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Oh, just in case you thought the blog was just a bunch of boring travelogues and pretty pictures, here's... um... a bunch of pretty pictures!I've been meaning to post this for a while; way back when I started the blog, I mentioned that I was helping finish off a couple of murals started by the mural painting group I used to work for. Well, one of the murals found an installation site (after the

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...Okay, I'm back. Well, I'm being sneaky here - I've been back for the better part of four months, but the new job has taken away my motivation for doing sociable stuff (and that's an excuse I've used before, I know).I had a good time up in Queensland, even though it wasn't as sunny as it usually is. My Dad and Stepmum commented on how unusually rainy it was while I was there - "It never rains

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4.00amWoke up.4.15amWoke up again. Considered having shower, but realised that I wouldn't have time (should have been better organised yesterday). Only had about 6 hours sleep, after doing a night shift the day before last... stupid idea now!4.30amGot dressed, gave my luggage and carry-on a check over, and called a taxi to get to the station. Assured that said taxi would be there in 10 minutes

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Hello everybody from tropical Queensland!!!...Okay, you're probably imagining beautiful palm trees on pristine white beaches, lapped by crystal blue water. Not quite the case, but it is a wonderful piece of quiet bushland with a refreshing creek at the bottom (and a comfortable split-level house with all the mod-cons).I'm up in Far North Queensland with my Dad and Stepmum for a week, in honour

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Seriously, it was January just about a week ago...Holy smokes, we're one month into 2011 already! That went awful fast.Quick TL;DR summary of the past couple of months:Did the Christmas thing - went to work for a few hours; went to visit friends for Christmas dinner, and then; drove for two hours on an unfamiliar road in the dark so we could collect my nephew, and THEN had to drive two hours

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...continuing on from Part One (which is actually the post BELOW this, thanks to the chronological stacking of the blog structure):Around the same time that my friends came to visit, we also had a visit from my Dad and his partner, who had come down all the way from Queensland in their trusty 4WD. They live further away from us than my friends do, so you can imagine how frequently we don't get to

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My computer is playing up at the moment, so I'm trying to use my DSi to manage the task of posting here. Holy heck, it's much harder to do this when you're navigating semi-functional webpages on a teeny tiny screen! Let's just see how this works, hey?...Well, that seemed to work without too much trouble - though, I doubt I'll be trading in my keyboard any time soon.So! It's nearly That Time Of

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I really really really like this video.Reyn Ouwehand has been in the business of making music for videogames for years, and has released several albums of both his own compositions and that of others. Here, he plays the theme tune from Wizball, which was composed by Martin Galway. The tune was pretty good for the humble C64, but here it sounds amazing:Some cool and relevant links: ● Reyn's

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And so, another month runs away from us all. Only 25 days to Christmas, and 31 before the year leaves us for good. It really does feel like time moves so much faster now!So, here's a quick-ish recap of what I got up to in the last month:I slowly got the hang of my new job. The manager said that I was the fastest person they'd ever seen at adapting to the registers, which made them happy (they

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...okay, sorry for the folks who thought my last post was TL and so DR. Basically, here's a quick catch up over what happened since September:I lost my jobI caught chicken poxI then caught a cold, or flu, or some upper respiratory infectionthus I spent half of September sickand I missed out on the company break-up because I was too contagious to go(oh, and my sister caught the pox as well, and

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Tuesday 24th AugustGot called in to work at the local servo at the last minute. Normally Tuesday was my day off, but my Manager argued me around; he pointed out that it will probably be the last time it will happen before the big changeover to the new fuel company. (And I figured, yeah, why not?)About an hour later, as I come into the shop, I notice a group of young men who were having a deep

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...and I'll formally be out of a job.yes, you read that right. Drama has been afoot since last Tuesday, when we finally found out where we stood at our place of employment. After months of speculation, we have learned that the sale of our workplace to a multi-national fuel company has resulted in most of us (including myself) becoming redundant.This Tuesday is the last day we will be trading

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It's been a pretty busy month so far (and I'm only a week into it).I've managed to score a nice new (second-hand) car off my cousin - which means that now I'll be able to drive a car that I actually OWN... and give back the Volvo that I've been borrowing for the past two years. really? Two years?!I'm also hoping to help my friend fly overseas, because she needs to renew her citizenship.

