Information Hazard Warning / Archive
July 2009
- 1st What happened to the rest of the week? I could have sworn there was a normal week here. Now it's Thu / blog
- 1st Starting to think I should have stayed home this morning, but I just had way too much to do. Besides / blog
- 2nd That was harrowing. My iPhone's battery went flat, and I didn't have the cable to charge it. Nearly / blog
- 2nd The biggest problem I have with having today off is that I still have to get up early and go to a 9: / blog
- 2nd How is it that some people can be completely oblivious to others? I mean, I hate making room for oth / blog
- 2nd A big hello to @ausdemocrats, now following me on Plurk. FYI: I demand higher taxes, better public i / blog
- 3rd Saturday morning! Determined to go out and do something! Or I could just go back to bed as per usual / blog
- 3rd Cannot decide on what I want for lunch. So having a pot of tea instead. Probably need to get some ac / blog
- 4th Watching Penn & Teller's Bullshit! with my parents can be kind of awkward. I blame my brother. He br / blog
- 4th Sunday morning. Been out for breakfast, done the shopping. Now thinking about what to do next. I do / blog
- 5th Running late this morning, and then the car wouldn't start. So trying to catch the bus in sub-zero t / blog
- 5th Stopped off in a cafe for some tea and to read about Cathars. Need to have a look at the car when I / blog
- 6th Well, car still out of action, so I guess I'd better go catch the bus. Think it's a matter of insuff / blog
- 6th Ping seems to have lost my last update. Bastid! And after I had to walk through subzero weather agai / blog
- 6th Took out some of my frustrations by filling in a job satisfaction survey, but now having a sense of / blog
- 7th Listening to #ISIHAC. Mornington Crescent FTW! / blog
- 7th Day 3 of not having a car, and walking to the bus in mid-Winter. Can't say I'm enjoying it, but bett / blog
- 7th Damn people who need to turn *all* the lights on just so it isn't dark around their tiny little desk / blog
- 7th Damn people who need to turn *all* the lights on just so it isn't dark around their tiny little desk / blog
- 7th I hate school holidays. The mall is swarming with small children clogging up the thoroughfares and m / blog
- 7th Today has been a right bastid, and it's not even close to being over. At least I got away from work / blog
- 7th This Orange Pekoe doesn't quite have the kick I need for this afternoon, but they're out of everythi / blog
- 8th So I'm here waiting for the bus again. It's late this morning, but at least it's not as cold as it h / blog
- 8th Made it in to work. It's so peaceful and quiet just now. And dark. Love the dark office. Won't last / blog
- 8th Another fire alarm. Wonder if this one is a drill? Wonder what I can do to piss off the fire warden / blog
- 8th False alarm. Didn't have to evacuate or anything. I even had my coat on, ready to go. Damn! Now I ha / blog
- 8th At least that's over. At the cafe, which is still out of the good teas, to try and recover on my way / blog
- 9th Weird incident with a possum. It kept running around as if it wanted me to follow. I lost it in some / blog
- 9th Not just cold this morning, but also raining. Not much, just a fine mist, really. Still I need to ge / blog
- 9th Right, I'm here. I've logged in. I've got a fresh pot of tea. Everything's up an running, Can I go h / blog
- 9th Slowly getting everything finished for the week. Soon time to go home, and then spend the weekend ge / blog
- 10th Another Saturday morning spent running errands. Now ready to go back to bed for the rest of the day, / blog
- 10th Well, didn't manage to get the car started, so I guess it's now up to NRMA Roadside Assist to try an / blog
- 10th In the new cafe at the newly upgraded car wash around the corner. Sadly, they didn't really have any / blog
- 11th Well, a great evening, up until I noticed the passenger door on my brother's car had been forced. Fe / blog
- 11th Been out. Had breakfast. Done shopping. Ready to crawl back into bed for the rest of the day. Becaus / blog
- 12th It seems to be Monday morning a lot these days. I think someone, somewhere is fiddling about with th / blog
- 12th So why is the busiest bus stop the one furthest away from where all the people who might want to cat / blog
- 13th With any luck I won't have to get the bus to work every morning for much longer. At least tomorrow I / blog
- 13th Really about ready to start getting violent with some of my "colleagues". Don't know how much longer / blog
- 14th I think I'm having yet another nervous breakdown. Not to be overly dramatic about it. I have so much / blog
- 14th Working from home. At least trying to, when I don't fall asleep while lying in bed, listening to the / blog
- 14th Well, came into work for the afternoon, because working at home is kind of distracting. Plus the car / blog
- 14th I am finally being followed more than I follow. Of course, most of my followers are bots sending out / blog
