Monthly Archives: March 2004

I received this in an email a few days ago:

With all the news on TV lately about the tropical cyclone hitting the North West Coast of Australia, we shouldn’t forget that Perth has its share of devastating weather too. I’ve attached a photo illustrating the damage caused to a home from a Perth storm that passed through the metropolitan area yesterday. It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take things for granted! Warning: The attached picture is graphic and may not be suitable for sensitive viewers.

Click here to see the picture that was attached.

I have been busy upgrading my computer over the last few days, but in my typical style, I did it the hard way. After obtaining the new hardware (which I will mention later in this post), I got so excited that I didn’t even bother to sort out all my old stuff and attacked my case vigorously, installing all the fun new hardware. However, upon running it for the first time, windows would not work. Oh no. I thought it would crap it’s self, but I never thought it would just go “yeah right, bugger off”. Not to worry, a plan was hatched where windows was running using the old hardware so the old could be moved to the new. All was well again. I just hope I didn’t forget any of the old, I always tend to forget something. Last time I forgot my favourites and emails. Now onto the upgrades…

• 2 sticks of Hyundai 256Mb
• AMD Athlon XP2500+
• ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
• 40GB hardrive
• Gexcube Radeon 9600XT video card

All that is missing is a sexy new case and a DVD drive. What was wrong with the old case? Well, it was a nice case to look at, but inside it was not so great. It seemed suck in dust no matter how I set up the fans and in the end, it stared to really piss me off. Goodbye bluey, it was cool. (Well, no it was warm. You never really offered me places to put any fans.)

I just realized what I forgot. I forgot to copy the font’s folder, fantastic. 😦

As walked into the kitchen this morning I was thinking “I’m thirsty and my throat hurts… Flowers. Huh? Flowers?!” Yes, there was a huge assortment of flowers, in a vase and with a monkey toy attached to it, waiting for me in the kitchen this morning. Me. The girl who’s only ever had people give her cheap ass bunches of flowers that are already dead and still have the “Reduced to $2” on them. Even though there was no name on the card, I instantly knew it was from Ella because of what the card said:

“A worthy nomination, better luck next year. (P.S. Can I have some more points now haha)”

The nomination bit was about the bloggie awards and if you join the forum you’ll get what the points bit is about. Ella is the only point whore I know that would send me flowers. It was a nice surprise and I want to say a big thank you to Ella. You made my day dude! 😀

I ended up winning over tiredness and logged onto IRC last night (or would 2am be classed as this morning?) and it was fun. Not too many people there, most talkative were Sergio, Tom and Scrivs. What was it like? It was like a car went past at high speed with the winners names printed on it. I was left asking “Does anyone know who won best aussie?” and I only just found out Loobylu won it today. Word has it that the IRC conversation was projected on a screen for a bit at SXSW, so I tried my best to not say stupid things. Anyone have pictures of the event?

Congratulations to Dan of who won Best Designed Weblog I knew he was going to win and I’m happy he did. Simplebits rocks. Also congratulations to Sergio for his win. 🙂

Till next year…

As you can see, I’ve once again made some changes to Kitta.net. Tweak, tweak, tweak. Font is now Verdana, navigation is now super cool and you’ll find a few changes here and there on the content pages. Most noticeable being colophon, which is a mix of the old about and site info pages.

Bloggie awards are in a few hours (that’s if I worked out the time difference right) at SXSW. And for those that have just surfed in, Kitta.net is up for ‘Best Designed Weblog’. If I do manage to win the battle with tiredness, I’ll log onto #BlogIRC that’s been set up to announce the bloggie winners. It’s the next best thing to being there.

Thank you all for the emails and well wishes, I am feeling better now and I’m off the evil shoe forgetting medication. Special thanks to Jesse for reminding me what a shoe is in an email:

Shoe [ shoo ]
Noun (plural shoes)

1. stiff outer covering for the foot: an outer covering for the foot, usually made of leather, fabric, or plastic, with a stiff sole and usually not reaching above the ankle
2. See horseshoe n.1
3. protective part in an engine: a lining or part in an engine or machine that protects another part from being worn down
4. playing card dispenser: a special box that dispenses playing cards one at a time
5. power collector on an electric train: the part of an electric train or streetcar that connects with the electrified rail from which it draws power
6. metal strip on sled: a strip of metal along the runner of a sled
7. part of a bridge: a base that supports the upper part of a bridge

So which one is it?

I’m on strong pain killers at the moment for an unknown chest pain, and they seem to be making me forget simple things. Today, someone asked me where my shoes were and I thought…

“Shoes… WTF are shoes?”

It was like I’d never heard the word before in my life.

The unknown chest pain (that will hopefully be known tomorrow arvo after a trip to my doctor) has been with me for about three weeks. It started as an annoying pain, and slowly progressed until this weekend when it became a ‘please knock me unconscious with a steel pole’ pain (or PKMUWASP pain for short). Breathing was hard, coughing was not done and sneezing was re-named ‘stabbing myself in the back’.

