Hello, yes, it's me Tim. I used to update this site sometimes but of late that doesn't seem to be happening. Sorry about that.

Currently it's 4:30 in the morning, most of the work I had to do tonight went really well. There's been a few small fuckups, but nothing to do with me (I'm perfect) and nothing that's causing any major customer problems. I'm not actually that tired either, I had a sleep from about 6pm -> 10:30pm so I'm all wide awake.

I've been driving around all night in a company car, a really nice Suburu. It's soooo nice, I really really want one. It goes really fast, accelerates like a fiend and has a most excellent CD player. I am going to start crying when I have to drive the BoD back home.

Stuff that's been happening then. I bought my new phone the other day. It's...

Well not really, he’s just busy. If you are anything like me though, you’ll have been hanging out for an update, and I even know what has been happening!

So I decided to post this. A collection of random stuff that has happened in the last week-ish while I (Sarah) was staying with Tim and his flatmates. Not all the stuff, because I didn’t follow Tim to work, despite his pleas.

On Friday night Tim picked me up from the airport in Gary’s car, because the beast has a totally broken front seat (?!?) and little to no acceleration. Mainly the broken front seat though. Anyway, we went home and dropped off my extremely light and few pieces of luggage at the flat and then went out for dinner to Aubergine in Takapuna – very nice. Some bad router stuff (excuse the technical jargon) happened at TelstraClear but Tim didn’t...

I've just had no time really since last Wednesday (nearly a week ago) to do a proper update. I am terribly sorry for that darling readers. Nothing major has really happened though, so you're not missing any goss. Read on for a bit of babble and stuff though, just in case you're interested.

We got paid our bonuses on Friday night, finally. I really didn't expect we'd get them but the company actually paid out. I am going to buy myself a nice new SonyEriccson T610 phone, it's got all the bells and whistles including a camera.

My friend Sarah's been up here from Palmy for the last few days, she's currently at Vodafone right having a job interview/assessment with them. Good luck Sarah, hope it goes really well.

Work has been really busy with lots of things going snap. This weekend is our regular maintence window and I'll...

Hello groover and welcome to another edition of shite.


Today I am going to tell you about how last night I had to drive out to the airport to collect some router memory, then I had to drive back into work at midnight to stick it in. Then tomorrow morning I have to get up at 4:30am to drive into work to pull one box out of the network and put another one in. You can probably tell I'm really frikking happy about this.

Finally found out that we get paid our Bonuses this weekend, Saturday it should be in the bank. I am going to put all of mine away I think, or at least most of it. I might get myself a new Palm Pilot because I miss my old one and my memory is a total pile of shite. Or maybe I just don't give a shit...

So, what's news to tell you today. Lots I guess, but nothing really major. It's Tuesday morning and I'm sitting on the couch drinking instant coffee. But good instant coffee, not just nescafe or something ick. Not that there's anything wrong with nescafe really, but yea. God now I sound like a Yuppie, and I hate Yuppies. I'll you what I frikking hate even more is that stupid fucking monkey. People who wear that thing of their own free will should be stabbed in the eyes multiple times.

Update: Here is a large collection of people that need to be stabbed in the eyes with a blunt fork.

I'm not grumpy, really.

Last night I cooked the most fantastical hamburgers ever. There are some non believers who have tried to tell me that cooking hamburgers doesn't count as cooking tea, but when your burgers were as tasty as mine...

I got woken up at 8:30 this morning by the Police, asking to speak to me.

They wanted to know if I was aware my car had been broken into, because the window was down and there was lots of stuff strewn about inside and the passenger seat was broken. I proudly had to admit that no, it hadn't been stolen, it's always like that. I think the nice lady on the other end of the phone was almost cracking up as I hung up.

Happy Birthday to mother for yesterday!

That's all I have to say, I just woke up after a nice snooze on the couch and I can't be arsed writing anything too major. Sorry!

--TiM

Up at 5am again today after getting home from work last night at about 10:30pm. Nothing has gone wrong thankfully, just some prep work last night and then a swapover of a bit of equipment at 6am this morning. Sometimes I really really hate getting up early and I'm shitty about it for the rest of the day. Other days, like today, I really don't mind getting up early. It was cool this morning to fang into town in the BoD, Powderfinger cranking loud, do the work (which went really well) and then fang back to Takapuna (Powderfinger still cranking) to go to work.

Last night I had a good chat to my mate Rob (of Rob and Denny fame) which was fairly overdue I think. Sounds like things are still a bit muppety with some of my old friends back home having a stupid little spat over not much...

Yesterday we thought we hadn't got the house, because the landlord hadn't bothered to send John the email with all the details in it like he'd promised, so we thought he'd probably just picked another tennant and didn't have the balls to tell us that.

We had a bit of a talk about it last night and decided it was probably a good thing regardless, we didn't really want it anyway because two of the rooms were too small and we weren't really cool with the landlord living right next door.

Then this morning John got to work to find the landlord had mailed him all the details etc with an apology for leaving it so late. So I rang John and we had a talk about it and we've still decided we're not going to take it, based on the above reasons.


I guess we might start looking for...

I have to be at work nice and early this morning (4:30am or so) to do some pretty major work, just upgrading one device. It's a pretty important one though so I don't want to do it from home in case it reboots and doesn't come back to life. That always happens to me.

I'd set my alarm for 4am, but then I woke up at 2:30am and I really didn't feel tired (desite the fact I'd only had 3.5 hours sleep) so I'm awake and sitting in the lounge with the heater going and my sexy-as-hell beanie on. I rule.

Read on to find out how the inspection of our maybe-new-house went! I don't know why I say "Read On" because I know you're all just hanging on every word I say anyway. I rule. Oh, I already said that.

John and Gary came to pick me up from...

Firstly, if you have a user account and stuff I have posted another Friend Only story. Be sure to read it (you'll need to be logged in) for lots of juicy nuggets of information, or something.

Tonight we're going to look at another house! John has found a really primo house that's up for rent, it's much bigger than our currrent place, two stories, has two bathrooms and the best bit is it's only a couple of dollars a week more expensive. You can view photos of it here [link removed, it stopped working]. I hope a) there's nothing wrong with it and b) we get it!

I went out last night with John and Gary to Sago, a really nice resturant I've mentioned on here a bunch of times before. It's like a new haunt for me or something, I seem to end up there about once a week...