Today was quite relaxed. Slept in a bit, just generally hung around. Started playing Roborally until Ralph and Ali and the kids came over. Played a bit of eco Fluxx and then had lunch (leftover lamb roast and potato with cheese on a roll).
After lunch finally left Sydney and dropped in to visit David and Yvonne. Saw some random photos from their Romania holiday and the Unanderra derailment. So that was all very pleasant.
Then finally came home, getting home just on dinner time. Used a big pile of Lizzi's tomatoes for a pasta sauce, was very nice.
And so that was my weekend. It turned out to be a very nice, if very hot and humid weekend. I don't think Stu could have dealt with it - it was people the entire time. And not his people (his people are more ok than my people). But anyway.
As per usual I don't want to go to work tomorrow...
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Yesterday morning was pretty slow. Slept in, washed my hair, read some news feeds etc.
A bit before lunch headed into Hornsby where I met up with Daniel and Fee for lunch. Wandered around til we found a cafe (Blu) and got lunch there. I had a melt which wasn't bad, but probably not worth $13. So chatted for a while and then wandered around the games shops in the shopping centre. All in all a very pleasant couple of hours.
Then headed down to Rhodes where I fought the hordes trying to find parking :( (This after not paying attention to my own golden rule - never go to Rhodes/Ikea on a weekend!!). Seriously, parking at Rhodes shopping centre SUX!!!! There's just too many people going there and not enough parking. I don't know what on earth possessed Ikea to shut down their other Sydney stores, but I'm sure it's a dumb decision. I didn't even consider buying anything because it was just too hot and stressful to even think about getting anything back to the car. My poor little car was overheating too, which meant I couldn't have the aircon on while looking for parking. *sigh*
Anyways, headed back to J&G's and jumped in their pool (which was 32C! eep!). Still, it was still nice to clean off somewhat.
George cooked a very nomm roast dinner, and later we watched Mythbusters and then played Carcassonne (Ark of the Covenant edition (which I won by like 39 points or something)) and a few games of Fluxx. I quite like Fluxx it's a fun game and you don't get too hung up about winning strategies (because the goal of the game keeps changing). You win pretty much by luck only, which makes it just kinda fun.
Didn't sleep quite as well last night, but not too badly.
So yesterday I got ready then hopped in the car and drove to Sydney. Stopping once for petrol and once for morning tea and a toiley break at Maccas in Goulburn. Passed a sneaky speed camera trap parked in bushes just over a rise. Checked my speed and it was pretty much exactly 110, phew :)
Got to my old work at lunch time to find they had already wandered up the road without me :( But at least they hadn't ordered. Got a caesar salad thinking it'd be lighter than my usual chicken kiev but it still filled me up heaps!! Wandered back to the office to discover really not much as changed. Stuff that's been in the same places for years was all still there! The server room was pretty much unchanged. More clutter in there, a few new servers, and a few servers that had been turned off. The biggest change was all the new people heh. Stacks of new people there, scary.
Hung around there for a bit, then wandered out to Paramatta to see the new cia offices. Pretty swishy! Although parking there sucks :(
Left with Kirk and we wandered back to Ric's place. Had a beer there before going for a walk to the Italian Forum, going to Caesars for dinner.
I had a mushroom pasta thing (pappardelle alla funghi or something) which was quite yummy, but unfortunately I was still full from lunch, so didn't feel like eating it :( Ric got a marinara and Kirk got a meat platter. Was all pretty good. Stayed chatting for a while before we wandered back to Ric's and then I left.
Survived the Warringah Expressway (I really hate that bit of road, you never know what lane to be in and constantly have to change lanes to keep on going straight ahead :( ), and arrived at James and George's a bit before midnight. Chatted for a bit before collapsing into bed. Can't believe how solidly I slept - closed my eyes and it was night, opened them and it was morning. Have no memories of being awake in the night at all. Pretty cool :)
The '/" key on this laptop is broken - very distressing!! :(
Got to my old work at lunch time to find they had already wandered up the road without me :( But at least they hadn't ordered. Got a caesar salad thinking it'd be lighter than my usual chicken kiev but it still filled me up heaps!! Wandered back to the office to discover really not much as changed. Stuff that's been in the same places for years was all still there! The server room was pretty much unchanged. More clutter in there, a few new servers, and a few servers that had been turned off. The biggest change was all the new people heh. Stacks of new people there, scary.
Hung around there for a bit, then wandered out to Paramatta to see the new cia offices. Pretty swishy! Although parking there sucks :(
Left with Kirk and we wandered back to Ric's place. Had a beer there before going for a walk to the Italian Forum, going to Caesars for dinner.
