Woke up this morning in somebody else’s bed!  Oh yeah, still at Hypatia’s.  Well, after the excitement of last night I thought I would pass out the presents this morning.

Now that’s what I like!  A person who says, “OH COOL!” when you give them their present!  Hehehe I won’t tell you who or what, but it confirmed my belief in the idea of making Christmas presents a little spicier than the normal run of the mill commercial drool they pump out on TV around this time.

Hmmm I just had a thought… What if my mother reads this… <waves> Hi Mum!  It’s OK!  I’m not really doing this, it’s all from a story I found in a book….

<giggle>

Today I went to pay bills and to have lunch (un-planned, un-expectationed [hey, I made a new word!] and generally un-requiring of anyone to do or be anything they aren’t)  WOW!  What a load of crap!  I’m definitely becoming a woman!

Arrived at Turtle Girl’s place and had some lunch, talked around the place and generally figured out that we are back (100%) as friends.  Just friends.  Which made me, and her, very happy.  It seems that knowledge IS power, because I know exactly what she wants from me (and what I want from her) and I’ve arrived at the right decision!  It’s really cool.  Perhaps it’s my controlling side that likes this knowing everything thing, but it has worked in this particular case so I think I will try using it again next time something like this happens.  I’m going to call Lysse!

Well, FMGWaC (Me Gently With a Chainsaw) it seems to work!  I had this big long conversation with Lysse and managed to tell her lots of things that I didn’t expect to be able to tell her!  Surely this is a good thing, isn’t it?  A woman?  You think?  Nah, look, I’ve still got one of these…

And seeing as I am still in a good mood, I think I will cook something involved and intricate for dinner.  Bouncing baby lamb ribs (or chops I think they were called) freshly cut from the side of a live lamb (funny that, eh?) with half a packet of Alfredo pasta.  I say half a packet because I actually CUT the packet in half (length ways) to make some kind of effort to put have the sauce mix with half the pasta.  If I had gone sideways I would have been eating all the sauce with no pasta, or just pasta with no sauce.  SO I AM NOT TOTALLY INSANE!  I’m just a little different from the rest of you weirdos.  You.  Yes, the one reading this drivel, YOU are a weirdo.  I am not.  “I am me.  Chaos amid the order.” - Oh no, I wasn’t going to put any poems in this diary, sorry, sorry, sorry… not.

Woke up late, feeling better than yesterday, but still kinda tired.  I suppose that should be expected though.  It was worth it I tell you!  Worth every sleepy moment!

So today I am expecting to distribute some of the presents I bought yesterday.  The Wild Wench is meant to be coming over to get hers (specially designed for those troublesome boys she keeps company with) this afternoon, so I don’t have to be anywhere today.  Yay, I’ll just play a little Diablo while I slowly wake up.

Oh dear, my over active imagination is running away with itself again.  Perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea to get presents of ill repute for Christmas.  Nah!  I can be strong!  I can give these presents to other people…  I don’t need to test them out first, just in case <grin> only kidding.

The Wild Wench isn’t coming!  To get her present that is.  But I have been invited to dinner on Tuesday and that sounds like a much better place to give her her present.  The company of extra friends is always appreciated when receiving gifts you really don’t want anyone to know about.  BWAHAHHAHAA Tuesday it is then!

And now I leave for Hypatia’s, with presents in hand, or should I say brown paper bag…  Whatever.  Packed up the black box and monitor and piled into car.  Arrived reasonably on time (for me) and set up ‘puter and network in record time (for our usual network nights).

Playing games.  Playing games.  Playing games.  Hmmm someone is trying to get in the front door.  Hello!  No, I don’t have any cigarette’s, or a watch for that matter.  Yes, I can se that you have had a bad year, but I really don’t think you are helping yourself here.  (I can see that you were going to TRY…)  Is that a fact?  Well, really?  Amazing!  Over half your elder family has been to prison?  What a wonderful thing to look up to.  Good for you.  Maybe on day you too will be able to grace the halls of prison like your (obviously idolised) father, uncle and brother.  Have a NICE Christmas.

Now, I’m not usually openly racist, but this kid is a moron.  It amazes me that I was the cause of the argument simply because I was at (Hypatia’s) home and I am white.  If only I could have let them both ransack the house to their hearts content…  I am sorry, but I do NOT owe you, your family, or your race, anything at all.  If you want help, why not try helping yourself, fools, because it’s people like this who make people like me apathetic to your problems.

More playing games.  Then somewhat broken sleep.  Due largely to the requirement of having the lights on and the impending doom of a thousand angry aboriginals coming to exact retribution for being alive.  Eventually sleep arrived.

An interesting night to be sure.  Oh yeah, dinner was chicken and chips and gravy.  Hehehehe WELL I’M HEALTHY MOST OF THE TIME!

