January 27, 2012

2012 Resolutions

It’s a quick post, mainly to keep as a reminder of what I want to achieve this year. I’ll be adding more to this too.

- Exercise, I’ve been far to unwell the past few years, I want to lose weight back to where I was, and during the year so I’m ready for the 2012/2013 cricket season. I love my cricket and I want to get back to playing. This includes either exercising at home, pilates to strengthen my back, and eat better.
- Watch more F1, I like my car racing. I’d like to watch it more and keep up with it.
- More gaming, it’s hard with the whole exercise thing, but if I find a balance I’ll be able to do this too.
- Off my P-Plates, I’ve been on them for far too long. I’ve either had the time, or no money to get them. Or vice versa. Time to finish off the whole license thing.

February 26, 2011

Weekends aren’t always that great

Today was supposed to consist of a lazy morning of the usual poached eggs on toast with bacon, a tidy up and then a roast with the parents. Awoken at 9.30 this morning by my Dad saying that I may need to go to the vet to drive my step mum home after she’d been. The reason? Chanelle, affectionately known as “Nellie” and “pompie”, the 15 year old minature poodle was there. Her health hadn’t been that great over the past few months, xmas eve 2010 she’d been taken to the vet with more problems. It seemed it was enough for her to make it to her 15th birthday this year before she called it stumps.

I’ve only known Nelli for 3 years of her 15, but in that time I’d become very attached to her. Along with the other poodle Daff (Daphne). With Nellie having Cushings disease, which is essentially a tumour she’d been battling it for the last 5 years. Side affects of Cushings is that she is continually thirsty and hungry even though she’s just had dinner. But because of this, she would always kick up a fuss for more food. Stamp her foot and huff and puff, bark until she got something then she’d go quiet… for a while. It was always amusing to watch.

As she got older it was almost like she had doggy alzheimers. She’s spend most of her time walking into things because she couldn’t see, and on the odd occasion would have a “flashback” to when she was a puppy and start running around, playing with toys and trying to pull sheets off the bed. I always found it hilarious that because her being blind meant that she would also walk into Memphis, my German Shepherd x Shar Pei. Who wouldn’t move if you tossed a hand grenade next to him. So she’d continually bump into him and if she found it to hard, attempt to walk over him. Of which he’s bigger than her when lying down and she’s standing up.

Anyway, it had gotten to much for her little body. Her internal organs were swelling and pushing her lungs into her ribs, causing great discomfort for her and her breathing. So the decision was made this morning to put her down. It was for the best.

You will be severley missed Nellie. RIP, and eat all the liver treats you can get your hands on up there.

January 17, 2011

New to the power of three

Well, my time as Westminster School will come to an end. I’ve taken up a job at an IT company, I felt I needed to move on and do something more challenging and stimulating. I’ll be working at www.lettscom.com.au as a Network Engineer/Computer Technician.

I’m also packing to move house at the moment, I pick up the keys tomorrow after work. Moving into a smaller place, the intention was to save some money but it doesn’t seem like I’ll be doing much of that but maintaining the place and living there will be easier.

The added bonus of starting a new job is the annual leave payout I’ll get, it should clear some debt off that I’ve been chipping away at slowly over the past year.

I’ve also removed the portfolio portion of this site, I’ve registered a new domain name which is where it will move too. I won’t be telling the domain name yet until I’ve got the site going and how I like it!

December 28, 2010

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Years

Yes, I changed my theme again. I’m just trying it out.

It’s a bit sad when my favourite day of the week is payday. But considering I’m on fortnighly pay it can’t be that bad. Most of mine disappeared with Christmas presents and bills, and I’d like to spend just a little bit on something I want this time!

Big W have the Pioneer Dreambook 7″ for $188 at the moment, running Google Android OS. So I’d like to play with it and have some kind of simple web browsing device when I’m in the lounge room instead of a laptop that requires a 2 minute start up process. I’d also like to take advantage of the post Christmas sales for some clothes!

Also, I want to purchase a domain name, and at $11 a year. Why not! I’m hoping to push my freelance work again, it’s always a bit on and off with me. But I need a bit more work!

July 7, 2010

Mid Year of 2010

We’ve hit the middle of the year in 2010, tax time begins. Once again, I’ll see mine paying off my debts. But maybe it will be a good thing this year, and I can cross that Commonwealth credit card off shortly after. A lotto win would be nice to clear my debts and buy some things.

I’m a bit stuck at work lately, I find it rather boring. It’s almost like a production line with the same thing every day and nothing stimulating, and I can’t see much in career progression other than getting more certification. But I find that hard when I don’t have the time to do it.

I’m trying to give Tumblr a bash, I’m not sure why. It seems like a good blogging platform, but knowing me. I can never find a theme or platform that I like. WordPress has been close, the only reason I really use it is to continue using it and see if it gets somewhere to be used more like a portal for a site rather than a blogging platform, and it’s damn well close to that now. It would just be nice if some of the plugins you got were basic out of the box features, or at least able to be enabled in the dashboard. Tumblr seems a little easier, or integrated into the various social platforms as well. Like posting pictures, or video or other stuff.

Apple iOS4 came out… that’s about all I’ve got to say on that. That and the iPad is a fucking waste of time and money in my opinion. Oversized iPod touch really.

Some interesting games are coming out, I’ve been playing Crysis but it looks like hammered shit on my desktop. It’s just not up to scratch of playing good games. I did see there is a Vietnam expansion pack for Battlefield Bad Company 2, which is a wet dream. I loved playing BF:V, it’s possibly the last game I enjoyed playing. Everyone wants realism in their games, even to the extent where some first person shooters are looking more like a simulator these days. Only need a case and power supply and I’ll be up and running, the smaller bits I can get later on as I need them, like extra hard drives. I’m interested in tinkering with some hardware for performance reasons, RAID and overclocking. The C2D E6850 is known for being good for overclocking, some reports have been for the PC to go at 4.0ghz passively. So that could be interesting, or I could blow the whole thing up!

I had my endoscopy a few weeks ago, hiatus hernia! No coffee or spicy food. Still can have beer though but probably not recommended! At least I know whats going on and can stop it, back to the medication soon but I think I need something stronger.

Sick of the house we live in, I’d like something smaller to live in. Mainly because the lawns and gardens are too much work, I’m not lazy. It just means having to find time to do it and I just can’t. It seems the only time I ever get for that is when I’ve booked time off at work; and that isn’t much of a holiday.

Oh well, here’s to 2 days off next week and back to work for me.

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