Day started off ok. Then I got to work and it went downhill. People going through my stuff, taking bits and then losing them really *really* pisses me off.

Otherwise it was generally a slow day. Moved a server across the road. Well the user did really. I supervised :)

Driving along behind this dude this arvo .. dude, you are so not suave.

Sarah is leaving cia :( It was bad enough when Campbell left, now it's going to be even harder to go..

My angel keeps laying eggs.. I wonder if she's hoping they'll hatch without a boy. She gets really agro at me whenever I come near the tank. Very funny.

Council cleanup came and went today. A lot of the stuff I put out got taken beforehand though, so that was cool. I saw a dude walking off with the CRT anti-glare screens last night, so glad they went.

And the Christmas funny of the day:

And finally, there's a cool doco on SBS right now about spam. Taping it so Stu and I can watch it later.

ok so it's Tuesday .. :) Saw this at Michael's and thought it would be fun.

1. How do you eat an Oreo cookie?
Well Oreos came here far too late for me to think up clever ways to eat them (and I'm not a huge fan of them anyway). But Mint Slices on the other hand. Well. First I would take a small bite at the front. Then I would nibble all around the edges. Then I would eat off the top layer of chocolate. Then I would eat off the bottom biscuit, then finally eat the icing. :)

2. How long does it take you to eat lunch?
er, never actually timed it. Probably 20 minutes? But total time away from the office is usually about an hour cause we walk a good 10 minutes away to get food, then there is the chat time after.

3. Caffeine or decaf?
In coffee? Well neither cause I don't drink the stuff :)

4. Chicken or beef?
If I'm eating out it's more often chicken, because I'm a bit picky about my beef and it's easier for them to stuff up beef I've found (too dry/chewy etc). At home I love a good steak.

5. Pen or pencil?
Depends what I'm doing really. I really like the Pacer style of pencils though.

6. Autumn or spring?
Spring

7. Baseball or basketball?
Neither really heh :)

8. 'Survivor' or 'The Amazing Race?'
Now that's a tough one.. probably The Amazing Race though.

:)

As mentioned yesterday, before the days of scanners and anything more than 16 colours, you really couldn't do much. Except have a bit of fun. Here's some stuff I did in the early nineties. I'm annoyed that I can't remember the name of the program I used. It wasn't Microsoft Paint, it was something else. It generated LBM files. It must have been Deluxe Paint I suppose....

21.11.90 "Tropical"

23.11.90 "Wipeout"

15.2.92 "Night"

8.2.93 "Sheep"

10.2.93 "Spider"

15.2.94 "Magic Eye"

From Dave

Have you...

