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This site contains various pieces of writing across my various interests, and spanning several years. You can fork this site on github if you wish.

Busy

Busy
Been stupidly busy recently. There's a lot of people who's mail I haven't replied to, and lots to write but not enough time to do so.

Got some interesting news I'll post the next few days.

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Neighbours

Neighbours
Met our neighbours today, with whom we share a wall. They're extremely cool. They're geeks (like us), they're about our age, they're vegan (we're vegetarian), they're interested in sustainable living, and they know all the same people we know. They're very friendly, and have been kind enough to offer a length of CAT-5 over the fence (or to drill a hole through the wall) to give us decent network connectivity until our new line gets put in.

Gave them some Earth Garden magazines to read and a free copy of TPJ #19. We're probably going to go out to dinner this weekend, and maybe go along the Merri Creek to go spotting edible plants. Oh yes, they also like chickens and ducks.

The bad news about the neighbours is that they're only renting, so potentially they may leave at some point to be replaced with boring neighbours. I hope this doesn't happen.

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Moved House

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

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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