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Dearie me... I think things are getting to me, because I just spent the past half hour trying to remember what my Google password was.Don't get me wrong, I knew what it WAS, but I spelled it with a bunch of strange characters to make it harder to guess. Unfortunately, I haven't used it in a while, and I'm a little tired at the moment, so I kept getting the sequence wrong. And did you know that

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...is one where I get the day work-free! Like today!Seriously, though, I've been quite busy the past couple of months. Mostly related to worky-work, though I promised I wouldn't keep yammering about how busy I've been (I should be grateful I have a job in this economic environment, etc. etc.).In between gigs, I've been slowly trying to re-establish contact with all my friends. I managed to

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I've been thinking about my job a lot lately.Mostly because, though work is remarkably thin across the ground (thanks to the GFC, cheap overseas labour, competition in the field, etc.), I'm really not sure if I'm suited for the task.I've always considered myself to be reasonably good at my job - retail work is hard, but it's not that hard, after all - but recent events have made me wonder if I'm

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Just so all the viewers, stalkers and searchbots can get to know me a little better, here are some sites that I've stumbled over in the past few days.Judge A Book By Its Cover and Awful Library Books do exactly what it says on the tin. My mother works at a library, and I'm sure she would find these two blogs absolutely hilarious - and then she would immediately go to work and rip off half the

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NB. I changed the blog colour scheme again, in case people found the bright letters on dark a bit too hard to read. Is this current setup any better? Please let me know!Well, what a weird week it's been. Actually, I refer to the past seven days, not the Sunday-to-Saturday.I started off having three days off in a row, and by the end of it, I only had ONE. =(I worked Saturday morning, and after

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I'll be working a fair bit over the next two weeks thanks to the Australia Day public holiday (which falls on a Tuesday this year, so most people will also take Monday off as well dammit), so I've made the most of the time at hand and spent it wisely for a change. That is, I've done things that were more productive than just sleeping or sitting around at home.Yesterday, I had the gaping hole in

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As I write this, my friend Andrew is playing with my sister's PS2... We have tidied up the house after an inspection, and we used the opportunity to have company over, so naturally we made it a bit of a games night.We had a few rounds of Buzz!, which was one of the gifts Santa brought my sister last month. The game is itself loaded with innuendo, but it makes for a much more surreal game if you

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...but for some reason I'm not sleepy. Damn wacked-up sleeping pattern.Right now I'm struggling to get Windows Media Player to rip some CDs so I can listen to them via my new MP3 player.It works perfectly fine for CDs printed en-masse, which would therefore have an entry in the media player's on-line database; this saves me time when it comes to labelling each track, because the software just

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Okay, catching up from this post:This was what came out of the second parcel from my friend in Japan. More weird parallel-universe-y flavours of everyone's favourite chocolate wafer stick biscuit*!My friend was kind enough to attach labels to the packets to explain which one was which flavour; unfortuantely, they've all since fallen off. So, I had to do some puzzling out as to which flavour was

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Well, it's finally Christmas! How is it for you? I'm trying to be nice about it this year, even though I have to work again (which is fine, because I hadn't planned anything else for the day anyways).We had a very ramshackle, scattered Christmas this year.The main problem was that so many of us had plans for the end of the year, and it made it difficult to co-ordinate anything in the way of

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Hey folks.Sorry I forgot about the blog for the past few weeks, but my job has been occupying a lot of my time - plus there have been some other developments that needed attention:My uncle passed away in November. He had been unwell for some time, and was living in a care home, but he was admitted into critical care in late October after his lymphoma started affecting him badly. He spent about

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A quick note, while I'm here:Nova, I received your package with gratitude! I will post a photo of the yummy contents as soon as we've tried them all. (No, this post is not about drugs.)Regards,NebPS. What on earth happened to your blog?!

