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05/23/2002 Archived Entry: “Home….”
So, yesterday I went back to my parents for the day (fairly common with me, I go back a lot of weekends). Anyway, I got some wonderful news, my dads primary tumour has shrunk “a bit”. With the chemo therapy working on the secondaries and his own immune system starting to work on the primary tumour it really gives me some hope.
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05/21/2002 Archived Entry: “Knackered….”
I’ve done an incredible amount of walking today – so much that I can’t actually be bothered to fix the configuration problem with the comment posting stuff. Just want to sleep. Considering bath and bed right now.
I’m also feeling significantly more broke. 300 quid on a service, a new distributor and 2 new tyres. I don’t know why they did the 6k mile service instead of the 3k mile service, probably sensible given the car’s just been on the road after 7 years off, but still.
And I just had a look at my bank account. Boy am I screwed (this is not a joke by the way). I *have* to get some work *now*. Only there’s a problem with that – I don’t have a job. I’ve not heard anything from this agency – which is annoying. I guess it’s literally go out and do something shitty.
I was hoping to go out and do courier work after my bike test, indeed that may be what I do – but if I fail then it’ll be courier work in a van. Woohoo. ‘cos I’m not doing supermarket checkout/shop work. And it seems that office work is a little thin on the ground.
I really shouldn’t have bought the magazine today. I shouldn’t have bought *anything* today.
Crap, crap, crap. I really didn’t expect it to be so much.
My mum even commented on my ‘run of bad luck’ today – Monitor dead, car damaged, car broke down, no jobs…..*sigh*. I think I might just go and flake out. Skip bath, go straight to bed.
I know I’m tired and that’s making things seem worse than they are. Incidentally, I’ve reinstalled licq – but I’ve got a new UIN. So if you want it, give me a shout….
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New UIN? Didn’t know you had an old one, but, gimme!
And I’ve changed the layout of my site again, you inspired me :)
Posted by amy @ 05/22/2002 11:22 AM GMT
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05/20/2002 Archived Entry: “Ramble…”
Well, this is just a rambly entry ‘cos I’m bored, slightly drunk and tired….
I’m also amazed – it seems like everyone actually likes the new look. I’ve not yet had a bad comment about it, well, one person doesn’t like the lessthan/greater than signs around the links, but, well, I do – so that’s tough. :-)
It must be said that I’m all in favour of this new diary entry system – much less hastle for me – although today I found out why so many people have livejournals – even people with their own websites (with diarys on their websites). It’s ‘cos people who have livejournals with “private” sections can’t – it would appear – just make random people “friends” (one would have assumed some sort of login/password thing would allow that – but that, obviously, wouldn’t make them money).
Which is irritating, because there’s (at least) one person who has said “if you’ve got a lj I’ll make you a ‘friend’ so you can see the ‘private’ entries”. So I’m left in the irritating position of one who wants to see this stuff but would have to get a live journal to do it. *grrr*
Tired…
With some assistance we won, although it turns out that our printer has a number of faults, so I’ll be RMAing it’s arse tomorrow – although I’m considering visiting the parental units tomorrow.
It seems that my bodies tendancy to awake at 8:something regardless of how much sleep I’ve had has caught me out today. Although I can often doze back off after that it’s never as effective as actually sleeping properly. *mutter*. Dune’s on Sci-Fi right now – normally I’d quite fancy watching Dune, but I really wasn’t in the mood yesterday and thus don’t really feel like watching it today. Also this big wave of tiredness has overcome me. I think spending a day ranting at printers has really taken it out of me more than I’d expect it to. Still, got the order shipped on time, thanks to Lauren.
[Tries to stay awake]
I just noticed there’s a bunch of infighting going on on one of the Acorn news site…on a show report?! It’s just insane – I wonder if the reviewer commented on not seeing any of the new hardware at the show….
Not that I’m saying it doesn’t exist. I believe that the prototype Omega exists….I wonder if they’ve called it that to confused people who’ve heard of Amiga…. ;-)
I had that urge again. I want a school reunion. I want to show them that I’m not a complete fuckup. I have visions of pulling up in the Morris Minor – they should all recognise that – in my purple dress (of which there is not yet a photo), with (any one of) my partner(s)…well, that’s as far as I’ve got. But that’s the kind o thing…Anyway…I’m off to IRC for a bit
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ooh, lookie here:
Error Notice
Can’t open the mail program at /usr/lib/postfix. Please make sure you have this configured correctly.
