June 29, 2002 12:00 AM

In My Brain II – Archives: June 2002

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Saturday, June 29, 2002

So, I just tried to order Pizza. Not a particularly complex operation you might think, but no. It took Eleven minutes to order 3 pizzas. I’ll grant we did make it more complex by having to split the order into two parts so we could have the two special offers. But still. 11 minutes. Three pizzas. That’s more than 3 minutes per pizza….

Gah :-)

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First up: Weird.

We had some guests yesterday – they stayed from about 8 ’til this afternoon about 2ish. They [<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://bursar.linuxgrrls.org/archives/00000061.shtml”>more</a>]

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Friday, June 28, 2002

So, here’s an actually recent picture of me – thanks to <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://fuzzle.org/”>peter</a>:
<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.fuzzle.org/photos/3/kl2.jpg”>the picture is here</a>.

And, in other news. If anyone knows the whereabouts of HCCS Associates (makers of the HCCS Vision Digitiser card) then it’d be convenient if someone could tell me where they are. Or if someone has a module for RISC OS that you can tell where the podule is (rather than having it trying to identify it) and that runs on a StrongARM – well, that’d be even more handy…

Otherwise, no webcam folks….

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Thursday, June 27, 2002

Isn’t it ironic that the time when I most desperately need to be around people is the time when I’m most likely to upset them?

And the time when I least want to be around them?

God I’m still a mess.

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New, slightly blurry pic, thanks to Carol :-) [<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://bursar.linuxgrrls.org/archives/00000058.shtml”>more</a>]

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Wednesday, June 26, 2002

<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.geekissues.org/quotes/?top”>[grin]</a>[Still clinging on folks – normal service will be resumed in a few days]

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[Blasting hell out of my hearing to drown out my brain][Pulp – Mile End]

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I’ve been feeling oddly detached from the world for the last few days – there’s periods where I feel connected – but most of the time I’m just sailing along feeling like stuff isn’t going to affect me. It’s very strange.

And a bit worrying. But again, without any really feeling of connectedness between the worry and me.

On the keeping me amused front there’s <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/”>Mil’s apology homepage</a> – the section you’re really after is the “Things my girlfriend and I have argued about”…yes, I know it’s old news, in fact I’ve probably mentioned it before, but I decided to read it again… and there’s also <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.shatters.net/celestia/”>celestia</a> which rocks.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2002

So, I took a picture of the chicken strip on my old back wheel before I took it off – sadly however, the crap digital camera gave me <a href=”/web/20020831052346/http://bursar.linuxgrrls.org/photographs/bikepics/chickenstrip_blurry.jpg”>this</a> back. Nuts….

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Oh my godess! We’re out of tea! Help! Help![makes coffee]

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Monday, June 24, 2002

I forgot to mention the oven. We have a new oven “obtained” by me at the weekend (do I have *no* shame?)…. It’s ace. It’s got a temperature dial where you set it and that’s actually the temperature it goes to – and food cooks in roughly the right amount of time…[grin]

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So, I’ve got some stuff playing on my mind – as per usual – need to clear my brain ‘cos I’m not getting any work done, I’m just sort of staring at the computer thinking about stuff…. [<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://bursar.linuxgrrls.org/archives/00000051.shtml”>more</a>]

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Saturday, June 22, 2002

Sooo.

I was going to write about the new, but unusable webcam that I’ve got….I’ll do that in a second – but first, apologies for the slowness of my machine of the past few days… [<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://bursar.linuxgrrls.org/archives/00000050.shtml”>more</a>]

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Thursday, June 20, 2002

So…we have the new wheels on, and the front one has a Bridgestone tyre which goes “Ah yes, I’m sticking, sticking, sticking, sticking, yes, sticking, and oh, yes sticking” and we have the back wheel which has whatever tyre was on it when it arrived which goes “Aaaarrrghh! Help! Help! Corners! Eeeep! Nooo!”

This makes riding somewhat “interesting” :-)

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I’ve just been out to put some fresh lager out for the slugs..and….we’ve *almost* got a garden. We’re Sooooo close. It’s ace.

I know, I know, I’m a sad individual getting old before her time, but I *like* gardening and I *like* the fact that out the back of our house we now have what’s clearly a fairly respectable garden instead of a wilderness. When it’s ‘finished’ I’ll put some pictures up.

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Hrm, some things that have been pointed out…:

<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://store.rabbitvalley.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MONTYRABBIT&variation=&aitem=1&mitem=17″>monty python’s evil bunny…</a> and <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/20/0226250&mode=nested&tid=126″>An escaped robot</a> makes a bid for freedom ;-)

Been working on the Business Plan.

