Ugh, jetlag is still kicking my arse. I'm told that spending time out in the sunshine is a good thing for curing it, but it's so cold... and also I'm at work at the end of the office that has no natural light. In my experience I can only adjust by about an hour per day, which means it should be fixed by the end of the week ( Read more... )

I've just found out that the reason everything has suddenly become so expensive on the very day I'm going to Rome is because the frickin' pope wants to make dead previous pope a saint. *rollseyes* Thanks to my hostel suddenly cancelling my booking for renovations (which seems rather suspicious if you ask me) I'm now struggling to find anything for ( Read more... )

I'm angry and I can't sleep. I've just paid my Body Corporate fees (and now wish I hadn't) and they seem to be ridiculously high. I'm going to get on the phone in the morning and have words with The Man because that is several hundred dollars that I can use better elsewhere. Why isn't it morning now?! Bah ( Read more... )

I've recently ordered some camera equipment from Israel - of all places - and I've been eagerly following the UPS tracking data online. The frickin' package is going in completely the opposite direction around the world!

Google Map

Surely a quick trip to Singapore and then Melbourne would have done the job. Bah!

I know I had more to say about the things that went on last week at work, but I think I'll just sum it up with the words "relatively stressful". The project I'm working on is all a bit behind because the guy doing the backend is really very slow. Java isn't really his thing, just as Laszlo isn't mine. But how his unit tests have passed all this ( Read more... )

One week down at the new job, and it certainly seems they're a little more proactive about getting me involved and actually working than my last job. Right now I'm doing some feature enhancements on a system that's due to go live at the end of the month, so there must be at least some measure of trust in my abilities. Now if only I could rapidly ( Read more... )

My dad sent me a text message saying "C u then". I'm not sure I'm ready to accept my dad speaking in such a way.

Someone managed to get themselves killed on my train line last night and all trains terminated at Caulfield. I find this person to be most inconsiderate of my needs.

I've been jibbed at the family's mid-year Christmas gathering. Through a chain of events that are too tedious to mention I ended up with some scented drawer sachets. I almost don't need to say that this was by far the suckiest present on offer, even more so than the pet rock/bra's 'n' things gift voucher combo. In any case, somehow I "accidentally ( Read more... )

Last night I introduced some good people to the evils of Wizard People and was repaid in a fine lamb dish, chocolate brownies and warm company. It was well received, although I'm not sure that katididinoz appreciated what is surely the finest reinvention Harry Potter is likely to ever have ( Read more... )