"I don't believe it!" - Luke Skywalker, The Empire Strikes Back

Yoda: "THAT is why you fail"

Got up around 6:50 again. Yeah. Didn't make lunch, cos I forgot to wash the stuff from yesterday. Anyway, I was too tired like as well - the rainy weather makes these daylight savings morning really dark.

Went down to Officeworks with Mogli at lunchtime, after getting a roast beef roll from the local shop place - which was really crowded (I guessed cos of the wintery weather) and I didn't get much of a portion. Anyway....
Bought a toner drum for the printer - costing like $95. Then we went back in cos Mogli decided he wanted some pad paper for his CPA course thingy. And I have to be his mentor - ai.

It was Wednesday, so there was nothing on TV, except the Simpsons, I guess.

Watched the rest of A New Hope and started watching The Empire Strikes Back.

Didn't really do much else. Slept about 10:30.

"No reward is worth this!" - Han Solo, Star Wars

Got up about 6:50 again. Made lunch, with one sandwich using my home made bread. Super!

Mogli wasn't around for most of the day - out at some audit where he did nothing.

Had very little work on.

Got a cappuccino at lunch time. Cos I had nothing better to do, really.

Read a bit more of The Silmarillion. But only a page or so.

Saw some interesting sites on Wikipedia, about mob films and their related real life counterparts. Plus some other random stuff.

Left at 5. And man, was that a relief...

Watched The Simpsons, and then most of the new Simpsons. Ai, it was quite bad though. Watched the end of The Shawshank Redemption in the middle there.

Then after, started watching Star Wars episode IV. Some great quotes in there....

Slept about 10.

Poor Clinty!

How dare that nasty Martin Scorsese come and take what is rightfully his! I mean, hes only won two already.... or is it three? Anyway, what about the one for this year? How can he direct two films, and not win for either? Its a disgrace....
Oh, and poor Eddie, too. Back to those bad low budget 'comedies' for him, I guess.

Got up about 9:30. I actually woke up about 8:30, but was pretty tired from last night so I tried to keep sleeping. But it didn't work.

Went shopping at 10. I went to the newsagency first, cos I needed some printer cartridge - they didn't have my model though (and I found out later its actually a drum, so....yeah). Anyway, so while I was discussing the lack of cartridge with the shop guy, the thunderstorm what had been around came pretty much right over head. And there was a little bit of loudness. And a fair bit of rain.
Did normal shopping after that. Got mayonnaise instead of cheese. Fascinating.... Also got flour in anticipation of making rolls sometime. Soonish. Maybe.

When driving home (after worst part of thunderstorm had passed) saw some lovely forked lightning strikes coming down Thomas street behind UWA. Lovely, lovely.

Watched the end of Return of the King, partly while doing a little more ironing. Ate toast for lunch. Weird, I guess.

Went to work at 1 - and there was much rejoicing. Did very little. Left at 5.

Started watching The Shawshank Redemption after the Simpsons, cos there was nothing else on. Watched a bit of the Oscars, but I already new all the results. And it went on way too late.

Slept about 10.

"Matt Damon!" - Team America: World Police

Cos I went and watched a movie with Matt Damon in it - The Good Shepherd. And that is actually V's quote, cos I couldn't remember that line at all. Although when we were discussing it later, I remembered that it was actually Matt Damon saying it.

Got up at 9. Left as soon as I was ready, as there was quite a bit of stuff to do. Although it turned out that it wasn't enough, cos I finished quite early. Still ended up getting to service late, since I had to pay some people money on the way. It was really quite crowded as well - though I think everyone was just squished over one side.

Got Jesters for lunch. They had a rather limited selection, which did not include my usual of either Nutty Chook or Stockmans. So I got Taj Mahal and also Spud Deluxe (on the recommendation of the store lady) - the latter was pretty darn tasty, too.

Continued watching The Return of the King, and then continued some more while doing ironing. Even though it was ridiculously hot. Ridiculously.

Got up to about halfway through the battle for Minas Tirith - which isn't really that far - when I left to go to Carousel to watch The Good Shepherd with V. I donno what was with the traffic, or whatever, cos I went by the Manning Road way and got to Carousel in like 20 mins - which was 15 minutes to early. And then V was late, anyway.

Got a medium coke while I was waiting - for $5.10 - and it was insanely big. I should've got a coffee instead, in hindsight - would've been a far better size and also cheaper. Actually, in hindsight, I probably shouldn't have gotten anything, cos of what happened after. But then I needed something to occupy myself.

It was a long film - in excess of 2.5 hours. And it was also quite disjointed and contained very little dialogue, and was also fairly hard to follow. So, all in all, nothing special. Only Robert De Niro's second directing attempt on a major film scale, so not bad in that respect. More on that was to come after, too.

So while agreeing to go and see this film I was telling V (cos I didn't know this film was directed by de Niro till he told me) about another (as I said, his only other) film directed by him, starring himself (although he didn't have a major role - it was mainly that guy who had a minor role in The Sopranos) and Chaz Palminteri (however you spell his name), and that on the whole it was pretty ordinary, except for this one really good scene where de Niro and Palminteri had an argument about de Niro's son (who was the major character - that Sopranos guy). Anyway, so I said that film was Mean Streets, whereas V said Mean Streets was directed by Scorsese. And we bet on it - $50, according to V.