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Skip to Part One of this topic by clicking here.Otherwise you'll be reading this all back to front and that would be silly, now, wouldn't it?We had spent so long waiting to get inside the exhibition that a minor problem came up - none of us had eaten a solid meal for nearly five hours. We had brought snacks and nibbles, but we had expected to go somewhere for lunch afterwards; we hadn't

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...or, What I Thought Of The Dalí Exhibition.I remember that the first thing we saw was video screens depicting the countryside where Dalí grew up. The strange, weather-eroded stone grouping that clustered around the fishing village were the inspiration for many of Dalí's landscapes. It was nice, but I wanted to see some art, not some rocks! Get a move on, people!!!And then we realised: we had

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While we were waiting, we overheard that the Gallery was going to keep the exhibition open until 7.00pm, instead of closing it at 5.00. I thought that was very generous; it would have been very difficult to keep the people who had bought their tickets from rioting when they suddenly closed up!So, we were now in the entry line. It moved a lot quicker, and curved politely around the ticket line -

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So, where were we? Oh, yes. Still in this fugging queue.I should point out that this second queue wasn't even the entry line; it's only the line for paying admission. If we'd expected this, we would have sorted something out a lot earlier, but... what could we do?Wait. That's what we could do. Apparently, that's what 15,000 other art patrons did over the same weekend, and I suspect half of

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Heh heh! I could start this post with an apology about not blogging often enough, but it seems just about everyone who has a blog says that at the start of each post, so... Nyah.I really should have told you both about my trip to the National Gallery of Victoria to see the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire exhibition, since it happened at least a week ago. ;/I've gone as far as to load up the photos

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All systems appear to be go for the trip up to Melb. this weekend, but things got a little... weird.I was meant to stay at home and attend to my nephew while my sister and her partner went up to see the Salvador Dali thing, but instead I wound up stuck in bed for two days (my ONLY TWO DAYS OFF FOR THE WEEK) because of a strange episode that happened to me on the Monday.I had just seen off my

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I managed to go and visit my friends last Tuesday! It's a bit hit and miss nowadays, since we all have such different schedules to keep. I'd hate to have missed them though, especially after all the bitching about it I did in my last post! ;PThe gathering was in aid of the trip to Melbourne I've been trying to organise for the better part of four months. I want to go and see the Salvador Dali:

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Hey constant readers! yeah, both of youI finally went and collected the painting I bought last month, after about a week of missing contacts and plain forgetfulness. I'll post an image of the artwork once I get permission from the artist - copyright and IP protection, and all that. ;)While I was there paying for art, we got to talking about how things have been for ourselves. My artist friend

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Ugh, I've realised that I'm really bad at catching up with people. I've spent the past few months virtually living in a cave, as far as my social life is concerned. I used to have the excuse of being too busy, long distance, illness etc. etc. but all that does is separate me from my friends even more. Not good.I've made amends so far this month. I've been good and sociable three times so far

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More from the Little Blue Book: Things I've Lurnded Make sure to check the video recorder's status (ie. which TV station it is set to) before pressing REC. I once made my sister burst into tears by mixing this one up. I hate living in a squalid mess.Unfortunately, apparently a squalid mess is my natural environment, apparently.Don't say anything inappropriate around naked people. In fact

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Well, I've just had a BUSY two weeks. I have worked at least once a day every day since last Monday week, which was when I went to Warragul for my gastroscopy session. I was actually pencilled in for a shift that day, but it was a late change and I had to bail on work sorry to my coworkers; I hate leaving you guys in the lurch, just so you know, but I gotta look after my health.I was going to

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Sorry if this widget breaks your browser. I just thought it was nifty that there was a free Stephen King story out on the web! Make sure you start from Part 1! Oh, and if this bit doesn't work properly, this texty bit takes you direct to the site.

