Okay. I just survived 5 internetless days, then caught up, and last couple of days we've been seeing speeds bottoming at 24kbps. Yay.

Things that have happened over the last couple of weeks include:  read more »

At work we had a bad-busy stretch, and I am sharing a desk and phone with a woman on the edge. We had a day where her one genuine laugh (that I witnessed) seemed to be after she said that she didn't know where her time had gone. I explained that losing time is one of the signs of alien abduction.

Later in the week I could smell sausage rolls - but other people could not. That led me to wonder whether I was having a stroke, because that could be one of the signs. There really were sausage rolls though.  read more »

I almost fell asleep during this month's drip. I still think that 'infusion' is something too herbal tea to apply to me. Tired beyond words. Don't think I mentioned that the last drip I read some of my file... didn't get back to the really juicy bits from years ago.

I'm thinking about aiming for a hospital swap, to somewhere closer to work. It's a long time until my next neurologist appointment, so let's see if I can remember until then. In the meantime I have signed up to various studies, just for fun.  read more »

I am loving Wednesday without work.

Today I asked a barman to 'surprise me' and he coped very badly with the concept. Eventually I got a nice french lager... and that's all I know about it.

Then I had a good steak upstairs. Good but not awesome. The wine was a nice cab merlot. The Mitre fills up with wankers real quick at lunch time, which was annoying.  read more »

I've just dropped to a four day work week, with Wednesdays off. Mostly triggered by being ill, but I think it's good for other reasons. When I was looking for work, four days was an option. And now I have better pay... I get a four day week while earning pre-redundified income.

I now wonder what the OT, who told me not to make quick decisions, will think.  read more »

Sick days are good - but don't seem so awesome when they turn out to be a sick long weekend.

Keep forgetting to mention - I don't get a train in to the CBD often any more, but when I do I am appalled that all the graffiti near East Richmond has been greyed over. I loved that stretch.

There has been an awesome breakthrough in my life - I had chicken kiev last week! In hindsight, it was absolutely retarded of me not to nut out that cheese and whey that stopped me eating them... that is a processed food thing that doesn't apply to places like poulterers.  read more »

Unfinished Business is a surprisingly good read. I forget who the author is, and can't be arsed finding the book, but it was about Paul Keating and things like the SGC.

Read a story, in TIME I think, where someone made an offhand comment about how Adam Smith's "invisible hand" has been slapped with the GFC and all. My thought is that perhaps the invisible hand is the one doing the slapping.

Dad complained about how schwelmer (my current beer of choice) was stacked as a dutch beer, not german. The theory that then came out was that shelf stackers are idiots. Likely, but I have a new preferred theory. What if the shelf stackers have a really advanced sense of humour, and we just don't get the joke?