So we went to Fast Eddy's with both of us still insisting on who the director of Mean Streets was. It was a little later when I remembered that that film was actually called A Bronx Tale. So I told V it didn't count cos the film I was describing was actually A Bronx Tale. I don't think he agreed.
And so then we had another bet (due to his coming up with the "Matt Damon!" quote) that Samuel L Jackson was another character in Team America. Which I was absolutely sure of (um...again). And I was really thrown cos V (who I think must've watched it a few times) absolutely disagreed. Anyway, that one is yet to be completely resolved.

The rest of our conversation was mainly concerned with Scorsese's absolute surety of winning an Oscar tomorrow morning. V said because Spielberg, Lucas and...some other guy are presenting the director Oscar it must go to Scorsese cos they all started out together, or something.
Then we had the usual lament about the lack of good music about.
All this over sundaes and chips. His eccentricities are infectious....

Left about 12:30, and had to walk around the whole centre thing, cos we parked our cars upstairs and the inside was shut off. There were some stairs about halfway round though. The temperature felt about 30+ degrees and I noted with disgust the lack of thunderstorm.

Slept about 1:30, after taking a slight diversion down past Curtin and along Mill Point road. My air-con had leaked water again....

"Flash! Aa-aaahhhhh...." - Queen

Got up about 9. Went down to Broadway as soon as possible, because I had to get something to clean the stain off my carpet what the airconditioner water had left there yesterday. And I came back with Preen for carpets. Which, really, worked pretty darn well. I was shocked. Hence the quote. I still had to cover up most of it with the rug, but, I mean, what can you do?

Watched the rest of The Fellowship of the Ring. Finished about 11, so took it out and put the next one in. But then I had to do some more tidying up and stuff (including baking bread and making coffee), so I didn't get to start watching it.

Had this like 'home open' thing from 12-1, where all these people just wandered through the house and generally sticky-beaked around. One couple, since they knew the agent, even admitted that they owned a house nearby already but were just looking, or something. Ai. I just kept sorting my music and that.

Watched The Two Towers then. Great hoorayness.
Then I started watching Return of the King, but didn't get very far at all.

Watched a bit of Ransom at night. But it is just so unbelievable - those kidnappers are all idiots. I mean, just shoot the boy in some non-life threatening place, or something. Hello? Ai....

Then did some cheques stuff and that, cos I had to print all the salary stuff from last week. Funness.

Slept about 12.

"His face was kinda funny-looking. Y'know, in a general sort of way. Yah" - witnesses in Fargo, on Steve Buscemi's character

Got up about 6:50. My air-con's water containment plug had sprung last night, so my carpet was quite wet. So I turned it on but didn't open the window, so all the hot air was blowing at the carpet and left it like that. Pretty smelly, too.

Had another meeting with that irritating client from Wednesday. It took all my strength not to start yelling obscenities at him.

Rang the computer people, who said it was ready. Had to convince someone to stay there till 2 so I could get there in time to pick it up.

Left at 1. Went home and got changed first, then went out to pick it up. My petrol was very low, but I didn't have the time to fill it up.
Had to wait around for a while, cos it was like the one guy there and he kept getting calls and stuff. But he removed all the other windows and I didn't have to pay anything, so that was all right, I guess.
Got petrol on the way back. Got back about 2:30.

So I plugged it in and turned it on. Then I had to go to the optometrist.

Another fun eye exam, going through all the lenses and stuff. He used this new fangled machine (only a few in Perth, etc, etc) which measures the outer shape of the eyeball. Apparently, both my eyes have got a pronounced bump on the nose side. So more weird stuff going on there. Which is just great.

It was about 4 when it finished, and I still hadn't eaten, so went to KFC and got burger. Ahhh, burger!

Finished watching Vanilla Sky and started watching Lord of the Rings. Only about half an hour of the latter, though. Its by far my least favourite of the trilogy.

Watched the rest of Fargo, which was on my computer, so I hadn't been able to watch it for a while. It was nice and violent, but ultimately the accents of the people just irritated me. Especially Frances McDormand. She played her character well, I suppose, but all that 'yah, yah'....ewww.

Watched the rest of The Meaning of Life after that. Yeah, its got OK bits, but not that good on the whole.

Watched Charlie's Angels 2 on TV. Not as good as the first, but, well.... can, I suppose.

Slept about 11:30.
Having to load back on some of my tunes, since I accidentally deleted them by moving instead of copying to my old hard drive, then I formatted it before. So. And it took a long time, since the ipod stores them with funny names.

Apu: "For no reason, here's Apu!"

Got up at 6:50. Made lunch and had orange juice. Again.

Went down to clients office. Stayed there till about 11:30. So I missed the morning tea for two peoples birthdays. Bah! What do I even bother coming to work for?

Day went surprisingly fast for a Thursday. I was shocked.

Apparently, there were people coming to look at the house at 4:30, but they were still there when I got home about 5:45 and didn't actually leave until after 6:15. Meanwhile, I was doing washing and watching The Simpsons while drinking tea and finishing off the biscotti.
It was a fairly large (Chinese) family, and the boy made some joke about using my home entertainment stuff. Which was real funny.