Your diary told me that when sending the comment, and prolly this comment will say the same
Posted by amy @ 05/21/2002 01:46 PM GMT
That was my reason for getting a LJ. Or actually, it was more to get the friendspage since I realised that I read 5 or 6 different LJs, and getting them on one page was a lot more convinient.
Posted by amy @ 05/21/2002 01:45 PM GMT
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05/20/2002 Archived Entry: “*sigh*”
So, in the last few days let’s see what’s gone wrong:
Would anything else like to go wrong?
One good thing did happen today though, I got an e-mail from James, which made me smile….
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05/19/2002 Archived Entry: “Wheee….”
So, I’ve been tweaking this website on and off for a few weeks now, and it’s coming up to launch date. I’ve got through the first few directories of things – and so far as far as I know only Peter and Amy have seen it. Amy’s helped me tweak it a bit – so it should be at least reasonably lovely.
Of course, with me doing this there’ll be no new diary entries on the old in my brain section – which should confuse people. But anyway.
I was going to rant, but I’ll save it for later….
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Hee hee… another Greymatter diarist. The whole “look” is good too.
Posted by Alyssa Palin @ 05/25/2002 12:31 PM GMT
Well done Kate – it looks good, and it works in lynx :-)
Posted by Peter @ 05/20/2002 07:18 AM GMT
17th May 2002, 01:08.
You know it’s really annoying to have bits of my new website there and
working. I kind of want to show people what it’s going to look like – but it’s
not ready yet. So you’ll have to wait. It’s all tedious stuff now – y’know,
doing the extracting of the page content from the old pages and adding it to the
new ones….
Anyway, it’s been a while so:
You love to be pampered and romanced by your men and things like cuddling by
a fire, having an intimate meal, or having a long, deep conversation can always
put you in the mood. Sex to you is usually more about the man your with than the
act itself. Not a one-night stand kind of girl, newness and disconnectedness
just don’t do it for you. The mature, stable men you prefer to date appreciate
your loyalty and big heart, but they especially love the way you inspire their
more aggressive, protective masculine side.
And…
(Don’t worry, there’s more diary entry further down…)
So, I spent the day shopping. Yes, yes, I know I’m already broke but I’d
reached the point where my only remaining pair of leggings was unwearably
hole-y, and since that’s what I wear most of the time.
Also, my unfeasibly short tennis/teeshirt dress was, well, unfeasibly short.
It was short when I bought it in 1998, but after a few washes it’s shrunk.
Apparently you could see my underwear – and apparently (number 2) that’s a bad
thing ;-)
So, anyway, I went off to spain.
No, not really, I think I’m a bit tired for doing this.
I went down to Brizzle city centre with Lauren and attempted to track down
some leggings and some sort of replacement dress.
Having visted my usual haunts (I’m broke, so I tend to go to crap shops. Also
crap shops tend to do just plain leggings with no logos, and no faffing) -I was
shocked to discover that they appear to have outlawed leggings and tennis
dresses. This is the only explanation for it. Only one shop had a blackmarket
supply of leggings. Yes folks I was reduced to British…no, no, I can’t say
it…..
And the same place also had, yes, a decent dress.
So, that was me satisfied – we actually spent quite a nice day just
meandering around Bristol city centre.
Of course my problem is – there’s lots of things I want. I know in my heart
they won’t make me any happier – but I hate wandering around book shops and
sci-fi shops, and frankly around clothes shops and knowing that it doesn’t
matter what I want – I can’t really afford to buy it.
*sigh*
Need money to pay bills this month – which means going and hastling the
agency again. Which is less fun than it could be.
Anyway. I dunno. My moods been all screwy the last few days. I’ve been in one
of those “want to do something but know not what” kind of moods. I also keep
not-going-jogging – and I’ve not been swimming for ages – which I also want to
do.
*Mutter*
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Kate E
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15th May 2002, 15:27.
Everybody has a novel in them, some people like that novel so much they
publish it twice.
The further I got into the book I’ve just been reading the more and more I
could see the other book of hers I’d read. And by about 3/4 of the way through I
was reading not because I wanted to see how it turned out (exactly as I
expected, sadly) but just to see if I was right about it.
And thinking about it afterwards I can see more and more scenes which are
essentially lifted from one book and put into another. The other book had the
advantage of being at least a bit more polished. This one I really ploughed
through the first part because the previous book I’d read was, well, better.