( ) Smoked a cigarette. Nope
( ) Crashed a friend�s car. No
( ) Stolen a car. No, but have had my car stolen
(x) Been in love. Yes
(x) Been dumped. Yeah, although we got back together shortly afterwards and it took me over a year to get rid of him
( ) Shoplifted. No, but I did steal some chalk from kindergarten once and then had to lie about where I got it, and it turned me quite off lying/stealing heh
( ) Been fired. Nope
( ) Been in a fist fight. No
( ) Snuck out of your parent�s house. Nah
(x) Had feelings for someone who didn�t have them back. Haven't we all?
( ) Been arrested. Nah although have done a few things you could be arrested for.. ;)
( ) Gone on a blind date. No, but I did send two of my friends on a blind date, and they ended up getting married
(x) Lied to a friend. Not deliberately, but have probably stretched the truth on occasion
( ) Skipped school. Nah I was a goody-two-shoes
( ) Seen someone die. Only on tv shows/movies/docos
(x) Been to Canada. Yes, it was lovely
( ) Been to Mexico. No
(x) Been on a plane. Yep, totally love it
( ) Set a part of yourself on fire. eeek, no thankfully
(x) Been skiing. Yep, love it, but it's expensive and I have noone to go with
(x) Met someone from the Internet. Yes a few times
(x) Been to a concert. Yep
(x) Taken painkillers. Yes
(x) Love someone or miss someone right now. Stu .. so far away ..
(x) Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by. Yep
( ) Made a snow angel. I don't think I ever have, but have taken photos of kids making them
(x) Had a tea party, pretend or otherwise. When I was a kid
(x) Flown a kite. Yeah but not in like 20 years
(x) Built a sand castle. Yeah, but again not in ages
( ) Gone puddle jumping. Over or into..? :)
(x) Played dress up. When I was little mum had some old clothes we could use
(x) Jumped into a pile of leaves. Probably, although huge piles of deciduous leaves aren't that easy to come by in Sydney
(x) Gone sledding. The funnest time was probably when we went to the snow when I was about 12 and we tobogganed on cafeteria trays :)
(x) Cheated while playing a game. On the very rare occasion I've maybe glanced at cards that haven't been held up properly.
(x) Been lonely. Too much of my life
( ) Fallen asleep at work/school. Nah
( ) Used a fake ID. Nah
(x) Watched the sun set. Yeah. I love sunsets.
(x) Felt an earthquake. Well technically I didn't *feel* the Newcastle earthquake, but I was in a newsagent and heard all the shelves rattle
(x) Slept beneath the stars. I had my head out of the tent one time in Central Australia. My brother slept outside that night. And then it rained.
(x) Been tickled. Yes, but thankfully I'm not as ticklish now as I used to be. And Campbell and Striker are much more ticklish :)
(x) Been robbed. My car once, and stuff from my car a couple of times, but not mugged
(x) Been misunderstood. Yeah
(x) Petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo OR jackalope. What's a jackalope? Have petted the others though
(x) Won a contest. Yeah but not many
(x) Run a red light/stop sign. I've occasionally gone through stop signs without coming to a complete stop. Especially the one at the end of my street that used to be a give way sign.
( ) Been suspended from school. Nope
(x) Been in a car crash?. I was in my parents new car when it was run up the back of, and with Luc once when he bumped into someone from behind. Oh yes, there was the time I broke a blinker light crashing into someone who I thought was going to make the turn but then they changed their mind and stopped again.
( ) Had braces. No
(x) Felt like an outcast/third person? Again, far too often
( ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night.No
(x) Had deja vu. Sure
(x) Had deja vu. .. :) (I liked Dave's responses of a glitch in the Matrix)
(x) Danced in the moonlight. Probably
(x) Liked the way you looked. Sometimes bits of me
(x) Witnessed a crime. I witness illegal activity all the time on the roads, some of that is probably criminal
(x) Questioned your heart. I guess so?
(x) Been obsessed with post-it notes. I have all these different colours...
(x) Squished mud through your bare feet. Yeah, but I prefer not to get dirty
(x) Been lost. Yeah
(x) Been on the opposite side of the country.Yep, went to Western Australia in 1984
(x) Swam in the ocean. Yes
(x) Felt like dying. Yes
(x) Cried yourself to sleep. Usually I run out of tears before I actually fall asleep. Have woken up with red eyes a few times though
(x) Played cops and robbers. Maybe
( ) Recently colored with crayons. Crayons.. not recently .. although coloured pencils I have...
(x) Sang karaoke. A couple of times
(x) Paid for a meal with only coins. Sure
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn�t. Yeah
( ) Made prank phone calls. Nah
( ) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose? Don't think so
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue. Yeah I think so
(x) Danced in the rain. Dunno.. maybe...
(x) Written a letter to Santa Claus. Not a formal letter, but we did ask him to deliver a present from our place to my great grandmother's place. Strangely enough he didn't and left a return note that Rudolph was too tired to make that extra trip.
( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe. Nah
(x) Watched the sun rise with someone you care about. Do my parents count..? heh
(x) Blown bubbles. Bubbles!!!! bubbles bubbles bubbles! My bubbles.
( ) Made a bonfire on the beach, at the lake. Don't think so
( ) Crashed a party. Nah
(x) Gone roller-skating. Yep, and rollerblading
(x) Had a wish come true. Probably
( ) Jumped off a bridge. No

So we went and saw Cars tonight. It was pretty good. It started to get a little slow in the middle and felt like it needed to *go* somewhere, but had a lot of humour and some exciting bits too. The funniest funniest bit was the tractor-tipping ;) And the dude that did the voice of Mack parodying himself and his role in Pixar films. Pixar's graphics are certainly improving too - the scenery and light reflecting stuff is just awesome now.

I kinda liked Jake's assessment of it - not the greatest Pixar film but that's like saying one of Beethoven's symphonies wasn't his greatest heh.

It was funny walking back out into the carpark afterwards and seeing all the cars, and half expecting them to be animated :)

Fairly productive day today. Went out for breakfast to Ascot Provisions - I was craving a cheese kransky. Except that I ended up with two kranskys, two eggs and some toast, and I didn't get through it all.. oops! Then went into town to do some shopping for Stu. He spent lots of money, but ended up with quite a few new clothes/shoes etc. Then came back and did a lot of tidying up around the flat. Tomorrow we get to do the really *fun* stuff - cleaning the oven, kitchen, bathroom and toilet.. :)

Bit of a blah day today. *stuff* just pissed me off.

