Category: General

18 Nov 1999

Knackered. I’ve just had two days off work – one for an interview for a job I’d like but am so totally underqualified for it’s laughable and one for a totally useless open day.

I’ve spent £350 on a PC, which is bad.

However I’m warm and snug, I’ve got a nice glass of whisky (not whiskey) and I’ve had a fairly nice day (I got to be me for a bit) – so I’m feeling quite content for once. Also I’m seeing Hannah on Saturday (as in the day after tomorrow) so I’m looking forward to that.

Thanks to everyone on the list for your comments – they’re really nice – I’ll be with you as soon as I get a network card for the PC, and set it up as a gateway…..

One bad thing did happen today – my uncle was admitted to hospital with severe blood loss from a stomach ulser – we’re all hoping he’s going to be okay….so that wasn’t very nice news.

On the upside my parents had a good day – they went shopping in London – and got my sister some gorgeous dresses – that was a bit tough on me, my mum showing me these really nice, designer dresses (bought at huge discount) – and having to say how nice they were without (a)Giving away that I’d like them for me, or (b) it being to obvious I was in love with one of them…..

On the job front I’ve got one more interview coming up next week, and 2 jobs to hear from so – maybe, just maybe (as the lottery would have us believe).

The other computer, the PC: Well, I just have to be a bit techie! It’s an AMD K6-II @ 400MHz, 32MB PC100 D-Ram, 8.4Gig Maxtor HDD, Pioneer 1X DVD-Rom drive, Apollo M/board – VIA MVP3 Chipset, SiS S3 Virge GX Graphics card (AGP!), Avance 16 bit “soundcard” (See comment later), Adaptec 1502 SCSI card (for use with the scanner) & Motorola modem (56K/V.90).

It’s currently using my dad’s old 14″ monitor, but I’m hoping to borrow a 17″ one from my dad’s work; it’s got Win95(OSR2, USB patch) and Linux (RedHat 5.1) – on it at the moment. Linux doesn’t like the graphics card – and I still can’t get Windows to play ball with the soundcard 100%. It plays stuff through directX but anything else and – well you’re buggered to be honest. (Despite me downloading the latest drivers)

Apart from that all is well, except for the fact that they sent me the wrong bloody ethernet card – hence my machines lack of networkedness – otherwise this site would have been re-uploaded as would my new, funky, sexy site (wait for the release!). Anyhow, that’s the way it stands with that.

A big hiya to my friends who know about me! And Happy Birthday (& loads of apologies) to Hope!

I mentioned paint last time, specifically lipari blue. Well it’s a crap match for my paint. So now my car has rust-black along the bottom. Actually it looks okay – but it took me the whole three days to do the work. However the petrol tank is now painted, shiny and cool, as are quite a lot of bits and pieces under the car, the radio is properly fitted – as is the clock, and the boot no longer leaks – due to a small rust hole which has now been filled.

I think that’ll do. If I’m in the mood I might try and write something tomorrow – but I’ve got work in the afternoon – which is, err fun. I’ve also got to pack! Wheee.

Anyway, bed time……’cos some of us gotta work you know!

ATL&W;

Kate

29 Oct 1999

Well, there we go two updates in three days – don’t I just spoil you sometimes! I have been (well male mode has been) to the (Wantage Regent 1 & 2) Cinema, I had a day off work (sick), and have been down to Motoquip (in Wantage)… I also found out that I haven’t got the job at the BBC (99.9% probable). Why? Well I came second – a fact which cheered me no end as I felt like I’d come about 100000000th after the interview. Apparently if the other person doesn’t want the job (Yuh-hu, like that’s likely – heres a perfect job, do you not want it?) then I can have it….

Anyway – the stress of ringing the BBC made me feel sick, or the garlic in the sausages yesterday, or something – so I crawled out of bed this morning and decided after about 10 minutes to crawl back in. Around 11 I started to feel human again and so I went to Wantage, and purchased for the purposes of work on the car, Some BLMC lipari blue (the closest match I could find to Yugo grey-blue), some Black for the Fuel tank, some Primer for the Fuel tank and some rust filler (to smooth over where the rust was)….