I think that if you read one of her books then, once you’re past the
tedious bit where she sets up the characters – which in this book particularly I
had to struggle to get through – ‘cos it just seemed to go on and on, without
developing the plot at all – then, if you like crime thrillers then you’ll enjoy
it. However, reading two of them isn’t a good idea.
Incidentally, I’m not saying that I could do any better, because from
previous experiance I quite clearly can’t. But it’s just annoying to find that
someone’s done that.
Anyway.
So, my bike test is booked for the week after next, the training is booked
and paid for, the mog is booked in for a service, the webserver has been
reconfigured to start on startup (cheers to Rachel for that one). My mail is
working. My website is running.
All is well with the world for the time being….
Anyway. Oh, and some of the underlying stuff for the new site is in place.
Mwuhahahahaha.
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Kate E
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05/14/2002 Archived Entry: “Quick test”
So, here’s a quick test before we redo the style
14th May 2002, 13:05.
So, some of you probably noticed that yesterday my machine went down for a
bit – it actually went down for a OS upgrade. What with my machine being
horribly screwed in so many, many ways, I decided that we’d bung a nice new
shiny linux install on – that and the fact that a new version of SuSE was out.
So. All the backing up was done. – On the 10th of May I’d burned a backup
disk, yesterday I backed up my mail and shutdown the very screwed SuSE 7.2/7.3
hybrid that had been residing on my machine.
30 minutes later, or there abouts I got to the X config and *SPLAT*. Yes, the
installer still didn’t like my graphics card. The aged FireGL struck again and
destroyed that install – because unlike the SuSE 7.2 install which just carried
on after losing the graphics card this one didn’t.
So, Much swearing and a decision to go back to SuSE 7.3. No, that wouldn’t
fly either. Well, I didn’t really want to go all the way back to SuSE 7.2. So –
a decision was made. It was finally time to loose the FireGL card.
And at the same time I decided to replace the case – because the powersupply
in the old case had always been “a bit iffy” – and was possibly responsible for
the graphics quality problems I’d always had.
So. The decision was made. I went to PC World (yeah, yeah, I know).
Picked up a TNT2 and a new case, walked to the counter, found I couldn’t find
my purse. Drove home. Found purse in bag. Went to local shop to check prices.
Found they had a cheaper case but a vastly more expensive graphics card. Checked
the other local shop. They had a *very* cheap case (10 quid, ‘cos it was old
stock), and a reasonably price TNT2. Oookay.
Get case and card home. Open case. No drive carriers. None. Not one.
Return case. Go to other local shop. Find it’s staffed by an idiot. Try to explain
the concept of AT/ATX motherboards. Fail. Eventually manage to get out of him
that yes, some of the cases do have the alternate blanking plate for the back.
Manage to buy one when he manages to find a blanking plate.
Get home, open bursar. Discover that bursar is *revolting* and appears to
have sucked in the entirity of the paint/wallpaper dust removed from the walls.
The fan is completely covered in black fluff. The entire motherboard is grey
with dust.
Dissasemble bursar. Discover that the motherboard really doesn’t want
to come out of the case. Swear. Lots. Manage to force the motherboard out of the
case and remove the plastic standoffs. Mount board in new case.
Remove and clean processor fan. Put machine back together.
Discover that the processor fan is sickly, but still running. Install SuSE 8.
Be impressed by the amazing quality of the new graphics card compared to the old
one.
Spend hours trying to get DVD playback working (very nearly there, just a
*tad* slow).
Discover that virtually everything I expect isn’t installed as default
anymore and slowly work through installing it.
F*ck up mail configuration and thus lose 32 e-mails. They should all have
been bounced so at least people will know I didn’t get them.
Finally got everything sorted, bar the fact that Apache doesn’t start on
startup and I need a new processor fan at some point soon – not made easier by
the fact that the fan *only just* fits, because my motherboard is approximately
the size of a stamp.
Which brings us to now.
When I’m stopping for a bit.
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Kate E
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Peter at Tue May 14 13:30:25 2002 said:
But it’s working! Yay! :-)
Kate E at Tue May 14 13:31:42 2002 said:
Quick test after the upgrade…
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13th May 2002, 12:47.
Especially for peter….
This is an entry especially for peter, who’s
clearly very bored at work. I can tell this because he’s bemoaning the lack of
diary updates from me.
Well, here’s an update….I’ve not actually got anything to say, but maybe
it’ll give Peter something to do for a few
minutes :-)
[grin]
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Kate E
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Peter at Mon May 13 13:16:52 2002 said:
yay! *grins*
*hugs*
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