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Year View| Summary| Highlights| June 2008 (Month View)
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01.06.2008 – Sunday 1 June – Thai
- Day
- • Slept in until midday.
- Afternoon
- • Dropped Bronwen back to her place, via her parent’s.
- Night
- • Drove to the Valley with Stella and had a nice dinner upstairs at Tara Thai.
02.06.2008 – Monday 2 June – Interview
- 9am
- • I managed to get to the airport before nine for my interview, without getting killed, flooded, or otherwise stopped, while most of the rest of the city apparently went under water.
- Evening
- • I have developed a toothache, and taken some ibuprofen which has made the pain go away.
03.06.2008 – Tuesday 3 June – Aching
- Evening
- • I still have a toothache, and have taken some more ibuprofen.
- Night
- • Dropped Stella at work and continued on to Maz’s, where I stayed for a while before driving to Kangaroo Point to pick up Bronwen. We drove back to my place, dropped a DVD off at the video store, bought pizza, and ate it at Maz’s, where Stella arrived after work, and we all went home and slept peacefully.
04.06.2008 – Wednesday 4 June – Tired
- Morning
- • Woke up, but became tired, and went back to bed.
- Afternoon
- • Drove to Indooroopilly with Grace and Stella, and waited for a long time while they discussed makeup, clothing, and so on.
- Evening
- • I still have a toothache and have taken some more ibuprofen.
- Night
- • Went rollerblading with Maz and Stella. Dropped Maz home, came back, and finished writing up my Tasmanian journal and adding photos to it.
05.06.2008 – Thursday 5 June – Curry
- Morning
- • Got a call asking me to come in on Tuesday for a second interview out at the airport.
- Afternoon
- • Got MyTV and MceFM working in my Media Centre. Not very exciting, but at least it’s more usable. MceFM is actually quite nice—better than the official last.fm client. The MyTV service had some permissions issue under the media centre user account. It’s all very geeky.
- Evening
- • My toothache seems to be a lot better but I can still feel it.
- Night
- • Had curry from Halim’s with Stella for dinner, and then drove up to Kieran’s, where Maz already was.
06.06.2008 – Friday 6 June – Relaxing Late
- Day
- • I had a relatively relaxing, sleepy sort of day.
- Night
- • I drove to Maz’s, bought dinner from Hungry Jack’s, dropped Stella home after work, and spent most of the night at Maz’s, getting home around 3 AM.
- Night
- • I can still feel my toothache but it’s not overly painful.
07.06.2008 – Saturday 7 June – Up Late
- Day
- • I have had a quiet, relaxing day, doing very little. Stella and I went shopping at Indooroopilly just before Woolies closed, and that’s about the most energetic thing I’ve done today.
- Night
- • Drove up to Kieran’s, and later back to Maz’s, where I stayed until around 6 AM, theoretically helping Maz work on his new website, though in reality doing nearly anything but.
08.06.2008 – Sunday 8 June – Late, Again
- Day
- • Due to my late night last night (or this morning, more accurately), I didn’t wake up until the afternoon.
- Evening
- • I drove out to Bronwen’s, and we sat on the top of Mount Gravatt for a while, during which time it rained lightly.
- Night
- • I stayed at Maz’s until 5 AM, helping him work on his website, and working on adding categories to my journal.
09.06.2008 – Monday 9 June – Queen’s Birthday Holiday
- Afternoon
- • I, once again, woke up after midday.
- Evening
- • I drove up to Kieran’s, where I stayed until late before driving Maz home, spending a little while at his place, and heading back to my place to go to bed.
- Night
- • I couldn’t sleep, lying in bed thinking until well after midnight.
10.06.2008 – Tuesday 10 June – New Job
- Morning
- • Up early to get to the airport by nine o’clock. I arrived over half an hour early, traffic being better than last time, taking about half an hour. I discovered that there’s a runway viewing area up at General Aviation.
- 9am
- • I attended my interview, and was offered a position, pursuant to reference checks and so forth.
- Later Morning
- • I have phoned previous managers, who have agreed to provide references.
- Afternoon
- • Maz had stayed home from work, so I drove up to his place, took him to KFC for lunch, had a Hungry Jacks veggie burger myself, and watched some Stargate at his place.
- Night
- • I ordered pizza, picked Bronwen up from Kangaroo Cliffs, picked up the pizza, ate the pizza while watching Top Gear, dropped some DVD’s back to the DVD store, and drove Bronwen home.
- 5:30am
- • What started as a quick little site-fix-up turned into an idea—to add categories to my journal. Now I appear to have accidentally stayed up all night, refactoring and entirely redesigning the way my journal works. In theory, it now has “set” support. Sets are a cross between categories and keywords—each entry can belong to one or more sets, and the display view can be filtered based on these sets, combined with a year and one or more months. I plan to add a few more custom views, such as the previous “Highlights” and “Summary” views, and probably a “most recent X days” view, and I suppose anything else I happen to think of. In theory it’s fairly flexible. In reality, I’ve been up all night hacking away at something I had slowly built up over several years, so I’ll quite likely wake up and realise I’ve neglected to take something vital into consideration and none of it will work.
