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Would you believe my dad sent me this one??

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A boy in his last year of primary school comes home after school one day. His mothernotices that he’s got a big smile on his face.

She asks, “Did anything special happen at school today?”

“Yes, Mum. I had sex with my English teacher!”

The mother is stunned. “You’re going to talk about this with your father
when he gets home.”

Well, when dad comes home and hears the news he is pleased as punch. Beaming with pride, he walks over to his son and says, “Son, I hear you had sex with your English teacher.”

“That’s right, Dad.”

“Well, you became a man today – this is cause for celebration. Let’s head
out for some ice cream, and then I’ll buy that new bike you’ve been asking for.”

“That sounds great, Dad, but can I have a beanbag instead? My arse is killing me…”

Hello there all

Thankyou for those who replied to my last post…. things haven’t been smooth due to circumstances rather than an issue with either one of us. In times past I would reveal all, but I have to consider Adam’s privacy too so I’m not about to transmit it on air.

Some compromises have been found, and the next few weeks I’m going to be really trying to restructure myself in all ways possible so that I get into the situation again where I’m a wet weeping mess.

So I’m going to try something my doc taught me beforehand to get myself out of unwishable situations like this… Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
It’s actually quite simple…. it’s simply a method of structuring your day on a hour-by-hour basis so that you achieve a few set small goals per day, and get yourself out of nice deep ruts by forming more positive habits. Start off with the basics… eating every day, getting up at a certain time and going to bed at a certain time. Then improve on that by adding in some regular study, and a little exercise. And you’d be amazed how well it works, but the pitfall is trying to fix it all in one day.

And positive reinforcement is also vital… imagining how happy you would be when you have it sorted out… that daydreaming kinda stuff. It really gets the motivation going.
Plus, having little rewards that you can give yourself if you achieve it. One of mine is that if I stop smoking now, and have not touched a cigarette between now and Easter, then I can buy myself something I’ve always wanted yet procrastinated getting… a Apple Ipod Nano 2GB. Mmmmmm… they are soooo sexy! heh heh

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Anyway, enough about my boring personal life.
Whilst at work the past few days, i’ve been oh-so-unsubtlely watching the Commonwealth Games Diving on Foxtel.
NEVER have I seen more beautiful boys! I was actaully tuning in to watch some of my friends from Brisbane take part in their firs comm games, when this lovely little English boy caught my eye. Who would have thought that Poms could look so good? I thought they all had horrible teeth and bad hair….

Mmmmmmmmm

I haven’t cried like this in a long time.
I had to tell my boss to take it easy on me today as I have been struggling to hold back tears whilst here at the desk.

Why does love have to hurt so much?

This is the kinda shit I love.
In the paper today, a great quote was taken from South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone, after Tom Cruise called for the removal of a slanderous episode featuring him and the Church of Scientology.

The response from Parker and stone was classic…

“So, Scientology, you have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun,” the pair wrote.

“Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!“

Good, fair people…

I need advice on whether I should go ahead and buy a mobile phone from eBay.
Has anyone else had experience with doing this, and found pitfalls / benefits etc?

For example, I can pick up one of those nice new Motorola v3 RAZR‘s for $300 on eBay, or bay $499 for a network-locked one in a mobile phone store. After getting the shits with Telstra something chronic, I refuse to go on a plan ever again, and don’t want to be locked into a network. Naturally, no phone company is making it easy for me.

Any suggestions / tips?

Is it just me… or is everyone else quite sick of summer?

I’m soo over sweating it out on really humid days, not being able to sleep, and feeling tired all the time.
We sorta missed out on winter last year… so bring on the cold snap!

Useless fact: In 1985, it snowed in Sydney.

Hi all!!!
I’m getting slacker with my updates… which is quite silly considering this is my week off work.
I have had people say that they get worried about me because when things aren’t going well, I tend to go quiet online.

Well.. things are rather stagnant at the moment unfortunately. I have the week off work, which means I have to concentrate on uni… something I’ve never really liked doing! I’ve been doing lots of little coding attempts late at night (as is my style), and finally got a cranky little script working that’s been bugging me for days.

