I'm still seriously thinking of chucking a sickie tomorrow (ok, so a day in lieu). I *so* don't want to face my boss. I know that's a terrible situation to be in, but he just makes me crazy. And not even cause he's a bad boss or anything, on the contrary he's probably the best boss I've ever had.. he just doesn't *like* me. So even the slightest neglect and I take it as the end of the world.

The other alternative is to move offices. It's inevitable anyway.. we have a bunch of new people starting and it's most likely going to be me and Sami moving.. but it may send a message if I just quietly got up and moved that I just don't want to be there. shrug.

I could really use the time at home to catch up on things. Might just check my inbox and see if there's anything I really need to be in there for ..

Opened the blinds to my balcony this morning and was met with this spring's first azaleas bursting forth with petals. Then I opened the door and was met with a blast of deliciously warm air. So I opened all the windows in the place to let some of the warm air through.

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Just went and bought some fishies - two new Juli cats. Cutest little things.

It also appears that Jeans West have changed the sizes of their jeans. I bought a couple of pairs a couple of years ago, so went in to buy another two the same size. When I tried them on (after getting them altered - I assumed they would be the same) they are actually looser than my old jeans. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean I could get fatter without noticing so much :( Looks like the story they did on one of those current affairs type shows is true - clothing manufacturers are making their clothes a little larger so that people can fit into a smaller size and feel good about it *sigh* Needless to say I'm "not happy, Jan".

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 :)

All in all my birthday was a pretty suckful day. A few things did help though. Like subway for lunch, picking up some space lego in the afternoon, Luc and Lizzi's for dinner (I couldn't face going to dinner with my parents), and then firetwirling at Glebe with Striker.

Friday morning I woke up to find my fish tank siphoning itself off onto the floor. The air hose to the air stone had worked its way loose off the stop valve, so there was nothing stopping the water coming out. Fortunately it had only been going for a short time and only a centimetre or so had siphoned off. If I hadn't slept in I may have gone to work before it started and would have come home to an empty tank with 100L of water all over the floor, which would have been an absolute disaster. I repositioned the stop valve to the top of tank, so even if it comes off now, it won't be able to siphon anywhere.

Friday at work wasn't any better. Dinner at James and Georges was nice, but a little wine and I lost it a couple of times over absolutely nothing.

I had all this other stuff I wanted to write about my birthday, except it's all too depressing.

Yesterday was somewhat better. Met up with Jacqui for lunch, and we chatted for three hours at Maccas of all places. Then last night was the Jannali Girls High School reunion. It was interesting but rather strange. Most of the people I was interested in seeing weren't there, and at least one that was wasn't really interested in talking to me anyway. I actually enjoyed catching up with some of my teachers more than many of the students. But then I was always the unpopular one at school, and a teacher's pet, so that's hardly surprising.

Today I finally finished Vic's latest project that he wanted me to work on, so that was good. I'm sure there'll be plenty of bug fixing to do though.

So here I am facing another week. I'm not at all looking forward to it. In fact I'm rather dreading going back to work tomorrow.

Had to laugh a lot at this today. After spending a week patching our machines in anticipation, and blocking netbios to be sure, it felt kinda good to watch the rest of the world run around in a mad scramble trying to fix up broken machines when it finally hit.

But the mood of the day was marred in the afternoon by my boss piking on, and therefore cancelling, ice skating that was supposed to happen tonight. Went home totally grumpy cause I'd managed to organise a group of people to go out (which never happens) only to have the night cancelled. grumble.

I did manage to hack one of vic's scripts enough to make it work though, which is always a good thing. Although it has some issues, it's a lot further along than it was earlier this evening.

Just got home from the "Corro" for drinks for Carl's last day at cia. It's certainly a much more civilised place than the Sly Fox, and even cheaper. So was all good.

A couple of people I know in real life have seen my blog in the past couple of days, which is rather a disturbing thought. I've been writing this for the past 8 months with noone paying any particular attention, and then suddenly I get two in one week. I hope it doesn't mean that I'm gonna stop writing about some stuff, knowing that these people might read it, or pass it onto other people I know who may read it. I'm sure it will have some effect though. We'll see I guess.

My party has been rescheduled to Friday. I'm a bit over it now though, so *whatever*. I'll turn up (assuming it doesn't get cancelled or whatever) and see what happens.

Going back in time an hour.

In the words of Striker (who for some reason I still link to and read his blog every day, even though he *never* reads mine, and never talks to me on icq) .. "kill me and put me out of my misery". No seriously, please can someone kill me. I don't have the guts to do it myself but I can't face this world anymore. I've had enough. My party's been organised for a day, and it's already been cancelled. Seems the people who were going to have to give up bible study aren't willing to, and worried about the burden it'll put on George (which I'm more willing to accept).

Can someone remind me what the point of life is again?

Another mindless day patching computers
Two floors down, still many to go.

Couldn't get the key into the ignition this arvo.. the thingie inside had twisted around and gotten stuck. Fiddled and fiddled and eventually gave up and called the NRMA. They fiddled and got it unstuck, yippee. Decided it was a good time to book the car in for a service anyways :)

My party has been loosely organised, and people have agreed to turn up.. woohoo!! Not that it will be a big thing, just a few friends over to James and Georges for a dinner party.

So I get home and load up my blog, and it's a balmy 23C (it's mid winter) and my weather pixie is wearing her light pink dress. I open up all the windows in the flat because it's so warm and dry and there's a strong breeze going so a good chance to air out the place.

So then a few hours later I'm sitting on the loo and I hear rain. Not a lot, but it just seemed so strange when the air felt so dry. Reload my weather pixie, and only 37% humidity. Check the radar - yikes, big front coming over from the southwest with lots of rain. Check the lightning tracker, and well, that's the picture you see above.

So not only is the weather crazy, but Google has moved me up from number 4 to number 2 on a search for "kazza" .. woohoo!

So this is all after a mind-numbing day spent patching people's machines against the threat of the latest Microsoft exploit. One floor down, only about 8 to go :/

So according to the radar the rain is getting closer. May have to go close all the windows.

I can't even do the simplest of perl programming. I can't for the life of me work out why almost identical code will work in one situation, but behave completely differently in another. Just figured out one part of it. Needed a slosh in the right place (as opposed to a slash). flipping

That and a madhouse day patching servers like crazy and setting up info so that staff can do it for themselves also. http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-026.asp has the potential to criple half (more than half actually) of the computers attached to the internet. So long as our servers are ok, then I can sit back and laugh at the ensuing chaos.

And there's only 14 days to go. Haven't decided what I want to do yet. Whatever I do, I'm sure only half a dozen people would turn up.

/me goes off to continue being depressed in private.