Kazza the Blank One

Kazza the Blank One tag:kazza.id.au,2008-01-05://1 2010-03-11T10:35:34Z Boring Life Of a Geek Movable Type Publishing Platform 4.01 Yesterday, Today tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2773 2010-03-11T10:31:50Z 2010-03-11T10:35:34Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

Today after a good nights' sleep went to work. Morning went quite quickly and then it was meetings all afternoon and then it was beer o'clock. And now it's 9:30pm. Most pleasant day of the week really heh.

]]> Better.. tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2772 2010-03-09T11:03:33Z 2010-03-09T11:07:44Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

Got up and ready around lunch time then sat at my computer for a while before dialling into work to teleconference with the vendor of one of our problematic products.

Tried again to sleep. Failed.

Cooked a tomato bake with some potato and Batman chicken nuggets for dinner.

Started feeling better after dinner. But now I'm in a dilemma.. do I go to work tomorrow, work from home, or just continue to rest/recover?? F1!!

]]> Long weekends are great.. except when you're sick.. tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2771 2010-03-08T11:03:30Z 2010-03-08T11:15:53Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

The first half of the long weekend was great.

Friday night we went over to Nat and Andrew's and met Suki. Soooo cute! Had pizza for dinner, then played some Wii music (some bits of it were fun, others were tedious), Singstar, Wiiracas and Mario Kart.

Saturday we went to Belco markets for breakfast and to look at fish shops. Got back and got some housework done then spent a good chunk of the afternoon doing fish stuff. Stu did a big tidy of the fish stuff in the garage and I cleaned out the danio tank and took the five danios back upstairs.

Sunday was doing more housey stuff when I started having an immune reaction. So went and lay down around lunch time for a couple of hours. The rest of the afternoon went in slow motion. Did do a little tidying of my hobby room, so at least the day wasn't a complete waste :/

Today was just a mopey blah sort of day. Did a jigsaw. Ripped some of my cds. Did the food shopping cause we had to. That was about it really.

I did freecycle a couple of inkjet printers which was good. Although a bit sad giving away a printer I spent $300 on back in the day. Nowadays it's practically cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to buy new ink. So stoopid.

]]> Still alive.. barely.. tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2770 2010-03-07T11:35:58Z 2010-03-07T11:37:07Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

Feeling like crap at the moment.. probably got whatever Andrew had on Friday .. *sigh*

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Went over to Scott and Kerry's for dinner cause Jeff and Ruth were in town.Had a beer and a bit of wine and the evening passed quite smoothly heh...

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

Had a beer and a bit of wine and the evening passed quite smoothly heh

]]> Royal Canberra Show, 2010 tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2768 2010-03-02T10:37:51Z 2010-03-02T11:24:12Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

Had a good time just wandering around and looking at things. Barely spent any money. I did buy five daffodil bulbs. And a Moove (the mobile Moove man kinda convinced me). And a hot dog and fairy floss for dinner. Quite annoyed that you can't buy fresh fairy floss anymore, you have to buy it in a plastic bag :(

Took 383 photos.. here's just a few of them :)

Ferris Wheel and tower from the car park. The walk back to the car felt like a lot lot longer than the walk from the car!

Working steam engine

These guys look a bit like our next door neighbour's goat

Goat closeup

Goats have really freaky eyes..!

Sheepdog goat!

Donkey trial

Alpaca

Ducklings!

This was one massive pig! The area smelt like pork (before roasting) .. can't imagine why!

Bubbles!!

Orange juice stand (this girl had her butt out whenever we went past)

Wall of bubble machines

Kazza the dwarf...

Mobile Moove man (Nat getting a drink)

Catching a wave

Ferris Wheel (would have been nice to go up - maybe next time)

Rides

Kitty with a moustache. We were trying to take pictures through the bars and the dude came along and opened the cage for us :)

I so want one of these! This thing (apart from the way cool little house around it) has a tv and dvd/cd player built in!! Andrew said all we need is water-proof wii-motes for spa-wii-ing :)

I always like the cake decorating. This ship was my favorite

Icing flowers are amazing!