Some bugger rang me at 9:00am!  I didn’t answer it.

When I did wake up I rang Lysse, to find out how she was going and why she rang me last night.  Had a pretty long chat, mainly about getting back together and having life in order etc.

Went into Freo to get Christmas presents!  Decided I would get FUN presents for my friends (I must be in a good mood, I never usually buy presents for anyone).  Barbarella’s and Lover’s were the go, so it should be a fairly interesting, if not embarrassing, Christmas for my little circle of friends <grin>.

Fell asleep at odd intervals during the day.  Dinner was a BBQ pack and some vegies.  The washing up will continue to remain undone until tomorrow some time.  When I feel slightly more rested.

Work as per usual, with a slight bend towards slacking off and having some fun.

Beers with the boyz in the office kitchen was interesting.  Funny, funny guys I work with.  Weirdos. 

The First Annual Office Christmas Party of Dr. J’s Business started at 6:00pm today.  I must admit I am an Office Party Virgin, as far as having people pay for food, drink and merriment on my behalf.  It was a hoot!  Drank lots, ate even more and boogied on down! into the wee hours.  It was the best fun I have had in ages (since this day, actually).

Didn’t get home till 4:00am and managed to get RBTed (Random Breath Tested) on the way home.  I got a ticket!  For a raffle or something, for being under the limit, THAT was weird.  But I can live with that, better than a real one, I hope I win.

Dropped the Christmas cards off today.  Left the house at 8:30am, one hour before I needed to.  ARGH!  I could have slept!  Oh well, went to The Wild Wench’s house to drop card off and lo-and-behold she was IN!

“Aren’t you meant to be at work?”, said I.
“Nope.  My parents are here, visiting”, was the reply.
Fair enough, I’ll impose then.  Here’s your card and gimme a coffee please.  Chit-chat for about an hour and then whoOSHH! off to work.  Careful to drop off the last card on the list (I put the card under the windscreen of Turtle Girl’s car).  Good, she won’t notice that until she goes to work, and then it will be to late for her to call me (Ok, so I am avoiding her, shuddup!).

Work was hectic, Atoning nicked off early, leaving me with an office full of computer illiterate people (who’s names I haven’t learnt) with a pile of jobs to do on the side.  Woohoo.  3:42pm  Mobile rings, I really did try to answer it, I DID!  Got a slightly irate message about people leaving cards on windscreens.  Ooooer, my stomach is doing weird things…. could that but the fabled guilt complex?  I think it is.  Let it be noted that I have felt real guilt for the second time in 4-5 years.

Well, that tears it.  I’m going home with my guilt - can’t think, can’t eat, feel stupid, what is the point of this guilt thing anyway?

Went to sleep at 8:30pm.

Rang Turtle Girl at 11:30pm, after looking (somewhat bleary eyed, I might add) at the mobile asking, “Ring Number?”, for the past half hour.

“Hi…”
“Hello”
“Are you still at work?”
“Nope, I don’t work on Thursdays..”
“Well, now I have another reason to feel stupid”, I pause for a while, “I’m sorry about the card.”
“blah blah males windscreen wipers <general aggravated comments>”
And I eventually got her to come over so we (I) could figure this whole relationship problem out.  She arrived at 12:00am and left at 2:30am.  I went to sleep almost straight away.  Finally got some really good sleep.  Guilt is also gone.

Yay, I’m not sick today!  I must be cured!  Or something really really bad is taking hold of my body and I am delirious from the fever….

One or the other <shrug>.  Onto work, the first day in the new air-conditioned office (for me) so it should be all new and exciting!

Lots to do at work today, building systems, installing software and generally meeting the other people in the offices with me.  We aren’t in the cubicle area, so I still get to avoid Dilbert trauma, but it’s funny installing systems in them while trying to imagine what it would be like to work in that area all day, every day <giggle>.  Office people are nuts.

Got home more or less in one piece.  It’s much cooler today, there’s  breeze and everything!  I think I will treat myself (shhhhhhhh) to take away food for dinner… a solid meal would do me good I think, test the piping so to speak.

Was able to sleep in my bed tonight, ahhhhhhh cold outside and warm under the covers.  Perfect.  (Then again, some would say it could be slightly more perfect with a young supple warm body under the covers with me… but I am not one to seek out the good and find fault with it [ok, ok, ok.  I AM like that.  FINE] )

Wooohooo woke up feeling crap.  Ran to the toilet and spent the next hour or so glued to it.  It’s 7:00am.  Another 2 hours before I have to be at work.

Stuff it, I’m not going.  Just wait till it’s a reasonable time to ring.

8:00am  My mobile is ringing?  Who the hell is ringing me at this time, on my mobile?  They obviously have a death wish.  Oh, hello there Dr. J., don’t wanna work today either eh? Cool, I’m sick.  Cya!  WOOOHOOO.