At first, I tried all possible over the counter medications to kill the PKMUWASP pain, but nothing helped ease it. So after two sleepless nights I went to a doctor, whom I’ve never seen before, and told him about the PKMUWASP pain. He said my cheat was clear and wanted me to get some X-rays done at the hospital. He then gave me a prescription for a pain killer (which I like to call it the ‘shoe forgetting medication’) and told me to rest. And rest I did. Not that I was given a choice in the matter, the shoe forgetting medication knocked me out without asking about a rest schedule first.

Tomorrow, I plan on asking for a different medication, one which will let me remember what shoes are and make resting decisions on my own.

[Update]
I went to my doctor this arvo, it turns out it’s a back problem. My doctor said the name of it, but as with all medical things, it was too long to remember. It’s related to an old back/neck injury from a car accident, the injury is causing stress and damage else ware. My back isn’t in good shape and I need some physiotherapy to fix things. I was going to wait and try to get some health insurance first, but my mother said she’d pay for it since it’s causing damage. Damage is not good. So I have to rest this week then get some physio. And i’m still on the ‘shoe forgetting medication’ for the pain.
[/Update]

I was woken this morning by a knocking at my door. At first I thought it was someone knocking on a door in my dream, so I answered my door in the dream. No one was there. Then it hit me “Your dreaming, wake the hell up”.

I get up, trying not to smack my knee into my bed post because I can’t see anything through my blurry, sleepy eyes. Open the door and some boxes are shoved into my arms. “Package for you” said my brother, although it sounds more like “Markage por boo” due to my brain still being half asleep.

I sat down on my bed and tried to rip open the first Amazon package, they really should have some sort of instrument to help you here. Like a complimentary tape ripper thing. Excitement alone doesn’t help. I found a sharpish bobby pin (Don’t fuck with me, I have sharpish bobby pins lying around) and tore the tape on the package. It’s a book, Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk. Thank you, Chris S. I read a page or two and forget about the other package for a minute or two.

The second package is easier, it has a ‘tear here’ part to it. I knew those people at Amazon were thinking of the half asleep package openers when they made this box. It’s another book, Angelina Jolie’s Journals by Angelina Jolie. Fantastic, I really wanted this book. Thank you, Robert S.

Harry walks in, he has that ‘I’m not well’ stare is his eyes. Yes, even though he’s my brother’s dog I know all his stares. From ‘I’m hungry’ to ‘I have fleas’ and even ‘There a storm coming, please let me in for I am scared’. I get up, sigh, give him a cuddle and start singing some Hunna’s and he perks up, then he lays down abruptly on one of the Amazon boxes.

Do you know what bugs me? Bad phone manners. I rang up somewhere today to find out some prices and they answered with “Fhathy dasskit plbuoof”. I couldn’t understand a thing they said because they said it so fast. I replied “Excuse me?” and they said the same thing, except this time much faster. I asked for the place I was ringing and they said “Yeah” (finally a word at normal speed) and then I asked about the prices.

That really bugs me. When answering a phone, you should say “Good morning/afternoon/evening, [Name of business]. [Your name] speaking, how may I help you?” and say it at normal speed which people can understand. Otherwise I might be put off from buying products/services from the company you work for!

Kitta: dude, do you have an icon of zeldman as your aim icon?
Tay: uh oh
Tay: hehe
Tay: maybe
Tay: you’re jealous arent you
Tay: you are
Tay: i can tell
Tay: you heart zeldman
Kitta: lol
Kitta: yeah, I want to have zeldmans babies
Tay: Don’t WE ALL!
Kitta: haha
Kitta: you’re a dork
Tay: mm zeldman babies
Tay: little semantic toddlers
Kitta: little bundles of validating joy
Tay: valid zeldman 2.0’s
Kitta: zledminis.com

On New Years Eve I made a resolution. It wasn’t to quit drinking so much coke or to go join a gym, it was something I thought I could achieve within a month. I was so wrong.

That resolution was to reply to all my emails sitting in my inbox. All 200 of them. I did start with good intentions, one afternoon I sat myself down told myself I would not move. Even if a pack of rabid monkeys were chewing my arm off, I would not budge (unless they started to eat away at my brain, that’s never good). After 2 hours I was hungry, headachy and bored. So I gave up, and now 2 month after new years my email has reached 300+. Clearly, I didn’t even make a dent in it during those hungry, headachy 2 hours.

Maybe I’m doing this all wrong, take a home loan for example. If you try to pay off a home loan with a medium amount of money at one time you’ll get no where. But, if you pay it off with small amounts of money at a set time you’ll slowly eat away at the home loan until your debt free.

So let’s do some math. There around 300 email in my inbox right now. I get about 5 emails a day which aren’t that important and I don’t reply to right away, if I reply to at least 15 emails a day I’d be making a 10 email dent in the build up. That’s so long as my email doesn’t increase by 5 daily.

Hmmm. I’ve just realised that during the time it took to write this entry I could have replied to at least 10 emails. Bugger.