Monday, April 30, 2007

PAH

It’s 10pm. I left the house over 14 hours ago. I am still working. I am counting pixels using photoshop. I want to go home. I must finish my work.

I have said enough.

Numbers

Five hundred and thirty eight million, two hundred and seventy three thousand, one hundred and sixty eight pixels.

Now I can go home.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Back in touch

I have been meaning to write a lengthy blog for ages but have been a good girl and concentrated on my work. Well I am giving myself the day off as it is the weekend, so I can now commence the bloggage. So what has been going on in my life? I am addicted to facebook, totally and utterly. This is actually a great thing as a few weeks ago I got back in touch with someone who I haven’t spoken to (or written, emailed etc..) for quite some time. It made me all reminiscent. It is so odd how you can look back at your life and pinpoint a few occasions that influence how the rest of it progresses. Obviously I am not ready to pop my clogs just yet so I plan to have quite a few more of those, but there have already been a few of these that I can look back upon fondly. One was Space School, it was the ultimate in nerd experience I suppose, reinforced by the fact that I was one of the cooler people there (at least I really hope I was). However, it was a five day period that had a huge impact on my life. I made friends that I hope I never lose touch with completely and realised that this really was something that I wanted to do with my life.

I have so many good memories - sitting in the back of the bus singing ‘In the jungle’ with my newly made friends (much to the chagrin of half the bus I am sure), , dealing with the awkwardness of teenage relationships, all the meet-ups we had afterwards, not to mention the notes we passed during the lectures (all of which I still have - anything vaguely letter-like in form is precious to me).

This guy I have got back in touch with reminds me of a time in my life I love to be reminded of. HURRAH for facebook (and myspace).

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Acknowledgements

I need to say thank you to K and L’s gimp (who I feel has earned himself a better title now) for helping me out with my website dilemma. I put your advice into action and now when you google me you do get my new webpage and not the old one.. well there is one page still lurking but I shall eliminate it soon. I am very grateful to you both and bow down to your expertise.

*APPLAUSE*

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Old blogs

I was rereading some old blog entries today and came across this:

"My dad claims taking me snowboarding is ‘like giving a loaded gun to a manic depressive’. Not very politically correct of him but I do have a history of accidents. However, I tend to prefer more unusual injuries, such as ant allergies, so the consensus is I am more likely to scald myself with hot chocolate at the hotel than break a leg snowboarding (everyone knock on wood NOW)."

Well strictly speaking it was all true as I did not break a leg but I am thinking perhaps a different snow sport with less potential for injury may be in order. Mind you people may believe snow shoeing is safe but I have L to back me up when I say that I managed to nearly injure myself doing that too. The tree was just in my way! Any suggestions welcome, so far I am thinking cross country skiing and snow shoeing may be my best bets.

Heavy petting

No this blog post will not be anywhere near as dodgy as its title may indicate - focus on the pet and less on the Heavy ting. For my birthday someone bought me an aquarium, as requested by me and I have finally bought things to go in it. Personally I could give or take the fish they are kind of blah… but my new African Dwarf Frog, Archibald is FABULOUS darling. He is relatively insane I believe and irrationally afraid of the aquarium light when it gets turned on in the morning - but I am growing rather attached.

I need to be put down.. no seriously..

So today I decide to go to the supermarket - no big event you would think. My car had a little incident on Tuesday and needs a new tire/tyre (depending on where you live) so I walked to the shops. I then pottered around and bought all three items on my list, plus about another 20 that occurred to me while I was there. I went outside with the car and #$%! I didn’t have the car but I did have far more shopping than I can carry home with two good arms, let alone the one I have. AARRGGGHHHHH!!!!!! Cue the other M in my life (the american one) who came to my rescue and took me home. I am sure that this will be the source of much amusement for quite some time to come.

I have lots of other news so I need to get around to blogging it, don’t get your hopes up it isn’t thrilling - but it is all I’ve got.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Isn't today...

just GREAT? I am in the best mood. Got in touch with an old friend last night and it has made me all happy as we talked for ages (well online which is not really talking but whatever).

Thursday, April 12, 2007

DC

Well I said I would blog about my DC trip and since I am putting off bedtime (such a rebel) figured I may as well write it now. Thought I would just go with a few highlights and some pictures, otherwise this entry could go on forever.

The highlights:

* I actually got to see some of the sights. I have been to Washington DC on numerous occasions but never on a touristy trip. Workaholic? That’s a joke. I still did not get to see everything obviously, lots to keep me entertained on the next visit. The Capitol:


* My parents got to ‘backstage’ at the Smithsonian, which they loved. Thanks to the guys at NMNH for that. They got to hold all sorts of extra-terrestrial material. I still get a kick out of it myself.
* This next picture is from one of the exhibits (it’s for the wonderful M - tee hee)



* I got this fab new tea from this nice little restaurant near to our hotel. Camomile and lavendar - mmmm. It’s loose tea too, which is an even bigger bonus.
* The zoo was pretty cool, all the animals were fairly cooperative (although I witnessed rather too many bowel movements). The spectacled bear:


Well that may have to do for now. George needs the computer to update his blog.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Travel time

In DC with the parentals - will tell all on my return… well OK to be fair I won’t tell you everything as that would be nuts and more than a little dull. Will tell the interesting bits.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Hard drive drama

My old hard drive in intact! Hurrah! Not that it is a huge deal as I was backed up but even so I am mucho-relievedo. Now I have a nice teeny-weeny back up hard drive for the new one

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Correctamundo




You Should Get a PhD in Science (like chemistry, math, or engineering)



You're both smart and innovative when it comes to ideas.

Maybe you'll find a cure for cancer - or develop the latest underground drug.

I’m a big baby

GOOD NEWS - I have a new mac. Pain the arse to have to set it all up again and waiting for a hard drive enclosure to see if the old hard drive is recoverable to get data but good news all the same. I have taken all sorts of new precautions with keyboard covers (so the liquid cannot get into the computer throught the keyboard again) and yes I bought some sippy cups. I thought about doing a no liquids close to the computer thing but it’ll never happen, so instead I bought no spill sippy cups. I will feel ridiculous using them (and let me tell you babies are amazing as I am struggling to get anything out of these things) but I will suffer the ridicule to have a nice laptop.

HURRAH!! I am off to do a happy dance.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Ooops my mistake

So last week I had a little accident - no I lie it was HUGE. I knocked over a drink at my desk, a drink that I had put the lid on (or so I thought). I had cross screwed it. The lid sprung open and spilt all its contents over my… LAPTOP! My beautiful new mac. I didn’t cry. I remained calm. I tried to clean it all up. I did not even lose it when the drink poured out of the fans and the screen went black. I waited over 48 hours for it to dry and turn it on and was greeted by, well nothing….. no greeting. No nothing. Of course clutzy owners are not covered under most warranties. Bugger! Thankfully I had it insured under a separate policy and things look good to it being replaced. A big thanks has to go out to A who has lent me her laptop (a PC, but I’m coping) for the week, we like her!

George wants all to know that his personal blog will be updated once the new mac is up and running, don’t have the software on a PC to update it. Hope you have all checked his webpage out - it took him a long time without opposable thumbs.

What’s going on liz?

POKE!!!!!!!!!!!

(It’s an inside joke)