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**This entry is about 2 weeks old. Please forgive the smell**
Good afternoon to my countless faithful readers! Your devotion to this journal will pay off when it becomes famous and popular. Yes, you will be able to say with pride that you were there when the whole thing started (Actually, this was 5 years ago i believe), and sneer while you accuse the rest of the world of just "jumping on the bandwagon".
I'll keep this post purely about what has actually been happening in my life. If you came for something insightful or entertaining, you might as well just click the page down entry on your friends page, until you get to the next person's post. You many have to press it a few dozen times of course.
Today is a "writing day" for my brother Josh and I. We are currently being extremely metro, and have taken our lappies to Gloria Jeans in Hamilton to do some writing while we have coffee, and use the free wireless internet provided by the Newcastle Council. nesselle is up in the Gold Coast for Natalie's Hen's night. I was invited to the Buck's show too, but I want to save money for the wedding itself. So, the net result is that I have the whole weekend to myself. Tonight is Ukelesh's leaving party, which I will actually be free to go to, holy crap!
So what has all my time been going towards? Aside from work and spending time with nesselle I've mainly been spending plenty of time (probably too much time) playing computer games. I finished nearly all of the games on my top ten, the list from about three weeks ago. I've also been doing a fair bit of writing, as well as wrestling with my new PC. Oh didn't I tell you? I bought a new one, only my second PC ever, and this time built entirely by myself from scratch. I had a little to learn, but it wasn't too bad. Unfortunately not long after I'd had the thing put together, glinting black and imposing in the corner of my tiny room, that the hard drive packed it in and I lost pretty much everything. Fixing that cost me hours. I kept running the data recovery program over and over, hoping against hope that at least some of my porn photos could be recovered. This is the second time this has happened to me, so this I bought three hard drives, so I should be able to organize a Raid, with parity bits to prevent this from every happening again.
Vanessa and I spent two nights, thanks to her connections, for free, in a place called "Kim's Hideaway" on the central coast. It's a nice resort for extremely rich Sydneyites who want to go somewhere relaxing and far away from the big city. Our bungalow was massive, beautiful, and right at the ocean's edge, so that the sunrise came flooding in through the bedroom windows, which were full length, and covered four fifths of the beach facing walls.
I played, and won, a game of Blind Chess against Sean, from work. The game spanned two days, included pawn promotion, as well as castling, and caused us to get much less real work done that we would have otherwise. No doubt my bosses will eventually read this so let me hasten to mention that I'm joking and of course I would never waste time playing games when there is so much fun to be had working.
I'm now running a roleplay session of my very own. It has been extremely difficult so far, I'm having to learn quickly. The biggest thing to has been the dodgy self-made adventures that I've been trying to run, which I've made very complicated, and spent much less time on than I probbaly should have. It's certainly very stressful to say the least. As long as everyone continues to forgive my shortcomings I'll eventually become proficient.
Last night I went to a Poker night at one of the girls from work's house, along with a small group of other of the more dedicated players also from work There was real money involved, as well as a stack of rules that everyone else I've ever played with has never bothered with, like the cut-card, and the big blind getting the opportunity to raise. I was the first one out, but I certainly didn't embarrass myself, and only lost because of bad luck on a maverick hand. I'd been keen to see how I go at one of the free Poker nights that Phoenix does every month.
Christmas and new years were excellent, if very busy, and the 10 days we Vanessa and I had off work went by very fast. Christmas lunch was the usual gluttony fest it always, at our place this year for a change, and then we rushed to Vanessa's parent's place for Christmas, heading to bed embarrassingly early at about 10pm. For new years this year I spent the night with my cousins Amy and Aaron, The boys versed the girls in a game of "Deal or No Deal", and the boys lost, so as per the rules of the game, we had to scream "NO DEAL" at the pizza man when he told us how much the pizza's cost.
Coffee is done now - so we are off. Will post this from home at some point in the not too distant future, since I haven't culled it.
