Talked to little brother on the other side of the country a couple of weeks back. This is the guy whose laptop I set up and locked down so that (hopefully) nothing too nasty could happen to it while he wrote his doctoral thesis.

Li'l bro has never been a computer person. At all. In any way. What he has had is general bad luck/timing associated ( Read more... )

I don't know if I'm just getting into the swing of things or what, but this is the seventh LJ entry in the last 24 hours.

Possibly I need more things to occupy my time.

Never drink your juice with lungs, you really won't enjoy it
It should be to the stomach slung, to bellows don't deploy it
Remain aware, your lungs need air, so don't direct your juice down there
No, never drink your juice with lungs.

:(

Well, after paying someone to stab me in the face a lot yesterday, I now have the standard villainous stitch-face appearance.

I originally scheduled this for the time immediately after the anniversary party, so that I could spend my recovery week away from social gatherings.

The universe having its own sense of timing, however, means that on ( Read more... )

OK, I knew that there had been a property boom going on in this city for a while now, fuelled by mining dollars ( Read more... )

...he says, after spending most of it trawling lazily through the Internet.

I did get a call back from the finance guys. They've unearthed an interesting loan structure which involves us buying an investment property, paying effectively zilch for the property and the subsequent several years' interest payments, and walking away at the end of it ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like next week will have a big ol' not much on the schedule after monday ( Read more... )

More tests, more doctor consultations, more fees. And what have I gotten out of it so far?

Today - diabetes.

Spent the night fiddling about with Art of Illusion 2.5, trying to get a simple chain-animation of three cubes working. Very little luck. Have uncovered the following issues after hours on Google, application site, userbase wiki, tutorials, docs etc ( Read more... )

Just been burgled. Nuts. Fortunately, the car is insured. Unfortunately, not for much.

It seems like tomorrow will be spent getting the locks changed.