Went to church this morning and didn't get home til 4pm. Whoops. Went shopping with George afterwards and got lots of lego. Double whoops. Some of it will end up as Christmas presents methinks.

Got part way through my todo list for the weekend. I don't know that I'll be able to make it to Christmas without a spare day off, but I have so much work on at the moment that I don't know if I'll have a chance to take any time off.

I can't walk down stairs very well at the moment. It can't possibly have anything to do with the fact that I climbed down several hundred stairs in quick succession yesterday. At any rate, they're killing me at the moment.

I uploaded a pic of my tree from last year. It looks much the same this year, except that there's more tinsel, and the floor in front of it is covered in space lego. hrmm :)

I love daylight savings, it rocks. They should start it at the end of August like they did during the Olympics.

Spent far too much time this weekend reading Harry Potter and The Belgariad, but achieved almost everything else I needed to this weekend so it's all good. Not only that, I'm not dreading going to work tomorrow, which is also a good thing.

Feeling hungry though - it definitely doesn't feel like dinner time though, it's too bright.

I can't sleep in. I just can't do it. I wake up at my normal weekday time on weekends, which in this case is like 6:30. Then of course I'm hungry and need to go to the toilet so I have no chance of getting back to sleep feeling that uncomfortable. But of course once I get up, then I'm fully awake and can't get back to sleep anyway. It's enough to drive you crazy I tells ya.

Thinking of taking a mental health day on Monday, I'm dreading work so much. Haven't decided yet. It might not be as bad as I expect..

Spent most of the night tonight trying to figure out my tax. It was all straightforward except the NRMA shares which I sold - it's all a big mess and there's no examples anywhere. Think I may have to call the ATO tomorrow and beg for help.

Being so caught up in all that I forgot I needed to patch all my servers this weekend. I'm tempted to wait a few more days in case there's any problems with the patches. But then it would be just my luck to have a worm come out before I patched them all.

Caught up with Carl last night for dinner which was pretty cool. We're organising another drinks night at the Coro in a couple of weeks.

Watching "Coyote Ugly" at the moment. It was pretty much the only half decent movie we got to see on the plane to America a few years ago.

Usually zzz in the subject means alcohol affecting the brain, as is the case tonight after the "first of the month" got moved a week.

Feeling very sleepie.

Got part way through the leftovers of last weekend's todo list this weekend, so at least that's a start. Tomorrow have the joys of a new office to get used to.

night.

I really should take these things more often. I slept in, I tidied up my flat, I went shopping, I bought another computer desk and just generally relaxed. Also decided I need to eat more chocolate, supposedly it's good for brain chemistry. I could really use another day off, I still have a stack of things to do here. Oh well, only 4 more days til the weekend :)

Spent entirely too much time on the calls database this weekend. A lot of hacking perl and mysql was involved. Even managed to break the sql server in the process. It seems that if you do a select from multiple tables but don't put in the links properly, it generates rows over and over again. I don't know how many lines it was going to return, but it generated a 200mb temp file before the partition filled up. Later when I did a similar select on just a small fraction of the database, it returned over 2000 lines. Still haven't figured out the code properly, need to figure out how to do joins.

But I did get a bit of an admin interface working, where clicking on the categories prints out a summary of each entry. And I think I got a nifty date select working, that selects everything since the previous Sunday. Can anyone suggest anything better/more elegant/more compact than this:

select * from calls where date > DATE_SUB(DATE_FORMAT(now(), '%Y-%m-%d'), INTERVAL DAYOFWEEK(now()) day);

Saturday was interesting. I met up with Jacqui (who I saw last weekend for the first time in 12 years) and Tanya (who I also hadn't seen in 12 years) for lunch. We ended up shopping, having lunch, shopping, having coffee, shopping. I came home six hours later. Then it was off to Striker's for his birthday party. Was a very strange night. Somehow I don't think I'll be going back any time soon. Was annoyed with Campbell after hanging around for hours later than I wanted to, only for him to decide to stay anyway and not get a lift home. sigh.

Today I was tired and grumpy, so slept in and didn't go to church. Watched the Mole most of the afternoon and really didn't achieve anything else.

Some more silly stuff. A Google search on "kazza" puts me at number 2! A Google search on "MacGyver DVD" puts me at number 4! All because of a silly comment I made months ago about wishing they'd put MacGyver onto DVD. "care bear quizzes" puts me at number 6. Go figure.

I also saw some teeny Angel fish in a pet store. So I came home and looking at old pictures of mine - my angels have all grown so much! They've doubled in size in the past couple of months.

My butt is somewhat numb.. not sure if from cold or working it too hard. My ankles feel like they've been in a lumpy vice for several hours. My thighs are feeling a bit strange. My ears are hot. My fingers are cold. My back has this dull sensation that I suspect will escalate to full scale pain by tomorrow.

The cause of all this agony? I went ice skating tonight :)

Jim and John came along, but they only stayed for just over an hour (they didn't want to do themselves injuries before they go off skiing next weekend). I wasn't going to pay $14 and then leave after an hour though, so I stuck around. It was such a quiet night I even had the ice to myself for a little while. The most there ever were on the ice aside from myself was just four other people. It was actually really good, I got lots of practise spinning around and going backwards and spinning back to forwards again. Spent probably and hour and a half just practising that (Jim can do it so effortlessly, makes my attempts look pretty pitiful). I actually stayed til the place closed at 9pm, so over three hours there :)

Finally managed to get onto another school friend of mine today. We haven't spoken in probably 12 years. We're going to have lunch together next weekend, should be cool.

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9:35pm
another dinner at Alan and Marylon's tonight .. much fizzling involved :)
This was after a quick trek to the Power House Museum this arvo to catch up on a few things I didn't finish last time I was there. I think I've pretty much seen everything in the museum there now.. except some of the steam engines in action .. Will definitely also have to get to the Observatory soon though to see Mars at very close proximity.