Watched The Simpsons, then most of the rest of The Untouchables. Then it was My Name is Earl, which was....different, I guess. So good. Then SVU, which was quite predictable and thus not that good.

However, I was doing my washing, so had to stay up for quite a bit longer, cos the second load wouldn't be done till 11. So I was doing more stuff with the computer, while partly watching Criminal Intent. However, it was one of those episodes without the two main actors. And fairly weird all over, really.
Then I started watching Vanilla Sky. Such great music in that film.

Slept about 11:15. Way too late, I know.

Want to buy my house?

Principal Skinner: "Boy for sale!"

Jimbo: "Is this legal, dude?"

Got up at 6:50. Had orange juice...

Got cappuccino with 2 from coffee guy. Actually wasn't that bad, but that's probably because I was with some irritating client and it helped take my mind off him.

For some reason, wasn't that hungry at lunch, so only ate one sandwich (that was left over from yesterday). I blame society.

Rang the computer people about 4. They said there was faulty RAM which they were replacing, but it wasn't quite ready. So, great.

The real estate people have finally put up a For Sale sign out the front. Its lovely, really.

Watched The Simpsons. And, its Wednesday, so there is absolutely nothing else on. Saw part of the Con Test, without sound (oh, small pleasures!) while putting updates on the old computer.

Then watched half of The Untouchables. Robert De Niro so should've won a few Oscars for that one... even though he has such a small role. Its beautiful to watch.

Slept about 10.

"My inferno was Australia; waste of 2 years that was" - Al Swearengen, Deadwood

Got up at 6:50. Had breakfast and made lunch - although I didn't end up eating it.

Had long training in the morning, which was watching this video and then there were some presentations from Mogli and W&, and then there was more talk about common mistakes with tax returns and then there was I think some more stuff. Ai....

Went down to Subiaco at lunch with Mogli to get Jesters. Pretty tasty - but expensive; 2 pies for $8. I mean, they're good, but not THAT good. Really.
Nyeh.

Watched The Simpsons, then a small bit of the new Simpsons to see The White Stripes. But then the rest of the episode looked bad, so I watched a Classic Album show of U2's The Joshua Tree on ABC2.

Still eating leftovers; alternating between Chinese from Sunday lunch and pasta from Saturday dinner.

Got old computer to work by swapping the IDE cables, cos both the hard drive and the DVD drive were connected to the same port but were both set on slave.
Watched Deadwood season 2 finale, but need to watch it again cos I was using the old computer and missed most of it.

Slept about 9:30. Yes. I was surprised about how non-late it was. Read quite a bit more of The Silmarillion, but it was a long chapter and I didn't finish it.

Mrs Krabappel: "Can I offer you some coffee flavoured beverine?"

Superintendent Chalmers: "I take it grey with creamium"

Got up about 9, after more weird dreams.
Tried my computer, which was partly working. But then, not.

Went shopping about 10. Got some prepackaged bread mix for my bread maker, which I got from my parents on Saturday, cos they bought a new one so gave me their old one. Didn't get much else interesting.

Got home and rang computer people. They were there, so I took it out. Said they were busy - not going to work on it till tomorrow.

Watched another episode of Deadwood. Thrilling stuff, really. While ironing and having coffee with biscotti. Ahhh...biscotti.

Got to work a little late.
Nothing much going on there...
Left at 5.

There were some people coming around for an inspection to buy the house, so I tried to make bread, as they tell you to do in those selling advice books. But, of course, it was way too late, and it was barely kneading before they were all walking through.
It still managed to turn out pretty good. But I don't have any decent knife to cut it with. Tried the electric knife what I got from my grandparents house when my parents were going through all their old stuff, but the blades don't hold together cos the plastic is broken, so they always fall out when I turn it on.

Watched The Simpsons, The Rich List and 1 vs 100. Actually, I only watched half of The Rich List, cos I really don't think its that good - despite what Ali might say.

Slept about 10.

"I care about the realness of music" - Some guy, on important voting issues; The Daily Show

Got up at 9. Wrote some cheques and that before leaving at 10.

Wore a red shirt by accident - it was my planetshakers one.

Wrote more cheques and that. Managed to get everything done, so actually got to service before it started.

Went to V's house for lunch after dropping some guy back, cos his family was having one of their traditional mass pot bless lunch type thingys.
Ali was trying to do her sisters Discrete assignment. I looked at it, but it was so easy that my mind couldn't think that simply. Yes.
Played some Texas Hold'em after that. I was doing alright, until V initiated 'going all in', so from that point we were all making stupidly large bets, and it didn't last much longer.
Then played a bit of Big 2. I had one highly satisfactory win when I had rather crap cards.
Me and V went downstairs to his computer after that, while everyone else kept playing cards and that. Watched some more Ali G stuff off You Tube, then watched most of Disc 3 of The Daily Show, cos it worked on that computer and V hadn't seen it. Great stuff, even when watching it a second time.
Left about 6, after V's parents insisted on offloading tons of food. And, well, how could I refuse? I ended up taking considerably more than I had eaten.