So that’s my next 3 days off taken care of. I also had an argument with my mother about why I want to move out (strangely the topic of because I want to change my sex, and I’d like a bit of privacy so that when I’m putting my bra away I don’t feel nervous all the time didn’t come up). So that was fun.

Then I went to see The Blair Witch Project. Now, I hear there are two camps, the Scared Stiff camp and the It was Okay camp – I’m definitely in the latter. It was clever, interesting and well done. However the characters were stupid and I lost sympathy with them (I couldn’t empathise with them after a certain amount of idiocy). I wasn’t scared – it did / has set me on edge rather and I keep seeing things moving in the background which is more than a little odd (so I guess it’s worked at that level). Part of this comes from a fairly certain belief in ghosts of some sort…..

Many many years ago….well in about 1995 I went to stay in a friends house in dorset….now when I say house I mean f*** off mansion. It was huge – okay to give you an idea of huge ½ of the house had been turned into an art collage. The kitchen was the size of a normal persons living room. But although downstairs was fine upstairs (1st floor) had a definite atmosphere and the top floor (up in the roof) really made me feel uncomfortable to the point of scared.

Anyway – the first odd thing was that despite the fact that we were the only people in the house when we left the curtains in the room that me and my friend (David) were staying in were closed when we went out in the morning (and I know that they were closed because we went in my car and I looked up just before I drove off to check we’d shut the window) – when we came back they were open. This was dismissed by David and I as – well we must have remembered it wrong….

That night as we were chatting – he suddenly turned to me and moaned at me for telling him to shut up – something I definitely hadn’t done. He said a voice, not quite like mine – older and more female told him to be quiet. Again this was ascribed to imagination by both of us. But the next night (when we were feeling a little more nervous) I felt someone touch my arm, blaming David. However David was on the wrong side of me and would have had to lean across me to reach me. Since we were the only two people in the room and the light was on in the hall (it was impossible for someone else to get in without it being obvious) – I started to get a little nervous – basically hiding in my sleeping bag. The only other thing that night was that we both felt a drop in temperature in the room.

The next morning we asked about the room (which was nicer than the other room in use) and were told that they didn’t use it much because their grandmother had died in there – the bed had been disposed of because they didn’t feel very happy about using it but the rest of the furniture had remained.

The final thing didn’t happen in that room (because we refused to sleep in it). I went to the loo. It took me about 5 minutes; I had been before (!) I walked up the flight of stairs from the hall by the kitchen to the corridor upstairs and into the loo. I went to the loo, washed my hands, walked downstairs and into the kitchen where-upon everyone said “Where the hell have you been?”. I looked puzzled, said I’d only been gone looked at my watch and swore – about half an hour had passed since I’d left…apparently they’ed called for me and assumed I must have gone to sleep….

I was leaving the next day – something which I was very pleased about. I had a great holiday – but the house is freaky. So now I believe in ghosts – something which is at odds with my scientific views but, well I don’t care.

Anyway – I should sleep now, since it’s 23:57.29 and I’ve got work tomorrow…..

TTFN, ATL&W….;

Kate XX

16 Sep 1999, 01:43.28

Okay – done job things, got an e-mail for Adam….time to brag about my girlfriend again…..sorry.

I was just sitting here thinking how lucky I am….she’s just wonderful to me….we both worry chronically about being self-centred….which is I suppose quite funny….

The thing is – and why I feel so lucky is she keeps saying “it’s nothing anyone else wouldn’t do”. For a start she’s comfortable, neigh happier with Kate than “Kato”, which is something I’m so grateful for it’s defies language. She shaves my legs, warms up my “chest”, massages my back (with moisturiser), paints my nails, she give’s me a my little pony (because apparently every girl should have a my little pony (erm, it’s lovely darling….)), she does her own research (and want’s to know what makes me tick), puts up with my bookshop obsession…..she reminds me that I’m about to go out as Kate and am I sure that I want to…. She is something very special.

