Borrowed a telly off the parents on Monday night. Tonight my old telly decided to start working again. Yay. An intermittent problem. Nearly impossible to fix. It did the same thing a few months ago for about a minute. This time it was longer, but it could be months before it happens again.

Then I had a headlight that had died. And then it decided to start working again. What's with that?? When light bulbs die, they die, they don't come back to life. Unless is some odd electrical fault.

The netphone is still dead. The netphone dude I talked to suggested all the troubleshooting I'd tried, and then said to send it in and they'd swap it out. Yay.

And I think I'm getting a cold sore. Yay.

One thing I forgot to mention yesterday (duhhhh) is that my mama guppy gave birth again yesterday. This time I was ready and actually caught her in the act. I actually saw one of her babies being born!! I was excited :)

I think she must be getting old, because there were only five babies this time, and the rest were unfertilised/unviable eggs. So that's a little sad. But all her sons and daughters are nearly at breeding age, so that could make things interesting :)

Watching the finale of the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony. The event that is going to cause a week of anguish to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people in four states. Was it worth it? Ask everyone affected at the end of this week. James suggested it would have been better to delay the change by one day, not one week. Then only Sunday appointments would have been affected.

*sigh*

Got the petunias pruned, and another four hours of Looney Tunes cartoons recorded to dvd. And watched the directors commentary of A Bug's Life....

HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAH John Farnham forgot the words to You're The Voice!!!! HAHAHHAHAHAAH /me ROTFLMAO

... but didn't get the vacuuming done.. oh well ..
oh and cooked up lots of chicken wings. And then spent 40 minutes scraping all the marinade and goop off the baking dishes.

Oh that John Farnham goof cracks me up. I don't know that I've ever ranted about him on this blog. I really like his music, but he comes across as a Melbourne Snob, and charges international-act prices to his Australian concerts. I wanted to see him in ~91 and then again recently, but both times they cost what and international act would, and I thought "well stuff him".

Well I'm off to bed to talk to my boy.. nite!

Have been doing a bit of walking lately. Not a huge amount, just enough to get the heart going a little bit of an evening. At the moment heading out in different directions for 15 minutes and then coming back. Can get a to few significant points in those 15 minutes. So now I have several 30 minute walks around "the block" that I can do.

Trying to get my life into some sort of order/routine.

Life changing day today - Stu got offered a job in Canberra! It's all very exciting and scary, although more scary for Stu I think!

We were talking about this the other night and Stu said how much his life had changed because of me, and the impact of it hit me like a tonne of bricks. It was like, up until this point if anything happened to our relationship we could just go back to our lives and really things wouldn't be any different (glossing over any pain involved of course). But Stu changing his job, his house, his city, his *life* and moving to be closer to me still spins me out. It's like, there's this committment from him to our relationship, and it's now up to me not to screw up my end of things. I feel like we're now committed for life, and I'm pretty happy/excited/a little scared about that :)

Of course there's still a long way to go before we even have a chance of living together, but at least we'll be able to see each other every other weekend, which will be very nice indeed :):)

Tagged by CC, also seen on Blogography (and probably elsewhere that I haven't caught up with yet :) )

Four jobs you've had in your life:

1. packer of pies at Loftus Pies
   
2. answerer of phones at ozemail
   
3. answerer of phones at cia
   
4. babysitter of servers at uni
   

Four movies you could watch over and over again (not to be confused with favourite movies):

1. Peter Pan
   
2. The Princess Bride
   
3. The Hunt for Red October
   
4. The Sound of Music
   

Four TV shows you love(d) to watch (among many others):

1. MacGyver
   
2. Airwolf
   
3. The Mole
   
4. The Amazing Race
   

Four places you've lived:

1. here
   
2. marrickville
   
3. my parents
   
4. nowhere else really
   

Four places you've been on vacation to:

1. USA (x3)
   
2. Canada
   
3. Lots of Australia in lots of holidays
   
4. New Zealand (when I was 18 months old)
   

Four places you would rather be (or where you'll like to visit?):

1. Austria/Switzerland
   
2. The rest of Europe
   
3. East half of USA
   
4. Lord Howe Island
   

Four of your favourite foods:

1. roast pork
   
2. peppermint chocolate
   
3. potato crisps
   
4. roast chicken
   

Four websites you visit daily:

1. tv guide
   
2. weather pixie (via active desktop and my pixie page)
   
3. kazza.cia.com.au (as my default page on my browser)
   
4. google
   

Four tagged:
I don't tag people. It's a policy. :)

So after not getting to sleep for ages last night I got woken up at 1:30 by a whole stack of pages in a row. Most of my servers were down. At first I thought something had freaked out the UPSes and they'd all shut down in error. But I looked more closely at the logs of the servers that I *could* reach. Sure enough "UPS on battery" on the ones connected with smart signalling cables. So power had gone out in just one section of the building. Checked with Jim what we should do. Decided to just go in early in the morning to turn everything back on. Watched as the upses drained themselves and turned the servers off, then went back to bed.

Woke up at 5:15. Looked at the two machines that aren't connected by serial cables to upses. They were still up. I assumed that the power had been restored before their ups died, so I got ready and went into work.

Total blackness. Everything was still dead. Even the machines that I'd checked before I left - their ups lasted over four hours!!

Sigh.

So called security who got onto the contractors who eventually came out. Watched them as they flicked some very big switches - so big they needed to use a metal bar wedged in them to turn them. Very cool. Seems that some big device in the building took out the earth leakage circuit for the whole section of the building. Yay. So power was out for most of the night. Hope people's freezers didn't warm up too much. Kicking myself I didn't call security at 1:30. But I blame only two hours sleep and not thinking straight on that one.

But the coolest thing is, all of the servers I connected up with their serial cables on Friday shut themselves down nicely. Still a couple of little issues to work out, but it was a good real-life test of the shutdown system.

I'm *very* sleepie now.

His links of the week the other day had a link to this which had a link to this, which just took away four hours of my life dammit!! ;)

This was a first attempt seeing what things actually did. I spent several hours mucking about with this. Entirely tragic.

Drove the longest drive of my life today. Well I've been on drives of equivalent length before, but always as a passenger or co-driver, never by myself. ~970km in 12.5 hours, including a couple of brief stops.

Gosh it was a long day. Started at 8am Brisbane time, which was actually 9am real time (doh). Two and a half tanks of petrol (~$75 worth I guess).

The first half was pretty disgusting. Lots of roadworks, lots of rain (bucketloads), lots of really sllooowwwwww people. Single lane road most of the way with overtaking lanes few and far between. And the road clogged with butthead drivers who would drive 10-30km/hr under the speed limit when you couldn't pass them, but then would speed up to the speed limit at the overtaking lanes so you couldn't get past. It was infurating. One beemer driver was sitting at 90 in a 100 zone, until the overtaking lane where he sped up to 110 so I couldn't get past. Bastard.

After Taree the road was mostly dual carriageway and a lot less traffic, plus the sun was going down, so it was positively pleasant driving conditions.

I also foiled my body's post-lunch slump by only feeding it a salad for lunch. Normally I collapse after the sugar high runs out, but without any sugar there was no such high/low. So it was all good. Meant I didn't really get tired til near the end of the trip.

Fish and plants mostly survived. Had a few fish losses and the tetra tank is very sad, as is the baby krib tank. Might get up early and do some emergency maintenance. But for now it's time to collapse into bed.