Saving that… I’m enjoying how things are going at the moment, and had a lovely weekend where I caught up with my good friend Kurt for a beautiful dinner at I’m Angus down on Darling Harbour. Enjoyed a very fine Penfolds Bin 28 2001 Kalimna Shiraz with a beautiful Scotch fillet steak, overlooking Darling Harbour at sunset. Life is tough sometimes.

Apart from that… have been feeling extremely tired this week. I still don’t think I’ve recovered from my stretch of night shifts yet, and here I am at 2am doing things that I’ve been feeling too tired to do all day. Just general lethargy and a bit of cabin fever as both Adam and I are not leaving the house all day, as we are just feeling way too lazy. Does anybody else get those feelings? Where you wake up, just want to go back to sleep all day, and end up doing exactly that?. I hope it’s not just me!

Time for a mandatory extra-geeky post. If you don’t understand what I’m about to say, have a read of this article, by the infamous Miranda Devine, titled Geeks in White Coats Shall Inherit the Earth, in which she says a number of truisms about modern society, that knowledge is now power, and those with particular ignorance to technology’s workings often turn to spiritual means as a way to understand the world.

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I’ve been working on a way lately to convert a mailing list, currently in high use by glider pilots around Australia, to integrate with the Australian Gliding Forum that I’ve built. It basically involves download a page from an online archive, parsing it, and then doing some funky PHP and SQL stuff to upload it into the forum’s database, with correct entries for topics, names, dates etc. Actually a little bit harder than I thought.

So as I was having a fiddle with myPHPAdmin, what do I do but accidentally delete half of the topics currently on the forum. And, no, I hadn’t backed it up in some time!!! You fool, Gus!
Luckily, I had already taught myself some of the inner workings of a phpBB database, and managed to construct another PHP script to rebuild the tables by mining what remaining data I have.
Thankfully it repairs, and I go back to coding my original script, getting very close to the final answer and about to push the button to execute what I’m pretty sure is a working script.
So what happens… the server times out. Check… no… doesn’t even respond to pings. Is completely dead and needs a hard reboot at the console. Bugger. That’ll teach me for using Windows 2003 as a server.

I’ve been doing a fair bit of coding lately… mostly PHP and VB, which are fairly simple languages. I enjoy programming sometimes… it’s all problem solving and persistence. Coming up with an idea, then writing it, testing it, yelling at it, re-writing it, testing it, threatening it, re-writing it again after realising how much of a fool you were for not including proper error handling, then watch as it finally does as it is supposed to. Finally, the answer sits in front of you, as elegant as it is simple, a complete difference to the long-winded hack-job you started off with.

Good morning everyone!

Have been sick lately… finding it a real struggle to get through my shifts at work. Trust me to get the flu in the middle of my string of night shifts…

I received some very annoying news yesterday… that my lovely new Subaru Impreza 2.0i will not be available until mid-April, due to the fact that I’m getting the Limited Edition, and they’ve run out of them in Australia, so will have to wait until the next shipment. Bugger!!! Was really looking forward to it!

Poor ‘Tasha will have to do for the next month or two then.

Ultimately, I just want it in time for Easter, when I intend to drive down to Melbourne, which would you believe I’ve never been to before.

I’m really looking forward to it… the 14th of April, Good Friday, is also my 2 year anniversary with Adam!
Scary how the time flies! We’ve been living together for over a year now, which for me is even more of an accomplishment!

I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few days. Life in general, relationships and the like. I’m realising that this year is going to be a very intense test for me. Full-time work and full-time uni, combined with getting some gliding in and of course spending as much time as possible with Adam, who is also doing his thesis this year. I’m quite excited however, now going to the same uni as my boy. It’s always been a little daydream of mine, to sit on campus having a coffee at Azzuri’s with the boy I love, then departing for our lectures with a kiss.

It’s going to be a test of Adam and my relationship, most of all. I am pushing myself very hard this year, in a final effort to get these degrees over and done with. I said before that I don’t care who I have to kill, I will be graduating this year. However, I don’t want to lose my boy as a result.

We’ve been through our ups and downs, and stumbled into some standard long-term relationship pitfalls, but I remind myself now how damn lucky I am and that I should be very grateful to have someone like him. Even if he does kick me for snoring…

Wow….
A friend of mine in the Netherlands just found this…
Should I be freaked out or kinda flattered? I’m not sure!

http://www.gay.nl/dynacord