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Just a bit busy…

2:37pm up 1 day, 14:36, 6 users, load average: 4.58, 2.70, 2.27

113 processes: 108 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped

CPU states: 64.0% user, 35.9% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle

Mem: 190900K av, 186660K used, 4240K free, 0K shrd, 12324K buff

Swap: 200804K av, 76396K used, 124408K free 94128K cached

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Wednesday, June 19, 2002

So, I went to swap the front wheel for the cast front wheel on which I’ve spent such a vast amount of money. Does it fit? No. This is because for no readily explicable Kanuni have changed the size of a spacer.

Which Burwin didn’t know, and can’t check until tomorrow.

So I can’t put the new front wheel with the nice tyre on.

And I’m not too convinced by the other, original wheel bearings. So I’m feeling rather wary about riding said object, which is rather a shame because I wanted to go out tonight :-(

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Sunday, June 16, 2002

<table width=”300″ cellpadding=”2″ cellspacing=”0″ border=”0″><tr><td width=”180″>Disorder</td><td width=”120″>Rating</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#paranoid”>Paranoid</a>:</td><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#schizoid”>Schizoid</a>:</td><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#schizotypal”>Schizotypal</a>:</td><td>Moderate</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#antisocial”>Antisocial</a>:</td><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#borderline”>Borderline</a>:</td><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#histrionic”>Histrionic</a>:</td><td>Moderate</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#narcissistic”>Narcissistic</a>:</td><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#avoidant”>Avoidant</a>:</td><td>Moderate</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#dependent”>Dependent</a>:</td><td>Moderate</td></tr><tr><td><a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#obsessive”>Obsessive-Compulsive</a>:</td><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td colspan=”2″ align=”center”>
— <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv”>Click Here To Take The Test</a> –</td></tr></table>

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Friday, June 14, 2002

Me singing with my headphones on….or my music *very* loud?[grin]

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So, I finally got around to putting my old motorbike up for sale (well, actually advertising it as opposed to just sticking a sign on it) – be sad to see it go.

In other news my body’s hatred of being kept inside has started to show – I’m feeling crap just ‘cos I’ve not been outside for a few days…..

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[Tracy Ullman – Breakaway]

[The Strokes – Last Nite]

[Cornershop – Brim full of Asha]

[Republica – Ready to Go]

[Garbage – Push It]

…

Get me to a decent soundsystem. I need to DJ. (It’s all Richards fault)

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Yeah, yeah, same title as before, I know.

(from rec.puzzles)

A couple of days ago I tried to weigh the Earth by turning my
bathroom scale upside-down, but given the size of the Earth it should
come as no surprise to all you savy folks that the scale was
immediately crushed flat. Now I am unable to remove it from my living
room floor, because there is no way I am going to be able to lift up
the entire planet to get the scale out from under it.

I got that from <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.panix.com/~stern/bad_crazy/bc5.html”>this</a> page, thanks to Diane.
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Thursday, June 13, 2002

So, yes. What prompted me to get a live journal was actually a rather long and convoluted process; and one which is related to my rather odd mood I suspect. [<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://bursar.linuxgrrls.org/archives/00000039.shtml”>more</a>]

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Okay, so it’s finally happened – I’ve given in and got a <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.livejournal.com/users/katejournal/”>live journal</a>. Don’t think for a microsecond that I’m stopping using my normal diary entry stuff, indeed most of the time the livejournal’ll probably be a duplicate of the my own site – apart from the different comments…

If there are any comments…

Anyway. Enough for now…

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I’m feeling very restless, you know that state where you know you want to do something, but you’re not sure what? Well, that’s my current state.
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It’s all <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://interconnected.org/dirk/”>interconnected</a>…

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Fixed a little bugglet in the links-bar. Now, even on wide pages it shouldn’t screw up….

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So, I bought a photo album while I was at home with my parents
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Wednesday, June 12, 2002

So, the credits for Knight Rider came on. And I turned to Lauren and said “oh, that’s odd, it’s not in pursuit mode”. Then remarked that I felt sad for noticing that. To which she pointed out that it’s “Super Pursuit Mode” – so now I feel a little better :-)

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Sometimes you have to be impressed.

A car, which has sat for about 5 months, not been turned over, not even been sat in. I get a new battery, put it in, a little bit of oil in the top end of the engine, try number one. Nothing. Try number two, coughs. Try number three and it starts and runs – after a few seconds it starts sounding properly smooth again.

You gotta be impressed by that.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Should I change my entry on Friends Reunited to be more, well, helpful – so people can work out who the hell I am?

