So went to work today. Got done what I wanted to do (I think). Although dcdiag showed some strange things I have to look into.

Jodi told me I should have stayed home. She will be most put out if she gets sick for her long weekend away. As will Sarah and Craig.....

Then had an impromptu farewell for Campbell tonight. He is leaving for England on Saturday. We all hope. :) If not there'll be a bunch of us dragging him kicking and screaming to the airport and putting him on a plane.. heh

Anyways..

adsl is back *finally* (well I had the borrowed modem for a week and half, but that only allowed one computer to connect to the net, my modem lets me connect all of them and my netphone). So I'm most pleased about that :)

Had to go back to work today. A thoroughly depressing thought after such a lovely weekend. But instead of reading, I decided to *do*.. and setup a little active directory domain on some old computers, with dhcp and everything. Tomorrow I will turn on firewalls and watch to see what breaks..... heh

Came home and got a few bits and pieces done, although not any unpacking, which was the only thing I actually had planned to do tonight. Oops. But I did get last week's washing put away, does that count..? :)

Am feeling like I'm having an immune response. Lots of sick people at work. Worried I'm coming down with something. Took a C/echinacea/Zinc/Garlic tablet and will have some more tomorrow... and an early night tonight....

I swear weekends aren't long enough.

Had another lovely day today. Slept late. Had brekky followed by lunch not too long after. Got lots of tidying done. Watched Lost in Translation on dvd. Went to Scott and Kerry's. Had the most amazing slow-cooked roast pork (and a plum sauce I made from scratch from very overripe plums). Watched some Star Trek. And tried the limited edition Baileys with mint, which tastes just like when I make it with Creme de Menthe heh :)

And sadly yet another weekend comes to an end. Don't wanna go to work tomorrow *bwwwwaaaahhhh*

Because I don't seem to be having much of it lately ... As stolen from Dave

1. How old do you wish you were? I dunno.. 29?
2. Where were you when 9/11 happened? I was at CIA. Gamera was having a bad disk night, and I needed to kick the machine. Marc was there and he was chatting to people who told him about it. We found the first pictures on the BBC website. I then went home and stayed up til 3am watching the coverage.
3. What do you do when vending machines steal your money? It's only ever happened to me once (I rarely use vending machines, maybe this is why). I didn't think the $2 or whatever it was was worth the hassle of chasing it
4. Do you consider yourself kind? No
5. If you had to get a tattoo, where and what would it be? It'd probably be something cute, like a flower, and somewhere inconspicuous
6. If you could be fluent in any other language what would it be? Maybe French or German
7. Do you know your neighbors? Not really, except in passing in the corridors
8. What do you consider a vacation? Going somewhere exciting and taking lots of photos
9. Do you follow your horoscope? No
10. Would you move for the person you loved? Yes
11. Are you touchy feely? To some extent, moreso with people I like
12. Do you believe that opposites attract? Sure
13. Dream job? Pilot
14. Favorite channels? um.. 9?
15. Favorite place to go on a weekend? Stu's place :)
16. Showers or Bath? Shower
17. Do you paint your nails? Sometimes
18. Do you trust people easily? Yes and no. Yes in that I take what people say as the truth, and so hence am quite gullible, but I don't open up to people easily
19. What are your phobias? Don't really have any
20. Do you want kids? No
21. Do you keep a handwritten journal? Nah, I hate writing longhand
22. Where would you rather be right now? With Stu
23. What makes you feel warm and safe? Stu
24. Heavy or light sleep? Fairly light
25. Are you paranoid? Yeah somewhat
26. Are you impatient? Yes
27. Who can you relate to? A few years ago it was Ally McBeal heh
28. How do you feel about interracial couples? No different to "same race" couples
29. Have you been burned by love? Not really
30. Whats ur life motto? Live long and prosper
31. What's your main ringtone on your mobile? The Harry Potter theme. But it's too subtle when I'm out of the office and I don't hear it, so been thinking about using something else, most likely by John Williams
32. What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping
33. Who was your last text message from? Stu
34. Who's bed did you sleep in last night? My own
35. What color shirt are you wearing? Teal
36. Most recent movie you watched? Pirates of the Caribbean, it was lots of fun
37. Name five things you have on you at all times? Blackberry, memory schtick, keys, swipe card, glasses
38. What color are your bed sheets? Blue at the moment
39. How much cash do you have on you right now? $10.80 in my purse right now
40. What is your favorite part of chicken? Drumstick
41. What's your favorite town/city? Sydney, although New York was a lot of fun (pre 9/11 at least, haven't been back since)
42. I cant wait till... tomorrow night when I'll be with Stu
43. Who got you to join MySpace? I never joined myspace...
44. What did you have for dinner last night? Leftover pepperoni pizza mmmmmmm
45. How tall are you barefoot? Dunno, about 5'1" I think
46. Have you ever smoked crack? No
47. Do you own a gun? No
48. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Orange juice
49. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex? er, I don't have one
50. Do you have A.D.D.? Don't think so
51. What time did you wake up today? ~6:20. Then decided to turn my alarm off and sleep til whenever, which happened to be about 7:05
52. Current worry? The thought of leaving my job
53. Current hate? People that push in and don't indicate properly
54. Favorite place to be? With Stu wherever he is. Lord Howe Island would be nice
55. Where would you like to travel? Europe and the eastern half of the US
56. Where do you think you'll be in 10 yrs? Canberra most likely
57. Last thing you ate? Leftover beef stew
58. What songs do you sing in the shower? I don't sing in the shower (unless the radio/cd happened to be up loud enough for me to hear it, which it never is)
59. Last person that made you laugh? Dunno.. someone at work maybe
60. Worst injury you've ever had? Broken metatarsal
61. Does someone have a crush on you? Dunno
62. What is your favorite candy? Mint chocolate perhaps

Well they did actually decide there was a problem with my connection and Marc very kindly had a look at it, but no progress yet.