Watched the end of The Simpsons. Watched another episode of Deadwood. OOhhh... controversial! Well, not really.
Watched the end of Australia's Got Talent. As far as I saw, they didn't.
Watched Ugly Betty. Yep - not watching that again.
Watched another episode of Deadwood while I continued with my ironing. Not so controversial this time. Heh.

Slept about 10:30. No computer, so nothing to do upstairs. Ai.

Military School Principal: "We used to split you into two teams in a two day Battle Royale. Not any more - thank you State Supreme Court!"

As voiced by Willem Dafoe, apparently. Never knew that before tonight.

Got up about 9, cos my phone was ringing. It turned out to be nothing, but Mogli rang soon after. The computer was not working, so....

Tried ringing the computer people, but was having any luck till about 11. Then Mogli said I should just go over to his house anyway, so I took the computer and Sopranos season 6 and his disc of Heroes and went over.

Rained fairly heavily on the way.

Went down to High Road, cos Mogli was replacing some blender jar thing as some weird appliance part replacement shop. Then popped across the road to get money at some high tech ATM thing which was in its own little room. Tried to get down to see V's shop, but it was too much trouble.

Went to Chicken Treat drivethrough for lunch, while it was pouring with rain so Mogli's car got wet, right after he unsuccessfully tried to buy some magazine from a shop where the guy didn't approve of that sort of thing.

Went back to his house after getting petrol, and the said magazine.

Watched two episodes of Sopranos on his 51" TV, with the surround sound. It was pretty darn cool. I just had to lie there and not be impressed.

Then we watched some random Foxtel, and part of Laguna Beach. Which was really, really bad.

Checked my mail, cos I needed stuff for tomorrow. Then it was about 3, so I left. With no computer success - they were closed, or something.

Got home just in time for people to show up for an inspection, cos of the whole trying to sell it thing. I stayed in my room trying to get my computer to work. Which it didn't. So I left Windows Setup to format my older harddrive (again) and watched more Deadwood. Then it was about 4:30, so I took all this stuff and went off to Mt Nasura to have dinner with my parents.

Had pasta with sauce for dinner, AKA Spaghetti Bolognaise. Lent my parents DVDs of Deadwood season 1, Seinfeld season 7 and Thank God You're Here season 1. Also gave my parents my old ipod, which now looks like so cruddy.

Watched The Simpsons, but then it was my parents picking shows - Gardening Australia, News, Around the World in Eighty Treasures, Iron Chef (the end) and Rockwiz. Then I left.

Got home about 10:30. Had lots of cheques and that to write, cos its pay day tomorrow - can't print the letters though, cos the computer is still working like nothing.

Slept about 11:30. I wasn't done, but it was late and I figured I could do the rest tomorrow morning.

Martin: "And down with uniforms! Huzzah!"

Free dress day! Hooray!

Got up still about 6:50, but was ready about 7:15 and so got to work really early.

Was doing work like all morning. Great. Super! Literally - it was a super fund.
Well, except at the very start of the day, when I was laying around being casual.

Hung around in the boardroom while Mogli was eating his lunch. They had various stars on TV, but Oprah didn't ask them nothing interesting. Left about 1:40.

Went down to the city. Unfortunately they had kinda closed off where I usually park, so had to drive right down the terrace then come back again. And, on the way back, there was this insane traffic jam. Eventually got parking down on Mounts Bay Road opposite the busport, and took that overpass that goes over that way. So I was about half an hour late, but frankly, I didn't care.
The Michael Page guy said nothing new. Wanted me to change stuff on my Resume - but that's not gonna happen for a while now, is it?

Got back about 3:30. Had to ring the rental agent people, cos they'd left a card in the door saying I should call. I figured it was some inspection problem, but it turned out that the guy who owns is trying to sell, so they wanted to know times when they can bring people through. We still get to keep our lease for at least a year though, so that's great.

Turned on my computer again after trying to load Windows on the other hard drive, and it actually worked. So I managed to burn Mogli's DVD of Heroes (episodes 3-14 - the rest wouldn't fit). But then later on it went back to its good old bad self.

Watched The Day After Tomorrow, cos it was on TV, but also part of 50 First Dates and part of The Bourne Identity.

Slept about 11, cos I had to kinda wake up early tomorrow.

Bart: "Dad, you can't judge a place you've never been to. That's what they do in Russia!"

Got up about 6:50, again. Ai....Thursdays. They suck.

As did this Thursday, going really, really, really very slowly. Not much work to do, neither, so lots of admin stuff. Finally started doing a superfund in the late afternoon, so the last hour or so wasn't that bad.

Went down to the local shop for lunch (my lunchbox was wet so I couldn't make it in the morning). I got a hot roast beef roll and a latte (which was better than the coffee guys, although really, really boiling). Also had to buy a large chips for Mogli, as the final payment in the bet from last Wednesday.

Had a rather bad day, cos I was thinking all the time that my computer wasn't working again, as it was giving the same signs this morning as it was giving last time.

However, I was able to take my mind off it a little by finalising my share purchases from yesterday, and seeing my extensive (and well diversified) portfolio of 5 companies of $2000 each (Telstra, Rio Tinto, ANZ, Wesfarmers and Woolworths).

And then, we got some memo saying that our internet usage was 3x higher now than it had been 6 months ago. So this sent everyone on a scapegoat and general rumour run. Frankly, I didn't care.

