Fabio
Gwen: Gee! His tits are bigger than mine!

Liver-Cleansing Diets
Jacinta has recently started the liver-cleansing diet (LCD), which Ross seems to have had good success with. I'm often skeptical of diets (there are too many "fad diets" which are quite bad), but a bit of research shows that the LCD appears to be quite sensible.

One thing which made me very happy is that I can feed Jacinta lots of wild herbs that I've collected because the diet recommends them as healthy and healing foods. I don't think I could have ever convinced Jacinta to drink dandelion tea or eat fresh sowthistle otherwise.

I am Fabio -- the most beautiful man in the world
I've been doing my Fabio look (beautiful brown curly hair waving over my shoulders) the last couple of days. While this seems to have gained the appreciation of the Support team at Schoolsnet, it's also brought back an old problem of mine -- gender misidentification.

It seems that whenever I've freshly shaved, people seem to get my gender wrong. Last night it was the taxi driver, in the past it's been shop assistants, waiters, and a variety of others. This gets mildly annoying, because I am actually male.

I've considered growing a beard a few times, but I've found that (1) it itches when I try to grow a beard, and (2) my beard grows only in spots and looks really stupid. So much for that idea.

Rockclimbing and Comedy
Karen came rockclimbing with us on Sunday, and generally had a fun time once she had got past a few teething problems with the belay harness. With luck she should become a regular climber. Afterwards some of us went to a comedy show in South Melbourne, which was very enjoyable. Unfortunately Karen seems to have picked up a bit of a cold from the whole experience.

My private health insurance say that they'll pay for 70% of my rockclimbing fees. I'm sending them off a claim today to see if they keep good to their promise.

Finance::Quote
We have a hackers guide. :)

Work
New people, every day. We have a new person in the Support team who I haven't met yet.

Cartoons
I'd love to go back to cartooning -- there is so much material at Schoolsnet to base a strip on. The only problem is that while it's very funny to me, someone (possibly me) might get sued if I were to put it all into stick-figures and speech-bubbles and release it to the world.

Finance::Quote
My goodness, I have 90 minutes all to myself to hack code. This is a very very good thing. Hopefully I can get a good amount of framework testing done, tidy up the backwards compatibility bits I'm not 100% happy with, and maybe even start on a hackers guide. I very much want a hackers guide to make it easy for people to write new modules.

Desk-space
Scotty has a huge amount of collected stuff that he keeps on his desk. It's stored in a more sorted fashion than the stack-based system that I use, but there's a problem that Scott doesn't seem to have enough desk space for his needs. Occasionally Scotty things drift over to my beautiful, clean, pristine desk-space that I haven't fouled with 8-month-old bug notes. I don't think Scott's realised that my little line of candles, chocolate, hackey-sacks and business-cards-cubes actually marks my territory, but it does. I had to move a server off my desk today.

Sam
Sam hasn't gone home yet. Neither have I. But Sam doesn't have a good excuse. He's probably still working, he's not drunk, and he's not exhausted from hackey-sack or recovering from Indian.

Rock-climbing
Karen, our temp-secretary, is going to come rockclimbing with us on Sunday. This is very good. Karen's very nice, but it's a shame she's stuck in a temp-secretary job. She's got a lot more skills than that, but her visa stops her from working in any one spot for too long.

Life
It's a shame we only get one of them each. Life's so good I'd really like to have three lives -- like in pacman. Anyone have any paths to immortality?

Hackey-sack
The Schoolsnet hackey team got a nine-hack today. We rock.