She’s so open hearted it’s fantastic and I love her lots. She may be distant in physical space but she’s very close mentally…..and she gave me Gromit to hug in her absence…

Anyway – time to send some bit’s flying!

Love Kate….

16 Sep 1999, 00:51.47

Well from this I can say that it’s 3 days since Hannah went back, and I’m still missing her…… My parents are driving me nutty (they don’t bother me at all for hours then suddenly they manage to irritate me beyond belief). In some ways I’ve had a better day than I was expecting. Another shopping accident occured……No. Let’s start at the beginning!

First of all we moved some fish down from our house (a small seasonal river flows through our garden; no it’s not a mansion – 2 small bedrooms, 1 larger bedroom, lounge, front room/entrance room/ not sure what it is, kitchen/dining room and a bathroom) – anyway – every year hundreds of little fish (fry) end up stuck in fast drying puddles of water outside our door – so we scoop them out and shunt them 3 miles down-stream where the river flows much longer….

So, saving fish was quite cool – but for some reason I had no enthusiasm for the day – you know when you just feel really apathetic. Anyway – after hours of moaning from my mum I went into Newbury (ah, a location!) – and mooched around. Being very very good I ignored the Telephoto lens doublers that were in the camera shop window….calling to me, saying:

And I resolved not to spend any money….then still feeling miserable I wandered into Waterstones (bookshop). Bugger *grin*. I can’t help myself. It’s my one vice, well that and strappy tops. And maybe chocolate sauce ;-)

Anyway I walked out £7 less rich. But a lot happier – ‘cos the bloke on the till likes Sara Paretsky novels too….and recommended some other reading (okay maybe it’s his job to flog books but he was genuinely friendly and it cheered me up no end).

Then I went to the job agency – who were excellent – so the cash flow situation might improve just a smidgen…..even if it does mean getting up @ 5.30am 3 days out of 9 – still I knock off at 2pm, so that’s not too bad. 6 days on, 3 days off…..that’s 1/3 of the year off….but I need the money….still 3 months payed employment will be handy.

Anyway – I’m going to write some e-mails to my neglected friends – and then it’s time for bed. Well more accurately it’s time for bed now. But sod sleeping……I think.

Oh yes and now I (Kate) have sorted out so I have my own sig….

Have fun! Kate….

13 Sep 1999, 15:03.37

Well, Hannah (the S.O.) went home yesterday – and I miss her dreadfully. She spent just over a week down here while my parents were on holiday – and I have managed to be myself almost all the time (except for shopping and a few other odds and ends).

I’ve got to put myself away as it were in preparation for my parents arrival – so all the clothes scattered around my room (currently including bras, strappy tops, skirts, and knickers) will be popped back in their box and neatly put away.

This is going to be harder than before because I have become so comfortable over the last two weeks – especially since the S.O. bought me a “chest” – to replace the foodbags full of water (a little less than ½ a pint makes a fairly reasonable B cup – make sure you remove the air) which had been driving both of us insane with their rustling. Being of asian decent it’s a little difficult to get the correct colouration, but these are not intended to be seen by anyone ‘cept Hannah anyway – so it doesn’t matter. And they are a damn sight more comfortable and warm than the water (hint two for water – use boiled water (allowed to cool) then heat them on a hot water bottle!).

I’ve put up my story (chapter one of it anyway) so I can now be scared stiff about the responses. It’s not the traditional T* story in that it’s not particularly about being T*….it’s more about ordinary lives.

I’ve also put up a “contact page” and so I can now be told how bad this site is.

What else. I finished putting up the porch; I went to see Micky Blue Eyes at the local cinema – which was cool. Predictable but enjoyable – and our Mr Grant did not stammer too much…..

Apart from that I’ve started to get more – shall we say – florid in descriptions of my experience (job wise). Not lying – just writing in such a way as to allow multiple interpretations of the sentances – the most obvious not nessacarily being accurate. I’m fed up of being told I don’t have the 2000 years experience in a commercial environment….Aledgedly there’s a skills shortage – but if they won’t employ me until I’ve got commercial experience how am I meant to get it?

Sorry, moan over.

