had a great weekend with friends down in Phillip Island, where we did nothing beyond 8 hours of Civilization (the board game, much fun) RoboRally, played pool, drank reasonable amounts and generally stuff (tm). Very good ( Read more... )

[sigh of relief ( Read more... )

... that is just simply decadent ( Read more... )

The Potion Makerleonhardium is a translucent, fine indigo powder extracted from the flower of a prickly-pear cactus.Yet another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern

So I'm in NZ to do 2 demos for customers. Fortunately I started feeling better at about 4pm yesterday, otherwise this could all have been bad. I also have big brownie points from work, and I will attempt to ensure this never happens again ( Read more... )

I am in fact coming down with something. Drat.

And the fun bit: I'm being sent to NZ tonight to replace a guy who's called in sick. Sigh.

I'm thinking that the afternoon is going to be taken off so that I can lie on a couch and whinge, before I have to turn up at an airport.

Some days it's not work getting out of bed.

grumpiness has struck ( Read more... )

I am on my first day post-project, and not having anything to do immediately is a little weird. I mean, I'm sure I can rise to the occasion and not actually do anything, but its still a little weird. I will however enjoy it, as I know it wont last ( Read more... )

it's a beautiful day in normally-soggy melbourne this morning, and it is co-incidentally also the last day of my first solo project with the new company, and at this point it is looking good. Yay! So I sit here sipping a takeaway coffee feeling rather chipper ( Read more... )

well, my current project seems to involve periods of activity followed by about 15 minutes of inactivity as I wait for the system to Commit my changes so that I can test them, only to find the bits that don't work, requiring updates and another 15 minutes of inactivity....[ad nauseaum ( Read more... )