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Dear Snowgum,
Your products are fail.
Case in point:
This backpack is a week old. Eight days I think.
IT SHOULD NOT BE FALLING APART ALREADY!!!!!
- Neighbours that park on the nature strip, especially on bin night when I have put my bin where their car is.
- Cobwebs.
I hate clothes shopping. I hate bra shopping. I hate having no fashion sense whatsoever. I hate my stoopid body and the fact that *nothing* looks good on me or fits well. I hate clothing alterations stores that charge more to alter something that the something is actually worth. I hate sellers on ebay that lie in their product descriptions so you end up buying totally the wrong thing. I hate having to call strangers. I hate mess. I hate Optus' coverage in Canberra.
The disk on my web host is pretty much full. So I got the photos up from day 17 (stopping at Thirsk to see the James Herriot house/museum, North York moors, Hogsmeade station, and Housesteads Roman fort which was pretty awesome), but no more space for anything more. Time to backup the blog methinks in case they decide to delete something :/
Edit: someone's been on to clear some files ..
No comment.
So I get home and the power is off. Dead. The main switch to the house is off. So turn it back on.
Checking everything out, I hear a banging. Most unusual. Eventually found it. The side gate.
So some buttplug has come along and totally ripped off the latch to the side gate, padlock and all. I couldn't find it anywhere around the yard (unless they hid it well).
My working theory is they broke in to go around the back, saw the alarm in the garage, turned off the power, found the alarm was still on (it has backup batteries) and decided not to bother. Because there was no evidence of any forced entry anywhere.
Makes me a bit scared to leave the house :(
Well at least that's over.
(TMI post, you've been warned)
To summarise:
* bad flu after Sydney in September that had me off work for most of the week
* ear infection, probably bacterial, took three weeks of antibiotics to get over
* gastro or food poisoning the night of our work ball (during the antibiotics run)
* weird eye infection just after I finished the antibiotics, don't know if viral or bacterial (both tests were negative)
* cold from one of the boys at the coast, done by the time I went to Melbourne
* bad cold or flu that started the Sunday night in Melbourne which made my training week pretty miserable
* persistent sore throat since about Saturday that I'm convinced is another bacterial infection (still coughing too)
Being stressed about being sick sabotages my means of getting better (ie, sleeping) and haven't felt up to doing any proper exercise in forever.
*sigh*
This entry would have been a rant. Except that that sort of thing can get one fired. Suffice to say I had an "ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME???" moment today and was literally shellshocked for the next hour.
So anyway.
Tonight more geotagging. I'm going to struggle to keep up with the holiday at the rate I'm going! One year ago today we went to Kyoto - went up the tower, visited the monkeys and the bamboo grove at Arashiyama. It was a good day, but very hot so we didn't have the energy to do all the things we wanted to.
And since blog entries are pretty boring without pictures, here's one of the Mongolian flag :)
When Google+ first came out a month or so ago, I scored an invite and decided to have a look.
My reaction: meh.
I mean, I blog. I tweet. What use would another app have that was basically just a combination of the two? So I used it all of three or four times. I quickly added quite a few people to various circles. But really the only people using it were people I haven't seen in forever talking about things that really have no meaning for me. And not just their original comments, but all the ongoing conversations they have with their own friends. Completely boring! To filter them out I'd have to put them in their own circle, and only read the other circles regularly. Pointless.
But whatever.
The thing that really turned me off however is their "real name" policy. Which I simply don't want to use. I have my online persona thankyouverymuch, I don't need them dictating that I need to use my real name online.
There were two problems.
1. I didn't know what other Google services would be affected by me using my real name. This is not explained anywhere. Would my YouTube videos suddenly have my real name? Blogger comments? Noone could tell me.
2. If they catch you, they don't just suspend your Google+ account - they suspend just about *everything*. Now you have to understand, I am entirely dependant on my Google services. I mean just look at the list:
The biggest things of course being my calendar (I *really* couldn't live without this), Reader (that'd be an epic pain in the butt to switch to something else), Gmail for some mailing lists to make some things easier to manage, Analytics for my blog, Maps for various travel maps I've done, as well as a profile for commenting on people's blogs, chat which is the only chat program left that I use with any sort of regularity, and YouTube which I have a few videos but could live without.
So you can understand my fear of being suspended.
And then there are stories like this (and other Australians in the past few days as well) and so I decided to delete my Google+ account. Just like that. All gone. Never even miss it.