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1^st May 2002, 10:21.

So, these have been hanging around for a while…

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And what might you be? Find out at roachspray.com!

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29^th April 2002, 12:40.

Yeah, so, yet again some more quizzes, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m
not doing too many of these things. I mean, it has been mentioned.

Anyway. Most of todays entry is on the iPAQ, so I’ll get back to
writing it on that.

Which Anne
Rice Vampire are you?
by Tera

Which He-Man LiveJournal
Icon are you?

Take the test here< /a>!! Made by Jenna and Robbie.

A victim is shut up inside you,
then dropped into some body of water. They drown, of course. A
claustrophobic demise. If someone gets you mad, you just get away from
them and forget it, though you quietly seethe for a while.

What torture would you be?

Visionary, revolutionary, vigilante – these descriptions all fit you well. You are thoroughly disgusted with society and humanity as a whole, and you have several rather diabolical plans to reshape it to fit your designs. You’re probably a loner, and most people think you’re crazy. That’s just because they don’t understand, though, and you’ll show them someday anyway. Heh heh heh. You are known to become very passionate about many causes, have torrid love affairs, and be seen as a either a demagogue or a hero to the proletariat masses.

Be cool! Take the What
Do You Want Out Of Life? Quiz

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28^th April 2002, 1220.

My friends have weird friends:

Ah; I see you’re another one playing The Game. But of course you are; everyone’s playing
The Game. Some of the most successful players of The Game don’t even know they’re playing it.

It’s very simple really – the object of The Game is to forget that you’re playing The
Game.

Oh, sorry; and you were doing so well too.

James: from Phil in my office (paraphrased).

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Kate E

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Ryo-Chan at Sun Apr 28 23:45:47 2002 said:

you know.. I swear I saw that first in a star trek novel.. um… the entropy effect i think it was called – the one with the glass spider… Kirk teaching god how to do it right ^_-

 

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28/04/02, 09:36

Note: This entry is really a miriad of very short entries made throughout the day

Bleurgh – I feel like shite.

Yup, it’s another one of those funky iPAQ entries…anyway – so – first up, I saw this – which amused me. Why? Well temping gives you an interesting opportunity to see what different companies are like for security – and my current opinion is that they are all crap. This computer in front of me, yes? It has the users passwords written on stickers on it.
I’ve heard users giving out their passwords and usernames over the phone, and to each other. What, you have to wonder, is the point?

Ahh, all becomes clear, I was going to have a major bitch about the number of
lemming-peds out today, but I understand it now. They were all looking at the flying pigs. (Incidentally, for when that news page changes (and for those too lazy to look) I’m referring to Microdigital having a working p ototype Omega.

You know when you see something and you just want to say “jesus mate, chill” (or words to that effecty? Well; having discovered that the T* biochemist I linked to a few days ago is actually someone I talk to online (well duh!) I saw this comment. Obviously, both due to being bored and also due to the fact I have nothing whatsoever against Diane I wondered if this persons Livejournal might shed some light on this comment….but since it’s a friends only journal I guess I’ll remain in the dark….

So, it’s now 15:30 and I’m feeling incredibly awful – headache/sick. This is probably related to the awful nights sleep I got last night. I suspect I got about 5 hours – which seems like quite a long time – but really isn’t.

I don’t think it’s related to the whole throwing up/feeling sick thing I had on Saturday. I’ve still got no iden what caused that. Only that it was very bad and I don’t want it again. It might be related to overtiredness I guess. Although I’ve been more or less managing to get to bed at a reasonable time I’ve not actually been sleeping particularly well.

Actually, this could all be tied in. My Stress Related Disorder is back (yup, that excellent way to lose weight). Hrm.

Not that I have even the faintest clue what to do about that. As my GP said “be less stressed”. Oookay….what am I meant to do? Listen to relaxing music? Take more baths? I’ve actually stopped using the PC here (temping still) because my eyes hurt – and I’m feeling sick. Though that’s possibly related to the amount of caffine I’ve had just to stay awake.

Wow, I’ve never heard anyone actually say “we need to think outside the box” before. Well, not seriously :-)

Undoubtedly the worst thing about this job is not being able to use IRC. You see, I’m not actually terribly busy, indeed as you have probably noticed I’ve been spending lots and lots of my time writing overly wordy diary entries – and doing far more online quizes than is healthy….

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27^th April 2002, 1119.

It’s not my time!

I’m not ready!

Noooooo….

…..I can’t become [shudder] domesticated….

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Kate E

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amy at Sat Apr 27 17:00:27 2002 said:

byebye kate.. It was nice knowing you. *sniff* I didn’t expect you to go that way just yet though *sniffsniff*

 

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26^th April 2002, 1024.

