, but we got most fish moved with only a few casualties. One of my original angel fishies is still alive, making her six years old now. She has appreciated the big water change of the move and laid several batches of eggs after the move.
Eating out, we tried a few various restaurants. We discovered Satis in Watson in the middle of winter. Satis is vegetarian and we have been there three or four times, although not since we moved. Then there is the Kingsland vegan restaurant in Dickson which is fantastic. Have only been there twice, but will definitely be going again. And Fortune Box in Gungahlin is still a favourite shopping day lunch spot. Bella Vista in Belconnen and the Dumpling Inn in Jamison are favourites as well. Fanciest restaurant we visited all year was Watersedge on Lake Burley Griffin. This was two weeks before the wedding after I'd had my hair and makeup trial, so we got dressed up and went out for dinner. Was very nice, but of course very expensive!
We tried to see Stu's brother every week for a "sci-fi" night. We watched all of Firefly, Serenity and some Battlestar Galactica. But towards the end of the year this all got too hard. Hopefully we'll do something next year.
Movies seen this year:
The first big news story of the year was that I got married to Stu in April. I spent several months planning the thing, and planned pretty much everything myself. In the end, the day went pretty successfully and everyone seemed to have a nice time. I got the wedding I wanted for the most part, although I did get very stressed out by the reception venue, and they ruined the enjoyment of the reception for me.
Following the wedding we took off on our honeymoon, spending a night in Japan, then a month touring Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Took six and a half thousand photos between us and generally had a blast. Lots of places we'd like to go back to!
The other really big news story of the year is that we bought a house here in Canberra. And seemingly at just the right time - right in the midst of the world financial crisis which was very scary, but the subsequent drop in interest rates will save us something like $12000 per year!!! We still have a couple of messy rooms, but are very much enjoying the house and we've had several groups of people stay with us.
Work has been a bit variable. The first couple of months of the year I was still feeling very overwhelmed by the place, yet didn't have too much to do so was very lost. After the honeymoon I was put on call, which meant learning a lot of things by being thrown in the deep end. I was also dumped on severely with work, and found it very stressful from time to time. Can't see any sign of letup any time soon :( After a particularly crap day one night in July, I starting drinking with the guys earlier than usual and finished relatively late, which really launched the weekly drinking sessions (which up until that time had been a lot shorter and quieter).
Other travelling included the trip over new years last year to visit Chay and David, a weekend at the coast with Scott and Kerry, a weekend in Sydney in March and another in July to attend my Nana's 80th birthday party, visit James and George, and see Stu's grandmother and aunties. Two days and ten hours of driving was pretty tiring. Chay and David came down just after Christmas to stay, which meant we spent two new years in a row with them which would have been cooler had I not collapsed in a grumpy/depressed heap.
In fish news, we cut the number of tanks from fourteen down to seven. Fourteen was far too much work and fish were getting severly neglected. Seven is a bit more manageable but we may still cull further. Moving all the tanks to our new house was definitely not fun, but we got most fish moved with only a few casualties. One of my original angel fishies is still alive, making her six years old now. She has appreciated the big water change of the move and laid several batches of eggs after the move.
Eating out, we tried a few various restaurants. We discovered Satis in Watson in the middle of winter. Satis is vegetarian and we have been there three or four times, although not since we moved. Then there is the Kingsland vegan restaurant in Dickson which is fantastic. Have only been there twice, but will definitely be going again. And Fortune Box in Gungahlin is still a favourite shopping day lunch spot. Bella Vista in Belconnen and the Dumpling Inn in Jamison are favourites as well. Fanciest restaurant we visited all year was Watersedge on Lake Burley Griffin. This was two weeks before the wedding after I'd had my hair and makeup trial, so we got dressed up and went out for dinner. Was very nice, but of course very expensive!
We tried to see Stu's brother every week for a "sci-fi" night. We watched all of Firefly, Serenity and some Battlestar Galactica. But towards the end of the year this all got too hard. Hopefully we'll do something next year.
Movies seen this year:
- Juno - pretty good, if a little unrealistic
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - fun but too ridiculous and too much on the "yeah right" scale
- Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina - very well done, but hard to keep up with the subtitles and watch all the action
- The Dark Knight - good movie, but dark and very long
- Quantum of Solace - ok, was too tied to the last movie
- Australia - very enjoyable, but very long (really it's two stories back to back), so don't know how would stand up to repeated viewings
- This blog had its 5th blogiversary and was celebrated with a new design
- Visited the Planetarium before it closed and met Andrew
- Little Squishy was born
- Went to the balloon fiesta
- Bought an Eee PC
- Set off fireworks on cracker night
- Went to a six-day SANS course
- Got excited by snow falling in Canberra!