Got home at 5:30, and my computer wasn't working as I'd feared. Spent most of that night (up till about 11:30) trying to reinstall windows and that, but it kept failing and giving me all these weird type errors. Mogli rang cos he was trying to get me to burn Heroes onto a DVD, and thus I had a bit of a rant and that. Bah.

Watched The Simpsons and SVU. Watched a bit more Monty Python Live inbetween, then started watching The Holy Grail while I waited to make sure that the computer wasn't working. And it wasn't. So, great. I'm real happy and smiling.

Slept about 11:30. Not too worried that its so late, cos it casual dress tomorrow, and thus we can present a casual attitude! Hah!

Cecil: "I had no idea! For you see I have been on MARS for the last 5 years, in a cave, with my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears!"

Sideshow Bob: "Touche, Cecil..."

That quote was on The Simpsons tonight - one of my favourites (Brother from Another Series) cos its got those Crane brothers from Frasier. Anyway, its funny.
Anyway, so I used that 'for I have been living under a box for the past 5 years' cos Mogli asked me today if I knew who Weird Al Yankovich was. Who, incidentally, was on The Simpsons yesterday. What a bizarre range of coincidences....

Got up about 6:50 again. Had breakfast and made lunch.

Despite it being Valentine's Day, there was no noticeable romantic goings on.

Finally got the inheritance from my Grandmother today, so I got to pay of my huge credit card debt (like $3.5k) and pay off the loan to my parents ($5k) and used most of the rest to buy shares. Anyway, it was very satisfying. And then, by the absolute close of banking hours (as it always is) we got our pay as well. So, yay, finally some money. And now well and truly in the black in my cash at bank(s) position.

Got a coffee from the coffee guy. I tried a skinny with 2 sugars. It wasn't really any better. Or different, really. Ai....

Went down to Strathfield at lunch, cos Mogli wanted some cable for his TV, and MD came along as well. Mogli got some other type of cable, but it was longer and cheaper, so I guess that's good for him.

Got a call from some guy from Michael Page at like 6 or something, and he basically told me that my previous interview (2 months ago) was a complete waste of time and I had to come in and do it all again. So I said 2pm Friday. And that's that, then.

There was absolutely nothing on TV after The Simpsons, so I started watching Fargo. It seems pretty OK, though it must be almost over. I actually stopped it cos nothing much was happening, although it keeps seeming like something is going to. Also, their accents, and that they kept saying 'yah' in that drawly Southern USA type way got pretty irritating. I think it was supposed to.

Slept about 10:30.

"Its a game of wits; first you hate him, then you respect him, then you kill him" - Monty Python, on hunting mosquitoes

Got up around 6:45.

Had the usual training at 8:30, which was some manager talking about the Webb Martin from last Thursday - pretty boring stuff. He thus concluded that we were now going to alternate people every second month. Which was interesting.
And then Mogli went and suggested that we have free dress days every second Friday (when they have afternoon drinks). And, pretty surprisingly, the partners agreed. So, there you go. And the first one is this Friday. Yay!

Me and Mogli both got coffee, cos we wanted to try the GJs vanilla syrup what I had brought in yesterday. And we did, and it didn't really help.

Left at 5, cos I still had lots of cleaning to do before the inspection tomorrow.

Watched The Simpsons, The Simpsons and The Simpsons. Was planning to watch Justice at 9:30, but Mogli wanted me to tape the OC, which was on at the same time, and the box don't let you do that. Anyway, it gave me time to do more cleaning.

Slept about 11. Was really tired from all that cleaning.

Homer: "Let me get this straight - the mob did me a favour just to get something in return? Oh, Fat Tony! I will say good day to you, sir!"

Got up at 9. Slept really badly. Lucky its my sleep in day. I guess.

Went shopping around 10. Got some cleaning stuff - really just spray and wipe and some all purpose thing. And some more cloths. Didn't get snacks - whoops.

Went back home. Had coffee, and some little bits of lunch stuff (like chicken and bread). Watched the end of Dead Poets Society while doing some ironing. Then I watched the start of The Truman Show - which was like two Peter Weir films in a row, coincidentally by accident. Maybe it was some sub-conscious thing?

Went to work. Pretty standard type stuff going on.
Left at 5.

Watched the rest of The Truman Show. Around that, watched The Simpsons and 1 vs 100.

Did some cleaning in preparation for the inspection. Still quite a lot to go.

Slept about 10:30.

"You should try those patches-my friend tried those patches; they were good. He had to use about 5 at once, but it did the job" - Don Cheadle, Traffic

"How is he now?"
"Hes dead."
"Dead!"
"It wasn't from the patches, man. His wife shot him."

Got up at 9 with my alarm. Actually not feeling THAT tired. Really. Considering.
Watched about 10 more minutes of Traffic.

Left at 10. Wrote some cheques, though not quite enough time for them all.
Still got to service a little late. Also missed half of the sermon (which was about tithes) due to counting money.

Went to Freo afterwards with a large group of (mainly new) uni-type people; I think it was cos V wanted me to drive.

Went to Cicerellos, and I had just wedges. The chili sauce and sour cream was good.... Tried some of V's chips, which were like the worst I've ever had. Apparently the fish was really bad, too. So, yeah - a great lunch had by all, I suppose.