The computers also playing up – but then it has been on for days without a break – that may not sound much but – it needs a 9″ desk fan to keep it cool enough to work (it has that many drives in it) – so several days without a crash (requiring a reset) is pretty good. But one of my macro inserters is now just going splut and the browser keeps complaining about undefined font handles (comes from S24’s habit of resetting my machine to the system font). Okay. Time to tidy and do job apps…..fun fun fun.

Missing SO. Bugger.

Love Kate

07 Sep 1999, 15:37.35

Ha, fixed it. (see earlier entry for explanation).

07 Sep 1999, 14:18.45

Oooh, daytime and I’m writing something….but since the SO is looking we’ll leave the rest until she’s not around *grin*.

Anyway, a relaxing week of:

1. My parents being away
2. The SO Being here
3. Gorgeous weather

means that I’ve been out and about quite a bit….making it harder to put myself away when the parents come back (BTW for information I’m 21, living at home while looking for employment and the parents are (hopefully) not going to be informed until I can saunter away to give them time to chill out if ness.). Anyway – it’s been great fun – and theres more yet….

Apart from that, I’ve managed to put the Hannah’s bit up on the SO’s page…which is one of the most touching things I’ve read. Ahhh, she’s all sleepy on the bed….

There’s lots more, but we don’t want her to see it before it goes up, so I’ll wait until she’s gone. However the depressing news it that she’s off up north, and thus visits will be less frequent than they have been.

Also – I’m still thinking it’s time to fix the links bar which has been broken since I “improved” it.

Oh yes and I GOT TO MEET ELASTICA!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH! Signed EP box. Wooo HOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Cool or what??? And they played for ~1Hr. Loved the new stuff, still love the old stuff. The EP’s currently being played to death by me…..so that’s cooooool.

Anyhow. I’m going to have a shower ‘cos my Sis is coming and we need to get cleaned up having cleaned up the house……

07 Sep 1999, 15:37.35

Ha, fixed it. (see earlier entry for explanation).

07 Sep 1999, 14:18.45

Oooh, daytime and I’m writing something….but since the SO is looking we’ll leave the rest until she’s not around *grin*.

Anyway, a relaxing week of:

1. My parents being away
2. The SO Being here
3. Gorgeous weather

means that I’ve been out and about quite a bit….making it harder to put myself away when the parents come back (BTW for information I’m 21, living at home while looking for employment and the parents are (hopefully) not going to be informed until I can saunter away to give them time to chill out if ness.). Anyway – it’s been great fun – and theres more yet….

Apart from that, I’ve managed to put the Hannah’s bit up on the SO’s page…which is one of the most touching things I’ve read. Ahhh, she’s all sleepy on the bed….

There’s lots more, but we don’t want her to see it before it goes up, so I’ll wait until she’s gone. However the depressing news it that she’s off up north, and thus visits will be less frequent than they have been.

Also – I’m still thinking it’s time to fix the links bar which has been broken since I “improved” it.

Oh yes and I GOT TO MEET ELASTICA!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH! Signed EP box. Wooo HOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Cool or what??? And they played for ~1Hr. Loved the new stuff, still love the old stuff. The EP’s currently being played to death by me…..so that’s cooooool.

Anyhow. I’m going to have a shower ‘cos my Sis is coming and we need to get cleaned up having cleaned up the house……

25 Aug 1999, 01:38.08

Well, I thought it was about time I put this to some use….

Ha, in my brain is that:

1. I really should get some sleep.
2. I hate anyone who says “we’ll give you an interview”, and then says “ooops, you’re actually on the reserve list”. Its irritating, depressing, and very very unprofessional. That goes out to QA Miriad.
3. I miss my girlfriend

However since this site first appeared some cool things have happened. My girlfriend got the chance to meet me (as in Kate as opposed to my “male” self). Not only that; she didn’t laugh or make fun of me or tell me I was a pervert. Infact she was/is perfect. She’s even bought me some clothes. Sorry to brag, but I just didn’t expect anything. The best I dared hope for was acceptance – but she likes me. Cool.