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I have no real idea why I haven't posted anything for this month. It's not as if I didn't do anything exciting! Just being lazy I suppose.The family went to our cousin's engagement party last week. The theme for the event was "Op Shop" clothing, the idea being that you had to come in the least appropriate outfit conceivable.You can only imagine what some of the other guests wore.As for me, I

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Okay, I have some news.I went to the doctor the other day because I've been having a recurring problem with my upper digestive tract - in other words, stuff has been getting stuck in my throat. I mentioned this briefly in another post. However, this is not a new problem, but something that I have been enduring for the past five years or so.Basically, what happens is:1. I eat something that

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Okay folks, let's play a game called "What's This Song?"The rules are simple. Press Play on each movie to hear a song, and try to guess which song it is. Yeah, the movies don't show much, just album covers - and yes, I know, it has the title of each song, but you'll probably be surprised to learn what came of them.This was the original song that inspired this one. Of course, after the first

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Here's a link to my friend Miro's Voltron fansite:She's currently running a webcomic based on the series. It's funny and well drawn. Believe it or not, she doesn't have a scanner or tablet - rather, she draws the outline on paper, takes a photo of it, and then works it up digitally. Nifty, huh?Anyway, go visit the site, if you're interested in all things Voltron. And don't forget to say hello

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Just a quick post to let you all know that I won't be posting anything today.

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Only popping in to say two things:My job will improve once we get the new register system up and running properly. OHMYGOD we had some really big problems this week -but, this blog is not the place for those sorts of things. I have to draw the line somewhere, after all...I am really liking this: CandyBlog , though I can't for the life of me imagine why... droooolI really shouldn't be looking at

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I forgot to tell you - I went to see my sister and her man semi-naked in a play yesterday.Well, not her so much as him. o_o;;Oh, relax.It was all well and good.They both got parts bad choice of words, I know in another British farce called "Who Goes Bare". It was quite funny, actually, and last night's performance went really well.Apparently, it was the best one so far, because the previous two

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Okay, fine, I'll join Twitter. My handle is Blue_Chicken. Look for the new feed thingy appearing on the right.

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Ahhhh.... Work is crazy, as per usual.We still haven't upgraded our system yet at my usual haunt, but we've had a few problems of our own over the past week. Unfortunately, I don't feel like talking about them right now. Let's just say: someone quit over the weekend; half the staff are too ill to come in; and it will all be better soon - I hope!I received my $900 Stimulus Payment last week, so

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Hey! I just found this new Java-applet-site called Wordle. It lets you create works of art using typography and word frequency. All you need to do is provide a block of text, let the program generate the pattern of words, and tweak according to taste.This being totally relevant to my interests, I naturally had to have a go. I cut and pasted a paragraph from Alice in Wonderland (courtesy of

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I hope everyone who visits this blog managed to have a cool Easter long weekend! I had to work, but hey, someone had to...And, let's just say that there were a lot of people caught short when they discovered that we were the only place open for the public holidays. By Monday evening we were out of bread, milk, and small change. Eeep.Seriously, though...Easter was fine, and everyone got nice

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I should also point that I've adjusted the settings of the blog so that anyone can post anonymously, because I know that not everyone who knows me has a Gmail account or similar.If you want to make a comment on a particular posting, click on the text that reads "[n] PEOPLE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BIT". You can type in your comment, and then follow the directions as shown on the form.The only

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An explanation for the previous post is overdue...and here it is! Along with some extra news:For those of you who did not get the hidden message in the last post, Please Read It Again. Admittedly, I posted it a few days late. But no, I have not decided to suddenly get a life and quit blogging. Yep, there will be more mundane postings to come!Things are crazy at work at the moment. We are in

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After keeping up the pretence for about a year, I have come to the decision that I have no real need to share my daily goings-on with the world.Perhaps it's for the best. Really, it's been fun, but I can't just fill posts up with random crap, can I? I have to actually find something more practical with my time; something that actually helps the community, rather than just wasting my time so

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We just finished watching Across The Universe, the movie (musical?) that uses Beatles songs to create a fictional story set in the late 1960s. My sister hadn't seen it before, and she rented it along with a bunch of others - not realising that I already owned the DVD!If you haven't seen the film yet, and are at all interested in the Beatles' music, watch it as soon as you can, as it is totally