I had a mushroom pasta thing (pappardelle alla funghi or something) which was quite yummy, but unfortunately I was still full from lunch, so didn't feel like eating it :( Ric got a marinara and Kirk got a meat platter. Was all pretty good. Stayed chatting for a while before we wandered back to Ric's and then I left.
Survived the Warringah Expressway (I really hate that bit of road, you never know what lane to be in and constantly have to change lanes to keep on going straight ahead :( ), and arrived at James and George's a bit before midnight. Chatted for a bit before collapsing into bed. Can't believe how solidly I slept - closed my eyes and it was night, opened them and it was morning. Have no memories of being awake in the night at all. Pretty cool :)
The '/" key on this laptop is broken - very distressing!! :(
Why do I keep finding out about people who have died from Dave...?
It was hot yesterday. It was hot all night. It was hot all day.
Didn't notice much today until I left the office and got home. Then sweltered all night :/
Was meant to be going ice skating tonight, but somebody piked which led to a chain of cancellations, so was going to be like two people left going. So didn't go.
Didn't notice much today until I left the office and got home. Then sweltered all night :/
Was meant to be going ice skating tonight, but somebody piked which led to a chain of cancellations, so was going to be like two people left going. So didn't go.
Seems like forever ago...
New Years Eve was also quite a quiet day, altho I did manage to get some "housy" stuff done during the day. The boys pulled out the Hills Hoist and netball hoop, and I cleaned the puddle and cooked up a chicken roast. The plan was to eat lots, drink lots and sing lots. But after dinner there was some disagreement over what Singstar songs should be sung. ie, David didn't want to do any Abba and I wasn't very interested in the remainder of the songs that kept coming up. So things degenerated quickly and in a moment of grumpiness and hesitation I went to the toily (cause I really needed to go) and people got upset and stormed off and it was all a big disaster. While they were gone, I did the washing up, and Stu suggested we watch The Living Daylights and I thought that was a good idea. So we watched that, even tho the digital restoration of the film makes it look like it was recorded on video tape not film. It's eerily clear and clean and not like a film movie at all. But the been-theres at Schonnbrunn and the ferris wheel were too cool. C&D came back and we watched the new year in with the Sydney fireworks. I still miss Sydney :/ and then watched the end of the movie before wandering off to bed.
New Years day I woke up depressed and so it was a bit of a slow day. We actually just sat around for quite a while just chatting and not doing much. Got some stuff done with my blog, updating some bits and pieces with it. Eventually it was time for C&D to leave, so we took them to the airport. It really was nice to have them here.. They're "low maintenance" and easy to get along with.
So we got home and I declared it beer o'clock and proceeded to make up for the previous night's lost time. Nat and Andrew came over, and we started playing Zombies!!! while waiting for pizza to arrive. Except we waited like an hour and it still didn't arrive. Yet again our local Dominos stuffed up, this time claiming not to have received our internet order. At least we did get a $17 cash back when at last our pizza did arrive. I think I actually won the game in the end, but only because everyone else cleared a path through the zombie dogs for me! We had Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on in the background (because the doctor is in it), and at the end I feel asleep and apparently started snoring and they all made fun of me :( Yet another very late night...
This morning had maccas for breakfast (it was a hangover breakfast kind of a day) and went into work for a bit. Stu had lunch with me which was lovely. Bought a new UV filter and had ice cream with Annie & co. Came home pretty early and had a swim and did some bits and pieces round the house. We watched A View to a Kill at my insistance and I rather enjoyed it :) It has the same "video" feel to it as The Living Daylights did. Very odd.
So that's about it. And now for my first early night in a week :)
New Years Eve was also quite a quiet day, altho I did manage to get some "housy" stuff done during the day. The boys pulled out the Hills Hoist and netball hoop, and I cleaned the puddle and cooked up a chicken roast. The plan was to eat lots, drink lots and sing lots. But after dinner there was some disagreement over what Singstar songs should be sung. ie, David didn't want to do any Abba and I wasn't very interested in the remainder of the songs that kept coming up. So things degenerated quickly and in a moment of grumpiness and hesitation I went to the toily (cause I really needed to go) and people got upset and stormed off and it was all a big disaster. While they were gone, I did the washing up, and Stu suggested we watch The Living Daylights and I thought that was a good idea. So we watched that, even tho the digital restoration of the film makes it look like it was recorded on video tape not film. It's eerily clear and clean and not like a film movie at all. But the been-theres at Schonnbrunn and the ferris wheel were too cool. C&D came back and we watched the new year in with the Sydney fireworks. I still miss Sydney :/ and then watched the end of the movie before wandering off to bed.
