Dave's Artificial Duck Shop is now online! Just now in fact!
Now if I didn't have to wait on two other people, I could have gone and bought something...
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just some thoughts :)
Back to work today. Didn't really want to be there. Managed to achieve crap-all today. That is, achieved stuff but it was pretty much all crap - like creating purchase orders and teaching other people how to do them.
Really need to do some brain-dumping of the crap in my head, except most of what I do is likely to be redundant in a year, and noone will ever read it anyhow. Still, I suppose the process is good practise, and will be nice to have a record of everything.
Trying to be more organised at home. Working on lists and trying to work through them. Still sooooooo much to do. Flylady would say 15 minutes at a time. Just need to have lists of things that I can actually *do* in 15 minutes, as opposed to projects I feel like I need to dedicate hours at a time to ....
Had another slow start. Was gonna visit my cousin but decided it was all too hard. So just said goodbye to various people, then meandered home. Came down Thunderbolts Way for something different to do. It was a reasonably nice way to go, quite scenic, but the road quality isn't that great, and you wouldn't want to get stuck behind someone slow. We had lunch at Gloucester, and stopped at various Stu churches and residences in the Hunter Valley. Had KFC in East Maitland for dinner and got home around 8:30. Funnily enough it feels a lot later.
According to the trip meter, we did 2400 km in the car, Stu will add another 600km for his parts to Canberra. Craziness!
Photos Day 9
Purple monkey dishwasher
Cowsies on the road
Did I mention that the New England is pretty this time of year?
Bird on a wire at Nowendoc
Skink on Carson Memorial Lookout
Barrington Tops from Carson Memorial Lookout
Camels!
Church at Martin's Creek
Turnstiles at the church in Vacy
Stu seeing if he can get into the church at Paterson
Crossing the Hunter River into Morpeth
At the college in Morpeth
I've become a Google Whore. I now have Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Reader open constantly, regularly use Google Earth and Google Maps, sometimes use Google Groups, and play with Google Sketchup.
Gmail and/or Google Calendar have massive memory leaks though. After leaving them open for any length of time, memory usage for the browser climbs and climbs until my puta grinds to a halt. It seems to be a problem in both IE and Firefox. I suppose the alternative is to reload the browser every so often, but that's a pain in the butt at the best of times. Hopefully someone will fix it.
I've also been using the Google news reader for a week or two. It worked really well last weekend, and was able to keep up with my news feeds from Stu's place. (SH - you *can* UNmark an item as read - just untick the "Mark as read" box.. seems to work ok for me anyway). The biggest problem with it is with people that don't have full feeds, or have badly formatted full feeds (Delmer this means you). To read the entry you have to click on the link to read the article at its source. Which opens up a new browser window which is messy. I prefer how FeedReader does it by opening the article within the frame.
Does anyone know why some Blogspot feeds have the full feed and others just have the beginning/abstract?
At the moment I'm thinking I might try and use the Google Reader for most stuff, and keep using Feedreader for people with messy feeds...
I know there's a lot of people out there that feel passionately about Daylight Savings (usually the ones that hate it and think it should be abolished). I for one wish it went for longer (or even all the time). Yes I hate getting up in the dark in winter. But I hate getting home in the dark even more. Once it gets dark at home *nothing* gets done. I only get stuff done around the house when it's light. Once it gets dark I just sit at my computer. And I don't want to go out for a walk when it gets dark either.
Feeling a bit down.
Gosh Friday night feels like such a long time ago. Had my last full daylight drive to Canberra, and was stunned at how green the countryside is at the moment.
We had beer and sweet chili and sour cream potato chips for dinner .. naughty .. :) Watched some telly and ended up watching Ella Enchanted.
Saturday morning went out to Gold Creek Village to Cafe Injoy with A&S and the kids and had their all day breakfast, which was delicious
Then went across the road and caused a koi feeding frenzy
And the ducks wanted in as well, but one duck decided the whole pond was his and was chasing all the others away.
We all headed out to Belconnen to go to the fresh food market. The kids played in the giant mushroom, and the Stus found a sign that caused them great amusement
This amused me too
S&K&J came by in the arvo too which was nice.
For dinner we went to Pulp Kitchen in Ainslie for their six week dry aged sirloin, which was yummiferous, although I didn't quite go for the oysters they put on top. I've had two oysters in my life previous to this, now I'm up to about five :)
After dinner Stu took me on a magical mystery tour. He tried to convince me that we were really going home, but we were just going the wrong way entirely hehe. He took me up Mt Ainslie, where I took some photos of the city, but sans-tripod. So will have to back again at some point :)
He also took me to Manuka and we had a little bit of a wander around and checked out where all the trendy people hang out.
On Sunday we were going to go to church, but it was 9C and I didn't have a jumper (it was 35C in Sydney on Saturday - how am I meant to know to bring a jumper?? heh). So we didn't end up going out. Well not then. We did later to get coffee, and went to Big W and bought A Beautiful Mind.
While we were out I noticed how clear the sky was from all the rain all day Saturday and the strong winds in the morning, so made Stu take me up Black Mountain
Stu's work is down there
Belconnen Bunnings and the food markets just in front
Varekai in its final weeks in Canberra
Mt Stromlo, minus the forest around it that was devastated in the Jan 2003 bushfires
And a couple more shots of Canberra city
Cooked steak and veggies for dinner and watched A Beautiful Mind.
Today Stu went to work and I telecommuted. The connection was a bit laggy, but I think that it's actually my work computer which is just chugging these days. During my lunch break I went shopping, and did a scrumptious pork roast for dinner. And Stu has a few days worth of leftovers to keep him going :)
Don't really feel like going to work tomorrow....