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Hey folks.I've been really busy of late. This week alone I'm working 7 days, at three different sites - phew! It's hard being so popular, but at least I'm getting paid for it all.Anyway, I'm adding a few links to the side bar (in case someone actually decides to click on one of them some day), including one for Failblog.org - a very popular site in our household, and one you should check out if

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Okay, stuff has happened since the last post.Well, that's a bit bloody obvious, isn't it? It's not as if stuff stops happening when no-one bothers to update their blog!Krissy has spent the past fortnight attending classes at Tafe, and freaking out about the work she has to do. It seems that there is a tutor there whose method involves throwing the students into the deep end, ie. giving them

Nebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10115706153833421733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762458222965703187.post-69374312379564891732009-02-25T04:28:00.003+11:002009-02-25T04:52:31.816+11:00

but instead I am up at 4am updating my blog for some reason.Just shuffling a few things around...and letting everyone who knows us that my sister has enrolled in the Visual Arts course at TAFE! Along with one of my friends from the mural project! Yay for both of them!And yet, for some reason I feel a bit sad about that.Partly because they are both younger than me and still have some leverage

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Where has my blog gone to?The blogroll has disappeared, but the posts are still readable from the side menu. I wonder what's happened?...(later)Oh, they're back now. Sorry to get all confused on you. Proceed.

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I bought a couple of new games last week. Yeah, I know, "credit crunch" and all that, but I have been working well the past few months, so I figured I'd be allowed to spend a little more than I used to...Anyway, I found a copy of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, which is the sequel to Aria of Sorrow that I already own. Not that it would have mattered if I hadn't, because video game sequels aren't

Nebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10115706153833421733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762458222965703187.post-59420578626163922712009-02-15T04:21:00.003+11:002009-02-17T02:33:59.392+11:00

This is the box that Nova presented to me when I met up with her (during the visit mentioned in my previous post). Upon opening it, I found this:Yummy! Kit Kats from oriental shores! Delicious! Admittedly they'd melted a bit before we had a chance to get them, thanks to the extreme warm days we've been having, but still, tasty nonetheless.With most of these, the flavour component is within

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My friend Nova, who has spent the past year in Japan, has come back to Australia for a month to catch up with family and friends (and also attend to important medical appointments). I had the day off on Friday, so I went up to Melbourne to visit her. The last time I went up to the city was when we went to see the Game On exhibition at ACMI, waay back in March last year. If the exhibition ever

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Victorian Bushfires Make National HeadlinesLooks like I spoke too soon.I came home from working in Traralgon on Saturday evening, only to be greeted by huge plumes of smoke coming off the hills behind my home town.I managed to get a couple of photos before I had to go back to work. These were taken at about 4.30pm:I didn't have time to take more, but my sister's man took some video footage of

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I've been adding photos to my Picasa albums for your viewing enjoyment.Try clicking on the "Nature Photos" image on the right! You can also comment on them if you wish.Leah - Thank you very much for the cool Dubai-themed Christmas gifts! I like the camel-themed playing cards and fridge magnets! And Krissy really likes the silky scarf!Sorry we didn't get to meet over Christmas, but I'll try to

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So... the bushfires.Here's some links to news articles about them:ABC.com.au - Vic blaze destroys homes as town runs out of waterThe Age - Bushfires destroy Gippsland homesThe Australian - Huge bushfire threatens power line, coal mine in VictoriaNews.com.au - Gippsland fire now within containment linesThe fires started late Wednesday afternoon. I was at work at the time, and the weather had just

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Not much new to report here, except that it is absolutely stinking hot today! After months of teasing us with wet cold weather, the summer has finally come in earnest...Oh, and there's a new section on the right - I finally figured out how to put up a banner-link list! It turned out to be so simple anyone with basic HTML coding experience could do it. smacks himself in the headI'll be looking

Nebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10115706153833421733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762458222965703187.post-6305171630546239562009-01-27T16:12:00.005+11:002009-01-29T17:57:30.399+11:00

As you probably noticed, I've retired Dinkycam because I have a nicer camera now.The other day I went for a walk around town to try and take some nice photos of the area I live in, especially since the weather has been warm enough for me to do so.I figured I'd be able to get some pictures of the many birds and animals that come in to town. I've seen many different ones, like rosellas, cockatoos,

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After I went to the dentist, I decided to get myself another present for being such a good boy oh, all right, I just needed an excuse, so I went and bought myself Alanis Morissette's latest album "Flavors of Entanglement". It's pretty good - I usually don't "get" my albums until I've listened to them a few times, so I'll be listening to it for a while yet. Plus, it rounds out my CD collection

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I finally got to see the dentist today.I only went in to tell them that the tooth had broken, and that I needed to get an appointment as soon as possible. Just so happened, they had just had an appointment broken by a patient right when I was at the counter, so I managed to get into the chair straight away! Luckily I'd brushed before leaving the house!It appears that, despite the tooth breaking

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Playing: Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin (DS)Reading:The Lucy Family Alphabet, By Judith LucyListening:Past Masters, Vol. I and II - The BeatlesWatching:...nothing at the moment - I don't really watch TV and movies as much as I used toWearing:The T-shirts Ma made me for Christmas...

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Another post-event post...A New Year has begun... and unfortunately, I had to work for NYE (again!), but it was only for about five hours, and it was pretty dead at work after everyone had got what they needed.We had a good time for NYE this/last year.We had some friends over for a few Wii-ing contests in the living room, and played a few rounds of SingStar on a friend's PS2. I think my sister

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Okay, remember how I said I had to have part of a root canal done last month?Well, it just got worse.Last week, while I was sitting at the computer and eating a muesli bar, I suddenly realised that there was something else in my mouth that definitely wasn't chewy...I spit out the half-chewed bar, and amongst the oaty-fruity stuff was this:AAAAARGH!!!I had a look at my tooth in the mirror, and

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I collect all sorts of weird junk (just wait until I start posting some of my Video game figurines).One of the things I like to collect are rocks. Not just average-looking chunks of gravel, mind you, but rocks that are pretty.Like these:I found the three blue stones at the Sunday market a few weeks ago, for about $3 each. I thought the smaller stones with the gold flecks were Lapis Lazuli but

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Remember back a few months ago, when I mentioned something about the White Tail spider not being as poisonous as people thought?Well, it's now December, the weather has turned warm, and it's brought the spider population out of hiding. Spiders are cold-blooded, and only become active when they are warm enough, unlike we humans who carry our own heat internally.Anyway, the other night I stepped

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AAAA! The curse of eXcemas... is over for another year.And, actually, it wasn't that bad.I managed to get gifts for all the people who mattered, and what's more, the majority of them were bargains. Like the funky colour-changing lamp that looks like a plain white rectangle when it's off, but turns into a miniature disco-floor when you turn it on! That one was a gift for my sister and her man,

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...at my mother's house, in preparation for eXcemas... and also for my older sister's birthday. She's thirty... something. I forget the exact age at this point.I would have included some lovely photos of the proceedings, including a funny video of the balloon fight we had in the living room - there's something about that room that is oddly conducive to such games! - but... the SD card in my

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Okay, we've had the Wii for about a week now, and I've discovered something interesting: Making realistic representations of your friends and family from memory is a LOT harder than I expected.One of the features of the Wii is the ability to create miniature in-game versions of yourself and your friends, which are called Miis. These work a lot like the avatars used in chatrooms and web forums,

Nebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10115706153833421733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762458222965703187.post-41567990250403709162008-12-13T05:10:00.004+11:002008-12-13T05:51:46.105+11:00

I did mention that I had one more birthday celebration coming up, didn't I?My friend-ish party was originally scheduled for last Friday, but I had to reschedule because a) I hadn't time to organise anything, and b) I was really too tired to do it after having worked several early shifts that week. I was knackered...So, I postponed it until the 12th. Which meant I had ample time to tidy the

