It's been a while, and a few things have happened, both good and bad.
The worst part was our cat Gypsy. After her long battle with failed kidneys, her eyesight going and her hearing going as well, she finally gave out last week. She lasted well though, seeing as how the vet told us that she had weeks to live when she first turned up on our doorstep starving over 9 months ago. Now, she's buried in a quiet spot in the bush land at the back of our house. We miss her, but it's still good that how she's away from all her problems and can get a bit of peace for a change.
Work has been frustrating over the last few weeks. I've been told that I'm learning a new system... and it's probably one of the hardest things to get your head around out there at the moment. It's Plone, which is a CMS that is used where I work. As much as I know it's a good system and all, it's also one of the most complicated things out there. What makes it worse is that to learn this, I also need to learn a new programming language, refactor another language for this specific application, and figure out where the 1,000's of required "includes" are even though there's pretty much no documentation anywhere out there about anything. The boss bought a book on it all, and that's an utter waste of time. After going through half of it I feel like I now know a hell of a lot less about how to do it then I did before I started and knew nothing. It's ridiculous... from what I can see, to be able to add in a "portlet" (a tiny bit area of content that can be moved around to suit the layout) I need to modify 2-5 files, add in 5-20 files and reference things that are not documented or can be found anywhere in the first place... It's insane. It's supposed to be at least sort of easy, but it's the most stupid system that I've ever seen before. It'd almost be quicker for me to write my own content management system in PHP before I could understand even the basics of this one.
There's not much going on in the romance department here either. I've got a couple of girls that I've been talking to, and they've both said that they want to meet me, but... we all know where that goes. The first one I've been talking to for a fair while now and she's great, but even though she keeps on saying that she wants to do something, I don't think that she's actually ready or capable of doing anything at all yet. I understand it though. She's going through some things, but she's finally gone to get some help for it, so I'll wait and see how that turns out. The other one I've only been talking to for a bit less then a week now. She seems very nice, but it's going to be the normal thing of seeing when (if...) I actually do get to meet her and if she turns out to be the same in real life as she seems to be online.
This weekend might be good. I'm going to see what my friend is up to Friday night. He's changed a lot in the last few years. He's gone from the hard-drinkin' party animal that I met originally, to the calm family guy that likes nothing more then a cup of tea and a nice lie down. Then again, two kids, a partner and a 6-day-a-week job will do that to you! Saturday I have a "surprise" party for an old family friend. It's his 30th, so it should be good. Sunday, not sure yet, but things might come together some where.
So, that's about it. Hopefully everyone else out there is going good too. How about letting me know what you're all up to if you're reading this! Let's hear more from the people that have so little to do that they actually want to read about me!!!
It's been a while again, and a few things have happened and a few things haven't happened.
Firstly, what has happened. I bought a new clothes dryer so now we can get things dry for the up-coming winter months without needing to hang them outside for 3-4 days hoping that the birds won't crap all over them so they'd need washing again.
I did have a problem with my internet as well. That sucked. Unfortunately it was my own fault, so I can't even blame it on anyone else. Damn shame that... I was trying to experiment with the modem so I could run a gateway computer. Seems that was a silly idea that didn't work quite properly at the moment. So, I tried to get the modem back to how it was before. Now THAT was the silly idea. Everything was going OK until I remembered that I'd completely forgotten my username from my ISP. I mean really, how stupid is that?
It's Dad's birthday next weekend, and I have got no idea of what to get for him. It'll probably be a trip to the bottleshop again, but that's always a great fall-back for birthdays. I don't feel so bad though. No one else has any idea of what to get him, and even he doesn't have any ideas, so it's not like I'm missing something obvious.
Work has slowed down a bit, thankfully. I couldn't keep going the way that I was, and I'm now resenting the place a lot less then I was a well, and I think that's better all around. I'm supposed to be learning some new stuff soon, so that will be a little bit interesting. It's all going to be a web-based (mainly) language called Python, so it'll be useful.
Now, what didn't happen...
I didn't win lotto and start a life of luxury. I didn't get any big cash bonuses anywhere. I didn't get a new key for my car. I didn't meet the girl of my dreams. So, it's been a very standard time for me really.