Sooo.

Yes, the bloke from the RAC (well an RAC Agent, you’d think that
given 6 hours they could have sorted out getting me an actual RAC
person…) appeared, only 20 minutes late (with an apology from him ‘cos
he could have been here on time but his boss didn’t give him the job
until 17:15. Given that he was at best 25 minutes away – according to
the AAs route planner – the fact he made it here in 35 minutes isn’t bad
at all – in rush hour – mind you he did go a twiddly backroads way.

Anyway, after a lot of work he managed to get the bike to run – he
also bled the oil pump and guess what – it sounded god awful. At idle
it’s not too bad – but as soon as you take it off idle you can hear what
was once a bearing grinding itself to pieces.

Still, I’m impressed with MZ’s, I mean 200 miles with basically no
oil – and they weren’t 200 nice easy miles they were 200 gruelling,
being thrashed witless miles where I was using maximum accleration every
time I went anywhere.

I fear looking inside the engine – he reckons the big-end-bearing has
gone. I’m praying it’s just the small end – because I can fix that –
I’ve done it before. I feel so s*dding stupid though. I feel so bl**dy
stupid. In my defence the reason I didn’t notice it was simply that I
was using the bike so intermeittently that I couldn’t ever remember what
state it was in when I last checked it – or when I’d filled it up. It
was only this week that I started to think that something was amiss –
and really by the time I realised it was too late.

Even if I had realised last on Tuesday when the very very very first
signs that something was amiss appeared (the Nippon Denso sparkplug
stopping working despite not looking *that* knackered. I would have
expected from the state of the plug that the bike’d be running a touch
slower than normal.

*sigh* And I guess, had I clicked, I’d’ve realised that the slight
drop in top speed wasn’t due to changing to a less-good-spark plug, but
due to something more serious.

*sigh*

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

Oh [insert swearword here as I berate myself in such a way that it
would quite defiantely not get through this companies filters]

Okay, I’m going to do some really scary stuff with the new site. I
hope. I think.

I have plans^tm. I even have a fairly good idea of
how it’s going to look. Okay, I’ll be honest, I know *exactly* how it’s
going to look. I even have a development page here.

Ha! You don’t think I’m going to let it out yet do you?! Nyaha. And
frankly, I don’t care if you all hate the new site. I like it. Well, I
do at the moment. I might change my mind. I might not.

Mwuahahahah.

Of course the thing is it won’t look anywhere near as impressive to
any of you as it will to me, because 99% of what I’ll have done will be
background stuff which you won’t even see. I mean. It’s a bit sad
really, isn’t it!

Still, it should make my life a touch easier. Less faffing – and less
mistakes – I mean, you can see, well, those of you who saw my diary
yesterday/day before will have seen numerous errors – tiredness meant
that the dates were wrong on the index page, at one point you got a 404
error for one of the entries….not good.

Ahh well.

So, moment of boredom and I’m following random links around
Livejournal. It’s funny how that’s caught on – on the one had the lazy
part of me quite likes the idea of someone else taking care of all the
work – and the other part of me – which likes having control doesn’t.
Not only that, but quite a lot of the stuff in here is very personal –
and I don’t want some company turning around and saying “and now
we own the copyright in everything you’ve written.

So…I found a T* biochemist….
while I was on my wanderings. Managed to completely screw up adding a
comment – so it’s appearing to be a reply to someone elses comment.
Never mind, so I’m a f***wit.

I wonder if that’ll get past the filters or if they have an asterisk
scanner.

Anyway, the reason I mention it is it’s them who I’ve nabbed this of:

Pick a band and answer using only that band’s lyrics.

0. Band:

Elastica

1. Are you Male or female?

you’re a strange girl

2. Describe yourself:

sometimes i just can’t function

my heart’s spaghetti junction
Or possibly:

keeping a brave face

in circumstances

is impossible

cannot describe

so many decisions

it’s impossible

to know which is

the proper order

the best position

to be in

take advantage

or so it seems

the way it goes

3. How do they feel about you?

you don’t care what they say

4. How do you feel about yourself?

just i think you’re faking

it’s just i think you’re faking

wanna know ’bout all the little things you sorted out

you know you’ve got a problem

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend:

..a lover who loves me when others have loved me not

..is a big love, two spoons in a drawer, the master plan

..a lover who can love me slowly

..to make your heartbeat faster

6. What would you rather be doing?

i just can’t escape the feeling

that i’d rather be free wheeling

7. Describe where you live:

in the city

8. Describe how you love:

..is to love you everywhere and everyhow

..to kiss you until our lips are numb

..kiss you ’til everywhere hurts

9. Share a few words of wisdom:

i’d work very hard but i’m lazy

i can’t take the pressure and it’s starting to show

in my heart you know how it pains me

a life of leisure is no life you know

10 points and a biscuit to the first person to name which song they
all came from.