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I had another dental appointment yesterday. This one did NOT go well.Last Saturday, I developed a toothache in one of my more problematic teeth. This one started about lunchtime, and got worse over the evening. My head practically exploded when I had something warm to eat for dinner, and I was at work so I couldn't exactly take two painkillers and go to bed at the time! I just had to grit my

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An interesting development! I now have an actual digital camera! A worthy successor to Dinkycam! snickerMy folks got me a FujiFilm FinePix camera as a birthday gift, so now I'll be able to take photos that contain recognisable subjects! Hoo-freakin'-ray!So, expect to see a lot more photos appearing on my bloggie...PS. Nope, still aren't gonna see any nudie shots, btw...

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So, here's what happened when I actually turned thirty.Well, the story continues from the Sunday before... when I overslept and nearly missed opening the shop on time. I managed to get there about five minutes before we were open for trade, and I quickly raced around getting everything sorted out in time! It brought back horrible memories of when I used to open up the shop in Traralgon every

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Well, I finally made it to yet another milestone today.And of course, I celebrated it appropriately... I FELL ASLEEP.Okay, before I get too involved, here's what we did to honour my thirtieth.Last Saturday, my sister came down from Melbourne so we could all go out to a restaurant for dinner. We went to Iimi's Café in Traralgon, a very nice café/restaurant place we've been to before. It was a

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Yep.Turnin' Thirty.More to come when the pics are ready.

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I went for one of my round-the-town walks yesterday, while the weather was still good. I really need to get some more exercise, so I've taken up a semi-regular stroll, just so I can get used to the idea of leaving the house.I walked past the man-made lake by the high school, and I saw some ducks (no real surprise there)... but I saw something else which struck me as unusual. There was a

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I have just realised that there is scant information about my game at present, aside from the fact that it is available now. Knowing that no-one will try it without seeing what it is like, here is what you need to know:It is a Windows Application. That is, you have to download the game and install it before you can play it. It is not a game that you can play on-line (through a web browser, for

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Hey folks!Stuff has been happening since the last post. (But then it usually does.)I got a haircut the other day. It cost me $10. o_O;I feel happier knowing my head is not weighed down with useless hair. I like to keep it nice and short, so I don't have to worry about it being a mess all the time.When my hair is short, it looks nice and straight, but, as soon as it starts to get a bit of

Nebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10115706153833421733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762458222965703187.post-47013193321382379632008-11-13T05:35:00.004+11:002008-11-13T05:45:43.753+11:00

Your attention, folks...IT IS DONE.Click here to download Version 2.1 of Antix!Note: It's a 4.28Mb download, so it'll take a while for dial-up users to get it. And it's currently sitting on my Googlepages account, but possibly not for long... so I'll upload another copy somewhere else in the meantime.I haven't updated the webpage yet, so for the meantime, all comments and questions can be posted

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I recently found a copy of the Nintendo Gamecube title Pikmin.It's excellent! It plays a lot like Lemmings, except you have slightly better control over the little helpers.You take the role of an alien whose rocket ship has crashed on an unfamiliar planet. You encounter a number of small beings, the "Pikmin", who follow you and perform directed tasks (like destroying walls, building pathways,

Nebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10115706153833421733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762458222965703187.post-32540204703010635122008-11-09T00:24:00.004+11:002008-11-09T00:37:58.684+11:00

...caught in the space between...Right now I am in between two opening shifts at work. I seem to be getting a lot of opening shifts recently... and they are a lot harder than I thought they would be.I'm still working under the limit of 30hrs a week (it's a regulatory thing - I guess if we worked any more hours it would cost our employers too much). But... I'm really NOT a morning person, and my

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The other piece of news I have is that Trish has finished the Train Mural that I've helped paint previously. I haven't been able to go visit her studio since this post (and that time I was beyond anything resembling helpfulness).The commissioners of the murals have been complaining about the absence of finished work, so Trish has had to complete them on her own.:( Sorry Trish.If I'd had a