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Ever have one of those days where everything you touch seems to go wrong? Mmm.

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Mixed nuts.

The mog has died, again. This time it’s stranded on a garage forecourt not far from the house….waiting until 6pm when the Tim the enchanter will be along to fix it….

<a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20020831052346/http://www.guimp.com/”>The worlds smallest website</a>

*sigh*

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So, it seems I was a little tired when I wrote the slightly short entry last night – so here’s the long form.
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Monday, June 10, 2002

Tired.

Really tired.

Really, really tired.

Went out at the weekend saw peter james stephanie lauren saw spiderman rocked had fun drove home did gardening bath sleep now.

tired

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Thursday, June 6, 2002

I’m feeling much better. I don’t know why I had the sudden bout of depression yesterday – well, probably stress over money combined with a few other things. And me feeling fairly useless. And being fairly useless.

Anyway, today I’m feeling much better. I got lots of hugs from Lauren last night which helped loads :-)

So. Stuff to do, people to see…

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Wednesday, June 5, 2002

I don’t know what the fuck I’m going to do if I can’t afford to get insurance and do courier work. I need money *fast*. I don’t actually have *any* real money left to speak of.

I’m fucked. So fucked.

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Some of you will be happy to know that I’m feeling a bit better since I wrote that last entry. I’m still a moronic fuckwit though.

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I can’t believe that I’ve been such a fucking *moron*.

It appears that when I last used the RiscPC the work I did I either failed to save, or saved in such a stupid place that it’s got deleted – although I can’t imagine where that’d be.

*Sigh* I don’t know how long I’ll be beating myself up over this, but some time I should think.
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As requested, the photography stuff is back up – although no longer on a separate site….just follow the photography link on your left….

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I’ve reached that terrified stage where I know what I need to do but am at the moment too busy panicing to actually do it. I need money, and I need it this month – otherwise there’s no way on earth I’m going to pay off the credit card bill at the end of next month.

I can’t pay anywhere near the amount I want too off anyway – which is stressing me out.

And I’ve got to pay for the bike insurance…which has to come out of real money, not pretend credit money, which is a nightmare. I have to change insurers next time – which is a shame because I like the people I’m with, and they’re reasonably cheap – but they don’t have credit card facilities.

I hate not having money – basically, I’m scared shitless.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2002

So. I just had a fairly odd and definately good weekend.
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Saturday, June 1, 2002

So, I spent yesterday with Lauren building an impressive shelf unit. It’s about 7 ft high, and ocupies one of the doojits next to the chimney in our back room. It’s meant that we can actually see the floor (previously the entire room was full – now with more stuff in it than before it’s less than full and there’s space to decorate.

Well, yes. Anyway, after basically an entire day of hard work we got the shelves up and then put the servers on them….wonderful! Anyway, that was why this machine was down yesterday, and this morning – as one of the harddisks which are temporarily residing in it was moved out…

So.

That was yesterday. Today we had a simple plan. It was a good plan. Not too much laid on. Just a bit. Put new points on the ‘new’ MZ. (Can I just say that I hate points? Yes? Oh good. I *hate* points. No, I *really* *really* hate points. F*cking awful things).

Anyway, so we do the points. Ish. And then we move on to setting the mixture – but the bike’s being an absolute arse to start. Slowly it becomes apparent that the downpipe which looked like it had a few little pin-prick holes in it (“nothing to worry about”) is actually holed – so okay. Need a new downpipe. But we can’t get one locally, and really I can’t afford one. So, okay. How to repair it (remember this, we’ve <a href=”/web/20020831052346/http://bursar.linuxgrrls.org/inmybrain/042002/25042002.shtml”>been here before</a>) – anyway – there’s no where to get brazing rods around here. Well, it’s possibly but requires a great deal of work. So – chemical metal and jubilee clips were obtained (6 quid).

And applied.

And hopefully tomorrow we’ll actually be able to start the damn bike.

I am decided. My next bike will be: New, Modern, Reliable – i.e. not an ancient design that’s been recycled. Not because there’s anything inherantly wrong with the ETZ. It’s a nice reliable bike. I’m just sick of sheds – because they suck up money and I don’t really *have* any money anymore.

Anyway, so that sucked.

Then I moved on to trying to get the LogiCrap Shitecam to work. Ha. Fat chance. My USB system doesn’t seem to even see it anymore. Which might mean it’s dead – or that the cable’s loose on the motherboard, or that the USB drivers don’t work properly…Could be anything really.

Grr.

Oh well, anyway, we’ve got 260W (RMS) of music in here atm and it’s a “bit hard to concentrate”….so, I’m gonna bugger off…

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