Chr*st, it’s pouring with rain…. hrm, some work to do…

So, continued mooching around the net. 4 Hours until I finish work
and it’s *cough*ing down with rain. Anyway, so, I’ve been trying to
scrounge a PC. I mean, that’d not be bad going really – it’s unlikely
that I’ll succeed, but still….

I had a quick go at angling for a printer too, but they’ve taken it
out to the van…

So, anyhoo, while mooching around I found yet another cartoon – the
advantage of cartoons is you can sit and read pages and pages of them
and then find that you’ve used up two or three hours. Also there’s lots
of them. And I don’t have to think too much. And we know I don’t like
thinking. Anyway, it keeps me slightly more cheerful….

So, anyway, here’s one I spotted…which I quite fancied having a
teeshirt of :-)

Aww, nuts.

The IT Support guy’s just wandered off with the PC I was angling for
(“If I take it away it’ll just get thrown away” “Well, I’ll have it
then”). Gah, some other sod’s pinched it – that’s not fair! Just ‘cos
I’m temping and he’s a permie. Grr….

I was quite keen on that as an idea. Having a PC….it would have
been equivalent to a bit of a payrise :-)

Waah? It just went back the other way with someone else?! I don’t
understand….grr…Ahh, right, yes. It’s gone. No fair, I asked
first….[pout]

Quick ‘nother test…

The Annoying B-List Celebrity Test

You’re utterly brilliant!

Oh wait, no, you’re not. You’re Timmy Mallett.

You achieved fame and success as the presenter of the shoestring
budget children’s morning show WACaday, which was an offshoot of equally
low-budget Saturday show The Wide Awake Club. The latter spawned such
successful names as Mike Myers and, um, Tommy Boyd, but it’s you that’s
become the legend. You.

Why? Because of your incredible, unmistakable naffness; you wore
bermuda shorts, loud shirts and the dodgy plastic novelty glasses that
were all the rage in the eighties; you actually released a cover version
of Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini; you had to change the
format of your show because it was leading kids to hit each other over
the heads with hammers. Oh wait, that last bit’s cool.

These days you’re a washed up has-been, but that doesn’t stop you
from trying. Bless.

You can tell the world that they mustn’t pause, mustn’t hesitate
otherwise you’ll get hit over the head like this or like this with the
following foam mallet of a graphic:

Which annoying
B-list celebrity are you?

Well, it wasn’t going to be a good answer was it?!

The thing with this cartoon is it’s very variable. I seem to go
through quite a few that I just don’t find funny – and then suddenly
find one which makes me laugh. Ahh well….

Yeah, so, I think I’ve found a look that I like….

Using Windows paint to create these images is, shall we say, not
ideal.

Anyway, yes, it’s always a look I’ve quite fancied, but being of
asian decent means that the goth look doesn’t work so well – you really
need very pale skin to pull it off – which is rather a shame really…

I wonder if it says something worrying about me that I tend to
identify with/wish to be like characters who tend to be somewhat on the
evil side….

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25^th April 2002, 11:44.

Soo, sucky day.

After yesterday – at least my yesterday going quite well I suppose
it’s only normal for me to have a crap day – but this is a bit much.

So, on my way home yesterday I had a bit of an “incident” with the
bike. Riding along, it suddenly gets much louder shortly before
the engine just stops. So I roll to the side of the road and get off –
quick check, not siezed (which I thought might be a problem with the new
exhaust/running hotter) – turns over freely but it sounds a touch noisy.
Kick it over, no, there’s no sign of life whatsoever.

Oookay, I have a little prod. No, it’s definately not happy – but I
can’t see anything wrong – same as yesterday morning only with more
noise. Anyway, after about a minute it restarted – but there was no
drive in first gear. Second, third, fourth and fifth were all fine – but
first just did nothing. No unpleasant noises, no real feeling of badness
except for the obvious fact that I wasn’t moving. So I limped home in
second/third but at the last junction before our house I found that
first had recovered.

It was fine. I sat outside the house for a bit and checked, and
whatever had been the problem had disappeared.

So, fast forward to this morning (although I did some more gardening
last night!) – and I head off to work. About 2 miles from work the same
thing happens – only it just gets much louder – sounding really ill –
and there’s a distinct drop in power. So, I pull over, it stalls, but
restarts while I’m rolling….