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Well, the play was excellent! Though, not all went to plan...I managed to get the night off (yay!) and I managed to organise three of my friends to accompany me (yay!!) and I even managed to find my way to the hall on time (YAAY!!!).But... two of my friends didn't make it. Regrettably, their car got a flat tyre on the way. (Noooo!!!) Which meant that I'd lost out on the price of their tickets

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I'm looking forward to tomorrow.I'll be going to see my sister in the Moartz play Dimboola, and I'll be using the opportunity to catch up with my mural painting friends as well (assuming we all make it on time). I've been so busy with work of late, it will be good to get together with people and actually have some fun for a change!Ah, things look like they're clearing up a bit now. Hopefully I

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Another book that I'd been searching for (and found at the library) was House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. I'd seen it mentioned somewhere, and I thought it would be exactly the kind of book I'd like.I read through it a couple of nights ago, and all I can say is Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

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But no, I haven't just been watching TV.I finally managed to find a copy of The Salmon of Doubt, the posthumous collection of Douglas Adams' essays and articles published after his death in 2001. I've been scouring the bookshops for a copy, and gave up, when I realised, "Duh! That's what libraries are for!"It's not the kind of book you read all at once, but rather a "pick it up and sample it

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By the way, we've been watching the "new" episodes of Doctor Who of late, and hey, turns out I was already a fan and never even knew it!One of those "Aha! It all makes sense now!" moments.Seriously, though, it's about time someone started making television that was worth watching again. I was starting to lose focus now that Buffy and Angel wound themselves up.And, what's even better, I have a

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Uuuaahhh...Just when I thought I was out of the frying pan...Work has come back to annoy me again. We're really struggling with the thinly-spread staff at the moment. Long story short, I will be working a lot of hours after this Wednesday.I hope we get some new staff soon, because I (and most of the others at work) really do NOT want to keep doing this.Also, we have a house inspection this week

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As most of my friends know, I have a collection of sketch-book type journals - about twelve of them, at last count. They're not diaries as you would think of them, ie. written prose about daily life (like, say, a blog), but they are still an historical record of my life. They're more of a scrapbook/collage/memento collection than anything else; if I see something that I like and think is worth

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Yep, I got it.I actually went and bought it the day after my last posting about it... :)IMHO:It's a good game.It took me about a week to complete.It's a pretty good RPG, and the world of Sonic lends itself to the genre well. Sonic and his friends each have unique abilities, like Sonic's spin dash, Tails' flight, and Knuckles' wall-climbing skill, and these lend themselves to both the adventuring

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Well, I went for my latest dentist appointment today, and fortunately, I didn't have to have that troublesome tooth at the back removed - he just repaired the filling. Hooray!The sad part is, I actually don't mind going to the dentist.Not only because the people who work there are very nice, but also because I find all the procedures so damn fascinating. The injections, the needles, that

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Yay!I'm finished with work - for the time being!I have two days off now!!!PHEW!(seriously, some of my regular customers were starting to look at me funny.)

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Also, I discovered something else today that is a little disappointing.Last year, my older sister gave me a new alarm clock for Christmas. Not an ordinary one that just tells time and bleeps when you want it to, but one with a unique "deactivation" setting.On top of the clock mechanism is a small sphere attached to a propeller blade. When the alarm goes off, the blade spins around rapidly, and

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More work to come... mutter grumble...Last weekend was, um, fiascotastic. Turns out I had to work a bit longer than expected, but it also meant that I got to leave work and go straight to sleep, instead of having to go home and then back.I did an eight hour close on Saturday, and an eight hour open on Sunday... with ten minutes sleep under my belt. And I was getting really worried because I

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Ugh. Busy couple of weeks coming up.I have volunteered some time over at one of the other service stations for the next couple of weeks, which equals twenty-five hours over five days.Okay in itself, except that I also have to fill in another sixteen hours over the weekends at my usual haunt. No weekends off. I get no days off until mid-October.mutter grumble...I bought myself another CD today,

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