- 15th Last training session for a couple of weeks since my trainer is having surgery. Just have to keep in / blog
- 15th Brian Eno in New Scientist re: music on the Apollo Program. "All but one (of the astronauts) took co / blog
- 15th Also, I find myself in the shameful position of agreeing with Rupert Sheldrake on something. He may / blog
- 15th Got to work, to find my teascoop has gone missing from my desk. Why? Who would nick it? Where else w / blog
- 15th Performance Agreement discussion went better than expected. Hardly any stabbing at all. And he'll pr / blog
- 16th On the bus again, today. Now my car is running it needs to go in for a service. Hopefully, they'll a / blog
- 16th Time was, I was the only person who turned up here at this time of morning, now everyone seems to be / blog
- 16th And I'll tell you another thing, I left my milk at home this morning, so no TEA! for me. I'll probab / blog
- 16th Feeling like complete shit just now. Headache, coughing, etc. Plus I really haven't had anything to / blog
- 17th Spending about twelve hours in bed seems to have gotten me over the worst of this cold. I'd stay the / blog
- 18th I don't know, forget about the cricket for a couple of days, and we're trying to avoid the follow on / blog
- 18th Looks like it's going to be another day spent in bed trying to throw this cold. That's my excuse, an / blog
- 18th Watching, sort of, the Buchannan interview on Rachel Maddow from this week. He is just so many kinds / blog
- 19th So, after a weekend spent lying in bed unable to really do anything, I wake up this morning, Monday, / blog
- 19th So, just filled the car, and walked back to the pump just in time to see them reset the price 5 cent / blog
- 20th Just remembered why I don't like going out in public. Someone saw me messing with my iPhone and felt / blog
- 20th Tuesday. Not really much more to say about it. At least I have TEA! And there was double #ISIHAC thi / blog
- 20th It's at moments like this that I am reminded that I am so not a player. I should be using my contact / blog
- 21st Well, Wednesday. And another bunch of things I need to be here for. Need to get some stuff done befo / blog
- 21st I've been feeling much better, but I think I may be getting laryngitis. Which would screw up the res / blog
- 21st Work lunch, watching management try and answer Dorothy Dixers from the audience. At least the food w / blog
- 21st There is no way I'm going to the gym in this weather with my throat feeling the way it has all day. / blog
- 22nd Thursday morning. I'd stay home except I have a delivery coming to work that I have to pick up. Actu / blog
- 22nd So, I get my big delivery, and it's raining. Trying to carry it to the car with an umbrella not a go / blog
- 23rd Well the stuff is put away, just barely, and the dry ice it came packed in is on the balcony to evap / blog
- 23rd And here we are. No work today, but still have to go out relatively early to get stuff done. Really / blog
- 23rd Well, that's my commitments for the day done. Now what am I going to do? Apart from go home and get / blog
- 24th I think this diet is going to kill me. Only four cups of tea a day? And the "fruit compote" for bre / blog
- 25th I lost over 70 followers in the last day or so. I hope they were all spam-bots. I just don't think I / blog
- 25th Finally dragging myself out of the flat for the morning. Not going out for breakfast on weekends is / blog
- 26th Monday morning already? Clearly my time-dilation mechanism isn't working properly. It's supposed to / blog
- 27th Lurking about in the dark office. It's nice and peaceful, with no-one around to disturb the quiet. S / blog
- 27th Need to go home soon. Lots of stuff to do this afternoon, assuming I don't just pass out when I get / blog
- 28th Avoiding the gym. It's too busy just now. Reading NewSci and depressed by the lack of job ads that I / blog
- 28th Today is off to a very sluggish start. Need to get myself going. Maybe some more TEA! will help. Who / blog
- 28th Bunking off a work lunch because of my current diet, and using the excuse to sit down and do some pe / blog
- 29th First unsupervised session at the gym in ages. I'm not sure I want to do it again anytime soon. But / blog
- 29th Came out of the gym, and the fire alarm in the next building going off. All excitement round here to / blog
- 29th Look, it's simple. I can't read your mind. So if you want me to give a certain answer to a certain q / blog
- 29th Meetings, presentations, other stuff all morning. Barely had time to scratch myself, let alone anyon / blog
- 29th Today just gets better and better. If I can't wait until 4:30pm, they'll return it to the office. In / blog
- 31st Maybe I'm just jaded and cranky, but I honestly don't see what's so amazing about that wedding entra / blog
- 31st I never cease to be amazed at how everyone's a big fan of capitalism until they find themselves on t / blog
- 31st This having breakfast at home thing is messing up my weekends. That and having new episodes of #Leve / blog