Went to the markets after that - it was pretty warm in there. Everyone got separated almost straight away, so I just walked around with V looking at the weird junky stuff. Saw some cheap CDs, but I had most of them already. And the rest were bad.... they were selling Baker Street for $10. But Baker Street is the only good song on there. And I have that already.

Watched some crazy street 'entertainer' guy who was doing some thing just outside. Yeah...the handstands on chairs were OK, and the juggling was alright. But he was mainly talk. There was lots of talk.

Drove the uni people back home. Most of them lived out in stick city.

Dropped V back at his car, which was still parked over at the Taurus carpark, at like 5. We were making endless jokes along the lines of 'those other cars have come for dinner and we've like just finished lunch' type thing.
He left his stuff in the boot.

Got home about 5:30, and was really quite worn out, so went for a nap. Woke up just after 7.
Had dinner about 9.

Watched the rest of Traffic. Such an amazingly good film. I can't believe it was beaten by Gladiator for best film, even though Steven Soderburgh beat Ridley Scott for Director. Weird. I guess.

Did some ironing, partly during Traffic, and partly during watching the start of Dead Poets Society.

Slept about 11. Read another chapter of The Silmarillion.

Millhouse: "Like that time he ate my goldfish, and you said I never had any goldfish - well, why did I have the bowl, Bart? Why did I have the bowl?"

Bart: "Yeah...he was a great dog!"

Got up at 8 and went nearly straight to Mogli's house with two computers and an evaporative airconditioner.

Him and his dad were like preparing their living room for a 50" TV...yah boo. Had fried rice for breakfast - yeah, that was weird. And tea.

Left about 9:45, but the computer shop didn't open till 10:30. Drove around looking at furniture, cos Mogli was trying to get a cabinet to rest the new 50" TV on....yah boo.
Came back at 10:20. It still wasn't open. Waited around looking at these guys doing something to the carpark lines. It finally opened about 10:50.

Waited around till about 11:30, but the guy was really busy as he always seems to be, so we just left.
Went back to Mogli's house, and stood around for a while looking at the box which had the 50" TV in it....yah boo. Drank Coke and watched some bad TV, on a significantly smaller screen than the 50" one.....yah boo. Left at about 12 or so.

Went to Garbo. As always, parking was insane - had to park behind Hoyts again.
Got a VVL, which wasn't up to the usual standard, and also a packet of GJ beans - for about $12 altogether, which isn't too bad. Cept for the coffee. Yeah.

Went home after that.
Watched Monty Python Live and some more Deadwood.

Had a bit of a sleep, mainly cos I woke up too early this morning. But also it was a little warm and I wanted to hang around with the airconditioner.

Started watching Traffic after that.

Got a call from the computer guy at 4:30. He said he'd ring back in half an hour when it was properly ready (cos he hadn't had lunch, or something). Rang back at 5:30.

Got petrol, then drove out to that Myaree place.
Left around 7 with both computers and also got some cheap microphone for Skype.

Spent till about 8:30 loading all my stuff back on. Then I was really quite hungry, so I went and got KFC for dinner.
Kept putting stuff on till 9:30, so my dinner got fairly cold. Yum....

Watched more Traffic while the computer was updating itself, and my ipod was reloading all the songs back on again. Somehow they managed to keep their ratings (the few that there were), so that was nice.

Slept about 12.

"Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives" - that announcer guy

I think, based on the show, a better quote would be 'like a turtle and snail race in slow motion, so are the days of our lives". Anyway....

And so begins post number 500.
Yes, its been an emotional...say...1.5 years. There's been high points (like yesterday, when my airconditioner finally arrived) and there's been low points (like the day before, when my aircondtioner still hadn't arrived).
But, all I can really say is....that's life. Cos that's what its been. For more of it, see the next 500 posts...

Got up about 7 again. It was late, but I had breakfast anyway cos I was really quite hungry.

Not really much work stuff going on. Had a meeting with a client at 11:15. It was real fun.

Left at 1.
My computer was still not working of cos, so I watched more Monty Python and Deadwood.

Did some more cleaning of the bathroom, but I don't really have the proper 'ingredients', so it really hasn't gotten any better. Actually, I think parts of it are worserer.

Watched Battle Royale at night, cos I wasn't really in the mood for The Princess Diaries - and I don't think I ever will be.

Slept about 11. I was trying to prepare myself to wake up early tomorrow. Don't think it worked, though.

"Once more into the breach, dear friends; once more!" - some, like, famous-type guy

Actually, I just discovered that it was Henry V in William Shakespeare. So, not really a famous-type guy - a mythical representation of a famous-type guy.
Again, as yesterday, trying to be monumental. I'm not real happy with the momentuality induciveness of it, actually, but its the best I can do a short notice (ie, I can't really be bothered. Cos its not THAT important...)

Got up about 6:50 or so. Made lunch again. Again no time for breakfast.

Got to work about 7:50 and left straight away to go down to the city client.

Not much happening there, except that I had some dripolater coffee - about two sips of it. It was fairly strong and it just went cold in the end.

Got back at about 2:10. Had lunch and stuff. Had a message from the airconditioner place, so I rang them up but the guy wasn't available. Then he rang back on my mobile which I wasn't using and left a message that it actually had arrived. I didn't really believe it.

