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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
itches' LiveJournal:
- I need to write something about kebabs
- I keep catching sight of myself in reflections and with short hair I now look like someone inclined to commit serial murders. With long hair I looked like someone inclined to bring folk back from the dead and walk on water. The change is rather dramatic.
- Some pretty pictures.
- Some funny nerdity
- It feels like there should be a fifth point
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 | |
| 8:20 pm | Birthday Recap In the lead up to my birthday my Dad was bugging me about what I wanted as a present. I was being annoying and kept joking that I wanted a light sabre. Once it came to my birthday he gave me a toy lightsabre ... I really should have seen it coming. He was also asking me about what sort of cake I wanted, and I was being annoying about that too. I thought I won the exchange with this little session on the morning of my birthday. Dad: kerrys made a bday cake for you Smith of Wootton Major reference for the win. Or atleast so I thought until my "cake" was placed in front of me and turned out to be a pile of donuts with lollies on top. You'd think that by the time I'm 25, I'd have learnt not to try to win against my Dad. |
| Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | |
| 12:00 pm | Birthday Well it's my birthday, and for some reason I have a birthday avatar uploaded already.  Oh well, one year closer to the catch in my infernal pact being activated. Something to look forward to at anyrate. |
| Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | |
| 8:19 pm | I can't think up a witty subject line It wasn't hot today by any definition of the word I care to recognise, less than 16C, yet somehow it feelt hot. The mystery isn't that hard to solve, it had been raining for weeks straight, the ground is soaked and there was standing water laying all about. Even when it stopped raining it remained humid - except humid isn't the right word. Humid doesn't quite cover it. The best way to put it is: The air was wet. |
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 | |
| 11:11 pm | Happy Now Tonight was a nice reminder of why GoodNewsWeek is my favourite show. Dear gods was that ever awesome. Ross Noble. A smoke machine. Naked woman on the back of a magizine. One of the best things I've seen in a while. And 90 minutes to boot. Plus GNW is trending on twitter. Shame on you non-aussie people for not being able to watch it. Shame. Oh, and a quiz I stole from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} madolin
Akira Class!50% Flight_Control, 10% Tactical, 20% Science and 50% Command!
Congratulations! You have been assigned an Akira Class vessel. Your answers make it clear that you were born to be a pilot, and the Akira Class is one of the most nimble ships out there. Designed as part of the new Starfleet task force to fight the Borg, the Akira features two hangar bays that go all the way through the primary hull in order to aid in speedier launch and recovery of fighters and shuttlecraft.
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| Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | |
| 6:32 am | For The Record I stopped watching shortly after the video ref decided that he was going to win the game. Stuff like this keeps happening this season, screw the tackle. One of them are going to get shot if the bullshit doesn't stop. |
| Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | |
| 6:33 pm | And A Poodle! ( Disorder: And a Poodle! ) You can help up fight Stupid by purchasing one of these invisible ribbons. Every dollar raised will go to the Stop The Stupid foundation. Together, we can eliminate Stupid in our lifetime. |
| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | |
| 12:06 am | |
| Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | |
| 6:10 am | |
| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | |
| 4:58 am | |
| Friday, May 15th, 2009 | |
| 6:44 pm | |
| Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | |
| 6:41 pm | And A Poodle! ( Marry: And a Poodle! ) The reward for the one person who is still hanging around waiting for a new comic. |
| Monday, May 11th, 2009 | |
| 6:33 pm | Alcohol and Organised Crime I picked up Saints Row 2 on Thursday last week and since then I've decided that I'm not allowed to play it on weekdays. Know what I did on Friday night after work? Played Saints Row 2 until 2am. Know what I did on Saturday? I woke up at 2pm and played Saints Row 2 until 1am. In this period I did not remember to eat. In the wake of such activities I've decided that were I to play this game when I needed to go to work the next day, I may not end up at work. Which kinda sucks as I really like this game. It consumed me like nothing since my last consuming passion or my next one. I can just sit here and think about it, which is almost as good as playing it. Kinda. Since that night a few weekends ago when I got hammered, I've stayed clear of the alcohol. At first this wasn't entirely my idea, the very thought of alcohol in the ensuring week, up to and including the weekend, made me feel ill. After that passed I decided that it wouldn't be a bad idea to give my kidneys a break after the gin induced pounding they received. Tonight I think I'll start to ease my way back in. Top Gear has shifted to the shit Australian version, but even missing my 7:30 slot, it's still a good night of TV to kick back and have a drink while watching. |
| Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | |
| 9:34 pm | That's a Toaster Monday evening after work, dinner and regular tv, I went to turn my 360 on so I could watch a DVD, when much to my horror the machine refused to respond to my promptings. I quickly checked the front and there was no Red Ring of Death. I tried using the remote to turn it on, nothing. I tried pressing the big button on the machine to turn it on, nothing. I tried pressing the "open tray" button, nothing. I tried turning my TV on and off, nothing! I tried plugging the 360 in ... oh wait. Yeah. Do you want some toast? |
| Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | |
| 7:43 pm | Best Fairy Story Ever Those of you who follow me on Twitter would know that I went out on the weekend and had some fun. Fun is a subjective word and the one I choose to use here. I received a general message from a friend on Saturday night inviting one and all to head to his place to drink. I had been planning to spend the evening sitting at home, reading, and relaxing with a drink or so myself, but after some hasty consideration I throw some stuff (rum mostly) into a bag and headed out. Upon arriving I discovered that a friend of mine was there who was about to head out as his girlfriend had just turned up to give him a lift home. After some slightly intoxicated consideration the group of us decided to troop down to the car and attempt to guilt my friend's girlfriend into coming upstairs for a short while. I can't say how effective we were at the quilting (we did almost get run over by cars twice) but she did agree to come up for a while. I can't say too much about what happened next, due to the ancient oath of What-Happens-In-Alcoholand-Stays-In-Alco I didn't drink that much, but man was I very far gone. The sort where you forget where you put your drink, decide you need to stop drinking, get dizzy no matter what do you and throw up blood. The last was the most fun, and as an example of irony occurred after I had decided that I'd had enough for the night. It was pretty light red so I wasn't too worried. I did however clean the toilet I threw up in, it seems the civilized thing to do. The next day I was wrecked. I was the last to go to sleep and the first to wake up - as normal - but even then I only got up at 10:30am. The sun that morning seems unnaturally bright and vicious; even through the heavy curtains on the windows it was breaking through with what seemed an overbearing enthusiasm. I ventured outside soon after I woke up in search of fresh air, and did not last very long at all. The very odd thing is that after we'd all sobered up a bit and ventured out, it was a very pleasant day. Cool, a fresh breeze and very, very pleasant air. I noted that the air seemed rather nice that day. I was hanging around until that night for our weekly gaming session so I ventured off to buy a clean t-shirt. Between it, the copious amounts of water I had consumed that morning, a milk shake, some Chinese food and the free bottle of Samedi a mysterious young girl was giving out, I started to feel human again. The game went pretty well, it was my first chance to use my new Changeling dice. They turned out pretty well, some very good rolls, mostly about average, no really bad results so I'm happy. I just missed my train on the way home (the ticketing machine was out of order so I had to use the alternate one, making me about 15 seconds late) and I spent 30 minutes waiting at the station. By the time I got home it was just after midnight Monday morning, making my total outing last 30 hours. Not bad for something I almost didn't go to. |
| Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | |
| 8:59 pm | Light Goes On, Light Goes ... I was woken up this morning at 6:20 this morning by a text message from my Dad asking if I was awake. It seemed that my power had gone out at some point early in the morning and he was making sure that I wasn't going to sleep in and be late for work while he yelled at his staff in an attempt to get the power back on. As an aside, one advantage of having a father who works at the government electricity company that supplies your power. When it goes off it doesn't stay off for very long. This message would have saved my bacon but for a few minor things. First of all, I use my phone as an alarm and my phone runs off a battery. Second, I'm currently starting work at 9:30pm, leaving for work at 8pm so I don't have to get out of bed until about 7am. I was woken up 40 minutes early, took a look at it, took a look at the time, and promptly went back to sleep. I did learn a few lessons during this adventure. My place is surprisingly dark in the mornings when the curtains are closed. Having a battery in my laptop that can kick in when the power goes out saves me from loosing data I had foolishly left unsaved. Without a working laptop screen I am unable to save said data while the power is off, reduced to simply hope that it will come back on before the pitiful battery life runs out. Having a very dark home when the blinds are closed does not well prepare you for BLINDING BRIGHTNESS that comes from a sunny day in Sydney. Also the trains run on a different power grid to the house mains, so I couldn't use that as an excuse for missing work. Better luck next time I suppose. |
