Bit of a suck day today. Couldn't get to sleep last night. Then had a headache all day so didn't get much work done. Then got home quite late (although it was good to catch up with Campbell) so my time at home was already limited then Thorpey needed some help with fixing up a script. So suddenly it's nearly 10pm and I've barely had time to breathe :/

And the little javascript buttons in Movable Type don't work in the latest version of Firefox. So I *have* to use IE if I want to use them. And the latest version of Firefox also appears to have the "sometimes-won't-copy" bug. Whereby you highlight something and copy to clipboard, but it doesn't actually copy, it just clears the clipboard. For such a massive bug you'd think they'd have fixed it by now. It drives me completely nuts at work. And they say IE is buggy....

Anyway, for a bit of fun check this out - http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw/ - which further proves that some people have *way* too much time on their hands :)

I was going to mention this the other night but forgot. While I was driving home from work on my birthday, listening to a radio station I don't normally listen to, they had a "on this day" segment and mentioned some people that had this birthday. Aside from Kieren Perkins and Kate Ritchie that I already knew about, it turns out that Hector Crawford and Peter Costello also share my birthday.

Hector Crawford, executive producer of such cool shows as The Flying Doctors (mmmm Peter O'Brien yummm) and the Henderson Kids (mmmm Alex Papps yummm), and lots of other classic Aussie drama was born in 1913.

Peter Costello, the current Australian treasurer, was born in 1957.

And armed with that thoroughly useless piece of information ....

Breakfast was some cereal. Don't actually know what it was. Whatever looked interesting and was on special when I bought it.

Morning tea was yummy chocolate cake George made for last night but ended up at work as leftovers.

Lunch was stir-fry satay chicken from the Thai place near work, thoroughly delicious, Luc's shout.

Afternoon tea finished off the cake. Well, I had help of course. Any food left in our office gets devoured. Although I did give have to convince a few people the eat the last pieces so it wouldn't go stale overnight.

Dinner was scotch fillet steak and mustard, with mushrooms fried in garlic and peas and corn, with my last Cadbury Creme Egg from Easter for dessert.

Overall not a bad day. Except for generalised feelings of depression in the morning from a world that's just gone crazy, and missing my boy ....

So where were we? Yesterday .. never quite got around to blogging....

Stu and I were having a lazy Saturday morning when the little brother called up and said did we want to use my Sizzler 25% off voucher this weekend. The problem being we couldn't do Sunday at all, they couldn't do Saturday night, and couldn't make it to our end of town for Saturday lunch. So we went out to meet them at their end of town :) As per usual I didn't get anywhere near my fair share of food, having a small stomach and all. I had some nice barramundi (although not quite as nice as Friday's $7 salmon :) ). But they did get me a wayyyyyy cool birthday present - the first two seasons of MacGyver on dvd - me a happy girl :) After lunch went with Yvonne to check out her work, and then via some pet stores and back home. Saturday night was just watching dvds of Star Trek and Toy Story 2.

This morning went to church for Rachel's baptism, followed by a lunch afterwards. Then came home to collapse for a while before heading out to Alan and Marylon's for dinner. Had a go at six-person hand bells (12 bells), which was pretty cool, although people kept forgetting where they were up to .. I was just following my sheet in front of me and didn't have too many problems. Needed someone not ringing to call numbers tho.. heh

Now just need to wait and hear if the boy made it home safely .....

They moved everything to a new web server last week. All fine and dandy, except that the Perl GD module is not installed on the new server, so my comments have been broken since Thursday. Grunties.

I've had to disable the scode comment thingie for now until they either install perl GD, or I can find something different to use. I might check in with Neil, he was doing some research on it. Or I might just write something basic of my own. Just have a word printed that people need to type in. That'll still stop most of the bots....

This is cool, a list of most hated things... heh.. from Woosang:

MOST HATED...