Went for Webb Martin training at 2:45. The lady ran overtime. A bit.
I wasn't going to mention this, but Mogli told me not to so I will:
The motto on Victorian numberplates is 'Victoria: The Place to Be', so Peter Costello, being a Victorian, wants Australia's motto to be 'Australia: The Place to Invest In'. Yeah. Great.

Left straight after that, which was about 5:20 by the time I got back to my car.

Watched The Simpsons, then went down to Retravision in Claremont. Managed to squeeze the airconditioner thing (which was really heavy) into the car, then I went and got Hungry Jacks for dinner.

Played my ipod downstairs while I was trying to fit the exhaust onto my airconditioner. Then I put it in the room on dehumidifier with the other fan thing on as well to drain it cos Mogli is taking it on Saturday.

Watched SVU. It was good, but I think the lack of that Olivia character will be felt soon. Although they briefly introduced a new partner at the end, who seems OK. But is probably gonna have some sort of issue, or something.

Slept about 10. Tried to read a bit more of The Silmarillion, but it didn't mean nothing to me.

Millhouse: "We're through the looking glass here, people...."

I'm trying to be ominous, cos there's a big event happening soon. Ooooohhhh.....

Got up about 7:10, feeling really very tired. Actually, it was a similar scenario to yesterday, cept I was a lot more tired.
Made lunch. No time for breakfast. My computer is still not working, so I still had to hurry to work to do my internet stuff.

Didn't do any work till about 10:30, when I suddenly had these like individual tax returns to do. Weird. Anyway....

Had a bet with Mogli that SVU was on Wednesday last week whereas he said it was on Thursday. Unfortunately, of course, we didn't really have any way to check cos all the online TV guides are expunged for last week already. So there was much time between the initial bet (which started as one coffee but escalated to two due to the long time and the rising tension) and when Mogli found an old TV guide for Sydney which said it was on Thursday. So I still didn't really buy it, but what can you do?

Rang the aircon people, and the guy who I ordered it from said that, well, he hadn't really ordered it yet. Or there was something wrong. Or whatever. So he ordered it again. Great.

Left at 5:30.

Watched The Simpsons, then the season finale of season 1 of Thank God You're Here. Again.
After that I watched The Con Test, which was really, really bad.

Then I watched some more Monty Python. Its up to like season 4 now, and John Cleese is no longer acting on the show. But I like it better than most of season 3.

Slept about 9:45. Read some more of The Silmarillion, up to about chapter 5. Its still a lot of stuff that means nothing to me.

Rodney Rudi Guili Andrew Chow Yun Fatboy Slim Dusty Springfield

A wonderful name link thing that me and Mogli came up with at lunchtime. No particular reason.... I think Slim Dusty was on the ABC, or something.

Got up just before 7. I actually woke up about 5 and leaned out of bed to turn of the fan, then went back to sleep but was awake for most of my alarm (which lasts an hour from 6), and feeling really, really tired.

Made lunch, but didn't really have time for breakfast, especially cos I wanted to get to work as early as possible to do my internet stuff what I can't do at home no more. As it was, I still took till like 8:30. But that's not unusual. Hah!

Had training at 8:30. It wasn't real interesting. Finished at 9.

Mogli finally gave me the money for my coffee after I beat him up a bit more, which I had - the usual latte with 1.5. And, as per usual, it wasn't really worth it. Especially cos its $3.80. My only consolation was that it wasn't my money.

Watched a bit of Oprah at lunch. Saw those Blood Diamond people. Great.

Nothing really going on in the afternoon. Again. My airconditioner still hasn't come though, so that's great.

Left at 5:30.

Watched The Simpsons, and then the extras from Thank God You're Here. Oh, the hilarity!

Went to a FCC leaders meeting at 7:30. Didn't finish till like 9:45. So that was fun.

Slept about 10:30. Was worrying about some problem that really isn't my problem. Really.

Homer: "So, they have the internet on computers now..."

Got up about 9:30. Spent an hour or so hanging around with my computer trying to do stuff. Mainly unsuccessfully.

Went shopping at about 11. Didn't buy nothing exciting.

Watched a bit more Monty Python while having a bit of lunch. Then I burned some more Heroes episodes - somehow my computer managed to stay working long enough. Well, for the most part anyway.

Went to work. Spent most of the time doing internet stuff, since I can't really do that at home no more now, can I? Well, not most of the time. I did manage to squeeze some work in there, anyway.

Had a bet with Mogli that the biscuits in the kitchen were not choc-chip, which they weren't. But then, even though the whole bet thing - one $3.80 coffee - was his idea, he still tried to weasel out of it.

Left at 5. Did some washing, and also started on the long, arduous journey towards inspection on the 14th by doing some vacuuming. Sneh.

Watched The Simpsons. There's no longer any Futurama, cos they have The Biggest Loser on there now, so I watched episode 9 of season 1 of Thank God You're Here, which means its only the Finale left, which I have watched many, many times before. Although they do have some extra features...

Watched The Rich List (even though I vowed not to) and it was, on the whole, craptacular. Watched 1 vs 100 after that, and, unbelievably, that guy that didn't seem to know that much made a wise choice by walking with $73,000.