I’m still searching for a job designing web-sites; why not visit the upcoming Vision Web Design site….!. See I can do sexy/cool/graphicsy/what people want type sites.

My male self is off to Reading Festival….so that’ll be cool. I’m meeting up with some friends from Uni, and we can go and watch ELASTICA play. I never thought I’d see that. Hoped, yes – but really believed – no.

What else? Well that’s about it. I went to see Austin Powers II, (i.e. the spy that shagged me). STOP READING HERE IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN AUSTIN POWERS II!!!!! The really fake looking sets just bugged me, the use of american countryside was irritating – and the phone boxes looked wrong (picky – but hey – I’m picky; so what). The Fat Basturd character was pointless – however the Jerry Springer stuff was cool, the film was amusing, but I could see the ending about 7 miles away and I would have definately been disapointed if I’d have paid full wack at a big “brand” cinema (Odeon/Virgin) as opposed to my groovy, £2 cheaper local cinema….

Okay – time to upload this baby!

TTFN, love Kate…..

28^th March 2002, 14:37.

Lets try that again shall we? This time without Zap crashing….I forgot that the HTML highlighter doesn’t like new files. I don’t know why. Never sorted it out – it never gave me that much grief.

It’s okay, iirc, if you save a file and then re-open it.

Anyway, so, I’ve been using this RiscPC and I have this horrible feeling I’m being sucked into the RISC OS scene again. Okay, so, I’m unlikely to spend much or even any money. Not least because I don’t actually have any money, but I’ve remembered how much I like RISC OS.

The fact that stuff like this: KinoAMP and (see the WIP section) are appearing – and thus actually making the machine remotely useable for everyday stuff again…

It’s amazing – they’re squeezing the RiscPC until it’s chips squeek. So, this one’s got an X Server and SSH client. If they do ever re-write WebsterXL in C so it’s both fast and a reasonable webbrowser then this machine will actually become very usable.

I could do with a tad more VRam also….of course, there is this. But 1k? for a RISC OS machine? Do they realise what kind of PC I could get for that?! Or for that matter how much Mac that would buy? 1k, no vat and no monitor! Not even a 14″ monitor (who’d sell a PC with a 14″ monitor).

Which planet are these people on?! And then you see this….archived news article from 2000 and you realise just how delayed everything is. RISC OS 4.5 due out in Summer 2001? We’ve just seen RISC OS 4.01…

Anyway, onto real stuff, I’m gonna stop wittering about undead operating systems now…

So, I’ve updated the MZ rebuild page, although it’s now going to be a tad slow on modems. Okay, it takes a minute and a half to load. I’ll fix that in the next update.

Perhaps I should update the site’s version number. I mean, we’ve got to be at 7.3 or 4 by now. It’s had so many minor tweaks. Perhaps it’s more 7.1.4. So, anyway, I went down to, well, up to the Temping agency and signed up there….I need the cash! *sigh*. I really *hate* starting new jobs, and temping is probably going to be hell on a stick, but I’m doing it for the time being anyway. I really need to be able to pay for the bike’s insurance, and the petrol, for that matter, and my credit card bill. And rent. I’ve not paid rent since January….

So…

We got the 251 going….that was quite impressive…

It’s only stood for a year. And siezed. And stood in a garden for a year or two before that….

After filling the entire street with smoke from burning plusgas we managed to get it down to a slightly more sensible level of smoking….

[Break to put throttle assembly back together]

Right, that’s the 251 going properly. it needs two parts to be complete, or 1 part to be complete and a few replaced to be a really nice (that’s the bar end and the ignition system).

So, anyway. I’ve just spent the last few hours with Amy online…because Amy has taken it upon herself to add comments to this page. And thanks to Amy and Peter (at least, I think that’s the peter involved) – we’ve got it working on my machine :-)

So, now you can add comments and all tell me what a lazy cow I am.