FRUIT: Avacado maybe...
CANDY: licorice
BEVERAGE: coffee
COLOR: khaki
TOWN/CITY: LA is a pretty ugly place most of the time. Has a few good amusement parks though
TV SHOW: Maybe late night Rage when they have boring guest djs who put on boring songs
ASPECT OF MYSPACE: it poisons google searches
ASPECT OF INSTANT MESSENGER: with msn, that it doesn't save a session until you close it cleanly - if your computer crashes you could lose a whole night's conversation
ANIMAL: hyena maybe??? or spiders...
INSECT: mosquito
SEASON: winter when it's cold and dark, although it's good for the snow.. :)
AGE OF KIDS: teenagers

...WHAT ANNOYS YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING WHEN...

DRIVING?: people who push in
GOING THROUGH DRIVE-THRUS: people that have no idea what they're ordering, or order something so big it takes you fifteen minutes sitting behind them to get through, and you can't escape backwards if people are behind you
YOU'RE AT THE MALL: crowds
SLEEPING: having to wake up in the dark in the morning
SHOWERING: in Canberra, it's definitely getting dry in the frreeeeezing cold
YOU'RE AT THE BEACH: sand in your cossies .. I guess some beaches that isn't such a problem ... ;)
YOU'RE AT THE GROCERY STORE: having to take my backpack off my back so they can check it
COOKING OR BAKING: cleaning up

HOUSEHOLD CHORE DO YOU HATE THE MOST?: washing up
WAY TO DIE?: maybe being burnt or eaten alive...
WHAT'S THE MOST ANNOYING HABIT IN OTHERS?: anything involving bad personal hygeine
WHAT IS YOUR WORST HABIT?: no comment ;)
WHAT FASHION TREND (PAST OR PRESENT): a recent one is the jeans that have pre-worn areas like someone spends their whole life rubbing their thighs. Talk about a fashion disaster.
POPULAR SONG (PAST OR PRESENT): Groove is in the Heart (although I hated the video clip more)
WORST PART OF YOUR JOB: the stress when things break
WORST PICKUP LINE YOU'VE GOTTEN: don't know that I've ever gotten one.. I don't get out much..
WORST THING ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL: fitting in
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GIRLS?: bitchiness
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT GUYS? obsession with sex

Also from Dave

What time is it? 8:11pm
What is your name? Kazza the Blank One
Any nick names? As above :)
Mother�s name? Mum!
Dr. Pepper or whiskey? Whiskey (with coke though)
Body piercing? Just my ears
How much do you love your job? Lots
Favorite vacation spot? Lord Howe Island
Ever been to Africa? No, but maybe one day
Ever steal any traffic signs? Nah
Ever been in a car accident? Yeah a couple
A, B, C, D, DD cup size? er..
2 Door or 4 Door? 4 door
Favorite pie? I dunno.. I like the more exotic berry types...
Favorite number? Don't really have one
Favorite movie? Varies over time. Don't really have one at the moment
Favorite holiday? There's been so many...
Favorite food? Roast pork perhaps
Favorite day of the week? Saturday
Favorite brand of body soap? Whatever......
Favorite TV show? Maybe MacGyver
Toothpaste? Colgate
Favorite smell? Roasting meat...
What do you do to relax? Watch movies, be with Stu
Message to your friends reading this? Good morning!
What do you do when you are bored? Play poker
What do you enjoy receiving? Money, presents, etc
Furthest place you will send this message? Won't be sending it anywhere, but people on the other side of the world will see it
Who will respond the fastest? *shrug*
Least likely to respond? Dave, since he's already done it :)

Bowling for Columbine was on the other night, so taped it and finished watching it tonight. It truly paints a frightening picture of America. Which is ironic because a major message in the film is that everyone in America is kept living in fear. The South Park-like video of the white people living in fear is very well done.

The statistics on gun deaths in America are just staggering. Like over *eleven thousand* per year in the US versus sixty-something here and a couple of hundred in countries like England, Germany and France.

I seriously don't get how a country with sooooo much money has problems with so many people on low incomes and next to zero health care unless you have insurance. Surely if they didn't spend all their money blowing up other countries and just taking care of their own people instead, it really could be a great country....

Grumpy day today. Grumpy with people. Grumpy with servers. Grumpy at not getting enough of the boy all day. At least one thing worked in the end with the server I was working on. Would have been annoying and time consuming to fix if it hadn't worked.

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....