Burning money
Filed under: General - Mark @ 7:52 am
This apartment is difficult to heat. It has 5 different rooms (not unusual), each with its own door to close the area off (brilliant), but each room is incredibly cold, especially in the mornings (and the huge window in the living room without curtains doesn’t help keep the heat in either).
So to help counter this, I’ve set up a heater on a time to turn on at 7am in the bedroom, so that by the time I wake up at 7.30 it’s nice and toasty in here. And it works! Brilliantly! The problem occurs when I then leave said toasty bedroom into the rest of the chilly house. Still, I can always come back and spend some more time in bed 
I’m in!
Filed under: General - Mark @ 5:35 pm
Well, I officially moved out today. I spent last night packing, and Dad and I moved all my stuff over today. Man I have had a lot of junk. Threw out heaps and heaps of stuff, and left 3/4 of my wardrobe because its too small or never gets worn.
So the computer desk and computer is set up (of course), clothes are unpacked, the rest of the shit can probably stay in its box until its needed. Then if I don’t use it before next time we move, it’ll be easier to chuck 
Almost there
Filed under: General - Mark @ 10:19 pm
Well I think the list of “to buy” items for the apartment is all ticked off. We ordered our couch on the weekend, bought an Ikea dining table with two chairs, and the interwebs is all connected. The VoIP phone works well, we’ve got more heaters than you can poke a stick at, the fridge is stocked and the tax returns are on their way.
So, this coming weekend, I think I’ll be moving the rest of my belongings over into the 2nd bedroom
Catnip Playthings
Filed under: General - Mark @ 8:02 am
I finally learned the other day what Catnip is. I’m always seeing references to it on ICHC but I’ve never heard of it before. Apparently it’s because Australian cats are all from the same gene pool! Hence why I’ve never heard of it.
Anyway they have funny looking (but cute) cats in Japan. Or china. Or whichever asian country this photo came from:
Gotta love Sydney
Filed under: General - Mark @ 2:23 pm
Gotta love Sydney drivers, probably the only place I know where you get yelled at for doing the right thing, obeying the road rules, and giving way to the right on a roundabout.
Popes need not apply
Filed under: General - Mark @ 11:44 am
Can you believe it, MSN Messenger is giving away free condoms:
I wonder if they’ll have to stop it during World Youth Day (week), seeing as how it’s now illegal to offer condoms to catholics?
Oh noes
Filed under: General - Mark @ 2:33 pm
Well, Ange’s Mum has offered to sell us her 2004 Peugot 206 at about half its market value, which is a very kind offer from her. Because I’d be kinda crazy not to take it up, I’ve decided to sell my commodore. But not quite.
See, I love my car. I’m quite attached to it. I know that if I sell it, time will pass and all will be well again. And the Peugot will be a great car (assuming nothing on it goes wrong). But it’s still not the same. So I’m going to sell my car, but I’m not going to try very hard. I’ve put a sign in the window whilst I think about it a bit more, that way if someone wants to buy it I’ll sell it to them, but the chances are (I thought) slim.
So the sign has been in the window for ohhh… four hours, and I haven’t driven the car anywhere at all, and I’ve already had a call. I’ve advertised it for $10,000, and I’ll settle for 9k (I haven’t decided if that 9k includes the wheels yet), but it looks like selling it might not be as hard as I’d thought.
iiNet upgrade
Filed under: General - Mark @ 9:13 pm
It would seem this has been offered to all iiNet users, but it still makes me happy. iiNet have gone and upped the Naked DSL plan that I signed up for to increase the peak usage quota. I was hoping this was their form of apology for screwing up the application, but any bonus I’m not going to complain about.
iiNet redeem themselves (sorta)
Filed under: General - Mark @ 4:23 pm
After ANOTHER call and two more emails to iiNet (and a phone call to a grumpy Telstra lady), I finally get an email stating that that there WAS an error made during my application because the address checked did not match the physical address, and I can in fact get Naked DSL with no worries.
Fuck them
Filed under: General - Mark @ 8:44 pm
I really hate to bad-mouth a company that I’ve had a fairly good relationship with over the years, but iiNet just aren’t trying any more. Nobody at iiNet could tell me what exchange they believed I am attached to, but they’re happy to tell me that it’s not enabled. Well, of course it’s not enabled if I’m not connected to an exchange. But it IS on an exchange, and ALL the exchanges in our area are enabled. So I just don’t understand. They tried to tell me that “Maybe you’re on a sub-exchange”. If so, fair enough, but why is it a “Maybe” - why can’t anyone give me a definate answer?!
In the past few years their quality of service has gone down hill, badly. And not only that, here I am trying to GIVE THEM $70/month for the next however many years!
Liars
Filed under: General - Mark @ 11:14 am
iiNet are trying to tell me that I can’t get ADSL2+ (and thus Naked DSL) at our new apartment because our exchange aint ADSL2 enabled. Which is crap because I put in the phone number for our neighbour and they CAN get ADSL2 because we’re on the Eastwood exchange. Bah humbug, now I’m going to have to argue with them.
Making a home
Filed under: General - Mark @ 7:38 am
Ange and I (Well, mostly ange) have been setting up our new place. It’s a fun process. Mind you, we’ve got shatloads of ancillery things, like coffee table, entertainment unit, tv, surround sound, more bakewear than you can poke a stick at, but we don’t have the most important things - bed, couch, saucepans A bed is coming though.
The louge room is going to be a tight squeeze if we want to get everything in there. The dining table is going to have to be tiny, and the coffee table is now so close to the entertainment unit that there’s only just enough room to open the doors & walk past. I think the coffee table will be doubling as a foot rest.
I’m had good fun setting up the surround sound yesterday, and hopefully I’m going to have a much fun doing the study in a few weeks time, when I finally move in. If only I had remembered to bring the tiny tiny little adapter that allowed me to plug the antenna in to the wall socket yesterday… still, I’m sure we’ll end up back at there today.
Angela has met two of our three neighbours, they both seem very nice. One young asian couple next door and a young indian couple down stairs. The othe person is a shift worker, so we might not see much of them. Also, there only seems to be two other cars to owners, and there’s six car spaces, which means that fortunately we don’t have to worry about parking all the time. Not sure if we can park two cars there yet, but I don’t think we’ll want to anyway because we can only get onto Victoria Road going west from where we live anyway.
Yayayayayayayayayayyayayayayayayayayyayay
Filed under: General - Mark @ 12:35 pm
Ange and I finally have a place to live!!! It’s in West Ryde, a quite convenient location. Admittedly not AS convenient as Westmead but who gives a shit, it’s still pretty damn good. And it’s UNDER our initial budget as well. AND the real estate agent is nice! Yayayayayayayayay
Something amazing
Filed under: General - Mark @ 10:07 pm
Wanna know something really weird? I hopped out of my car today after arriving home, and I hear something fall to the ground. I pick it up - low and behold, it’s my memory stick that I lost FOUR years ago!!!! Where the HELL did it come from? Was it hiding in my car? My bag? My shirt? In fact I probably had this shirt four years ago. I know I had the car and the laptop bag. Very. Very. Weird.
Sometimes I’m so immature
Filed under: General - Mark @ 11:51 am
Unfortunate place name #244: Bald Knob. I am way too scared to google that town name at work to see what else is out there…
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