And having got the comment code written by Amy, I’m going to rip off some survey’s from her diary:

Survey pinched Amy, pinched from sanjibabes pinched from katyha pinched f…

1. What facial feature do you find the most attractive on others? Eyes.
2. Would you vote for a woman candidate for president? Of course!
3. Would you marry for money? No
4. Have you had braces? No
5. Do you pluck your eyebrows? No, but I probably should (see)
6. Do you ever cut or hurt yourself? I’ve never cut myself, I don’t deliberately injure myself anymore.
7. When was the last time you had a hickey? *cough* no comment
8. Could you live without a computer? Yeah, I’ve still got my cuddly rabbit. (You won’t get that unless you went to uni with me)
9. Do you use ICQ, AOL Buddy list etc…? Not anymore, not online so much.
10. If so, how many people are on your list(s)? Used to have about 20.
11. If you could live in any past time period, which would it be? Hrm, I dunno. I’d probably fit into a slightly earlier time frame than I exist in.
12. Do you drink enough water? More or less.
13. Do you wear shoes in the house or take them off? Off – normally. Unless I’m just popping in, or if I’m in someone’s house where they hide the shoes and I don’t know where to put them
14. What is your favorite fruit? Tangerine, or Cox Orange Pippin apples.
15. Do you eat wheat bread or white? Either/Both/Neither
16. What is your favorite place to visit? Scotland, probably. I’ve not been everywhere yet, so it’s hard to say.
17. What is the last movie you saw? Austin Powers 2
18. Do you kiss on the first date? Yes, maybe, depends.
19. Are you photogenic? No
20. Do you dream in color or black and white? Colour! Damnit, Colour has a U in it!
21. Are you wearing fingernail polish? Not right now, haven’t done for a while. Probably will at some point again.
23. Do you have any dimples? Err, yes. But they’re not cute.
24. Do you remember being born? nope
25. Why do you take surveys? Boredom. Space filler. Who knows ;-)
26. Do you drink alcohol? Yeah, I try not to drink to excess. At least not too often.
27. Did you like or do you like high school? no
28. What is the most beautiful language? I dunno. I love Russian though.
29. When you are asleep do you like being kissed awake? Definately
30. Do you like sunrises or sunsets the most? Both equally.
31. Do you want to live to be 100? No, definately not. I don’t want to live beyond the age of being able to take care of myself.
32. Do you think women should be expected to shave their body hair? ‘s up to the woman who’s body it is, as far as I’m concerned.
33. Do you like salty food or sugary food the most? Sugary
34. Is a flat stomach important to you? Yes. I am working on it…
35. Do you or have you played with a ouija board? No
36. Are you loyal? Yes
37. Are you tolerant of other people’s beliefs? Yes. Unless they’re claming something innacurate about me.
38. When you watch movies at home, do you like the lights on or off? Off
39. Do you believe in magic? Depends what you mean.
40. Do you have nightmares frequently? Not so much now.
41. Do you like your nose? It’s okay. kinda nose like really.
42. Do you like abstract art? Some of it.
43. Do you think you can draw well? No, I can do technical drawing though :-)
44. Do you listen to music daily? Yep
45. Do you like to watch cartoons? Yep
46. At what age did you find out that Santa Claus wasn’t real? I can’t remember. Age 7 or before.
47. How many pairs of shoes do have in your closet? Shoes? Specifically shoes…erm, about, 2. Boots, well, there’s the bike boots and the green boots, and the black ones, and the knee-high black ones and….
48. Do you like to wear the same shoes everyday or do you like a variety? I tend to wear either the bike boots or the green ones. Unless I need to be really neat.
49. Do you write poetry? Not often. Okay once. Be grateful.
50. Do you snore? I don’t think so. Not when I’m awake.
51. Do you sleep more on your back, front, or sides? Front or Sides. I can’t sleep on my back it makes my back hurt.
52. Would you rather have a poodle or a rottweiler? Neither.
53. Do you lick stamps? Well, not the new non-licky ones, no.
54. Do you use an electric can opener? Nope, never have either. Manual can-openers for me! Or an angle grinder…
55. Have you ridden in a hot air balloon? Not that I remember
56. Which hurts the most, physical or emotional pain? Emotinal pain is the worst.
57. Do you think balding men should shave their heads? Balding is fine, it’s the comb-over…ick!
58. Do you know anyone who is clinically depressed? Yes
59. Do you prefer a piano or a violin? Piano
60. Are you a sex addict? Not yet.
61. Do you know someone who has cancer? Yes, sadly.
63. Do you hunt? Nope.
64. Do you like fast food joints, or expensive restaurants? Both
65. Would you rather visit a zoo or an art museum? Depends. On the Zoo and the Museum.
66. Do you have a middle name? What is it? Thiratne. No, no, it’s not pronounced like that. No. It’s Ti-rat-na. It’s Sri-Lankan.
67. Are you basically a happy person? Sometimes. Depends if I’ve shut up the little demons in my head.
68. Are you tired? Fairly
69. Did you drink anything with caffeine in it today? Coffee! The drink of life!
70. Have you ever met anyone off the internet? Well, yeah.
71. How many phones do you have in your house? Err, there’s 2 handsets, 1 fax, 3 mobiles.
72. How long is your hair? Down past my shoulders
73. Do you get along with your parents? Yes, although they drive me spare after a while
74. What color of eyes do you prefer? I don’t really have a preference.
75. Are you a virgin? Hard to say.
76. What medications do you take? A few.
77. What does your bedroom look like? Chaos