Spent most of the day in air-conditioning.  (I must admit, I have never had my own air-conditioner for my own personal use, to cool as I see fit, so it’s a bit of a novelty, plus it came with the house!)  Watched some TV.  Slept again.

Did some ASP work (oh yer, that’s what I did on sunday!) and generally pottered around slacking off and enjoying the cool.

Dinner is gonna be soup, from a packet, Thai something or other.  I figure its safe now.  But I ain’t going crazy!

Work up this morning and promptly threw up whatever the hell it was that crawled into my stomach last night.  I think it was the heat.  I was so hot, and didn’t get much sleep.  Oh well, feel much better now.  Perhaps I have morning sickness?  I’m starting to get sick of these early mornings!

Ok, today is my day off, I’m going to do nothing today.  Air-conditioning!  Right, I’ll be right there.  Drove up to Hypatia’s place to do some messing around with nothing in particular and suck up as much cool air as possible.  I have no conscious!

Argh!  Client wants their Internet account to be set up today.  I do NOT want to drive out there in this heat, I’ll leave it for a while.  (Meanwhile, back at the air-conditioner….)  <slacking off, chatting, playing on computers etc>

OOPS! 4:00pm  better go do this account set up.  Oh stuff it, I’ll do it over the phone, she’s a clever girl.  Twenty minutes later, they’re all set up.  Thank you very much!

Got home and put MY air-conditioner on <very evil grin> okay, so I had my own one, but they offered!!!  Gonna make stir fry something tonight.  Sliced up carrots, capsicum and meat (i think it was chicken <shudder>).  Cook the meat first, then the carrots, then chuck the noodles, capsicum (and meat back) in and cook for a while.  Try not to make a pancake.  Put into large dog bowl sized bowl and VIOLA!  instant healthy food a la Me.

Watched Millennium for the first time, damn it was funny.  Great looking stripper in there as well.  Then watched some cartoon called Invasion America, by Steven Spielberg, that was different.  Time for sleep.

Middle of night, I moved the bed stuff into the front room and turned the airconditioner on.  ZONK!

Went shopping today. WITH A LIST! Oh, I can feel the oestrogen flowing through my veins already. So there I am with my handy list. I need this, and this… and this.. oh, yer, I need this too.. and this.. and, this, that, those, the others things… What list? Sheesh, with this list I am more dangerous than without, at least I bought stuff I would eat straight away. Now I’m buying cleaning stuff, deodorant (I don’t REALLY smell, do I?) and all kinds of stuff I forgot about while writing the list out.

Oh well, got home and found out I had missed a few things on the list. Go the Male! I still have it!

The heat tonight is ridiculous, it must be almost 90% humidity, no wind and lots of heat. This sucks! I put the evaporative fan on, but it’s hardly making any difference. I suppose you can’t evaporate much water in this humidity, DOH!

Almost went over to Hypatia’s place to play computer games, but ended up being too lazy and hot, so just sulked and watched TV.  Don’t think I had dinner until late, and even then it was eggs on toast!  I just don’t like eating when I am hot, what’s the point?

Well, after last night’s Descent ]|[ marathon I woke up somewhat bleary eyed.

Mum rang at 9:00am to ask (well, demand) her drill back, so off I went like a good little boy.  We did a hostage exchange; I gave her the drill, she gave me the rake hoe thing-a-my.  And we had a little chat about drills, hoes and moving into another house (that her friend owns).

So now I decide to format the second ‘puter’s harddisk and re-install software.  Shouldn’t take too long you reckon eh? yer, well so did I.  Alas, as with all things Microsoft, something broke, or I lost a disk, or it wasn’t the right driver.  Well after a few hours I got it all working, except the web server thingo, so I might give that a miss.  I don’t really need one any more anyway!

Onto lunch!  I rocked up about quarter past twelve to be greeted by this sleepy eyed female in her winnie the pooh jimmy jams!  Oh goody.  Last night was a doozie huh?  Ok, so I gave up hope of going to a cafe.  So much for the best laid plans, at least I didn’t book anything.  Right so for two hours I watch three people try very hard to fall asleep while staying awake.  Even I am starting to feel tired now, I was ok before, but NOW?!?  Time to leave.

Onwards and upwards, my friends!  Back to the bat cave.  Played about with computers some more, felt alone for a bit, walked around the house a few times.  Repeat steps one to three until 6:00pm.

Finally it’s cool enough to do some kind of gardening.  Out with the rake hoe thing-a-my and onto the front garden!  Rake.  Rake.  Rake.  Right, no more weeds in the sand, but now I may as well setup a golf course with all these sand traps I have uncovered!  What the hell do these people think is good about empty sand, at least before there were plants growing in it!

Dinner is another gastronomical treat!  Spaghetti (from a tin) on toast.  I just couldn’t be bothered cooking, hot tired and pissed off.

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