11.06.2008 – Wednesday 11 June – Jelly Beans & New Pants
- Morning
- • I did some work to attempt to make what I did last night a little more polished—that is to say, I made it work enough that it mostly appears that my journal still works, other than the non-working month links (but at least they do something) and the lack of any journal on the front page of the journal... But it is still hiding there somewhere! I also spent some time setting it (that is, tagging my journal, except I’ve called them sets, so it’s setting... like the sun, but not as hot).
- Afternoon
- • I rushed off to Indooroopilly to buy some new, cheap, black shoes and some pants. The people at K-Mart refused my credit card on the basis that my signature doesn’t show my last name... I wasn’t aware it had to.
- Night
- • Due to an urgent requirement for 3 bags of Allen’s Jelly Beans, I rushed off to Woolworths to buy them for Grace. On the way, and on the way back, I stopped at Maz’s, and Kieran arrived, and we watched some Stargate, and chatted, and I bought five litres of milk—one one litre bottle and two two litre bottles. I then drove home, ate dinner, prepared to get up early tomorrow, wrote this, marvelled at the triviality of it all.
12.06.2008 – Thursday 12 June – First Day at Work
- Before 7
- • I got up, showered, and drove to my first day at SkyNet. It took a little over half an hour to get there, which I thought wasn’t too bad considering the time and that it’s out at the airport.
- 8:30am
- • For my first duty on my first day at work, I assembled my desk and chair—something everyone here has apparently done. It’s harder than it looks. The rest of the day was spent learning things about my new job, as you’d expect.
- 5:15pm
- • Traffic back from the airport is as bad as expected, though once onto Kingsford Smith Drive, it isn’t too bad.
- 5:55pm
- • Home again. It’s about a 40 minute drive, but once I’ve learnt enough to be self sufficient I’ll work outside peak hour times.
- Evening
- • I dropped past Woolworths, where I bought dip and corn chips, and headed over to Maz’s, where Kieran, Maz and I watched the latest Futurama movie. It’s not very good.
13.06.2008 – Friday 13 June – Tara Thai
- Day
- • I attended the second day at my new job, and became stuck there when most of the bridges in Brisbane suffered multi-vehicle accidents, preventing the smooth and efficient flow of traffic through most of the roads I required to get home. In the end, it took me an hour to get home, after waiting a while for traffic to clear.
- Night
- • Bronwen and I had dinner at Tara Thai, sat around at my place chatting, went to Maz’s, and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning.
14.06.2008 – Saturday 14 June – Onion Poisoned Slow Cooking
- Morning
- • I drove to Indooroopilly with Grace and Stella, dropping Stella off to go ice skating with Mister Harry Egg, while Grace and I bought a wok, a slow cooker, and some groceries.
- Afternoon
- • I am suffering from onion poisoned eyes, and my first experiment in slow cooking is cooking slowly.
15.06.2008 – Sunday 15 June – Wandering
- Evening
- • Bronwen and I went for a wander around the Paddington area.
16.06.2008 – Monday 16 June – Working
- Morning
- • Up bright and early, and off to work. Surprisingly, it took just a twitch under half an hour to get there.
- Day
- • I worked.
- Night
- • Diddums here went to Maz’s, where he chatted about buying his sister a laptop, amongst other things. I managed to stay up far too late, going to bed in what is technically tomorrow.
17.06.2008 – Tuesday 17 June – Iced Coffee & Pizza
- 7:30am
- • I slept in a little, but managed to get up at 7:30, and was out the door by 8, arriving at work by 8:30—which isn’t too bad really.
- Evening
- • I bought pizza, which Stella, Grace and I enjoyed whilst watching the first episode of “Earth 2”.
- Night
- • I foolishly stayed up until after one o’clock chatting to Maz about controlling household items with embedded devices and making cross-protocol compatible chat-proxies, after buying iced coffee at Woolworths.
18.06.2008 – Wednesday 18 June – Curried
- Day
- • Worked.
- Night
- • Drove out to Bronwen’s with Bronwen, and ate curry. Dirk, Stella’s brother, and his girlfriend, are here.
19.06.2008 – Thursday 19 June – Storage
- Afternoon
- • I picked Bronwen and her mum up from town, got stuck in lots of traffic, and eventually managed to get home and go to Umart to pick up a new Western Digital Green Power 1 TB hard drive for $218, via their service centre so Bronwen could return her faulty DVD drive.
- Night
- • Bronwen and I bought dinner from the Ville and drove to Kieran’s, where I got a SATA power adaptor. We picked Grace up from Indooroopilly station, dropped Bronwen back at her parents, picked up Stella, and rushed back to Indooroopilly where we watched “Sex and the City”. After that, I installed my new 1 TB hard drive—sitting out the back of my computer on a SATA cable poking out a PCI slot hole.