Good afternoon to my countless faithful readers! Your devotion to this journal will pay off when it becomes famous and popular. Yes, you will be able to say with pride that you were there when the whole thing started (Actually, this was 5 years ago i believe), and sneer while you accuse the rest of the world of just "jumping on the bandwagon".
I'll keep this post purely about what has actually been happening in my life. If you came for something insightful or entertaining, you might as well just click the page down entry on your friends page, until you get to the next person's post. You many have to press it a few dozen times of course.
Today is a "writing day" for my brother Josh and I. We are currently being extremely metro, and have taken our lappies to Gloria Jeans in Hamilton to do some writing while we have coffee, and use the free wireless internet provided by the Newcastle Council. nesselle is up in the Gold Coast for Natalie's Hen's night. I was invited to the Buck's show too, but I want to save money for the wedding itself. So, the net result is that I have the whole weekend to myself. Tonight is Ukelesh's leaving party, which I will actually be free to go to, holy crap!
So what has all my time been going towards? Aside from work and spending time with nesselle I've mainly been spending plenty of time (probably too much time) playing computer games. I finished nearly all of the games on my top ten, the list from about three weeks ago. I've also been doing a fair bit of writing, as well as wrestling with my new PC. Oh didn't I tell you? I bought a new one, only my second PC ever, and this time built entirely by myself from scratch. I had a little to learn, but it wasn't too bad. Unfortunately not long after I'd had the thing put together, glinting black and imposing in the corner of my tiny room, that the hard drive packed it in and I lost pretty much everything. Fixing that cost me hours. I kept running the data recovery program over and over, hoping against hope that at least some of my porn photos could be recovered. This is the second time this has happened to me, so this I bought three hard drives, so I should be able to organize a Raid, with parity bits to prevent this from every happening again.
Vanessa and I spent two nights, thanks to her connections, for free, in a place called "Kim's Hideaway" on the central coast. It's a nice resort for extremely rich Sydneyites who want to go somewhere relaxing and far away from the big city. Our bungalow was massive, beautiful, and right at the ocean's edge, so that the sunrise came flooding in through the bedroom windows, which were full length, and covered four fifths of the beach facing walls.
I played, and won, a game of Blind Chess against Sean, from work. The game spanned two days, included pawn promotion, as well as castling, and caused us to get much less real work done that we would have otherwise. No doubt my bosses will eventually read this so let me hasten to mention that I'm joking and of course I would never waste time playing games when there is so much fun to be had working.
I'm now running a roleplay session of my very own. It has been extremely difficult so far, I'm having to learn quickly. The biggest thing to has been the dodgy self-made adventures that I've been trying to run, which I've made very complicated, and spent much less time on than I probbaly should have. It's certainly very stressful to say the least. As long as everyone continues to forgive my shortcomings I'll eventually become proficient.
Last night I went to a Poker night at one of the girls from work's house, along with a small group of other of the more dedicated players also from work There was real money involved, as well as a stack of rules that everyone else I've ever played with has never bothered with, like the cut-card, and the big blind getting the opportunity to raise. I was the first one out, but I certainly didn't embarrass myself, and only lost because of bad luck on a maverick hand. I'd been keen to see how I go at one of the free Poker nights that Phoenix does every month.
Christmas and new years were excellent, if very busy, and the 10 days we Vanessa and I had off work went by very fast. Christmas lunch was the usual gluttony fest it always, at our place this year for a change, and then we rushed to Vanessa's parent's place for Christmas, heading to bed embarrassingly early at about 10pm. For new years this year I spent the night with my cousins Amy and Aaron, The boys versed the girls in a game of "Deal or No Deal", and the boys lost, so as per the rules of the game, we had to scream "NO DEAL" at the pizza man when he told us how much the pizza's cost.
Coffee is done now - so we are off. Will post this from home at some point in the not too distant future, since I haven't culled it.