The only thing that's been going on is that I have been in contact with a girl for close to three months now, and as much as she's great, she's being very sure to keep me at arms length so that I can't hurt her any more. I haven't even met her in real life, and all because of her trust issues from previous times. I'm not proud of it, but a few things came to a bit of a head on the weekend, and I've told her what I think I needed to. I do want to make an effort and see where things go, but not if I'm going to be the only one that's doing that. If she can't let me in even a little bit, there's just no point in me bashing my head against a brick wall trying to make things right.
I'm still feeling like the whole love-life thing is passing me by. There's a lot of times that I'm happy that it is, because the last thing I want is to be "stuck" with some bitch that I hate because I got lonely and horny and I thought that was the best that I could do. I'm also not looking for perfection. My best friends partner has afriend that would be just it if I was, but I couldn't stand someone so shallow that they need 1-2 hours to do make up and hair to go down to the local shops. To be honest, I've seen this girl a few years back without the make up, natural hair and without the $500 heels... and she looked so much better as her natural self then she ever did when she was plastered up like a Barbie doll. Just my own personal taste though.
Well, that's it for now. You never know what will come of this all. I'll try to keep things updated on what's happening with the girl that's not actually in my life, but depending on how that goes, I might be to drunk and remorseful to do much. But then again, you just never know...
It's been a busy, but yet boring and quite exhausting couple of weeks here. The house is getting in a bit more order. I haven't been able to get out much though. I did get to see my friends new baby boy last weekend. He was cute. Well, as cute as any kid is I guess. Not that I don't love kids, but until they can wipe their own asses, I'll leave them to their parents.
Works been harsh this last week too. LONG hours, and even Saturday. The boss was trying to get me to come in on Sunday too, but I couldn't as I already had plans. The standard Sunday thing with the family. This weeks looking about the same too. I wouldnt mind so much, but so far there hasn't been one word of thanks for it. And on top of all that, is there overtime paid? Nope, it's all for 'the love of the company". Got to love that attitude these days. Expected utter and complete loyalty to the company over everything else, and nothing in return. And people wonder why it doesn't last...
On top of all that, my Mac Mini died on the weekend. Not completely, but it wouldn't re-install. I've swapped the RAM back to the standard lots, and it seems to be going alright now. I'm about 75% of the way through installing and no problems. I even got the other RAM from a proper Apple place, and it's shit. It helped it run a bit faster, but it was never right from when I put it in. So now, back to standard, and everything will be all good.
So that's all thats going on. Hope everyone else is having more fun then me here. he he he.
See you all next time!
It's been a long time since I updated this last, and it's been a mixture of way to busy or just way to boring, so this lil' ol' blog has been a bit neglected as of late.
Last time I was on here was just after my back went out last time. Since then, I've bought a house (well, in partnership with my sister), moved a LOT of shit around, thrown a lot more shit away, and a few other things. I won't go into to many details unless asked, as I can't be bothered to try and remember everything that's gone on.
As for now, it's just finished the Easter long weekend. I didn't do anything really. I spent the Friday and Saturday moving and cleaning around the house here, and I was completely stuffed after it. Sunday and Monday were days for me to sit back, rest and relax. I did want to get out and do something, but that didn't eventuate. Now, back at work today, and waiting for the next round of public holidays!
Ok, I'll be back more often now (I promise... really...) so keep an eye out.
I've been laid up for a little bit over a week now, and there's not much chance that I'll be fine for the end of the week.
What's happened? My back has gone out again. It started Tuesday of last week, and it's only been the last two days that I've been able to walk around without a walking stick. It's been very bad. Unfortunatly I didn't have a doctor that was that concerned with getting me fixed, just to get me some pills and get me out of there, so it lasted longer then it should have. I'm slightly better now though. I am seeing a physio, and I shouldn't need to much of that I hope.
So, as you can imagine I've been taking it VERY easy. Then again, it's easy to take it easy when you can't walk around much. The worst thing is that it's been almost two weeks since I've had anything to drink! That's a terrible thing. Well, maybe not quite so terrible, but you know what I mean. I guess I do still feel a bit left out of things, but at least I had a good excuse to be this time around.
I dont know what I'll be up to this weekend, but you never know, I might be able to get out somewhere!