- Went to an astronomy night at Mt Stromlo
- Went to two trivia nights - one with Nat and Andrew, and one at work
- Had the house wired with cat 6 by my brother and Shane and Chris
- Took the booze train to Tarago
- Played Zone 3 for the first time and actually won a game
- Big family Christmas with all of Stu's family and Kerry's family
For want of something more interesting to blog...
(Had another lunch with the remaining working guys in our section, followed by a beer at the next door pub, then braved the shops to do some last minute chocolate shopping, and home early to clean and tidy the house)
Apparently this is a list of the top 100 money-making movies.. (I've done the IMDB top 250 before too).. bolded the ones I've seen..
(extended entry)
(Had another lunch with the remaining working guys in our section, followed by a beer at the next door pub, then braved the shops to do some last minute chocolate shopping, and home early to clean and tidy the house)
Apparently this is a list of the top 100 money-making movies.. (I've done the IMDB top 250 before too).. bolded the ones I've seen..
(extended entry)
Busy day today.
Someone from work came over and took away a bunch of our boxes.
Damien came over with lunch and to see the house. Stu and Damien talked for a couple of hours about work.
Yay.
Then we went over to Damien's new place which was like going back in time to the seventies. And we thought our house was bad. Omigosh. Orange glass. Original shag pile carpet. Original appliances. It was all very amusing and needed to be documented :)
Did a big shopping run, since only did fruit and veg last weekend. Have a fully stocked fridge again.
Babysat Jake so Scott and Kerry could go to the movies. Spent the evening remoting to work to fix a mail problem, and building a lego ferry while watching Mythbusters, Iron Chef and Rockwiz.
Then into work to move a few files off a c: drive on a server that was sending alerts every twenty minutes cause it was low on disk space.
So very very tired now..
Someone from work came over and took away a bunch of our boxes.
Damien came over with lunch and to see the house. Stu and Damien talked for a couple of hours about work.
Yay.
Then we went over to Damien's new place which was like going back in time to the seventies. And we thought our house was bad. Omigosh. Orange glass. Original shag pile carpet. Original appliances. It was all very amusing and needed to be documented :)
Did a big shopping run, since only did fruit and veg last weekend. Have a fully stocked fridge again.
Babysat Jake so Scott and Kerry could go to the movies. Spent the evening remoting to work to fix a mail problem, and building a lego ferry while watching Mythbusters, Iron Chef and Rockwiz.
Then into work to move a few files off a c: drive on a server that was sending alerts every twenty minutes cause it was low on disk space.
So very very tired now..
I first saw *batteries not included when it came out at the movies here in 1987. From memory (which could be wrong or mixed up with Flight of the Navigator), my nana took us to see it at Beverly Hills although didn't actually come in with us to watch it.
Anyway. I completely loved the movie and have done ever since, even owning it on dvd.
So I grabbed the book at the book fair the other week, and finished it this morning.
The book was just as lovely as the movie, and follows it pretty closely. Definitely a keeper this one :)
So I finished reading "Minority Report" by Philip K Dick today. Actually I finished that a week or two ago, but finished the last story ("We Can Remember it for you Wholesale") in the collection of short stories today.I've never read any Philip K Dick before, so thought I'd give it a go.. starting with what I'd seen in the movies. Of course the two aforementioned stories bear little relation to the movies, other than their beginnings and the general premise. But still interesting reading nonetheless.
Some of the stories reminded me a little of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected - a little dark with not-your-average endings.
Some were a bit creepy.
Some were just "huh??"
I may read more of his stuff later.. we shall see...
On the way back from the movies, we popped into the Wig & Pen for a beer. We got half pints of the Elders of the Black Forest, and their Kölsch.
For a heavy beer, the Black Forest one wasn't too bad, tasting almost sweetly syruppy.
And of course the Kölsch just reminded me of all the German beer we drank :)
For a heavy beer, the Black Forest one wasn't too bad, tasting almost sweetly syruppy.
And of course the Kölsch just reminded me of all the German beer we drank :)
Had Natto and Andrew over last night for pizza and movies. We watched Life of Brian first and then near the end of that "mawwiage" somehow came up and I said I think someone should say it at the wedding. To which Andrew laughed but Natalie looked at me blankly. And I'm all "You've never seen the Princess Bride!?!" So we watched that afterwards and she liked it :)
Started watching Ali tonight.
I say *started* because it was just too crap to watch it all the way through. I seriously *never* give up on watching movies, but this was an exception. Unless you actually knew the story about this dude (which I don't really), you'd have absolutely no clue what was going on. So I'm sitting there wondering what the hell is going on.
Life is too short for crap movies.
I say *started* because it was just too crap to watch it all the way through. I seriously *never* give up on watching movies, but this was an exception. Unless you actually knew the story about this dude (which I don't really), you'd have absolutely no clue what was going on. So I'm sitting there wondering what the hell is going on.
Life is too short for crap movies.