This was straight out of the Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake book..! Lame!! Especially since it won a prize

Flowers

Woolworths fruit/veggie display

Onions in the veggie display

Chocolate fountain

Back to the pigs. Noticed this time that all the piglets' tails were docked :(

Camel race

They race to a bucket of food at the end of the track

This kid looked as if she owned the place. She was in everyone's way of the view, so we couldn't help but laugh when she later fell off trying to get on or off.

They were running about 45 minutes late and we had to go, but the Hiluxes started up as we were half way round the track)

Flying Hilux!

]]> Windows 7 tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2767 2010-03-02T10:29:29Z 2010-03-02T10:37:05Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

I decided not to get an upgrade, since I didn't want to spend time trying to find my Dell recovery cds or deal with any of the hassles of trying to get a key to work (having read horror stories about it).

So backed everything up just in case (data is all on d: drive, but it was scheduled for last night anyway) then backed up my users directory to make sure I had things like my Google Earth place markers, Live Messenger history, and Chrome history/session data.

And then installed Windows 7. Went totally smoothly. In fact a few minutes after it started I went and hung out all my washing, then came back and it was nearly done. Installed and restored Chrome and I was up and running again, hurrah!

]]> Shinjuku tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2766 2010-02-28T12:37:53Z 2010-02-28T12:43:24Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

So there.

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Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

We're also going to see Cats in Melbourne with Nat and Andrew in a few weeks, hurrah! :)

]]> Poo.. tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2764 2010-02-27T07:10:40Z 2010-02-27T07:11:46Z

I knew this was coming in March, but didn't think it'd give me so little warning :/...

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

]]> Bridge to nowhere tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2763 2010-02-25T10:55:54Z 2010-02-27T23:22:02Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

Turns out it's part of the official poster and graphics throughout the Vancouver Winter Olympics.. how dumb...

]]> Pawn of Prophecy tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2762 2010-02-24T09:33:54Z 2010-02-24T09:39:59Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

Of course I really should be reading some of the other books I've borrowed... oops..

]]> Black Pepper and Showers tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2761 2010-02-21T11:18:05Z 2010-02-21T11:47:06Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au

After brekky we went for a walk to the Hub to see if they had any Japanese coffee-in-a-cans that Stu still misses about Japan. Then for a wander round the lake to look at the swan that was there.

Spent much of the day trying to sort out four and half thousand photos that haven't been filed since around September last year :/

After their film group night, Nat and Andrew came over and we played some Wii. First up Mario Kart (eight races, always fun), then some Kirby Airride (the general racing wasn't too bad but the mini-maps were too painful to control), and then some Mario Kart Double Dash from the Gamecube (like Mario Kart but with two characters on each cart and a few different tracks, a few the same, a little weird but still fun). Which took us well and truly into tomorrow (today)!

This morning I went along to Kerry's baby shower. A room full of strangers was really not my idea of fun :/ They played a couple of baby-shower type games (a version of Pictionary was the most fun, of course heh), but I ran away again when it came to "playing dressups" and a tea party relay. Potty's colleague Danielle was nice though, and she's due shortly after Kerry.

I wanted to upload the rest of the photos I took to conspiracy, but the server disk is pretty much full, and I can't FTP anything :( Wondering if I should finally move my blog somewhere else .... :/

Came home and did some more photo sorting, and we put quite a few books into shelves too.

Watched an ok doco on the Titanic disaster.. really must get Stu to watch the 1998 version... heh

And had a dip in the freezing puddle to cool off from this stoopid heat.. bring on autumn!!

]]> Full tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2760 2010-02-21T05:36:16Z 2010-02-21T05:37:55Z

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au NASA TV tag:kazza.id.au,2010://1.2759 2010-02-20T01:45:01Z 2010-02-20T01:46:41Z

Live on NASA TV - the space shuttle leaving the international space station.....

Kazza the Blank One http://kazza.id.au NASA TV - the space shuttle leaving the international space station..

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