My Gifts Aren't Being Noticed...

Your True Nature by llScorpiusll
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The quality that most appeals to you:	Sense of Humour
In a survival situation, you:	Act crazy as a diversion
Your hidden talent is:	Adaptability
Your gift is:	Sexual prowess
In groups, you:	Work for a common goal
Your best quality is:	Your generosity
Your weakness is:	Your lack of imagination
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Broken iBook

My iBook is a little stuffed. The screen won't work for whatever reason, so I have put it in for fixing. In other news my ThinkGeek order arrived today.

Neen!!!!

Announcement

I just found out my sister got engaged on the weekend.

So to all those people telling me that I was just being self-pitying and such in that post a week or to ago : FUCK YOU.

Oh and congratulations to Kristen and Brendan.

Soooooooooooo Boooooooring

Picture : Business graduates starting jobs at the biggest Accounting firm in the world are taken for a few days to a remote resort where they are told about the company, what is expected of them and to allay any fears they may have about beginning a career in the most boring of all branches of mathematics.

Picture #2 : Bill, bored out of his brain with no net access (apart from this uber-pricey WiFi prepaid crap), no good TV and no time to do much at all.

We hacked the inhouse movie box in our room (am sharing with a workmate who is working the resort with me for this function) and could only unlock the adult channels. He's happily married, and I'm pure of mind and of heart and to tell you the truth I really couldn't care less about ugly people rooting on TV, so we reset the telebox.

That took about 5 minutes of time and it was the most exciting time I've had here.

The only thing making the boredom worthwhile is the knowledge that I'm getting a phat payoff next payday.

And now I have to go video more zaniness.

Meme Thing

(_) I have never been drunk
(X) I never have smoked pot
(X) I never have kissed a member of the opposite sex
(X) I never have kissed a member of the same sex
(X) I never crashed a friend's car
(X) I have never been to Japan
(_) I never rode in a taxi
(X) I never have been in love
(X) I never had sex
(X) I never have had sex in public
(_) I never have been dumped
(X) I never shoplifted
(X) I never have been fired
(X) I have never cut myself on purpose
(X) I never have been in a fist fight
(X) I never snuck out of my parent's house
(X) I never pissed on myself
(X) I never had sex with a member of the opposite sex
(X) I never have been arrested
(X) I never made out with a stranger
(X) I never stole anything from my job
(X) I never celebrated New Year's in Time Square
(X) I never went on a blind date
(X) I never lied to a friend
(X) I never had a crush on a teacher
(X) I never celebrated Mardi-Gras in New Orleans
(X) I never have been to Europe
(X) I never skipped school
(X) I never slept with a co-worker
(X) I never have been fisted and/or have fisted anyone
(X) I never have thrown up in a bar
(X) I never have purposely set myself on fire
(_) I never have eaten sushi
(X) I never have been snowboarding
(X) I never have been happy with myself
(X) I never have met a movie star
(X) I never had sex in a pool
(X) I never went to a prom
(X) I never bungee jumped
(_) I never have been to a pop concert
(X) I never have dated someone for over a year
(X) I never sold naked pictures of myself
(_) I have never been in a car accident
(_) I have never seen a dog naked.
(_) I have never slept in the nude.
(X) I have never had a one night stand.
(_) I've never eaten cheesecake
(X) I've never had jury duty

My Wishlist

ShoujoCam is back online...

Should be more online permanent-like once Optus install my ADSL. I had issues with hard disks today.

Because I work between three or four different computers depending on my location or need for either recording spaces, expensive audio monitoring or solitude I was packing a LaCie D2 80GB drive. It had FireWire (IEEE1394) and was great for video, audio, you name it. Basically it was a small case with a FireWire to IDE convertor in it, attached to a power supply and Western Digital 80GB drive, 8MB cache, etc.

Well, the firewire ports were connected to the PCB inside the case, not the case itself, so this heavy-duty feeling (6mm thick metal) case was only hiding the shoddiness inside. As soon as you push and pull the connectors (which you do with a mobile drive) a few hundred times, the solder weakens then fractures or breaks.

And you get dead ports or an intermittent connection.

