Category: Random

What a lovely day it is outside, I’m finding it really hard to concentrate
on the tangled mess of tangram and perl im trying to debug. Id much rather
be out in the sun.

Was working late, then magic (one of our dogs) was feeling poorly and wanted
to go in and outside all through the night. Consequently I slept through my
alarm and Laurels alarm, and im only just returning to conciousness now.
Only 5 more days and I should be able to catch up on some sleep.

Well if you have to work on a saturday night, you have to pretty happy that
you can do it on a laptop while watching NZ beat Australia in rugby league.
I think I got all that needed to be done, done, so should be all set for a
relaxing data tomorrow and an early night before the go live on monday. So
now I’m going to unwind watching some adult swim, specifically aqua teen
hunger force, then hit the hay.

Well, it fair bucketed down last night, 36mm in an hour or so, with thunder
and lightning and everything. Heres hoping the weekend weather is a bit
nicer, we have a party to go to .. well for a short time, if Laurel is up to
it. We also have to go talk to travel agents.

According to Matt’s weather station the dew point got down to -2.4c last
night. And even with the sun out, its struggling to crack 7 yet. So the dogs
and I are huddled up in my office where the little fan heater plus the
warmth of the computers is keeping us toasty warm.

Well our votes have been cast and by about 11pm we should know what the new
government is going to be made up of. Im hoping a Labour, Greens, Maori
Party Coalition. But I’ll take anyone but National. Seriously all parties
with National in their name, should not be allowed. National Socialists,
National Front, and just plain old National all people the world would be
better without.

UPDATE 2005/09/18: Way too close

I still have a really uneasy feeling, although Labour should have the
numbers for a coalition, there is still scope for National to scrape in.
I’m still disgusted 39.6% of NZ voters gave National, and their racist
agenda, their vote. Mind you, Labour arent much better at all, they just
hide their racism a bit better. I guess its better the devil you know.

If anyone was watching Inside New Zealand last night, they would have seen a
fun and interesting documentary about the Scripps spelling b as well as a
huge amount of beige shirts. Congrats to the Sticky Pictures guys for a
great little doco, and having so many people wearing beige brigade shirts was truly
fantastic. You can see some still shots on the gallery

Well I guess first I need telstraclear to hurry up with their digital cable.
But then I need some kinda PVR, so I dont keep missing the adult swim
cartoons on cartoon network. Tonigh its Space Ghost coast to coast, then
Aqua teen hunger force, followed by Sealab 2021 and finally the Brak show.
Four insane and yet funny cartoons in a row.

So I forgot to write about this, so I’ll write it up now. While we were in
Dunedin for Laurel’s interview at the School of Medicine we went shopping
and stopped to eat at the foodcall in the mall there.
I spotted a guy wearing a Trogdor tshirt, so I
told Laurel I’d give her $5 if she went over and yelled “Trogdooooooooor” at
him. So Laurel took it up a level and went over and sang a big chunk of the
song. The guy took it pretty well, his girlfriend was a bit embarassed, but
what can you expect if you go out with someone wearing a trogdor tshirt.

So we went to see some stand up comedy last night, upstairs at Kitty
O’Sheas. On the whole it was really good, lots of funny moments. But the
first woman was pretty excruciatingly bad .. strange choice of subject
matter, and didnt really pull it off at all. Nevermind, congrats to her for
having the guts to give it a crack anyway.