20.06.2008 – Friday 20 June – Vince & Sarah
- Morning
- • Getting up wasn’t much fun, but I did, managing to get to work only ten minutes or so late.
- Evening
- • It rained a little, and while traffic home wasn’t good, it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. Vince and my sister are down, having arrived earlier this afternoon. Sarah and I went to Halim’s Indian Taj for two of his usual fantastic curries.
- Night
- • It’s nice to have a Friday night, and the following weekend, when working. I’m off to Maz’s now.
- 2am
- • I spent a lot of time at Maz’s, went for a bit of a walk, and am now off to bed.
21.06.2008 – Saturday 21 June – Eruption III
- Morning
- • I walked Sarah and Vince to the bus stop. They’ve gone shopping in the city.
- Evening
- • Picked Bronwen up from her parent’s place and drove to South Bank, where we met Sarah and Vince and had some lunch, before driving up Mount Coot-Tha, and relaxing back at my place.
- Night
- • I drove Bronwen, Vince and Sarah to the Beenleigh “Eruption III” Muay Thai Kickboxing fight night, where we stayed until around midnight, driving home via Bronwen’s place, and staying up late.
22.06.2008 – Sunday 22 June – Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- Morning
- • I drove Vince and Sarah to the airport via a bakery for breakfast. They’ve flown back up north. It was nice to see them.
- Afternoon
- • I went to Woolworths at Indooroopilly with Maz and Stella, and bought ingredients to cook my second slow-cooked curry, which I then did.
- Night
- • Bronwen and I watched “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” at Maz’s, before eating my curry at my place. It was nice. I then drove Bronwen back home, and am now off to bed.
23.06.2008 – Monday 23 June – Sam
- Morning
- • I slept in a titch more than I’d planned, getting to work a little later than I’d hoped, and staying a little later than I’d planned. Fortunately, traffic wasn’t too bad either way.
- Evening
- • I drove to Maz’s, then on to KFC and Hungry Jack’s—where I was a little surprised to be unexpectedly hugged from behind while filling my drink, it was Sam, who I haven’t seen in ages—then back to Maz’s, and now it’s 1 o’clock in the morning. In other news, it appears the degauss in my $11,000 monitor cum media centre TV has failed or is failing. It doesn’t degauss when it turns on, making it all sorts of pretty colours, and the manual degauss doesn’t always work. Perhaps it’s time I bought a projector instead of telling everyone else that they should, though I’m not sure if it’s possible to fit one in anywhere here. It’s probably also time I went to bed.
24.06.2008 – Tuesday 24 June – Pizza & Carpet
- Morning
- • After my late night last night, I was fortunate to get to work just before nine.
- Day
- • Working. Having carpet installed at work. Melting plastic. More working.
- Evening
- • Go see Maz, get pizza, see Bronwen, probably pick her up from Kangaroo Point.
25.06.2008 – Wednesday 25 June – Lumpy
- Day
- • Another day, another dollar. Quite a lot of traffic too. It took over an hour to get home from work. Not good.
- Night
- • I phoned Mum, had a chat, drove to Bronwen’s, had a chat, then drove to Maz’s, had another chat, and then drove home.
- Late Night
- • I have a lump on the roof of my mouth. I dunno why, but it’s annoying. Been there all day.
26.06.2008 – Thursday 26 June – Laptop
- Morning
- • Sarah’s laptop was delivered to me at work. It looks quite nice.
- Evening
- • Drove to Maz’s, then to Umart, bought 4 GB of RAM for Sarah’s new laptop. Swapped that into it. Drove to Indooroopilly and Kieran’s with Kieran where we had dinner, drove back to Maz’s, drove home, slept.
27.06.2008 – Friday 27 June – Zilch
- • Records have been searched, and found suspiciously missing.
28.06.2008 – Saturday 28 June – Zippo
- • Removed for reasons beyond your comprehension.
29.06.2008 – Sunday 29 June – Slow Cooked Curry
- Afternoon
- • Drove out to Bronwen’s and spent some time there.
- Night
- • Slow cooked curry, watched “Shoot Em Up” with Maz and Bronwen on my somewhat working Media Centre, and looked for cheap airfares up north and to Sydney.
30.06.2008 – Monday 30 June – The Incredible Hulk
- Morning
- • Called Mum and found that she was about to go to hospital suffering from dehydration and constipation.
- 1am Tonight
- • I’ve just driven back from Bronwen’s, dropping her off there so she can get a restful sleep before work tomorrow—something I should be doing, but clearly aren’t. Before that, Grace, Bronwen and I had eaten a kebab at the Ville, and watched “The Incredible Hulk” at Indooroopilly. Grace had free tickets. It wasn’t incredible—though it was incredibly violent—but it was a powerful, entertaining movie. Earlier, I had booked flights up to Cairns and on to Cooktown for the end of next month.
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