Moved House
Yay, at last we've finally moved. The new house is great,
and I think I should be able to run a bit of network cable
from our machine-room, out the window, and under the plum
tree. That makes me very happy indeed.
Got a bunch of things to do, so I'll write more later.
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Blah, still sick. Everything's okay provided that I stay
still and don't think, which means everything is also
incredibly boring. I'm going to be rightly annoyed with my
immune system if I'm not feeling better by tomorrow.
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Sick
I seem to have caught the flu that has been doing laps
around work. It seems that we've never really been able to
eliminate it from the office, it just passes from section to
section and eventually mutates before re-infecting its
original hosts.
Unfortunately between the flu and the medication to make me
feel slightly more human, I've been left on about 10% of my
regular mental capacity. Coding is impossible, writing is
difficult, and even Java in a nutshell no longer
seems to be a warm and friendly way of forgetting worldly
pains.
One of the weirdest things is that the flu is giving me some
very bizzare dreams. I have odd dreams at the best of
times, but these ones are really setting a new standard.
Last night I dreamed that my nose contained an XML
parse-tree, which is why it was so congested. Worse still,
I kept refusing to blow my nose because I needed that data
and it hadn't yet been backed up.
House
We move in this weekend, which means this week is
busy-busy-busy. The weekend was spent doing plastering and
painting, and we had half of a solar hot-water service
installed today (the rest is being installed on Friday).
I've been trying to find a plasterer to replace the cornis
(spel?) in the bedroom, but every plasterer seems to be
booked out for the next two months. The ones that aren't
busy haven't been returning my calls.
Smoking
Gill lasted a couple of hours in her attempts to give up,
but AFAIK Kat's been clean for about two weeks now. I owe
her a little monkey talking-hair-scrunchy for her
willpower. Good Kat.
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Smoking
Kat's giving up smoking, not having had a cigarette in four
days now. She's holding me to my promise to sponsor her for
$2/week for a year, with her paying me back double if she
starts again. Gill's also giving up. This is excellent
news, I like my friends and workmates not smoking. :)
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TPJ
Yay, issue #19 is finally on the web. This means I finally
get to read
mojotoad's article, as well as
my own of course. :)
Climbing
Went rock-climbing for the first time in ages today. My
fingers and arms are a little sore, but the mexican
afterwards sure
tasted good. Got to see Dan G who I haven't seen
in ages and had been missing. Chatted to him lots about
geeky things like Java, roguelike games, PBMs, and ducks.
Good fun.
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