I use that term as an expletive. Organising people sux. Trying to pick a date for something when you don't know if you're going to have a job and trying to organise a good time of year to go to another country and then having to deal with the nonsense of when people can come "oh no I can't do it then" so I try for another date and "I can't do it then either" and then there's all the people that are likely to only want to come during school holidays, and the people that *can't* come during school holidays. It makes me want to just give up on the whole idea as a bad joke.
As seen at Dave and Neil's yonks ago ...
Do you read blogs off of the list that is linked on your site or do you use a feed reader?
I used to read them off my homepage, but it just got too much, and so many sites don't update daily anyway
If so, what feed reader?
I use FeedReader but tempted to look at Google reader cause I always get so far behind whenever I go away for the weekend.
What about adding people to your feed reader?
I try not to do it too much anymore cause I have enough to deal with. But occasionally if something sparks my interest I'll add them.
What is your policy on adding people to your blogroll?
Most of the blogs in my feedreader are there, except newer ones or ones that I don't really feel part of (don't post often or I'm just a distant lurker)
What about deleting them from your blogroll?
Usually only when they die (the blogs that is :) )
Would you delete them from your reader and not your blogroll?
Not usually. I archive old blogs in feed reader, delete off blogroll.
As seen at Bren's a while back
1. Can you touch your nose with your toes?
er, lemme try. Yes!
2. Who were you with last night?
Noone, all alone with Mr Bowie :)
3. Are most of your friends in your life new or old?
Bit of a mix. Mostly old.
4. Do you like candy necklaces?
er, I suppose so. Don't know that I've ever eaten any tho.
5. Do you eat raw cookie dough?
Sure, but really only to lick the bowl/beaters
6. Pancakes or French Toast?
Pancakes. The one and only time I had french toast was at Dennys in Las Vegas in 1983
7. How do you like your eggs?
Sunny side up
8. Creamy or crunchy peanut butter?
Never liked peanut butter
9. Instant or home-made mashed potatoes?
Home-made. Instant is awful
10. Can you handle the truth?
Probably not. I hate not knowing though
11. What is the compliment you get from most people?
Nice hair
12. If you were another person, would you be friends with yourself?
No
13. Is anyone on your bad side right now?
Shrug
14. Whats the best drinking game?
Never played one
15. Do you like your music loud or soft?
In the middle :) Depends what it is though. Some things I like cranking up loudish.
16. Do your jeans have rips, tears, and holes in them?
Yes. Way overdue for new ones
17. When was the last time you fell over or ran into something?
I fell over at work a few months ago tripping over crap on the floor
18. Whats the first movie that gave you nightmares?
I've been fortunate in my life to never get nightmares. But the first movie that would have (and I think did once) was Friday 13th I saw when I was about 11 (flipping irresponsible parents of a sleepover I went to allowed that one)
19. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
I wouldn't. A few years ago I might have said Jason Isaacs, and before that David Bowie, maybe a few others
20. Have you ever sung in front of the mirror?
Probably. I don't make a point of it though
21. Do you talk a lot?
No
22. Do you make up your own words?
Blurgle bloggle bling blong
23. Are you typically a jealous person?
Not the suspicious/mistrust sort, but I can get jealous of anyone that takes up Stu's time away from me
24. What is something you say a lot?
Are we having fun yet? It wasn't me I didn't do it? It's true I'm not lying.
25. What was the last movie you saw in theaters?
Casino Royale. It was really good
26. Deep Thoughts About Life and You in it?
er.. are we there yet? can I go home now?
27. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
With someone. Although admittedly sleep isn't as good as when alone
28. Who have you kissed on your top friends?
What sort of expression is that? Kissed on??
29. Do you still talk to the person you had your first kiss with?
Nah. It was a holiday romance and I never saw him again
30. Do you stay friends with your ex's?
Not friends with first, out of contact with second, still friends with third and with unofficial one
31. First Loves Are Never Over; is this true for you?
No
32. Think of all your exes. Would you take any of them back?
I'd probably take Guy back. Well that is assuming neither of us were in other relationships heh. None of the others though
33. What attracted you to your recent ex?
For the last official one, we used to hang out in a lab together on irc. Did fun things like playing ping pong in #netsex until we got thrown out heeh.
34. What didnt you like about your recent ex?
He often tasted like coffee :(
35. When was your last kiss?
A week ago in the driveway downstairs
36. Are you/have you been in love?
Yes (why bother asking that now after all the other relationship questions? heh)
37. Would you wear a boyfriend/girlfriends clothes?
Sure. Except Stu's completely don't fit me :)
38. What would you say if an ex said "I love you."
er ... okaaaaaay. Pretty unlikely to happen though.
39. Do you consider love a mistake?
No
40. What do you find romantic?
Um. I suppose just little things; treats; having him pay for things
41. Turn-on?
Confidence
42. Turn-off?
Bad breath
43. Do you prefer knowing someone before dating them or just diving in?
I prefer to know someone first. Didn't quite work that way with Stu though, kinda jumped in with him :)
44. Have you ever wished it was more socially acceptable for a girl to ask a guy out?
er, not really, I don't think there's any problem with it, I just tended to lack confidence. Then I got old. I asked Stu out on our first (and really only) date :)
45. Have you ever been naked in a public pool?
No
46. Have you ever had sex on the beach?
No
47. Have you ever been cheated on?
No
48. Are you too forgiving?
I'm not forgiving enough
49. Believe its possible to remain faithful forever?
Yes
50. Do you feel pretty, and witty and gay?
er, not really