What's happening? Not much going on here I can assure you. I went out to Penrose today... For some reason I still really fucking hate that place. Even though it was only for one day. And in a meeting room. There is something about the Penrose building that really gets to me. I think I know what it is, but it's still damn annoying. Anyway!

So I was in this meeting all day and it sucked hard! About the only bit that would have been interesting I wasn't there before because, get this, I was in ANOTHER meeting! I'm a techie! I hate meetings! I guess everyone hates them, but you have to also wonder if that's the case, why do so many people call them? I'm guilty of it myself mind you.



Weight: It depends when I weigh myself. Sometimes 86kg, sometimes 88kg. Can your weight really vary that...

Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm Stupid." That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops...never mind, didn't see your sign."



It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My neighbor comes over and says, "Hey, you moving?" "Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign."



A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big ol' stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, y'all catch all them fish?" "Nope. Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign."



I was watching one of those animal shows...

Never try to put toothpaste on an electric toothbrush while it's turned on. You'll need to change your shirt. What can I say? It's a Monday morning...

What a crazy day Friday was! I got to work nice and early because I knew I had to have my review with my boss. About 9am I got a call about a major fault we'd just had down in Wellington. A bit of hardware had stopped working. That was odd, we haven't had any hardware faults in the network for 2 months. Anyway, just as I was about to go into my review with the bossman we had ANOTHER card fail, this time in Auckland. Amazing! So I spent the better half of an hour getting that fixed and working again. And therefore missed my review with my boss.

The rest of the day was spent just working on all the various things that are going on. Then about 4pm, we lost ANOTHER card in another box up in Auckland. It was reporting hardware failures, but to fix it...

Arrrghh.
Sometimes websites are just too tricky. I have just fixed a bug that was affecting everyone who uses Internet Explorer (pretty much everyone apart from me, so I didn't notice it until today) that was making Internet Explorer request every image file *again* everytime you loaded a page on my site.

In english: I've just made this site a shitload faster (like it used to be) for everyone using a modem. I'm really sorry about that! It wasn't my fault, ironically it was a problem with the software I am using to make the site much faster for modem users. Oh well! Fixed now!

nothing at all, really.



I have a personal development meeting with the boss on Friday. That'll be very interesting, I am looking forward to that. For mostly good reasons. There are, once again, big changes afoot at TelstraClear. As shown by Mark's departure last week.



I have cooked for myself every night for the last ages. I just realised that tonight. I have finally got into the habit. I stop in at the supermarket most nights now, because I walk right past it. I often only need milk or bread, but if I don't have any good food at home I'll buy some steak and veggies, or some salad.

My mind just expects that I'm going to cook. Magically and without even thinking about it, I've got totally out of the habit of junk food. I guess it's because I'm focused so hard on saving money the rest just comes...

I love being able to walk home, have I mentioned that? I love waving to all the people, almost always by themselves, stuck in a huge traffic jam while I walk casually on by. They probably hate me too.



I snapped today and rang the boss. "Which one of these twenty things is more important? The really important one, or the super important one, or am I missing a more important important one?" It's not his fault we're understaffed though, he's trying really hard to get us more people. And Dave starts on Monday which'll be cool. Dave used to be one of our customers (like Tony!) and he's really smart.

In case you've been living on another planet, I broke up with Emi last Sunday (not the one just gone, the one before.) If you want to know anymore then email me, I don't wish to discuss it here...

There is something in my bedroom that's out to get me. Both last night and tonight I've woken up at about 2:30am with really nasty insect bites on me. Last night I didn't do much about it, I just got up. Just now I have been into my room and unloaded a good 1/4 of a can of insect killer. Not that I can see any mozzies. Which makes me think it might be a spider or something that's doing the biting. Hopefully this kills the little fucker though, cause it's really annoying.

That is all.

The America's Cup is on over here in Auckand. Today is the first day and already I wish the stupid thing would go away. It's all the media talks about. I know I shouldn't say this, but damn I hope the Kiwis lose just so that they'll shut up about the bloody thing.

Then again, I don't like American's much either.

Read more for some important information...

What do you call a sheep tied to a lamp post in Wellington?
A leisure center.

What do you call a nun with a washing machine on her head?
Sister-Matic.

What do you call a water skier with no arms and no legs?
Skip.

What do you call a chinese lady with just one leg?
Irene.

Thankyou, that is all.

Tim

It's not often that I get an email wishing that I would get drunk and fall in front of a bus. However tonight I managed to get just such an email.

I'd just to offically say that while I might be drunk, I have yet to fall in front of a bus.

Sorry!