New Years day I woke up depressed and so it was a bit of a slow day. We actually just sat around for quite a while just chatting and not doing much. Got some stuff done with my blog, updating some bits and pieces with it. Eventually it was time for C&D to leave, so we took them to the airport. It really was nice to have them here.. They're "low maintenance" and easy to get along with.
So we got home and I declared it beer o'clock and proceeded to make up for the previous night's lost time. Nat and Andrew came over, and we started playing Zombies!!! while waiting for pizza to arrive. Except we waited like an hour and it still didn't arrive. Yet again our local Dominos stuffed up, this time claiming not to have received our internet order. At least we did get a $17 cash back when at last our pizza did arrive. I think I actually won the game in the end, but only because everyone else cleared a path through the zombie dogs for me! We had Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on in the background (because the doctor is in it), and at the end I feel asleep and apparently started snoring and they all made fun of me :( Yet another very late night...
This morning had maccas for breakfast (it was a hangover breakfast kind of a day) and went into work for a bit. Stu had lunch with me which was lovely. Bought a new UV filter and had ice cream with Annie & co. Came home pretty early and had a swim and did some bits and pieces round the house. We watched A View to a Kill at my insistance and I rather enjoyed it :) It has the same "video" feel to it as The Living Daylights did. Very odd.
So that's about it. And now for my first early night in a week :)
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
Chay and David have been here for two days now, and as such I've barely been at my computer.
So when I log on this morning and see comments about evicting people and complaining about lack of feedback, I get pretty pissed off.
Might blog properly later.
So when I log on this morning and see comments about evicting people and complaining about lack of feedback, I get pretty pissed off.
Might blog properly later.
Had Jeff and Ruth over for dinner tonight. We thought they were going to bring takeaway, but they didn't, so we ended up scrounging up some pasta and sauce for dinner. They did bring some champagne tho so that was nice.
After dinner (and after Stu fixed up their mail and address books) we showed them the "highlights" of the honeymoon photos, which they quite enjoyed. Reminds me I have to really redo the first half of the highlights, which were done by selecting photos from thumbnails, which didn't always pick the best of the batches.
Today was supposed to be a quiet day at work catching up on stuff that's been hanging around too long. Instead I had to fix a bunch of problems. There ought to be a law against people building systems and releasing them into production, then immediately going on leave. *sigh*
And who said it could be a mere 11C tonight? It's summer for heavens' sake!! :)
After dinner (and after Stu fixed up their mail and address books) we showed them the "highlights" of the honeymoon photos, which they quite enjoyed. Reminds me I have to really redo the first half of the highlights, which were done by selecting photos from thumbnails, which didn't always pick the best of the batches.
Today was supposed to be a quiet day at work catching up on stuff that's been hanging around too long. Instead I had to fix a bunch of problems. There ought to be a law against people building systems and releasing them into production, then immediately going on leave. *sigh*
And who said it could be a mere 11C tonight? It's summer for heavens' sake!! :)
Well I didn't think I'd do any good but for some weird reason I came third in our first game and first in our second game!! I mean seriously! This is me we're talking about.. someone who can't even find the lounge room door key to go out and turn the Christmas lights on outside. But me doing semi ok at laser zone??? Inconceivable!!
Then after that everyone came back here for eating and drinking and being merry and it was all very fun, but I still can't find that door key which leads to alcohol crash and I just want to go to bed now and work sucks and I can't make things work and CH made some stuff work but I don't know if the rest of it is working and if it's not I'm going to be very depressed tomorrow because this was supposed to be working yesterday but I'm epic fail and it was so stressful getting home from work so late and then having to clean the house and then go shopping but I think I slept mostly ok certainly better than the night before last but I still don't want to go to work tomorrow and I'll have to copy logs and chase people and it's making me depressed just thinking about it and I'm rather thirsty and the place is a little bit of a mess from having lots of people over but not too much cause we used paper plates etc but even so it's messy and I think I might just go to bed soon...
Then after that everyone came back here for eating and drinking and being merry and it was all very fun, but I still can't find that door key which leads to alcohol crash and I just want to go to bed now and work sucks and I can't make things work and CH made some stuff work but I don't know if the rest of it is working and if it's not I'm going to be very depressed tomorrow because this was supposed to be working yesterday but I'm epic fail and it was so stressful getting home from work so late and then having to clean the house and then go shopping but I think I slept mostly ok certainly better than the night before last but I still don't want to go to work tomorrow and I'll have to copy logs and chase people and it's making me depressed just thinking about it and I'm rather thirsty and the place is a little bit of a mess from having lots of people over but not too much cause we used paper plates etc but even so it's messy and I think I might just go to bed soon...