And you think I’m stopping there?! Nooo. More! More Surveys! Yes.

1) Full Name: Katherine Thiratne Elliott
2) Name Backwards: Ttoille Entariht Enirehtak
3) Were you named after anyone? Originally yes, but not anymore.
4) Does your name mean anything? Katherine means erm, [looks it up] (Greek) Pure, Virginal. Thiratne has buddhist conotations.
5) Nick Name(s): KateE (and various other’s that are far too embaressing to list here)
6) Screen Name(s): KateE
7) Date Of Birth: 16 April 1978 (finest year on record that one :-)
8) Place of Birth: Watford, UK. (I know, I left as soon as I could!)
9) Nationality: British/European
10) Current Location: Bristol
11) Sign: Erm, sign? Hrm. No Entry.
12) Religion: Buddhist-ish
13) Height: 5’6″ ish.
14) Weight: 11stone, ish.
15) Shoe Size: European 39/40/41. (UK 6/7)
16) Hair color: Very dark brown. Some people think it’s black
17) Eye color: Black
18) What do you look like? I look like a Kate.
19) Innie or Outie? Innie
20) Righty, Lefty, or Ambidexterous? Right.
21) Gay, Straight, Bi, or Other? Bi (well ish).

Who Is Your…
22) Best friend(s): Ih god, I don’t know anymore. Lots of fantastic friends.
23) Best friend you trust more than anyone: See above
24) Best friends {your sex}: see above
25) Best friends of the Opposite Sex: Probably James, although I’ve not heard from him for a while.
26) Best Bud(s): err, what? Bloody americanisms.
27) Boyfriend / Girlfriend: L/J/R.
28) Crush: Oh god, loads.
29) Parent(s): Yes.
30) Worst Enemy: Tony Underhill of Kellaway Motorcycles. Evil thieving bast*rd.
32) Favorite on-line Girl(s): Amy
33) Funniest friend: James. Probably ‘cos he’s got the same sense of humour as me.
34) Craziest friend: Oh, I dunno. Anyone who likes me’s got to be nuts.
35) Advice Friend: Whoever I decide to talk to.
36) Loudest Friend: Jasmine on the 251 at 5k RPM
37) Person you cry with: J/L/R, or myself.

Do You Have…
38) Any sisters: 1
39) Any brothers: 0 (although one was born before me, he died).
40) Any pets: Yes, a cat.
41) A Disease: nope
42) A Pager: nope
43) A Personal phone line: 1
44) A Cell phone: 1
45) A Lava lamp: 1
46) A Pool or hot tub: no
47) A Car: Mog, Golf, and a motorbike.

