Hot. Sweaty. A bit sore. Tired.

Repeat.

I've joined Stu's world of dialup.

And it sux.

They switched providers on me yesterday. And even though they say my modem is connected, and they say nobody else had any problems, the fact remains that after cold booting my router, switch *and* computer, I can't connect to the internet.

And I'm thrilled.

Can you tell?

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........

I really should have done this last night when I saw it. May 16 is such a significant date in the life of Kazza...

20 years ago I . . . was in year 7 at high school

10 years ago I . . . was starting my first job at OzEmail

5 years ago I . . . was happy that my house settled. Five years ago yesterday in fact.

3 years ago I . . . was playing a lot with my new fish tanks and collecting space lego

1 year ago I . . . was reminiscing on other previous May 16ths

So far this year I . . . wonder what I've really acheived, and can't really think of anything

Yesterday I . . . had a bit of a blah day

Today I . . . tried to sleep in a little but didn't on account of being a morning person who can't sleep in

Tomorrow I will . . . go to work, watch some tv

In the next year I will . . . get long service leave

er so where was I? Canberra unpacking... well yes that about sums it up really heh :)

Oh there was a good night at Mishi's, and Damien was there too and we chatted (well they chatted about old times mostly) and ate and eventually we had a game of 500 that Mishi and I lost at, although it was a marathon effort heh, and a game of Scrabble that Damien and I cheated together at the end with which got our scores up, but not enough to win hehe.

And there was the fantastic lamb roast we did last night with baked potatoes and a sweet potato and a whole bulb of garlic (cut in half and roasted). Stu and I both love our garlic, which is rather a good thing ;) We also fired up the wood heater (well Scotty did really), and that warmed up the back half of the house beautifully.

This morning was awfully cold though. Made it hard to get out bed and out the door. But I did, at 6:30, and got to work at 9:50. And a day of catch-up more than anything else.

Tonight I pulled conspiracy apart to find out what was up with it. Turns out the data (photo) drive is dead. Which is a major pain in the rear end. Cause although I do have copies of all the photos, not everything is in the order it was on on the server. And I've lost all my logs :( I do have the apache.conf file which is useful. But now I have to try and find a disk big enough to replace it, and decide if I want to keep running nt4 (shudder) or run something else. I did have another box here I was keeping as a spare which had been up and running before, and thought could run w2k on that, but tonight it wouldn't boot up either (completely black screen). I also had thoughts about running Ubuntu on it, but that also seems like a lot of work. Blah. Anyone got an 8gb disk floating around they'd want to donate to a worthy cause?

Bit of a blah day today. *stuff* just pissed me off.

Like people that *constantly* leave their chairs in the middle of the confined spaces of our office, so that I have to walk around them or push them out of the way *every single freaking time*. J's high and mighty solution: just push it out of the way and deal with it. Yeah good on you.

Or international phone lines that drop out so you can't hear what they're saying and you have to get them to repeat themselves constantly, with the added fun of two other people *right behind me* on their respective phones making trying to hear what's going on even more fun.

Or people that push in. I HATE people that push in. I hate selfish people. I hate people that don't give a damn about anyone else except themselves.

The new office arrangements are really stressing me out. I don't know how much longer it's going to be before I crack :/

Yay. Fun. I'm going to bed now.

Late night. Tired. Uninspired. Glad I didn't drink anything tonight.

I've had "one of those days".

Starting at 6am waking up from a horrible dream where I'd deliberately made a friend go blind.

Tailgater number 1: (tailgaters distract me more than just about anything else on the roads, I can't just let it go because of the stress and worry that they're going to hit me), distracted me while changing gears, turning a corner, trying to avoid the passing traffic, trying to decide whether the pedestrian was close enough to the crossing to have to stop for. In the end I was distracted enough to not know which gear to put the car into and just rolled slowly over the crossing. oops.

Morning was blah. Was feeling insecure over something that happened last night, but when I told Stu about it he got sad and so I got even sadder. A very sad downward spiral.

Tailgater number 2: ever tried to find parking with someone on your butt? (and they'd been up my butt for the last kilometre) So trying to park with idiot behind me, distracted, scraped my car on another. Yay. Scratched their bumper, which the dude wants to replace, gonna be up for hundreds of dollars I reckon.

And Stu's internet connection isn't working.

Maybe I should just go to bed and get the day over and done with.

Decided to work from home today. I've been trying to get going on a project for the past three weeks or so, but I'm finding every excuse I can think of to get out of starting it. So I thought I'd try a different environment. Stayed at home with no other work distractions. Was actually a relatively successful day. Got more done in one day than in the past three weeks on this particular project. Got stuck on a javascript button, which only works as a html button in the database I stole it from, whereas I need a proper notes button, so will need to validate the form some other way. blah. :)

And for Arian's obligatory Stu reference...
My boy made it home safely today (yayy), and got to see him again on the webcam (double yayy :) )

Man, I'm so far behind keeping up with blog reading at the moment.

Not helped by getting home after leaving work late, heavy traffic, photographing Luc's place, shopping, putting the shopping away, getting dinner, and suddenly it's 9:00! Lost and The Amazing Race follow, finished off with patching a bunch of servers and rebooting them.

And Campbell invited me to a video night tonight too, but didn't call till 7pm while I was still shopping. But it was such a miserable night, pouring with rain and I hadn't eaten and work had been all sucky and my brain needs more notice for such things that I didn't end up going.

blah.

Yet another late night for kazza :(