I have located a very nice chicken souvalaki local to me. I was surprised... not a normal souva, but very good.

I got my redundancy money yesterday. It makes up for my splurge after finishing up, plus some extra. I tried to get a sales guy to talk me into a 'time capsule', and he sucked. He sucked bad, so I just got some games which I'll probably play twice.

I am gettin' real good at hospital Fridays. Today I watched blood draw back into a giant plunger.  read more »

I just had this freaky thing where I read a story title as saying Multiple Sclerosis was somehow responsible for software problems.

Work is giving me the shits.

Benji merchandise has not yet arrived. Today's cultural divide was about tattoos. Funny one.

Had a chat with the chick who I think of as being Cairns (in an odd way). She's in town, so we might get to hook up for a coffee.

Gotta buy CDs soon, or I'll go nuts.

Also - got me a MacBook Pro. Then I was... gotted? Begotten?? A screen which makes it complete.

I'm getting a new Mac, and now I have the fidgets, waiting for delivery.

Catastrophe Client has gone right up the fucking creek. But I am at least getting to laugh at the emails flying around. They were going in circles, which got smaller, and smaller, and then they reach a dot. Someone actually replied to their own email with an attempt to handball their own question.  read more »

I had such a workday, but in a good way.

If I wasn't the expert in this system before, I am now. The whole day was with a Business Analyst, and we picked things apart as much we could fit in. And there's a spec for what I want to happen.

I was egged on to use the buttons no-one knows about. One in particular is awesome. And now I know what the mystery field does. Like many other things... never been used since the system was developed.  read more »

is that you can often not pick a "password hint". Because I could make it like - 'it reminds you of (these 2 words) merged, with a typo, and then the numbers, and the varying case', but what's the fucking point of that?

So hint to self is "You total fucking retard, Lynne. Just reset it again".  read more »

You know, what I keep forgetting is the face. On some trains it is in the seat fabric. It is possibly worrying that I now recognise different varieties of public transport fabric.

Now that I have remembered that - everything else is gone.

I have been told that it's the best compliment when you hear someone is moving to a competitor at work, and you say "You'll kick our arse". This person will.  read more »

This week I have been to The Zone twice. The Zone is the place where your stress shoots suddenly waay past maximum, leaving you with Zen-like calm. Just because there really is too much stress, and I guess your brain shorts.

One - thinking I had deleted a file summary that took me three days to do. It was on the network, and although I was pretty sure IT can access whatever counts as trash on the network... that is so stressful.  read more »