Lucky me noticed this last week while I was working on a job for a client. Lucky I could trash enough junk off the internal iBook HDD to get it done. My main problem, however, came out of the fact that the drive is only 6 months old. We couldn't find the receipt and they wouldn't take a credit card statement as a proof-of-purchase. They would fix it and bill me for it, but 2 hours @ $45 plus parts and postage.

Plus they wanted me to back up the data!!! I mean, there's nothing wrong with THE DRIVE, just THE PORTS!!! Why did I buy the drive in the first place? Gah!!

Anyway, I bought a new drive casing today, plus a 120GB Western Digital Drive, 8MB cache and the guy at MusicLab also threw in another case for $100, so it cost me about the same as getting the drive repaired, but I know that the case construction on this one is hardcore.

Lesson, don't buy a LaCie d2 series drive if you want a long-lasting mobile solution.

Also, despair haunts me. I feel very unattractive. I'm beginning to resent all people with kids. Especially those who treat theirs like crap.

And I don't like multigrain bread.

The seeds get stuck in my teeth.

Large One Here

I feel shamed into updating my blog. The last update wasn't really an entry, but more of a quick cut and paste.

So here is a large amount of filled in stuff since my last real blog post. It's like inJohnny Mnemonic when Johnny has this huge pile of info in his brain that is pushing to get out and it all comes out in bursts occasionally. I hear they made a movie of that a few years ago. I may get it out one of these days. All right here goes. With headlines even!!!

Zadie

Zadie's all like, gone and stuff. And she hasn't been on the internet for ages because she's high falootin' it around Melbourne with here wacky Melbourne peeps. I feel all lonely. There's nobody (apart from Patrick) to textually bitchslap me into perspective and brainful submission about stuff anymore. And no more hugs from short cute girls. Or Cassie. Oh well, there's always Brisbane Supanove. And maybe that Melbourne anime con I was gonna check out this year.

Work

So I'm really not enamoured with work at all. I mean, I like this job but I hate having to get up so early and I hate getting home at the time I do. I think my natural body rhythms want to get up around 11am and go to sleep at 4am and then I'd be fine and happy, like I was in uni last year. But this getting up at 6am and going to bed at 10pm just feels weird. Plus this thing that I'm earning pretty good cash but it never seems to be enough. I always seem to be spending it on petrol or books or something.

Uni

Uni seems cool. I'm in week 3 and just got my booking for the Orchestral Hall to record my major project, but I feel kind of "out of it" because I'm only there one day a week.

KLOK

We have a gig this Friday night but are otherwise just working away. The only motivation we seem to have is when we have an upcoming gig. DoofPat wants to wait before we start pitching clubs and stuff, but if the only thing we get going for is gigs, wouldn't it seem logical to be doing more of them?

Travel
God, I want to go overseas again. Just for the stimulus, just for the taste of it, just for the feeling. I just can't afford it. I should be able to but I can't at the moment.

Moving Out

Kind of mutual agreement that I move out of home at the end of the year has been reached. Bout time. I'll be 22 and working and stuff, but I'm not looking forward to the whole "looking for housemates" thing. I'd rather buy a house and have a mortgage and have housemates who help pay my mortgage off, but I don't think that's realistic.

Lovelife

NULL

Well, yeah. There was a girl I was interested in but there's no reciprocation. There was another, but she's not right for me. Additionally, I found myself slipping into the bad escapist habit of reading soppy fanfiction, which combined with re-reading the 5th Harry Potter book has seen me dreaming of weird Hogwarts dreams.

Except the dream I had last night. I woke up to walls covered with beads of blood, found blood on my bedsheets and when I walked out I found that I was living in a sharehouse and when I asked one of my housemates what had happened, he told me that I had gotten together with a girl that night. I found myself wondering why it was her, and trying to remember what had happened, because I know the girl in real life, but I'm not interested in her at all. Then I really woke up and was all, "Phew. Thank God it was a dream," but then I started freaking out wondering what the damn dream meant!

Well, I hope that fuels discussion in the HaloScan Comments again. I'm off to have dinner and some psychoanalysis.

Attention All Girls

You are a child's kiss. Completely sweet and
innocent and pure. You mean no harm and only
love in your sweet kisses.


What kind of kiss are you?
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