Slept about 10:30. Read some more of The Silmarillion. Still nothing too familiar going on.

Homer: "If only I read that book by that wheelchair guy!"

Got up before my alarm at like 8:30, but went back to bed again and got up again about 9:15 after my alarm.
Was ready by about 9:30, though, so watched a bit more of my WWII DVD which I started watching yesterday. Its really old American propaganda stuff, apparently directed by that guy that did Its a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra. Obviously, the tone is a bit different here....
Some really good archival footage, though. But the maps are really inaccurate. And I question a lot of the things that the narrator says - the world of light vs the world of dark, etc.

Left just after 10, and got there about 10:30. Did a bit of cheque writing, and thus got to the service a little late. Well, V was already there, so it was probably a little later than a little late. Anyway, it was a lot more fuller than I thought it would be, which was nice.

Went for lunch with V at Nandos, again. We almost went to Southlands, but he said he was sick of it - which means another one is crossed off the list. Ai.
We exchanged DVDs at the end - he gave me back Seinfeld and I gave him back The Daily Show. And apparently Seinfeld worked fine, so that doesn't really make any sense. Though no computers in my life make any sense, anyway.

Got home about 2. My computer was making no sense, so I watched some more World War II up to the end of disc 1 (of 5, I believe) and also some more Monty Python.

Watched The Simpsons, and some more Monty Python after that. Had Red Rooster for dinner for a change. I just had the chicken dinner thing, but it really was quite expensive, and not that filling either, really.

Watched Sweet Home Alabama. It was more like.....nothing. Anyway, it wasn't good.

Slept about 11:30. Read a little bit more of The Silmarillion.

"Its the story of Ivan the Terrible" - Monty Python

"Its not that terrible"
"No, I mean terrible as in.... ferocious"

This will probably be a pretty short entry, since I didn't even wake up till 11.

Went for CMC meeting at 12. Finished at two. Super.

Went and got KFC for lunch on the way back.

My computer wasn't being nice, so I watched Reservoir Dogs. Watched a bit of commentary from this crazy movie critic, but she was crazy so I stopped it.

Started watching the documentary I have on WWII. It turns out its like made around 1945 or something, and its produced by the USA War Department as motivational stuff for soldiers. So, yeah, its just a little biased....

Watched The Simpsons. But there wasn't much on after that. Saw a bit of The Brady Bunch movie while destroying my old CD-RW and to get my Windows CD out to try and make my new computer work properly. Then I watched part of Spy Game, cos there's bits which are OK.

Slept about 11.

Conformity - When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other

The February entry from the Demotivational Calendar.

Got up about 6:30. I still had to burn the Heroes episodes for Mogli's birthday. Yeah....

Lovely hot day today - about 38 or so. Still, it is hotter tomorrow. So that's good, then. Especially since my air-conditioner still hasn't arrived.

Went down to West Perth at 10 cos Mogli wanted to get hot food. Crazy person....going out for lunch as well.

Had morning tea when we got back, with this lovely mango cheesecake. Well, the cheesecake bit was OK. Can't say much for the mango part.

Went for lunch at Kome in Subiaco. It was only outdoor seating, and was pretty darn heaty. I was almost disappointed that I wasn't going back to work afterwards, and instead going home to my unairconditioned house. But it turned out not to be SO bad, since it was all closed and dark and stuff. Though it got worser in the later afternoon.

Went to FCC after watching the final bit of The Daily Show. Had to get stuff. So I got the stuff. It was real great.

Watched The Simpsons and Futurama. Then watched part of The First Wives Club, but it was quite stupid. However, I did see that lady that played that FBI cop in SVU on Wednesday. So that's two shows with her in two days and, as far as I know, I've never seen her before. I thought she looked familiar in the movie, but I was first thinking that she was that hypnotist from Heroes. Huh.

Did accounts after that, so I didn't end up finishing till like 1:30am. Was thus pretty tired and went straight to sleep. Sort of. It was still rather warm.

"Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"

As sung by the 4 reporters from The Daily Show's Indecision 2004.

Got up about 6:50. Had breakfast, and made half my lunch, cos I only ate half of it yesterday. Deary me....

Did very little work the entire day. I did however get 12 in a row on this little putting game, which I thought was quite good till I looked at the high scores and saw all these crazy people, the highest of which was over 500. Insane loonies.

Went down to a clients office in the morning. Did very little down there, too. It only lasted two hours. Hardly worth it, really. Aaaahhhh.....

Ended up going to Hungry Jacks for lunch, anyway. Mogli was planning on getting the double delish, but they don't have that no more. So we had to get the other burger meals instead, and we only just had enough money between us - 30c change. I got two refills of my coke, at least.

Nout happening in the afternoon. Very relaxing, etc.
Left at 5:30.

Watched The Simpsons and Futurama. Then I got KFC for dinner, but had to go to ANZ to get money first, since I only had 30c.

Watched more Daily Show, until I only have two segments left, which is the first presidential debate and then the election night.

Downloaded some episodes of Heroes for Mogli's birthday. I had planned to go to some variety store in Claremont when I went to get my air-conditioner, but since it hasn't arrived, I didn't do that. Too bad.

Slept about 10:30.