Describe Your…
48) Personality: A mess
49) Driving: Swift
50) Car or one you want: Which one?
51) Room: Chaotic
52) is missing….so I get to write what I want? Trees.
53) School: I’ve left it.
54) Bed: Green
55) Relationship with your parent(s): good

Do You
56) Believe in yourself: No
57) Do you believe in love at first sight? Yes
58) Consider yourself a good listener: What was that?
59) Consider yourself a good friend: Sometimes
60) Get Along with your parents: Yes
61) Save your e-mail conversations: Yeah, I’ve even got them all the way back to uni…
62) Pray: No
63) Believe in reincarnation: Yes
64) Like to make fun of people: Yes, so long as they’re having fun.
65) Like to talk on the phone: Yes and no.

Do You…
67) Like to drive: Yeah, so long as it’s not busy
68) Get motion sickness: Not really. Not unless I’m being driven by someone who’s hopeless.
69) Eat the stems of broccoli: Try and avoid eating broccoli!
70) Eat Chicken fingers with a fork: Chickens don’t have fingers
71) Dream in color: Yes.
72) Type with your fingers on home row: No, but I do touchtype, sort of.
73) Sleep with a stuffed animal: Sometimes.

What Is/Are/Was…
74) Right next to you: Jasmine
75) On the walls of your room: Not much
76) On your mouse pad: Nothing.
77) Your dream car: Don’t really have one.
78) Your dream date:
79) Your dream honeymoon spot: That presupposes I can get married.
80) Your dream husband/wife: see 79
81) Your bedtime: When I’m tired
82) Under your bed: The old mattress
83) The single most important question: Where’s the tea?
84) Your bad time of the day: When the little box in my brain opens and all the little demons pop out for a good brain-kicking
85) Your worst fear(s): I don’t think I’m gonna touch this one. I’m with Amy
86) The weather is like: It’s dark, I dunno, that’d mean actually going outside. Cold.
87) The time? 22:04
88) The date? 28th of March
89) The best trick you ever played on someone: Swapping two doors…
90) The weirdest food or drink that you like: Silverskin onions, picked.
91) Theme Song: Probably best not to comment
92) The hardest thing about growing up: feeling fucked up due to body incompatability. Again, with Amy.
93) Your funniest experience: Don’t know.
94) Your scariest moment: Telling my parents about me.
95) The silliest thing you’ve said : many ‘a thing
96) The funniest or most desperate thing you’ve done to get the attention of the opposite sex? : Never really tried to attract the opposite sex.
97) The scariest thing that’s ever happened while with your friend(s): Dunno
98) The worst feeling in the world: skip.
99) The best feeling in the world: Being with people I care about
100) The present the reader of this survey will get if they meet the author in the next six months : a hug

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Kate E

Comments:

 
Kate E at Thu Mar 28 23:49:20 2002 said:

Test Comment

Kate E at Thu Mar 28 23:57:17 2002 said:

Cor blimey, it works. And the clock on my PC is wildly wrong.

Peter at Thu Mar 28 23:59:41 2002 said:

* peter did nuffink

Jas at Fri Mar 29 00:46:36 2002 said:

Loud at 5k revs? You should hear it at 8…

Jordax at Fri Mar 29 01:23:10 2002 said:

Coo! Now I’m really impressed! It’s a small box that blanks people’s minds! No, really. I just clicked the link and I got this white box with “Comment:” above it, and my mind just went totally blank..!

at Fri Mar 29 02:42:17 2002 said:

it makes my eyes go wide or sumthing

Kate E at Fri Mar 29 13:50:52 2002 said:

And now I’ve tweaked it so that it won’t screw up the page formatting when there are long comments. I hope.

 

amy at Fri Mar 29 16:13:06 2002 said:

> 85) Your worst fear(s): I don’t think I’m gonna touch this one. I’m with Amy

You know, I could almost take that as a bad thing. Anyway, yay! This thing actually do work! Go me! And yes peter, you helped us with the SSI thingy, well, at least confirmed that we were on the right way.

 

Kate E at Wed Apr 3 19:08:22 2002 said:

I think I’ve managed to break it…

 

Kate E at Wed Apr 3 19:09:38 2002 said:

Okay, I’ve not managed to break it on this page, but I have on another one….Garargh.

 

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