Like people that *constantly* leave their chairs in the middle of the confined spaces of our office, so that I have to walk around them or push them out of the way *every single freaking time*. J's high and mighty solution: just push it out of the way and deal with it. Yeah good on you.

Or international phone lines that drop out so you can't hear what they're saying and you have to get them to repeat themselves constantly, with the added fun of two other people *right behind me* on their respective phones making trying to hear what's going on even more fun.

Or people that push in. I HATE people that push in. I hate selfish people. I hate people that don't give a damn about anyone else except themselves.

The new office arrangements are really stressing me out. I don't know how much longer it's going to be before I crack :/

Yay. Fun. I'm going to bed now.

Ever notice how "road trips" filmed in the US always show the scenic routes? Little back-country highways and the like. They never seem to show the rather boring I-number interstates (although some of those are pretty cool to drive on).

Then there was something about clutch starts. I haven't done one of those in years. I used to do them all the time when living at home and driving "red car" (a Datto 120-Y). You'd start the reverse out of the garage and then it would stall. So you'd roll the rest of the way out of the garage and begin the down hill of the driveway, and part way down you'd clutch start it in reverse. Fun stuff. Now I drive a car that just doesn't stall like that and I'm out of practise.

And there was something else I thought of while watching The Karate Kid tonight, but my brain didn't register it for long enough to write it down.

Oh well :)

Have I ever mentioned I rather like Stu? :):)

Ich is back in the big tank. The last remaining catfish looks a bit sad :( Will try and treat the tank or just him this weekend.

The baby kribs at work all got eaten within a few days. I should probably try and separate them next time..

Expecting big mama guppy at work to pop again in a few days.

Got a funky blue bubble light for the Macquarium, but it doesn't like the tank enough and bubbles violently which would be stressful for a betta in such a small tank. So will rethink the whole thing - perhaps put the blue light in the krib/guppy tank and get something else for the macquarium. One idea might be a rope light running all over the back of the tank which I saw done on one site. Someone else had made up an led "lid" which illuminated the tank really well with no external attachments.

Bit sad about the catfish still.

Current inventory of fish:

Tank 1
* two three-year old angels
* one three-year old glass catfish

Tank 2
* three pretty big corys
* four neon tetras

Baby Krib Tank
* six juvenile kribs

Tank "5"
* one yellow cichlid - probably Metriaclima barlowi ("Fred")
* one huge catfish ("George")

Work Tank
* twenty one (at last count a while back) kribs, some at breeding age
* two parent guppys
* ten four-month old juvenile guppys from original parents
* nine one-month old baby guppys from original parents

Work Bowl
* two of the four-month old guppys I think might be almost ready to breed
* five three month old blonde guppys I got off Stu in January

Got off to a bit of a slow start. Caught up on some blogs. Talked to Stu for a little bit. Went to the fish shop to trade up for a bigger gravel vac and get the bits of the underwater light that were missing. Came home and did a bit of sorting of stuff to get rid of on Freecycle. Ran out of steam late afternoon and felt a bit flat cause hadn't had a chance to talk to Stu all afternoon. Went to the parents for dinner, then got smsed/called from Ric and Campbell wondering where I was - turned out Campbell was having a farewell after all, but somehow I'd missed out on an invite :(

So wandered along to that, and it turned out to be a really nice night. Met Zara who has gotten herself into an even harder long-distance relationship - with a girl in London - and I thought *I* had it bad! Jess also showed me her extremelly funky handiwork with a GPS, a laptop and Google Earth. The gps outputs a csv to her laptop, and she's written an app that takes that and outputs it into a format that Google Earth can read, and she has a kml file that loads other kml files that have custom refresh rates that load the data from a cut-down web server on her computer so they come into Google earth every few seconds as network locations. But bottom line is, she can do traces of her travelling overlaid on google earth, so accurately you can see roundabouts and even which lane she was in when the data was recorded. And it shows how close google earth pictures are to their correct locations :) Way way way cool :) She's a much better geek than I am :)

I also managed to get Di and Daniel to play lots with my camera, so should have lots of fun photos, which I'll download tomorrow.. er.. later today :)