And I look. And look, and listen, and prod, and tap, and clout. And
then I think back to this morning. When I checked the oil the bike was
on a slope – could it be that it still hadn’t used any – and that maybe
the oil-pump wasn’t working (either wasn’t working or had air in it so
it just wasn’t pumping any oil…).

Yes, indeed it could. So I limped in, trying to keep the revs down
(which is hard on a 125cc 2-stroke, because they produce s*d all power
at low revs) to the carpark here and I’ve called the RAC.

Yes, I’ve got the ignominy of going home in an RAC van. I could
*actually* do the repair in the car-park here if I had the
roller-bearing, but I don’t carry one with me (oddly enough, I wasn’t
expecting to have to replace it for another 30k miles). It’s extremely
dissapointing – not least because I’ve really been enjoying riding it
recently. Okay, I’ve been pushing my luck on occasions….but it’s been
fun.

Oh, interesting link.

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25^th April 2002, 16:33.

Okay, now this is getting silly. I mean, no one seems to have
actually done the “what test are you” – and I couldn’t find the “What
Kleenex are you?” test – but this is almost equally silly:

what adjective are
you?

quiz by
maikamariel

See what I mean!

On the other hand, this is good news:

Which Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy character are
you?

And while I’m here I may as well do this one too….

Take the “How slutty are you” Test
created by sami

And on the “while I’m doing them” subject….(hey, I’ve got 40
minutes to kill before the RAC arrive):

Find your emotion! [?]

I have to ask with this one exactly how I came out as Anger. I mean
usually I can see vaguely where the answer came from – but this one
defeats me.

And for once I’m going to give the answers I got – anyone else hazard
a guess from these where “Anger” came from?

• 001. What kind of clothes do you wear?
  
  Shirts that say “go to hell, b****”
• 002. How about your friends? They are:
  
  Relaxed and funny
• 003. Do you have a significant other?
  
  Yes, and I like them a lot.
• 004. Got a favorite color (of these)?
  
  Blue
• 005. If you could speak ANY language, what would it be?
  
  Russian
• 006. What’s best when it comes to music?
  
  Uhh..whatever..
• 007. Any personal defects?
  
  I cry too much

So, right. Apart from the first one…?

36 minutes to go….

You are Yourself! Gay, straight. These words mean very little to you. You are yourself and that’s all you need to know. You fall in love with the same gender, but you believe that isn’t all there is to you. Your lack of “traditional” gay pride is interpreted by many queers as internal homophobia, but in truth you just want to be your true self. Not just gay.

Take the what
kind of fag are you quiz by PsychosisX!

You’re probably bored of these by now aren’t you, but for once here’s
a test which I actually went “ooh, funky” at:

Take the which Silent Starlet are you quiz!

Of course I’m wondering, since I’ve moved over to actually having a
copy of the pictures on my machine instead of using the ones on the
sites (because on looking through my diary entries I noticed that some
of the older quizzes had disappeared) – what’ll happen when I move over
to my new site layout that I’ve just e-mailed myself and that you can’t
see yet.

Not least because I need to work out a way to get all the content out
of these pages – and into a database….

Anyway onto the next one…

Yes, I can definately see this becoming an issue. Unless I write a
script which fixes all the broken links. Of course there’s only one
minor problem with that. I’d have to write a script – and I have no clue
as to how to do that.

Okay, you can be thankful – I’ve actually discarded one of my
results…..just ‘cos I couldn’t be ars*d. I’ve had enough things saying
I’m a goth of one sort or another and one with not-very-good-images is
one I can’t be arsed with.

However, I rather liked this one…

what’s your battle
cry? |
mewing.net | merchandise!

And this one…

take the non-offensive
quiz.


and go to mewing.net. laura = great.

And finally, in my boredom-tastic quiz-extravaganza:

take the “what’s my fault”
quiz.

(and then browse around mewing.net.
because laura is cool.)

Oh godly god I’m bored.

And frankly, I’m missing the bath I didn’t get yesterday – this is
what comes of gardening you know – you uddnely find it’s 9 o’clock at
night and you’re hungry and unwashed ;-/

Still, it’s quite nice to see some impact on the garden. We’re going
to have a bonfire to clear away the crud we’ve generated…

[RAC Bloke arrives]

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24^th April 2002, 10:21

Grrr

So, I’d not realised quite how much stuff the iPAQ had forgotten – I suppose I should have guessed what with having to go through the setup routine again – but all the shite windows software is back – and obviously the stuff I’d installed – it’s all gone….