| Monday, April 20th, 2009 | |
| 7:50 am | I still don't have a short haired avatar It has been close to two weeks since I watched broadcast TV. I knocked the set top box I use off my tv a few weeks back and during the fall it broke the arial wire I use to connect it to the ... arial. At the time it happened I just swore, turned off the tv and did something else. It was going to take 5-10 minutes to strip the wire enough that I could reconnect everything, and I didn't feel like doing it then and there. The next day something similiar happened, the amount of effort required seemed too much when I had alternative entertainment available. It didn't take long before I'd settled into a routine; come home from work, check the tv guide to see what was on tonight and decide if any of them were worth the effort of fixing my tv. There were TV shows on that I enjoyed, ones that I would normally go out of my way to watch. But when I'd have to spend several minutes on a slightly awkward task? Pass. This state of affair lasted for two weeks while I passed on one tv show or another, turning my love to DVDs, video games and books. Something not helped by the fact that Good News Week has been taking a break for the Melb International Commedy Festival. Still on Saturday I sat down with two knifes and a pair of blunt sissors, and I ended the drought. Because it turns out there are new episodes of MythBusters being shown. |
| Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | |
| 9:35 pm | Five Points So I havn't been posting much in here of late, and the final refuge of a blogger who hasn't been posting but doesn't want to quit the game is to comment on the fact that they havn't been posting. There is a few reasons for it. The first is work. It takes time and slowly eats away at your soul. The second is that if I did the posts would be about nothing but roleplaying. I've found myself playing more face2face recently, and enjoying myself quite a lot. If I didn't restrain myself this lj would be nothing but me talking about the latest game. Many of you suffered through the CyberNations era and I'd like to spare you from this, so instead you get silence. Okay some random thoughts: |
| Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | |
| 6:06 pm | The Mentioning This has been in the work's for a while, but it finally happened a week ago. Online-Roleplaying is a site that is linked down at the bottom of my lj page - not that any of you would ever see it - and is a community I've been a part of since 2002. Back when I was in highschool. It was founded and run by a friend of mine, but he decided that he didn't want to be responsible for a site he didn't use and passed it on to me. So yeah, I run it now. Which is weird for me and not so significant for the rest of you. Still, I thought I'd mention it. Consider it mentioned. |
| Saturday, March 28th, 2009 | |
| 4:16 pm | Mark One Under The Mistake Column Not everything I do on impulse, turns out well. Take The Thirst for example. It was cheap sure, but I picked it up on a whim with no idea what it was about. Until now I didn't really understand what a B Movie was. If you're ever in a store and come across this DVD, keep walking. I wish I had. |
| Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | |
| 9:57 pm | Relax So I did something new today. I decided not to stress. The busiest, most hectic time of my workday right now is the last hour. You're just as busy first thing in the morning, but if you don't get the work done then there is always later. At the end of the day you have a deadline. But today, I decided not to stress. And got everything done in time and without ending in a foul mood. It went further then that. I decided not to rush to get my train, I decided that if I didn't make it I'd just go shopping for 90 minutes until peek hour was over and I could get a seat on the way home. I can quite easily spend 90 minutes looking at DVDs, CDs and Books without being bored. I ended up getting on my preferred train, I got my preferred seat, I settled down and once again decided not to stress. I ripped a relaxation CD yesterday and dumped it on my mp3 player. On the train, I turned it on, shut my eyes and focused on my breathing. It wasn't easy at first, but I got the hang of it and I only opened my eyes twice before we were approaching my stop. I - unsurprisingly - dozed off at one point, but when I woke up I picked right up on my breathing again. Normally when I get home from work, I am either edgy and eager to get back already, or too exhausted to feel anything but irritation. Today when I got home, I was ... relaxed. It might be worth trying again. |