Got quite a bit of stuff done this weekend, most importantly finally htmlifying my USA photos (yes, two years on). There's just a few more bits and pieces I want to do before I finally upload everything.

I think the kribs may have died from the new heater I put in - I noticed when I was clearing the tank out that the rubber was very slimy. Maybe something leftover from the manufacturing process killed them.. :(

Also, after replacing the network card in my puta, it was still only able to go at 10mbs, so I'm pretty convinced it's the cable. When I get the urge I'll run another one round to the switch and see how it goes.

Now just waiting for me boy to get home so I can talk to him and go to bed....

Well I *was* winning tonight. Picked up the car from its servicing, and it was a cheap one. Then had some nice lamb leftovers from mum's party for dinner. Then Diana came over and we were going to go walking, but it was raining, so we played games instead. I won all three games of Rummytiles, probably won both games of Take Two, and even won the game of 500 with Diana against the parents.

So it was all good.

Then I remembered I'd forgotten to tape Veronica Mars. doh.

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Gosh, it's been a while since I've blogged (a whole four days heh).

Let's see. Friday night the boy arrived in Sydney which was lovely - three weekends in a row - woot!

Friday was also me mum's birthday, so Saturday was her birthday party. Dave, Stu and I were the only people there under the age of about 55, so that was a little .. er.. heh :) But I was assigned task of official photographer, so ran round taking photos of stuff. Mum got a caterer in at Yvonne's suggestion, and that worked really well. The caterer was really nice too, even giving Dave and me offcuts of the end bits of the roasts and the bones to pick at :):) Coolfullness :) Mum did this quiz thing where she wrote a whole stack of questions and everyone had to try and answer them. I think I probably got more right than anyone, but I wasn't scoring cause I really didn't care heh. The prize was a bag of jaffas that went straight into a bowl and got shared around :)

After the party we went shopping and got Stu a new battery for his phone and a coffee and some bits and pieces from Big W, and went and looked at the fish shop at all the cichlids. Then we came home and crashed and ordered pizza - bacon and cheese burst crust - evil!! :) Definitely ate too much though, and ached the rest of the night.. oops...

Today was a complete morning off. Slept in, and just pottered around the house. I patched servers while Stu read his css book. Had two computers setup in the study so we can work on one each which was cool. Then I did some more fish stuff - moved Fred and George into the study, so now I have all my fish in here.

Will probably be going to play a game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit later.....

Had to come home today :(

My car this morning was like a freezer that's been left too long without a defrost. Except all the ice was on the outside. My poor little car has never been in a frost like that, at least not while I've had it. I scraped away what I could with just my fingernails before I watered it down, only to realise later up the highway that my fingernails have apparently scratched the windscreen ?!?!? I've yet to rub it to see if it's just perhaps a scratch in a later of oil or something. I know plastic scourers scratch windscreens, but I'll be a tad put out if the scratches are permanent :( Does anyone know of a way to reduce the look of the scratches?

Day was ok. Firewalled the file server with seemingly no apparent side-effects.

Bit of a blah night. The neighbour's pipes above my garage are leaking again. Four litres of goodness knows which sewage water dripped into my garage over the weekend. Emptied out the container but got it all over me in the process, and then the tap out the back which needs a new washer had been turned off so hard I couldn't turn it on. So ewwwww.

And then sat down to watch Survivor but realised I haven't actually seen last week's episode yet.

*sigh*

Only three days to go........

So this morning we slept in. Again. :) Meandered out of bed eventually and got ready eventually, and got out the door at something like 2pm :)

Headed out to Wee Jasper for a drive. Got out to Carey's Cave around 4pm. Unfortunately you can't go into the caves except on a tour, which had been finished for the day, and we didn't have enough money anyway when the dude offered to take us in anyway heh. So we said maybe next time. Meandered back to Yass for a lovely Indian-style dinner at Annie and Stu's.

Some photos from the weekend....

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With the boy tonight :):):) yayyyy.. This two weekends in a row thing does it for me :)

Decided to leave after peak hour tonight to avoid the long weekend escape. Well that theory was ruined by someone that rolled their car. And brought the M5 to a standstill. *sigh*

But got here eventually and Stu was watching Return of the Jedi on dvd. Every time I watch these movies I find more things to pick on. Sometimes when I commented on something, Stu would say it was based on a true story, heh :) Silly really. :) (ok so you probably had to be there :) )

And this won't mean anything to anyone else, but was listening to Saint-Saens Symphony Number 3 in the car and my favouritest bit of it came on just as I came over the hill on Horse Park Drive that has a view of the north of Canberra and Black Mountain Tower.. It was very *very* cool, for me at least :)