Ah well all the more reason to put Linux on here….

So I’m still temping – and I’m still bored….however by the rather low standards I’ve got this morning has been moderately interesting. Before I get into that I thought I’d link to this (I’ll be impressed if I’ve managed to enter that correctly) – yes, anyway, I’ve been reading the BBCs news site for years and never before noticed that section!

Still it amused me.

I presume everyone’s noticed what’s happened in France. That’s scary….at least I find that scary.

It’s actually one of the few occasions I’ve really felt an urge to watch what’s happening in the news. Normally it’s something I do to fill time when I’m bored.

So, back to my morning. First thing was my bike eating it’s spark plug. Now this isn’t particulary uncommon – but it’s normally preceded by a short but noticable period of not-running-very-well; but this time, just to challenge me a bit it just stopped running as I was filtering down the middle of two lines of cars – just as prick-in-vectra decided he was going to ensure I couldn’t pull in in front of him. Luckily for me I was still moving fast enough to slot in sideways in front of him and get to the kerb. Mind you if he had hit me then it’d’ve been his car that was buggered.

Still having worked out what the problem was it didn’t take long to get going again.

Mind you, no-one stopped……

Oooh, oooh, apparently if Microsoft have the proposed measures imposed on them it might mean they couldn’t o withdraw a version of Windows if a major security flaw was found. He (Gates) also said they might have to stop selling Windows….I can imagine nothing better :-)

So this morning I was complemented on my dress sense by one of the other women here – which hasn’t ever happened before! Anyway – that put a smile on my face.

Is it sad that while having a looksie for ISS stuff I ran across this and thought “oooh, cool”? Probably…

I think I’ve run out of stuff to say now….

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24^th April 2002, 12:25.

Okay, sheer laziness for this entry; just lots and lots of test
results….but maybe there’s some comment at the bottom? Who can
say….Anyway, I don’t feel guilty I gave you guys a huge, vast
enormodome style diary entry yesterday…and there’s another one on my
iPAQ….

I am a Light
Cycle.

I drive fast, I turn fast, I do everything fast. I even breakfast. I
tend to confuse people with my sudden changes of heart. Sometimes I even
confuse myself, which tends to cause problems. What Video Game
Character Are You?

You are the most universal mythical beast ever. Sightings
of the unicorn have been reported from all over the world, even in these
modern times. Unicorns are pure and incurruptible. In China, unicorns
symbolised gentleness, good will, and wisdom. Christianity links the
unicorn with Christ. It is said that unicorns would only allow virgin
girls to see them, let alone touch them. They were easily lured into
fatal ambushes by a virgin with some potchers waiting for the unicorn in
nearby bushes. A unicorn’s horn was a highly prised possesion, which was
reputed to have great healing capabilities. With the touch of its horn,
a unicorn could bring back a person who had been dead for several hours.
But when disattached from the unicorn’s body, the magic was
suggnificantly reduced and could only protect against poison. The
unicorn had the body of a horse, a unique spirling horn, and a lion’s
tail. They were pure white in color. Congradulations, you are a rarity
amoung mythical beasts. There aren’t enough of people like you in the
world.
What mythical beast best represents you? Take the
quiz!

Take the What High School
Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel.
Although I
think that any of these:

are probably also reasonable answers from that…

I’m a Fire Spirit

Anyway, so, this is largely due to finding this link to someone I know
online – which meant that I needed to send back an e-mail with the
address in – mind you it’s fairly obvious knowing the name she uses
online. Anyway, so I didn’t realise she had a live journal but now I
do….err. Yes. Kinda losing the plot a bit there.

So, anyway, from the results above we can deduce that I’m a pink
haired, fire spirited outsider light-cycle-unicorn – which makes perfect
sense.

I wonder if analysing the results from the various tests I’ve taken
would give an interesting insight into my very broken mind – or if it
would alternatively just prove that I’m a fruitcake. Or more likely
prove that online tests are a load of old b*ll*cks. (I wonder if that’ll
get through the filter here)

Anyway, the reason I’m so desperately short of anything to do is that
there’s only one of the managers who I’m secratary-for-the-week to here,
which means that in my in tray there’s b*gger all, and there wasn’t much
post….and anyway, I think they’re avoiding getting me to do too much –
I’m just doing the absolutely essential stuff. Still – explains why I’m
bored.

So, what else.

I’m considering doing an “e-mail me when you update the site” option.
I’ve mentioned it before and not had, shall we say, a staggering
response – so I suspect that you’re all not in the least bit interested.
But I might try again.

[Thinks: Help me, I’m bored witless!]

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Kate E

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