Nerdery, Machinery, Drunkery.
Briefly, I had a delayed hangover. Though it may have also just been a symptom of waking up after an afternoon nap.
Because of the nap, I missed recording the re-broadcast of The Butterfly Effect. Damnit!
Earlier today I tried to diagnose Emma's computer problems. It's definitely erroring RAM-wise, but did the same when I put my (definitely not faulty) RAM in it.
I guess it's a mainboard fault, but seeing as I said the same thing about Ian's computer - and he bought a new mainboard which didn't fix the problem - I'm not very confident in my abilities right now.
I really don't like being wrong when diagnosing a PC, it feels like I've lost the only skill I have.
Ian, Mav and I went to the computer fair. I bought a sound card. Due to the aforementioned nap, I haven't put it in the PC yet. But I've definitely been using onboard sound for far too long. All comments on the matter seem to indicate I'll be very happy I spent the money.
Coming up the hill into Charlestown after the fair, Ian was trying to let me hear the whining noise which definitely indicates there's something wrong with his intercooler install. But the other 'something wrong' reared its ugly head when one of the joints in the intercooler piping blew. Meaning we had to park (with hazards on) on a busy road (fortunately a three lane road), pull out his airbox, re-clamp the join, then continue the journey. Wasn't exactly fun, but fixing car things makes me happy.
Last night was shenanigans at The Lucky for Sez's birthday. So many little stories, so I won't try to bother with chronological order.
Sez managed to put her boob onto the cake (as she was carrying it in), getting icing on her shirt.
Nikki came across briefly, completely baffling Mav as she knew who he was, but he doesn't remember ever meeting her before. But that's not the only person who knew Mav, some random knew him from NGL days. Reputation, eh?
Robin (a girl I went to school with) was in the pub. Meaning I got to do the "Hi!" thing as she walked past me - proceeding two seconds of "huh?" then "oh my god!" and she jumped on me. Apparently one of our friends is still living in his parents' house. I couldn't convince her not to try and ring him at home after midnight, though, I bet they weren't impressed.
Many drunken conversations - including getting "rescued" from someone. However, not really knowing who some people are, I didn't mind chatting, regardless of her reputation. It's hardly going to influence a bit of conversation.
Benny & I put $5 each through a pokie. We didn't win. Most money we had was $18. It was definitely $5 worth of entertainment. I picked the machine that had monkeys on it.
Mav, Goose/Lenny, Sawtie and I played a game of pool. Sawtie & I were looking in fine form to win, then Mav sunk around six in a row to take the game. Bastard.
I had a bit of a rant about how the general level of hotness lowers your standards. Kinda hard to explain, really... but basically there wasn't many hot women there, so people found themselves saying "she's hot" but I'd have to disagree. Sometimes even with myself.
I saw Jessie. Introduced her to Scottie because he happened to be nearby. "Jessie from LJ" got corrected to "Jessie from #testeagles". It's been a while, girl!
I got back to Em's and she'd almost been waiting up for me. Not because she was worried, just couldn't really sleep 'til I was back - and wasn't happy she couldn't go out (due to hangover/work in the morning).
Just because I can (and I'm hoping for responses so I can expand my friends list a little) I'm going to pimp a few journals I find interesting.
muddfx: News In Briefs. Written by a local mate of mine. Basically just interesting news articles with often amusing commentary. Worth a read and he loves responses (though you'll have to go off site to post them, he won't read anything posted on LJ)
ruxpin_exe: found whilst browsing friends' friends. He posted quite a few amusing links that I read.
What random journals are you reading?
Because of the nap, I missed recording the re-broadcast of The Butterfly Effect. Damnit!
Earlier today I tried to diagnose Emma's computer problems. It's definitely erroring RAM-wise, but did the same when I put my (definitely not faulty) RAM in it.
I guess it's a mainboard fault, but seeing as I said the same thing about Ian's computer - and he bought a new mainboard which didn't fix the problem - I'm not very confident in my abilities right now.
I really don't like being wrong when diagnosing a PC, it feels like I've lost the only skill I have.
Ian, Mav and I went to the computer fair. I bought a sound card. Due to the aforementioned nap, I haven't put it in the PC yet. But I've definitely been using onboard sound for far too long. All comments on the matter seem to indicate I'll be very happy I spent the money.
Coming up the hill into Charlestown after the fair, Ian was trying to let me hear the whining noise which definitely indicates there's something wrong with his intercooler install. But the other 'something wrong' reared its ugly head when one of the joints in the intercooler piping blew. Meaning we had to park (with hazards on) on a busy road (fortunately a three lane road), pull out his airbox, re-clamp the join, then continue the journey. Wasn't exactly fun, but fixing car things makes me happy.
Last night was shenanigans at The Lucky for Sez's birthday. So many little stories, so I won't try to bother with chronological order.
Sez managed to put her boob onto the cake (as she was carrying it in), getting icing on her shirt.
Nikki came across briefly, completely baffling Mav as she knew who he was, but he doesn't remember ever meeting her before. But that's not the only person who knew Mav, some random knew him from NGL days. Reputation, eh?
Robin (a girl I went to school with) was in the pub. Meaning I got to do the "Hi!" thing as she walked past me - proceeding two seconds of "huh?" then "oh my god!" and she jumped on me. Apparently one of our friends is still living in his parents' house. I couldn't convince her not to try and ring him at home after midnight, though, I bet they weren't impressed.
Many drunken conversations - including getting "rescued" from someone. However, not really knowing who some people are, I didn't mind chatting, regardless of her reputation. It's hardly going to influence a bit of conversation.
Benny & I put $5 each through a pokie. We didn't win. Most money we had was $18. It was definitely $5 worth of entertainment. I picked the machine that had monkeys on it.
Mav, Goose/Lenny, Sawtie and I played a game of pool. Sawtie & I were looking in fine form to win, then Mav sunk around six in a row to take the game. Bastard.
I had a bit of a rant about how the general level of hotness lowers your standards. Kinda hard to explain, really... but basically there wasn't many hot women there, so people found themselves saying "she's hot" but I'd have to disagree. Sometimes even with myself.
I saw Jessie. Introduced her to Scottie because he happened to be nearby. "Jessie from LJ" got corrected to "Jessie from #testeagles". It's been a while, girl!
I got back to Em's and she'd almost been waiting up for me. Not because she was worried, just couldn't really sleep 'til I was back - and wasn't happy she couldn't go out (due to hangover/work in the morning).
Just because I can (and I'm hoping for responses so I can expand my friends list a little) I'm going to pimp a few journals I find interesting.
muddfx: News In Briefs. Written by a local mate of mine. Basically just interesting news articles with often amusing commentary. Worth a read and he loves responses (though you'll have to go off site to post them, he won't read anything posted on LJ)
ruxpin_exe: found whilst browsing friends' friends. He posted quite a few amusing links that I read.
What random journals are you reading?